TJ O'Pootertoot
Senior Member
The good news is this thread still has at least a few more good years ahead of it. And to think, it could have been wrapping up later this year. How boring that would have been.
More good news:The good news is this thread still has at least a few more good years ahead of it. And to think, it could have been wrapping up later this year. How boring that would have been.
More good news:
The York University Busway would be less of a waste.
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TTC, Bechtel sign project management contract
April 13, 2015
The Toronto Transit Commission has entered into an agreement with Bechtel Canada Co. for project management of the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) for up to $80 million.
The contract value to Bechtel is based on staffing costs, management fees and incentives to open the subway extension by Dec. 31, 2017.
That's the same date they were talking about last month at the board. Nothing has changed since that meeting.2017!? Delayed again? By a full year?
2017!? Delayed again? By a full year?
Yeah, at this point it depends how you look at the meaning of "delayed." That's an improvement from the 2019 dates they were looking at if they didn't hire Bechtel. so....yay?
I am really quite curious how, on a subproject by subproject basis they managed to get from 2015 (or 2016, if you go with the it was unfunded for a year argument) all the way to 2019.
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TTC!!
I do believe their report [I don't know how many pages back now] outlined it all. Some was stuff beyond their control (e.g. death at York U) some was underestimating how long things would take, some was contractor SNAFUs. In short, it sounds like just about everything that could go wrong has.
Oh, I just went and found it. Starting on P.9, though there's more detail later on (e.g. p. 79)
https://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Co...s/4_1_TYSSE_Final_Report_and_Presentation.pdf
There's probably more detail to be found but I think it would just be depressing to read. Easier to just tell yourself they never really knew what they were getting into in the first place.
I can't imagine the project is that much more complex, that much more unpredictable than building smack in the middle of downtown core here or elsewhere - for the schedule to slip that much is ridiculous. And I love how the fatality at York is shipped out over and over again when it resulted in a 4 month delay - the station proper is what, at 30something percent right now - that's not a simple fatality issue.
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