EnviroTO
Senior Member
Considering that all the other transit orders will be spread over other manufacturers (Bombardier, Siemens, Rotem, etc) and technologies (BRT, LRT, subway, rubber tired metro) it is pretty safe to say the plant building the TTC order will be building more TTC gauge LRT vehicles than not. Even between models the components are completely different. For example if the Toronto Siemens plant built an LRT for Calgary where the vehicles are high floor the wheel trucks are completely different anyways. Standard gauge wheels are all different diameters. A boxcar wheel and a low floor LRT wheel are completely different even when they are the same gauge. Whatever plant gets the low-floor LRT contract will be building more TTC gauge low-floor LRT vehicles than any other gauge. I would bet on it.