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Yes, the original plan was to have TTC do the track (after water/sewer work) on Adelaide west of York but have two separate contracts for the blocks between York and Victoria with, as you say, the City dealing with watermain/sewer work on Adelaide and then an ML contractor coming in to do the tracks. As it is very confusing to have two contactors working in same area, they then decided it would speed things up to have the City contractor also lay the tracks. This made perfect sense and seems to have worked quite well but, at that time, the smaller contract for track on York between Adelaide and Queen ought to have been moved to the City too. It wasn't and now we must wait to see if ML are actually ready to lay track. However, nothing would seem to stop the TTC from installing overhead on Adelaide as no streetcars will run until that (plus the York track) is done!It's wholly a Metrolinx project. IIRC, to accelerate matters they hijacked an existing city tender for sewer reconstruction and repaving the road; Metrolinx had the city do a contract change and make it track instead.
The sewer rebuild didn't include the York section so it was tendered separately by Metrolinx.