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Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

TTC Chair Jamaal Myers has indicated that June 1, 2025, is the "earliest possible date" for the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

You and your wife should probably get a 2nd car. The 2025 Golf R is perfect for young families, hawc recommends that. It should be in the VW.ca configurator soon.
 
hawc said:
TTC Chair Jamaal Myers has indicated that June 1, 2025, is the "earliest possible date" for the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

You and your wife should probably get a 2nd car. The 2025 Golf R is perfect for young families, hawc recommends that. It should be in the VW.ca configurator soon.
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Buying brand new, especially for a second car, is always financially irresponsible.
 
NotACop123 said:
Buying brand new, especially for a second car, is always financially irresponsible.
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I wouldn't do it in the short-term - but it does avoid all the BS with the used-car dealers, and weirdness of going through the newspaper (perhaps there's some newer-fangled way of doing it this century). But I normally keep the car for a decade or so - so the immediate value loss isn't a big deal.
 
nfitz said:
I wouldn't do it in the short-term - but it does avoid all the BS with the used-car dealers, and weirdness of going through the newspaper (perhaps there's some newer-fangled way of doing it this century). But I normally keep the car for a decade or so - so the immediate value loss isn't a big deal.
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TBH everyone I know has purchased a new car since used is 80% as expensive when you factor in the inflated costs and worse financing plus shorter warranty
 
NotACop123 said:
Buying brand new, especially for a second car, is always financially irresponsible.
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With the supply chain shortages over recent years, I've seen used vehicles at least 20k above the price of new, mostly because it was available immediately as opposed to 3-5 years down the road.
 
timio said:
With the supply chain shortages over recent years, I've seen used vehicles at least 20k above the price of new, mostly because it was available immediately as opposed to 3-5 years down the road.
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This has recently ended. I was able to get a 2 year old car for 4k off asking price which was already 30% off the new price because it sat in the lot for 4 months and they were desperate to get rid of it at the end of the year.
 
hawc said:
TTC Chair Jamaal Myers has indicated that June 1, 2025, is the "earliest possible date" for the opening of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

You and your wife should probably get a 2nd car. The 2025 Golf R is perfect for young families, hawc recommends that. It should be in the VW.ca configurator soon.
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The reasoning for the quoted June 1 date was because the Crosstown cannot accept tokens and tickets as fares. Can TTC withstand political pressure to delay opening if Metrolinx hands them the keys in late January due to someone trying to use a token as POP?
 
hawc said:
Wait what? They're going to delay to June in case someone still wants to use a token to pay?
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The general word is there are still many tokens used, mostly circulated by dozens of charitable organisations who hand them out as needed, and they want more of those used up before demonetizing them.
 
hawc said:
So the Crosstown is basically ready to go, but it doesn't take tokens so they're not going to open it until less tokens are in circulation?

The hold up is tokens??
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No. They chose the June 1 date to retire the tokens because Crosstown wasn't going to have opened by then.

But some have taken that it won't open before June 1, to mean it could open June 1 - when it could (and probably will) be later.
 
PShells said:
The reasoning for the quoted June 1 date was because the Crosstown cannot accept tokens and tickets as fares. Can TTC withstand political pressure to delay opening if Metrolinx hands them the keys in late January due to someone trying to use a token as POP?
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This does not jive with anything that any of my contacts within the TTC are saying.

Dan
 
I'm as conspiracy prone as anyone, but I think we need to be realistic and accept that ML is still working down the "finishing strokes" - but some are lagging.

If you have ever done a home reno, you know what it's like trying to get your contractor to come back and fix the last few little bits of trim, especially after they have been paid and are on to new customers. Sure, many do drop by and get these done....at their convenience, not yours..... but a transit line is not a kitchen reno, and you have lawyers and inspectors and process requirements rather than a few brushstrokes or six feet of quarter round to fix. And lawsuits in progress.

Maybe your insurance broker won't accept your connecting that pot light yourself, and wants the electrician to do it, even if it's only three wires and looks like anyone could do it, or you have done worse on your own in the past.

ML has gone silent on its scorecard reporting that showed how they were working down defects. As usual, public oversight is abjectly rejected. So I'm impatient, but let's not speculate. We will knqw It will be ready when training resumes.

- Paul
 
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