05-24-2016, 09:49 PM
If you cancel the current order and go with another vendor, ion will not open until 2020.
These are not "sitting on the shelf" items. You get in a queue, and your equipment gets built.
The trains we are getting are a NA variant derived from the FLEXITY 2 platform in Europe and are "standard". Our trains are not custom in any way other than they're painted blue.
Look up vehicle delivery news articles and you'll see that even if we'd gone with CAF Or Siemens, we'd still likely have late trains.
This is not really a big deal.
These are not "sitting on the shelf" items. You get in a queue, and your equipment gets built.
The trains we are getting are a NA variant derived from the FLEXITY 2 platform in Europe and are "standard". Our trains are not custom in any way other than they're painted blue.
Look up vehicle delivery news articles and you'll see that even if we'd gone with CAF Or Siemens, we'd still likely have late trains.
This is not really a big deal.