06-29-2018, 12:17 PM
(06-29-2018, 11:45 AM)SammyOES Wrote: But by staying silent if they're completely blameless means they risk losing a lot of future customers. It just seems weird to me that they're taking it so quietly if they really have no share of the blame themselves.
Edit: I'm not saying they're not blameless either. I just find the idea that they're a defenseless public company strange. But I get that these things are full of politics and internal context that we'll just never know. So just because I don't understand doesn't mean they're not acting totally rationally.
Good comment! I will mention that Bombardier definitely does deserve a significant fraction of the blame — all those production problems were on them, not anybody else — but as far as I can tell this signalling issue is Region/Metrolinx/Ontario. It’s interesting to speculate what would have happened if Bombardier had got its production together on schedule — they would have had complete vehicles in the second half of 2016; would the Region/Metrolinx have moved faster on making sure the signalling was together, or would we have just had a fleet of vehicles sitting in the OMSF with no signalling integration?