01-30-2019, 07:43 PM
(01-30-2019, 04:59 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-30-2019, 03:41 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: A question for all the upcoming TWAD trips would be how many available locomotives and passenger cars does GO have for those timeframes? If we've learned anything about vehicles, it's that it's a long process to procure them. If we're missing trains, given their timelines, that's where you start to measure how serious a government is.
Standard train cars (and especially the bilevel coaches BBD builds for GO Transit) are much quicker delivery than bespoke LRT configurations. For the last order BBD built delivered about 100 cars to GO in 2018, and I believe the lead time was less than a year.
There's also the locomotive situation, but I would expect those are fairly well standardized as well.