ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[JoeKW]

vehicle 13??

[KevinL]

4-12 are at various stages of assembly, 13 just started, and 14 has yet to start, it seems.

[trainspotter139]

4-12 are at various stages of assembly, 13 just started, and 14 has yet to start, it seems.

4 is complete but not ready to ship for a week or so as they are testing it there too. Vehicle 3 is ready to ship at any time. Bombardier is probably scheduling delivery with CN now.

5 & 6 are getting their interiors done according to Tom Galloway.

[chutten]

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[KevinT]

Tom Galloway was on 570 News' The Mike Farwell Show today. He said that Vehicle 13 has begun assembly, vehicle 3 is pretty much ready to ship, and vehicle 4 is almost ready as well.

http://www.570news.com/audio/the-mike-farwell-show/

Click the 1:00 p.m. segment and scrub to the 33 minute mark...

[Canard]

Mike Farwell makes my blood boil some days.

5 months late is literally insignificant in the world of transport systems. The fact our system is only 5 months behind probably puts it in the top-10 list of transit systems worldwide built in the last couple of decades for closest to opening on-time.

There have been almost zero glitches in the construction of our system compared to others around the world. People here have no point of reference so all they can do is bitch.

[DHLawrence]

We're still making the TTC order look bad.

[Pheidippides]

Click the 1:00 p.m. segment and scrub to the 33 minute mark...

I wish CBC would do that with their programming; they only post selected segments.

[Bob_McBob]

Minor point of interest, but the region officially signed off on substantial completion on August 18.

http://dailycommercialnews.com/documents...il-CSP.pdf

[Canard]

That is a huge milestone that seems to have passed unnoticed. Great find!

[trainspotter139]

Apparently not many media outlets comb through the long list of certificates issued by municipalities. *shrugs*

[JoeKW]

That means we're paying for operating the LRT as of August 18, right?

[boatracer]

That means we're paying for operating the LRT as of August 18, right?

Not necessarily.  Substantial completion of construction and operations are two separate entities.  Tom Galloway mentioned this is a interview last month.  Grandlinq Contractors and Grandlinq GP are two related entities.  The only documentation I could find for the 30 year operation/maintenance/financing payments was a Regional summary noting they were to start in "mid-2017" but it didn't specify what triggers it.  It is in the project agreement somewhere.

Substantial completion is triggered by a completion of a certain value of the contract less known deficiencies.  There is a formula which is like 3% of the first $500k, 2% of the next $500k and 1% of the balance.  Once this is reached then the contractor posts notice of substantial in the daily commercial news which is what the link was to.  This starts a 45 day clock for sub contractors and suppliers to make any claims for non-payment which they make directly to the Region.  If no claims are made then after the 45 days the 10% holdback is released to the prime contractor.

[Bob_McBob]

Has the region actually signed off, or is that entirely up to the third party listed here? Since it's well past 45 days, shouldn't we have some idea of any cost overruns? It would be nice to finally shut down people whining about the dome and how it will be hundreds of million dollars over budget.

http://dailycommercialnews.com/legals/co...211e348053

[Pheidippides]

Substantial completion is worth a $82,290,859 payment according to the schedule.