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zang said:
Metrolinx employees have access to either their own app or web app. This wasn't second hand; she literally showed me the "progress ring" that said, "44% readiness". I was surprised, given likely NDAs in her work contract, that she even shared this info with me. Even though her job makes her privy to a great many things, she pointed out that Verster intentionally kept things from different departments, with no explanation as to why.

As I noted, the 44% was in January of 2024. But from what I was to understand, "readiness" equated to "completion", ie; handover to the TTC.
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Parkdalian said:
This forum thread has devolved into priestly prognostications. Without any real news or information, folks are trying to figure out the situation based upon little more than augury.

"I looked up into the sky on the third blood moon, and I saw a flock of birds, and they spelled out a ghostly 44%"

Absent any real news, all we can do is wait until it's open. After it's open, we might find out what went wrong. Or maybe not! It might all be lost to the sands of time...
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I’m confused about why there’s so much discussion about this 44% complete back in January 2024. Are we doubting the accuracy of the percentage itself or how that represents project delivery?

toronto.citynews.ca

'Progress is relentless': Still no opening date for Eglinton Crosstown LRT

Metrolinx CEO Phil Verster said progress on the Eglinton Crosstown project has stabilized adding that a couple of significant milestones have been achieved
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When this article was published in September 2024 Verster said system integration testing was at 84% complete. He also said in September 2023 commissioning was around 10%. 44% in January 2024 sounds about right. So it’s both believable and probably accurate. But the percentage reflects only the testing and commissioning phase. Now we’re at 99.9% complete testing and commissioning apparently.
 
Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?
 
ElrondHubbard said:
Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?
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I see 3 and 4 in the afternoon on this page. Not morning.
 
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ElrondHubbard said:
Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?
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As noted above, I see 3 and 4 PM. But if you do see a morning post: sometimes, people from the city travel.
 
ElrondHubbard said:
Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?
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Ask @Northern Light 🤣
 
ElrondHubbard said:
Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?
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latest i see is 11pm
 
ElrondHubbard said:
Great Scott, are people really posting at 3 and 4 in the morning? I see at least four examples just on this page.

Gotta wonder if the website's clock and/or time zone are set incorrectly. Are people on the far side of the world that interested in Toronto transit? Or is the real reason for all the 'priestly prognostications' be simple sleeplessness?
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Sleep Apnea is a thing.

I certainly don't arise at 4am thinking I've over slept my post at UT alarm.

But I do wake up, often, and sometimes need awhile before I can settle back in...............so sure......I do post that early at times.
 
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Northern Light said:
Sleep Apnea is a thing.

I certainly arise at 4am thinking I've over slept my post at UT alarm.

But I do wake up, often, and sometimes need awhile before I can settle back in...............so sure......I do post that early at times.
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I had some 3 am posts last night in other threads.

So is retirement. I'm partially retired, and always been a night owl. It's rare I have any commitments before 10 or 10:30 AM and work at home. And I always catch up on sleep over the weekend, so if I go to bed too early on a Sunday night, I just toss and turn. So I usually while making hot chocolate or something around 3 or 3:30 AM take a look, before getting 6 hours sleep, rather than the usual 7 to 8. And occasionally I just wake at 5 am or something with only 3 hours sleep, and walking around the house, raiding the fridge, and checking email, etc., I've found works better than just lying there.

Have you tried CPAP Northern? It might have saved my life - or at least my sanity. I certainly don't wake up in the middle of the night anymore, gasping for breath, feeling I'm suffocating. Or snore (if I ever did ... but there's different viewpoints here on that :) ).
 
Northern Light said:
Sleep Apnea is a thing.

I certainly arise at 4am thinking I've over slept my post at UT alarm.

But I do wake up, often, and sometimes need awhile before I can settle back in...............so sure......I do post that early at times.
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I have that, but it doesn't wake me...
 
Funny to think that Metrolinx at one point was in a panic thinking the vehicles were being delivered too slowly and that they wouldn't all arrive in time so they reduced their order and got Alstom (pre-Bombardier) to build the Finch West vehicles. Now, all the vehicles were delivered long ago and are ancient and in need of maintenance. Their panic was so detached from reality... even then as Bombardier was making progress on improving their TTC streetcar supply chains.
 
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