Willybru21
Senior Member
Alstom has been rebuilding all 74 Series 7 coaches for the past 3 years: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/...nment,economic growth in Northwestern Ontario.
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GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other
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Bordercollie
Senior Member
It was supposed to be completed in 2023...
Willybru21
Senior Member
Deliveries were supposed to begin in 2023, nowhere in that article did it say all 94 coaches were going to be delivered back to GO in 2023, that’s impossible to do.
There has clearly been some delays; but this isn’t anything important like the opening of a new station or line, this is out of service equipment that has little-to-no impact to the public, the date doesn’t need to be hard abided to.
Bordercollie
Senior Member
That's Good
goodcitywhenfinished
Active Member
Will BiLevels be getting on-board PIDS soon? This was a few weeks ago and I can't find it now, but someone on my LinkedIn network posted complaining about the lack of onboard displays for next station announcements and a manager from Metrolinx commented that they are working on implementing a solution "soon".
Dan416
Senior Member
I have noticed some old ones that no longer work occasionally. New ones would be great. At night if you have your headphones on it’s really easy to miss your stop.
smallspy
Senior Member
This was supposed to happen as the cars were upgraded with Cat5. (All of the CEM cars have Cat5 installed from the factory.) All of the accessible cars have displays in them and controllers to run the ones that were to be installed throughout the train.
But as the Cat5 project has been cancelled, they are looking at finding other manners to do this.
Dan