iON Phase II, Eglinton East, Eglinton West, O-Train Phase II. Don't think there will be any shortage of projects for these vehicles to be shifted to.
Several projects are currently discussed behind the scenes at various elements:
- Finch extension to airport
- Hamilton A-Line LRT
- Resurrection of Jane LRT
- Hurontario extension to Brampton (and beyond)
- Increase of frequencies on all existing LRT projects
(e.g. Increase of Hamilton LRT B-Line frequency to 4-minute instead of 6-minute -- this is in one of the PDFs -- we haven't chosen our frequency yet).
With the A-Line
BRT now cancelled in favour of the B-Line
LRT extension -- using an LRT for A-Line is now back on the table for Hamilton.
Regardless, I like dual-supplier. Risk is spread and proper competition can help increase quality and reduce costs. Also, this is a warning shot to Bombardier.
I think, eventually, we're going to need all the vehicles even with 50% of the projects cancelled-and-reinstated. Look at what happened to Ottawa. Cancelled, then now under construction THEN massively expanded before construction complete. The same thing is going to happen to Hamilton even if ours is cancelled, it will be quickly resurrected 2022/2026 possibly as a bigger system.
I say this because the population in Hamilton is quite damn passionate in seeing LRT happen. (our public LRT rally had several hundred people -- was Ontario's biggest ever on an LRT -- bigger than the 2011 Save-Transit-City rally, bigger than 2010 ION LRT rally, bigger than Scarborough rally... IIRC, the Hamilton LRT rally might have been even bigger than the save-the-streetcars rally in the early 1970s!) It was rather surprising, even to me, as an LRT advocate that a little city less than a tenth the size of Toronto, pulled off a public LRT rally bigger than Toronto's biggest.