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Budget Pool Time!!!

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1. By what percentage will this project be over budget?
2. By how many weeks will this project be late?

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CDL.TO said:
Budget Pool Time!!!

Here's your chance to show off your knowledge of this city's wheelings and dealings. Just offer your personal estimation of the following two questions:

1. By what percentage will this project be over budget?
2. By how many weeks will this project be late?

Members with the closest estimates will win the respect and admiration of their fellow forumers.
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111% & 111 weeks.
 
CDL.TO said:
Budget Pool Time!!!

Here's your chance to show off your knowledge of this city's wheelings and dealings. Just offer your personal estimation of the following two questions:

1. By what percentage will this project be over budget?
2. By how many weeks will this project be late?

Members with the closest estimates will win the respect and admiration of their fellow forumers.
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47% over this budget.

does the "late" clock start ticking in August 2008 when the platform was supposed to be opened or now?
 
CDL.TO said:
Budget Pool Time!!!

Here's your chance to show off your knowledge of this city's wheelings and dealings. Just offer your personal estimation of the following two questions:

1. By what percentage will this project be over budget?
2. By how many weeks will this project be late?

Members with the closest estimates will win the respect and admiration of their fellow forumers.
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60% over budget, and 40 weeks later.
 
CDL.TO said:
Budget Pool Time!!!

Here's your chance to show off your knowledge of this city's wheelings and dealings. Just offer your personal estimation of the following two questions:

1. By what percentage will this project be over budget?
2. By how many weeks will this project be late?
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Considering the Union station platform was one of the four waterfront kick-start projects back in 2001 I think it is already 2 years late. They are doing fine on budget so far though... $300 million was targeted for the first four projects and the Front extension having been cancelled is way under budget :) The other two projects were designing the Lower Don Lands which is pretty much done and Portlands soil clean up which hasn't started and there doesn't seem to be a time table for.
 
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CDL.TO said:
Budget Pool Time!!!

Here's your chance to show off your knowledge of this city's wheelings and dealings. Just offer your personal estimation of the following two questions:

1. By what percentage will this project be over budget?
2. By how many weeks will this project be late?

Members with the closest estimates will win the respect and admiration of their fellow forumers.
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1. 2018: Project budget skyrockets to more than triple initial projections as construction delays mount.
2. 2024: Construction halted midway through dig-down. Political wrangling over ballooning budget.
3. 2031: Union Station collapses burying scores of commuters.
4. 2036: Giant tent erected pending reconstruction.
5. 2050: Political wrangling over urgent repairs to tent.
6. 2052: Tent collapses killing scores of commuters.
 
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I predict that it will be less over-budget and less late than the upgrades a the Fulton Street subway station in New York City (which started in 2005, and is currently budgeted for $1.4 billion and partial completion in 2010 - up from $800 million and a 2007 completion when they started construction).
 
Woodbridge_Heights said:
It was a photo shop IIRC. Like the kind where you buy film and have it developed.
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A sign went up today. A women's clothing store is moving in to that spot. I'm sure all the gals from Yorkville will be heading down to check out the latest in fall fashions at Union Station.

Anyway, Union platform?

25% over budget
30 months late

I think the streetcar loop expansion will be the most overbudget component of the project. That is going to run into all kinds of disaster.
 
condovo said:
1. 2018: Project budget skyrockets to more than triple initial projections as construction delays mount.
2. 2024: Construction halted midway through dig-down. Political wrangling over ballooning budget.
3. 2031: Union Station collapses burying scores of commuters.
4. 2036: Giant tent erected pending reconstruction.
5. 2050: Political wrangling over urgent repairs to tent.
6. 2052: Tent collapses killing scores of commuters.
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7. 2055: Sections of the TTC Platform cave in. Reason, Mole people attempt invasion.
8. 2056: Wooden boards are place over openings on the TTC platforms. Politicians promise immediate rebuild of platforms.
9. 2071: Wooden boards break due to age, 400 people fall to their death. Mole people attempt to invade for a 2nd time.

:D:rolleyes:
 
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