Amare
Senior Member
Glad to hear that the 505 and 506 will be a complete disaster starting in February. I'll add those routes to my list of routes to permanently avoid no matter what the case.
Yes Bombardier is largely at fault on this, but it's hard not to put some blame on the TTC here as well. Even if all 204 streetcars were here we'd still have a significant shortage of vehicles. There would still be the same number of vehicles on the streets today with an all Flexity fleet compared to the mixed fleet we have today (ie: ~170-180).
So while it's cute that the TTC likes to blame Bombardier for this mess, we would still be in the same mess had all the Flexitys arrived on time. In a sense, Bombardier is partially taking the TTC off the hook for the equally horrid service levels we would have seen since they wouldnt have anyone else to blame but themselves had all the Flexitys been on property.
Yes Bombardier is largely at fault on this, but it's hard not to put some blame on the TTC here as well. Even if all 204 streetcars were here we'd still have a significant shortage of vehicles. There would still be the same number of vehicles on the streets today with an all Flexity fleet compared to the mixed fleet we have today (ie: ~170-180).
So while it's cute that the TTC likes to blame Bombardier for this mess, we would still be in the same mess had all the Flexitys arrived on time. In a sense, Bombardier is partially taking the TTC off the hook for the equally horrid service levels we would have seen since they wouldnt have anyone else to blame but themselves had all the Flexitys been on property.