The reliability of Toronto’s new streetcars declined sharply at the start of the year as failures in nearly all of the vehicles’ systems surged, and TTC workers struggled to deal with more than 6,000 open work orders on a fleet of about 120 cars, according to internal transit agency emails obtained by the Star.
Under the terms of the $1-billion deal the TTC inked with Bombardier in 2009, the agency’s new low-floor streetcars are supposed to travel 35,000 km before experiencing a significant failure that delays service for five minutes or more.
Maybe if more tax payer funds went into Bombardier things would be much better for them, no? Well I didn’t think so either, just more Liberal money flushed down the sewer straight into Quebec.
Think of all those Quebec jobs. They are the only ones that matter though Tom.
Off topic I saw a program on TV where bringing back the streetcar back to a cities in North America has been an expensive black hole for government spending. May have lost 50% of their ridership after a fare increase. Yes they bought those long weenie wagons where everyone hops in the back cars for free.
Street cars are virtue signals to the electorate.
The good news here is with the huge increase in gridlock since these road blockers came on line could take 50yrs for them to reach 7577kms. Great success
Glorifed road blockers . Thank goodness Doug uploaded TTC , next up Toronto public housing .Of course toronto councillors screamed and cried when Doug uploaded just like they did when Harris downloaded it . TCC is nothing but a waste of money , space and air .
They are uploading SUBWAYS, not street cars. John Tory bares sole responsibility for $60,000,000 loss due to the loss fairs.
Of course that does not compare to the tens of billions the Marxist Liberals have lost of given away.
How much does MetroLinx lose each year?
More junk from a garbage company that has only stayed afloat with millions of tax payer dollars while their execs made out like bandits
But we need to save all of those good quality Quebec jobs
They have zero motivation to do anything right. When you dont have to do anything to stay in business or be profitable nothing matters. Dont like our product ? Who cares , fuck off will just draw our pay from taxpayers. Same attitude when i used to haul into paper plants.
That’s what Federal Transfer payments are for. Jizya from the rest of Canada to support the PM’s base.
With proper bribes people will buy any junk on our behalf
We need names of the people they bribed to get this overpriced contract. It was overpriced because Bombadeer had to recover the bribes they paid out for the last contracts. Politicians don’t give a shit because it’s only tax money scammed from the bottomless taxpayer paycheque.
Oh so you noticed !