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The TTC has "cancelled the Request for Proposal process to purchase 204 new low-floor streetcars." Says their release: "The TTC received two submissions for the $1.25 billion project. TRAM Power Ltd. and Bombardier Transportation submitted bids, but upon review TRAM Power failed to pass step one of the bid review process as it was not commercially compliant. Bombardier Transportation failed on step two—a technical evaluation that required a pass/fail on key criteria related to negotiating the tight turning radii on the TTC’s existing streetcar rail system." The TTC is now going to search for another solution, but is "confident that it can work with a vendor to remain on schedule [streetcars are supposed to be replaced starting in 2012] and meet its needs for new streetcars." We're just waiting to hear what Steve Munro has to say.
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Adam Giambrone just changed his Facebook status to "Adam is not pleased that no one qualified for the RFP for LRT vehicles and that the TTC needs to do negotiated procurement." Uh-oh!
I just hope the TTC doesn't back-track (no pun intended) on improving service. by the way, are these strictly replacement cars, or are they increasing the number rolling on Queen Street, etc.?
The original RFP was for replacement cars, but I think the contract would have had an option to purchase the cars for the new Transit City LRT lines.
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Essentially about 250 existing cars will be replaced by 204 new, somewhat larger ones. This doesn't sound like much but of the 250 only about 190 are in service most days as they are in maintenance.
dowlingm, I don't know if you know, but I wonder how many streetcars are on the rails at the daily peak ....
.... if we could increase that number by some percentage, hopefully the headway would be down to 5 minutes or less, resulting in excellent commuting.
I was sort of surprised to find out that this hadn't been shelved following the fiscal meltdown over the last year, but I'm even more surprised (and pleased) the TTC had the stones to reject anyone's proposals.
Tuds: Unless something is done about the pacing issue, increasing street cars on certain routes will likely result in larger clusters just as frequently. Queen East is bad for this during rush hour.