Article content

Edmonton Transit’s Quinn Nicholson recently toured a few excavation projects under a main east-west artery in Toronto where a 19-kilometre light rail train will eventually run beginning in 2021. But one thing was missing from the spokesman’s tour of this $5.3-billion project, the largest transit expansion in Toronto’s history: the train.

Bombardier slammed by London for ‘shameful’ Tube project: ‘Nothing short of a disaster’ London’s city council has lambasted Bombardier Inc. for “duping” the British capital into awarding it a train-signalling contract that it was incapable of delivering, creating “nothing short of a disaster” for the London Underground. Continue reading.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or How Bombardier’s failure to deliver streetcars on time in Toronto will ripple across Canada Back to video

Bombardier Inc. had agreed to deliver the prototype five-segment light rail vehicle for this line under Eglinton Ave. 18 months ago. Toronto is still waiting.

These delays hit home for Nicholson, since Edmonton recently inked a deal with Bombardier to deliver the trains for its Valley Line, which broke ground last month with a target to open in 2020. “Obviously, the citizens of Edmonton have been watching the situation in Ontario with some trepidation,” he said.