In another blow to Scarborough transit users, the dedicated busway that is supposed to replace the Scarborough Rapid Transit (SRT) Line 3 is behind schedule and costs have skyrocketed. Shauna Hunt reports.
My worry someone is dragging their heels on purpose. In industry when we hired 'unqualified staff' they would drag their heels not delivering anything. IN some cases we had a project manager who had never done any of the tasks themselves just BS-ing on needed time and grossly underestimating to sell a contract. In others we asked the team members / folks doing the work directly for setting a time on their own tasks, but they were just picking any number hiding the fact they didn't know how to do the work. They sat there not delivering anything waiting for someone else better qualified to pick up the tasks for them when their own work was done. This is what was dragging out project timelines.... As this is a manufacturing project you also have materials delivery timelines to contend with on top of the base work. So it adds more dependencies and risk areas for failure if folks are not "doing their job properly". Since this is coming out of tax payers dollars this is pretty concerning to folks living here...that we're stuck paying for something that provides no benefit to us. Figure it out guys...sooner rather then later.
“…some basic due diligence, including some environmental assessment, and other necessary work was not done by ttc staff.” Who are these babies at work?
The policy of the previous mayor was that the province should build the busway, and the province refused to do that. Most of the other mayoral candidates agreed with that policy of officially wanting a busway but not willing to actually spend any money to build it, meaning they weren’t actually willing to build the busway. So, yes, obviously with a mayor who actually wants a busway, we’re going to discover that no one put any work into building it during the past few years because no money was allocated to building it.
What a waste of money. The RT was discontinued because the trains were obsolete. All the infrastructure is still OK. The largest costs for building are the stations, concrete track bed, signals etc that are all existing. They could have just took out the old tracks and swapped them to the new Eglinton LRT tracks and extended the LRT to the end of the old RT. Instead they remove the RT and swap it with a temporary bus lane that is already $12M over budget and a year behind only to remove it once a useless three stop subway extension is completed at billions of dollars only to end just about where the RT ended. Just shows how incompetent our politicians are from all levels of govt and all political parties.
