Comment 120300

By Haveacow (registered) | Posted October 21, 2016 at 10:04:17

Wow, it seems some of your Councilors just won't be happy until this project is either cancelled or every possible contingency including site protection from attack by hostile alien spacecraft has been provided, free by the province.

Also, after talking to a colleague of mine who works with Metrolinx I found out that the money (Brampton's $300 Million) is being held just in case there is a serious cost overrun with the remaining section of the Hurontario LRT Line after it has been tendered. This money will be therefore out of play for at the least the next 2 years as the Hurontario Line has already entered this dicey but important RFP phase of the project.

Both the RFQ & RFP processes can lead to huge cost overruns and other financial surprises if cost estimates during the planning process were not accurate and or there has been a recent unplanned increase in the market costs for supply materials and or technology for the line. For example, structural steel can and often does change in cost dramatically several times a week because the price is based on the current supply of virgin steel and the supply levels of recycled steel plus the cost of transport to the project site.

A bad decision in the site location of the projects main project field office and supply storage area can increase the cost of materials because of unforeseen problems in bringing supplies to the site or worse, simply not having enough room to store supplies and having to deliver what could be time critical supplies to a unplanned satellite sites that, may or may not have good enough access by very large supply vehicles.

There was a situation here in Ottawa with the Confederation Line when, a large supply of non segmented ribbon rail was delivered early and there was no room to store it at the main supply storage site. The city frankly just lucked out because nearby there was another planned construction project on city owned land, in a former city works yard (The former Bayview Works Yard and Snow Dump) which was a massive piece of land that was also located right on the planned track right of way. Due to the fact it was a former city works yard, it had by design, easy access to the site by large/overly long supply truck & trailer units, carrying oversized loads.

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