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RSS FeedsMetrolinx to Bombardier: `stop blaming others´ for your mistakes
(The Star Food)

 
 

18 february 2017 06:01:06

 
Metrolinx to Bombardier: `stop blaming others´ for your mistakes
(The Star Food)
 


Metrolinx executives ripped into rail manufacturer Bombardier at a meeting of the transit agency’s board on Friday, depicting the company as an organization in disarray and accusing it of spreading false information. Reading from prepared remarks, board chair Rob Prichard criticized the company for taking Metrolinx to court in a dispute over a $770-million light rail vehicle order that has been bogged down by delays. “Bombardier’s behaviour in going to court is not that of a trusted partner,” Prichard said. He slammed allegations the company made last week in a press release blaming Metrolinx for the delays as “false.” Over the course of the contract Bombardier has cycled through at least two presidents, three vice presidents and five project managers, and Prichard said that had undermined the company’s ability to deliver vehicles on time. “Bombardier needs to stabilize its business and the leadership of its business, focus on meeting its commitments and schedules, stop blaming others for its own shortcomings, and to start delivering its overdue vehicles,” Prichard said. Bombardier filed a notice of an application for an injunction against Metrolinx last Friday, claiming the agency was about to cancel the contract. Last fall Metrolinx filed a notice of intention to terminate the deal.The contract for 182 vehicles was signed in 2010, and the first batch of the cars is supposed to run on the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRT lines, set to open in 2021.Metrolinx says that Bombardier has not yet completed the first prototype vehicle for the order, which the company was supposed to deliver almost two years ago. Prichard alleged that Bombardier has changed the delivery date of the prototype 30 separate times. The company is adamant that the pilot vehicle is ready however, and claims that Metrolinx is refusing to take delivery of it. “Bombardier categorically dismisses the allegations made by Met ...


 
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