In a two-hour meeting, Brossoit laid out a detailed production schedule for the first time since April, when the TTC announced Bombardier had made another downward revision on the $1.25-billion order. Bombardier has offered the TTC new details on how it plans to ramp up production of Toronto’s much-delayed streetcar order, vowing to more than quadruple manufacturing in two years’ time. But Byford said his priority remains ensuring that Bombardier delivers all 204 vehicles by the original deadline of 2019. Benoit Brossoit, the Montreal-based company’s president of transportation for the Americas, met at TTC headquarters on Wednesday with transit CEO Andy Byford. The order originally had 73 new streetcars hitting the rails by the end of 2015.

Source: thestar May 19, 2016 17:44 UTC