The contractor is still waiting for the city to approve a building permit, and has a shoring company on standby. I don't know what's causing the holdup, but I see the guy in charge at the site office every day.
I think @EdwardEdm and @chrisvazquez7 mentioned that they sometimes stage LRVs there to get ahead of busier periods.
Unfortunately, I doubt it. The city says there isn’t the demand for it, but development is going to less appealing around there until it’s open.
Yes, the city is moving in that direction so hopefully that changes things. But there is no serviced land in Blatchford that is currently close to the Blatchford Gate station, so it will be a few years before any development is in that area.
I talked to a rather senior operator after he finished his shift. He said signal testing is already complete and the line is good. This is just stowing extra cars in periods where they are reducing capacity. They will basically build a train of the excess cars, and then run them back to the barn as a single train. Or they will hold them here to add them to trains when they're ramping up capacity.
Probably clearing away the mountain of concrete so they're not constantly operating heavy equipment in the immediate vicinity.
