Originally Posted by
bzcat
Metro maintenance yard and the switches are not part of this project. They were already built as part of the Crenshaw (C/K line) project.
The delay is multifaceted but all ultimately Metro's responsibility. The LAWA portion of the project is largely done or on time except for the station work that they purposely slow down to manage the cashflow in response to Metro delays. The ITC West, rental car center, and elevated guideways are all finished; and all the APM trains have been delivered and stored.
The ITF West, Conrac, and guideways may all be (nearly) finished, but the APM trains have not even all been assembled, let alone delivered and stored. Alstom/Bombardier is years delayed in delivering train cars, as is their common practice.
The roadways around the Conrac are very far behind (why is Aviation Blvd only open to one-way traffic), but the blame for that seems to squarely be on the LA Bureau of Engineering, not the people mover builder, Conrac builder, or LAWA.
LAWA is to blame for some of the delays, however. The people mover cars should've started moving on portions of the guideway months ago, but haven't because of the delays from LAWA IT that I mentioned earlier in the thread.