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"People who have been crowded on Route 7 buses all these years will realize that there is some space on this and they aren't going to have to miss buses or squeeze in to get on here," said Seiling. "The scale always amazes me even though I've seen it before." The goal is to make sure the regular appearance of the LRT vehicles becomes a more com- mon sight as the Region gets set to launch the service at the start of 2018. The next delivery is slat- ed for June from Bombardier's Kingston facility Tom Galloway, chair of the region's planning and works committee, said the next step is co-ordinating the GrandLinq system and its operating system with the vehicle. He hopes by May or June the testing vehicle is out on the track and paving the way for the delivery of the rest of the vehicles. "The second vehicle should be arriving in June, (and) after that every 15 days after that another vehicle is to arrive, until December when the 14 vehicle is scheduled to arrive," said Gal- loway. "Although they are late, this one is on time according to their new schedule." Galloway said they will be holding Bombardier to that new schedule as the Region has stayed out of a spat the manu- facturer has had with Metrolinx, which is co-ordinating new LRT systems in Toronto, Mississauga and Hamilton. Metrolinx said it won't accept their testing vehi- cle until it is fully operational. "This is on schedule accord- ing to the revised schedule and they are already in pre-pro- duction of four more vehicles in Kingston," said Galloway. "This is the only vehicle being produced in Kingston, and they have a dedicated facility for our vehicle. "We're fairly optimistic at this point in time that they've turned things around and have got things on track. But the arriv- al of the second vehicle will tell us if they really have things in order and we can become more confident they will be coming." Regional officials will be vis- iting the Kingston plant in April to see the facility and to review the progress of the next round of vehicles. Mark MacGregor, project manager for the Next Links project for Bombardier, said his company has invested $11 mil- lion into the operations and has more than 300 people working on meeting the new production schedule. Bombardier has also brought a number of its employees to the area to get the vehicle up to speed and through its war- ranty phase as they work to have it properly integrated with the local LRT system. "These are new trains and a specialized design," said Mac- Gregor. "The first ones are always a little trickier than the next ones, and that's why it takes many months for the first few. "But once we get going it'll take a little over a month to get turnover of the vehicle." MacGregor said once full production of the vehicle ramps up people will see delivery of vehicles once a week after that. "We have 300 people work- ing in sequence and in paral- lel and we'll be working on upwards of five vehicles at a time," he said. "As we ramp up to that full production you'll see five being built at a time. "We've had some challenges in the past, that's obvious … but we're 100 per cent confident that we're not only going to be on time, the vehicle will operate very well." Next vehicle will be on time, says Bombardier