In what feels like a fitting end to theyears-long sagaof Toronto trying (andfailing) to get all of its new streetcars from Bombardier, the Montreal-based transportation firm just announced that it will ship the very last of 204 vehicles it owes the TTC in January of 2020.

"In 2018, we made a commitment to the #TTC and the people of #Toronto,"wrote Bombardieron Twitter Monday morning, referencing itsmost recently-pledged delivery timeline.

"Our #ThunderBay team is happy to confirm: car203 will be ready to ship this week and #car204 will be completed tomorrow and shipped next week after testing and customer inspection."

Production of#car4603- 204th and last of the new#TTCstreetcars, is in it’s final stages of assembly and our skilled#ThunderBayemployees are getting ready for the tests. We thank them for their dedication in completing this order during the holidays.#TogetherWeMove#Torontopic.twitter.com/xAIxPsOI4E

— BombardierRail (@BombardierRail)December 24, 2019

This, after nearly a decade ofproduction problems,missed deadlinesand evena lawsuitagainst Bombardier for breaching the terms of its $1.2 billion contract for 204 new TTC streetcars.

In February of 2018, with only 66 of the vehicles ordered complete, the company announceda new strategyintended to help meet the revised contract deadline of December 31, 2019.

这一策略铰链上setting up anotherproduction lineat Bombardier's Kingston, Ont., plant, in addition to its slammed Thunder Bay plant.

Bombardier reaffirmed its commitment in July and pledged that it would indeed be able todeliver the rest of Toronto's streetcars by year's end(though some riders remained skeptical, for obvious reasons.)

Congratulations on only barely missing the deadline you set for yourself after wildly missing the actual deadline in your contract.

— (((Tango Zippo))) (@TangoZippo)December 30, 2019

As it turns out, the company's strategy for finishing the order by 2020 worked... or just about.

The second-last of Toronto's Flexity streetcars is being shipped this week, according to the aerospace technology company, though it remains to be seen if it'll reach Toronto before the ball drops on New Year's Eve.

The 204th of Toronto's long-awaited new streetcars will be shipped next week, putting it just past the last agreed upon deadline.

That's nice.#Bombardieronly missed about 4 deadlines, and a bunch of#streetcarsfrom a previous delivery had to be repaired. Good going - let's hope these won't need any fixing.

— Tina McCulloch (@tmccull603)December 31, 2019

Bombardier is counting this as a victory, nonetheless — and to be fair, it did produce an impressive number of streetcars over the past two years, cranking out more than double the amount it had produced previous to 2018.

"This completes the delivery of all 204 of the TTC streetcars, and we continue to work with the TTC to ensure service excellence to Toronto and TTC passengers,"said Bombardier spokespersonKaven Delarosbil by email to the Toronto Star of his company's impending delivery.

It's a good thing, too, because Torontotook the last of its classic, cherry redCLRVstreetcars off the road for good this past weekend, asoriginally planned.