(05-06-2017, 10:36 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote:

(05-06-2017, 07:49 AM)jamincan Wrote: I think the suggestion is that the structure of a P3 increases the odds of certain details being missed and the resolution potentially being unsatisfactory. Does the contractor go back to the Region and point these out, or do they just build to spec?

You build to spec. Usually, that's where the quickest, easiest money is. And then if they want it changed, it's a change order that needs to happen, and that's a lot more money than trying to bring it up with the Region and only getting paid to build the right thing, instead of the wrong thing, then take it down, then do the right thing. My experience with this comes from a relative who manages some of the big construction companies in the GGHA, and the money is always available because government contract writers never know all the details or their impacts, but if you're party to conversations with the builders, they'll be able to tell you months or years in advance of a shovel hitting the ground just what is wrong with what they're too happy to be paid to do, and how much it will cost to undo and redo it after the fact, and the profits it gives them. This is not to suggest that they are a bunch of bad people, just that they are in the business of making money, and any dollar you leave on the table to be taken, they will do their best to get it, whatever the optics of the means to that end might be.

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(05-06-2017, 05:56 PM)Canard Wrote: Also, the entire centre portion of the rapidway, from Kitchener Market station all the way South to Eby St., has been completely torn up!  It looks horrible!  I wonder what they forgot to add??  Again, benefit of P3 is this makes no difference to us... but the optics of it look terrible.

(05-06-2017, 04:22 PM)timc Wrote: I went past Northfield station today and saw that the tactile edge has been installed. It does indeed have contrasting colour to line up with the doors. I didn't have my phone or I would have taken a picture.

(05-07-2017, 09:50 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote:

(05-06-2017, 04:22 PM)timc Wrote: I went past Northfield station today and saw that the tactile edge has been installed. It does indeed have contrasting colour to line up with the doors. I didn't have my phone or I would have taken a picture.

So a tactile edge...to help the visually impaired...helps guide you to the doors with...colour differentiation? 

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