ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[danbrotherston]

Thanks for the responses re: radiant heating for the platforms, or lack thereof.  It's too bad that salt, rather than a radiant heating system will be used to keep the platforms free of ice, given the Region's progressiveness around cutting down on salt usage.  Would've added to the budget?

Given the cost of hydro in Ontario, radiant heating in the platforms would strike me as a rather "gold plated" design element in what is in most respects a somewhat bare bones project.

I'm entirely sure it's the type of thing that people would point to and complain about "gold plated".  But it's not clear that a radiant heat system wouldn't be a better/cheaper option in the long run when considering the cost of salt, damage to infrastructure from salt, damage to the environment from salt, the imperfectness of salt leading to ice, leading to liability from lawsuits.  But regardless of whether it was financially justified, I figure people would still complain about us elites and our electrically heated gold plated snow removal platforms.