ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Pheidippides]

3) The desire to come close to budget.

I would give a lot of weight to this suggestion. We had a budget for a barebones system that also had operational constraints (46min end-to-end?) and some things just had to go to make sure the system met all the parameters.

I do think that not consulting enough with those affected the most also contributed. I was hoping for some formal "lessons learned" to be published before we got too far along in phase 2 so this kind of thing would be less likely to happen, but it is almost too late now. Hopefully, someone is thinking about all the voices they haven't heard from in the phase 2 consultations. They are certainly hearing from the vocal and organized groups enough; hopefully not to the detriment of another less vocal group (for whatever reasons).