08-24-2018, 10:21 AM
(08-24-2018, 10:10 AM)Pheidippides Wrote:(08-23-2018, 11:01 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: The Region could waive certain deficiencies — accept a payment that is less than the cost of replacing the panel. If it really is inconsequential. Might take a lot of figuring out which ones are appropriate to waive and which ones really ought to be fixed however.
I don't think the region could do that. It would open them up to law suits. If someone were to trip or fall they could just point to the deficienicies list and say "you knew of the problem and didn't do anything. You were negligent in your upkeep. Show me the money.".
The thing is, we aren't talking about "trip hazards" here, I'm sure some engineer has measured and these things are out by a few millimeters, but the differences are imperceptible, it looks like they're just punching out sidewalk tiles at random. There's only a few that I've seen that are really problematic, and they haven't even gotten to those ones yet.
The *real* hazards with the project are numerous and substantial.
And, the city/region has already demonstrates it believes red paint protects them from lawsuits when sidewalks are 1-2 inches out of vertical alignment.