09-17-2018, 12:04 PM
There are two groups of people I hear opposing the dome:
The first group, believe they know better than the engineers, for various reasons, and the argument they frequently give is that a) it never snowed (false), b) it never got cold (false), and c) that they should have foreseen that a) and b) would occur in January and February in southern Ontario (ridiculous), and finally d) that they didn't do any work on it anyway (also false).
The second group, which I feel is more reasonable, simply argues that the need for the dome should have been avoided, either by delaying construction, which given the further delays in the overall project maybe reasonable, although given that construction company has deadlines independent of ours, that's maybe not feasible in our particular construction contract--although that is an argument that the company should cover the cost of the dome, or that the construction should have been done earlier...which is also maybe the case, but I'm not privvy to the particular negotiations with Metrolinx on that.
The first group, believe they know better than the engineers, for various reasons, and the argument they frequently give is that a) it never snowed (false), b) it never got cold (false), and c) that they should have foreseen that a) and b) would occur in January and February in southern Ontario (ridiculous), and finally d) that they didn't do any work on it anyway (also false).
The second group, which I feel is more reasonable, simply argues that the need for the dome should have been avoided, either by delaying construction, which given the further delays in the overall project maybe reasonable, although given that construction company has deadlines independent of ours, that's maybe not feasible in our particular construction contract--although that is an argument that the company should cover the cost of the dome, or that the construction should have been done earlier...which is also maybe the case, but I'm not privvy to the particular negotiations with Metrolinx on that.