10-10-2018, 12:28 PM
(10-10-2018, 11:51 AM)robdrimmie Wrote:(10-10-2018, 11:22 AM)kps Wrote: Securities regulations put people in jail for withholding material information. Too bad municipal governance isn't held to the same standard.
I'm curious where the line is. As long as there's a moderate (I don't know what that is. 30%? 40%?) chance of success, then hanging on to the December date is reasonably fair. The public statements have hedged a bit "things are tight, but we're still on track" type of messaging. And no one communicating for this project has been good about dates at all, so there's some amount of consistency in waiting for the last minute to push things.
But part of the issue is that the vast majority of people have no sense of nuance, so the reaction to news and transparency is to armchair project manage and critique from afar. Any discussion about the complexities of competing the project are going to be completely outweighed by the easy soundbite of "this person advocated for the LRT and the LRT project is a boondoggle so we can't vote for them!" and that kind of agitator wins over some percentage of the vote because they don't know the details and the voting public doesn't know the details.
I genuinely don't believe that an announcement of another delay at this point would bring anything resembling clarity to the election, and ultimately it wouldn't have any impact on the project itself. The only outcomes are that nerds like us have a better understanding of what's going on, and people who hate spending tax money have another piece of "they're incompetent" ammunition. They *may* be incompetent, but delays in a project of this scale are not indicative of that, they're only indicative of what shitty communicators they are.
I'm of the opinion that if there are any delays we are at a point where they should be measured in days or weeks rather than in months.