07-10-2019, 06:41 AM
(07-09-2019, 06:29 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: ...
I have to say I’m disappointed by what Galloway said in the article. He acts as if these were unforeseeable. To the contrary, in both of these cases, the problems are obvious just by looking at the plans. Any competent planner inspecting the plans would have noticed the problems without needing to wait for actual people walking to use the stations. Interesting that they haven’t mentioned Frederick, Grand River Hospital, Kitchener Market, or Borden stations which have similar defects in the design (notice that I do not say “problems with people walking in the wrong places”). I wonder when they’ll officially notice people using the “wrong” end of those stations.
Then you probably won't like Galloway's tweet:
Not only could he not possibly have seen the problems with the plans (which weren't hard to see) nobody told him about it.
I'm not sure I told Galloway specifically, but I definitely saw it talked about.
This is the uptown bike lanes all over again.
Engineers: *propose incompetent design*
Public: "Hey, we like the general idea but there are these major flaws that you should fix."
Engineers: *Build incompetent design*
Later
*flaws become apparent*
Engineers/Council: "We had no idea this would happen, the only feed back was 'we like the general idea....'"