05-05-2015, 05:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2015, 05:38 PM by panamaniac.)
(05-05-2015, 05:05 PM)Drake Wrote: Those walls will be tagged with graffiti by the local bone heads quickly just like the Weber St underpass. I hope there is some kind of scientific coating that repels paint or spits it all over them.
I suspect that may be part of why glass/ceramic has been chosen - it's easier to clean off the inevitable graffiti. Unfortunately, it is easier to vandalize by scratching, which I'm sure won't take long to figure out.
The report in the Record on the stations quotes Coun Wayne Wettlaufer as saying they (seems to include Mayor Vrbanovic) had pressed for stone at the Market Square station, which leaves me wondering what, in his mind, stone has to do with Market Square or Downtown Kitchener? Seems like the sort of limited vision that saw Market Square clad in brown brick with distelfink panels slapped on the walls, instead of the planned concrete brut. Politicians with the "warm and fuzzies" should be kept far away from our public architecture, imho.