Cycling in Waterloo Region

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Reason, again, direct from the project manager:

Also, sections of the coloured concrete  bike lanes could not be completed this year due to the type of finish and temperatures required for curing. This work will be completed in the spring along with the decorative paving stones / street trees.

Yes, I realize that the reason why they did not pour the concrete. I am asking what was the reason it got so late in the season that they didn’t have the right conditions to pour the concrete in the first place. Why did they run out of time?
 
The section they did reopen, King from the Ion track to Bridgeport and Erb from Allen to King, was a month late and still not complete, and that’s with not even starting another third of the project (King from Bridgeport to Central) that has now been put off until 2018 or later.
 
It’s work like this that makes me glad to see RFPs now including weighting for quality and timeliness of previous work and not just the lowest price wins.
 
I go back to the double standard in criticism for delays related to Ion and delays for “regular road work.” I mean where is the public and media uproar over this delay like there was for the Ion work along King last year? Businesses still suffered and traffic was a nightmare at times. Sure there have been a few articles, but nothing like the vitriol that was spilled in the media and social media for the Ion work. Work that, was fully stopped for two months because of the corduroy road discovery, still finished and re-opened on time on November 30, 2016 because they had learned from their experiences Caroline and had planned extra time knowing they would not know what they would find.