01-01-2017, 10:52 PM
(01-01-2017, 09:11 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Definitely. Just to be clear, are you talking about the whole rapidway, or just the areas where pedestrians (and cars, but that part seems to be mostly OK) need to cross?
Yes - whole rapidway (so as to see the effect of who'll handle what and how the snow accumulation behaves/can be handled), as well as all crossings. A "dry run", if you will. Use a test section like in front of GRH or say, along Charles in two different places (maybe in front of the current Transit Terminal for "low curb" sections, and between Benton/Cedar for the more conventional centre sections).
Otherwise, if they do nothing this winter... then they'll be desperately trying to sort it all out weeks before opening, and I imagine there will be much fingerpointing when it all falls apart. My concern mostly is to what will happen when we get a decent snowfall? LRT Operator ploughs (somehow?) all the snow on the rapidway onto... the road? Then the road goes onto... the sidewalks? Er...? How's that gonna work?
I just don't get why they wouldn't be practicing now, even if it was just for a few weeks or something. Throw $50k or whatever at it and call it money well spent. See what the problems are, come up with a game plan over the summer, and implement in December 2017.