You'd think it would have been better to get a pro-LRT mayor to run. One who understands the benefit of what sort of progress this would have meant for Cambridge as a place to live, an area for innovation, to set up a business, the economic and intellectual growth that would have occurred by pushing the city in the direction to become more integrated in the region, national and global world and the benefits it brings.
Waterloo Region just seem as if Kitchener and Waterloo is the place it now is to (usually) good governance over the decades. We took some massive chances when it came to investments in new roads, redoing infrastructure and urban spaces, doing theoretical studies on what sort of direction we should focus on, building the LRT which brought in so much investment it's crazy and got so much growth in business, from the very large (look what Google has accomplished) to small (pick any new business a new or old resident started up on their own).
Cambridge is just like: Yeah, we're here, can you not bother us unless it's really important? We're fine the way we are.
Waterloo Region just seem as if Kitchener and Waterloo is the place it now is to (usually) good governance over the decades. We took some massive chances when it came to investments in new roads, redoing infrastructure and urban spaces, doing theoretical studies on what sort of direction we should focus on, building the LRT which brought in so much investment it's crazy and got so much growth in business, from the very large (look what Google has accomplished) to small (pick any new business a new or old resident started up on their own).
Cambridge is just like: Yeah, we're here, can you not bother us unless it's really important? We're fine the way we are.