06-06-2023, 02:14 PM
(06-05-2023, 09:54 PM)dunkalunk Wrote: I raised my hand and reminded people that if they care about transit, then they need to be reviewing the budget and attending planning and works to delegate. We'll see if the recording ever gets posted.
That's a little unfair, I feel. It takes a lot of time and effort to stay up to day on council sessions, budgets, and the like, and not everybody has that time and flexibility to do so so.
All of us here, on this bulletin board, we've essentially made a hobby of urban planning and related subjects and we sink multiple hours per week reading email lists from municipalities, on engagewr.ca and other municipal websites, and so on, and that it took us years of building up the knowledge we do have so that we know what to look for and where to look to help short-circuit the process.
It's one thing to mock a person who is too lazy to google an easily findable thing like the list of city road closures and book mark it for later use, but it's ridiculous to say that they can only share at these info sessions if they did they highly in-=depth activities you mentioned.
This wasn't just as some tweak of a few stops on a route, like gets done every season, or even a shifting around of routes that still ends up with the same basic coverage. It was a deletion of an entire route with no corresponding realignment to keep coverage, had no public consultations to to determine community effects or desires, just a bunch of demographic assumptions and an announcement out of the blue.
People should not have to be reading budget documents or zealously reviewing every P&W committee meeting to have found out that a significant service cut like this was being made.