04-30-2025, 08:41 AM
(04-30-2025, 08:15 AM)westwardloo Wrote: This whole building should have been demolished in 2015 when the original Transit Hub was proposed. It is not a special factory building and its built way too close to Victoria. The building is also the reason no developer touched the site with a ten foot pole. My prediction is nothing is built on the rest of the site for 20+ years and it eventually gets torn down due to neglect. The Region Staff working on this project have done an awful job with the development of this transit hub. I know this is crazy to say, but I think Metrolinx would have done a much better job at building this hub. Having the City of Kitchener, the Region and Metrolinx working on this has caused countless delays and waterdown designs.
I certainly don't know the details of what has gone on, but the results speak for themselves. It's a decade on, and nothing has been started, and the plans have been watered down to "the most expensive, most basic train station possible".
But this is also very on brand for Ontario (non-road) infrastructure projects.