11-29-2016, 11:36 PM
(11-29-2016, 12:25 AM)Elmira Guy Wrote: It doesn't surprise me either that some businesses are exploring legal action, and I'm even less surprised that a certain phylum of lawyer is scuttling to represent them.
But as danbrotherston said, I'm not interested in supporting a business who is seeking to take money from the local government/taxpayers simply because said government is doing their job by improving and expanding necessary infrastructure.
I sympathise with the plight of businesses who have been sincerely impacted by all the construction (not those who claim that the LRT is the cause of their demise even when it clearly is not), but that does not mean they warrant monies for said troubles. Sure strikes me as a worrisome precedent.
I read a little bit about this today, it seems it is more around the promises the region made about customers having access to businesses and being given notice for when work would be performed. It seemed to be more about sidewalk space being taken away and pedestrians not having access. So not so cut and dry from what was in the newspaper.