01-12-2018, 03:34 PM
Here's a conspiracy theory... it snows Sunday night/Monday AM. Monday morning at 10 AM GRT contacts the snow plow contractors and says "Please clear the snow from GRT bus stops. Per your contract you have 72 hours (!) to start this work and 48 hours to complete once you've started".
Contractor looks at the weather forecast and sees that on Thursday it's going to be 8 degrees above freezing. So they wait 71 hours until Thursday AM, go out and clear one bus stop, tell the region they've "started", and collect $115,000. Thursday afternoon all the bus stops are 'cleared' because of weather. And GRT users had to suffer through three days of uncleared stops.
Contractor looks at the weather forecast and sees that on Thursday it's going to be 8 degrees above freezing. So they wait 71 hours until Thursday AM, go out and clear one bus stop, tell the region they've "started", and collect $115,000. Thursday afternoon all the bus stops are 'cleared' because of weather. And GRT users had to suffer through three days of uncleared stops.