ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[danbrotherston]

And these were the people who were creating a $700+ million dollar decision, without any care or thought to anyone who may have been negatively affected by such construction of the LRT, in an unneeded way.  Had these people paid any attention to detail, any attention to the people living in that area, and had any ability to put themselves into other peoples shoes, this pedestrian crossing would have been put in place before testing of the LRT and before the fence was installed. It would have been part of the design.

I realize that this sounds blunt, but that's exactly what this was, and is. But the people who were heading this, that 'cream of the crop', goes home every night, in their luxury automobile, to their large homes, because they really didn't care.

I'm not bitter of these, I drive a car, own my home, have a .gov job, though not close to 'elite' level. I just feel that once again, those in charge, failed to do their job properly, and at something that most clowns would have thought of.

I think you are making a lot of assumptions about both the salary of and motivations of the people who designed the system.

I have too have little respect for the transportation specialists in the civil engineer field at this point, but I don't feel it's fair to accuse any individual people of negligence, or a lack of attention to detail, this is a systemic issue, not an individual issue.

And to point at them and call them "the elite" and driving in "luxury automobiles to their large homes because they really didn't care" seems to be an entirely unjustified and unearned personal attack--while I'm sure that the head architects of these companies make a great deal of money, they are also not the ones who design the details you're talking about, and I fully believe that the vast majority of the thousands of individuals involved do care about their jobs.



As for the crossing, there is no excuse for not installing a level crossing (as a level crossing is both appropriate and better than a bridge) within days of the transfer to regional ownership--I don't know how many contractors are capable of installing railway crossing equipment, but clearly we have a few in the region...they should have equipment ordered and waiting.

The justification that grandlinq owns it, is a weak and bureaucratic excuse, but unfortunately, probably hard to overcome, but the moment that is not true, it should be done, no excuse for waiting.