12-02-2019, 07:17 AM
(12-01-2019, 07:10 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: It's disheartening how many people think this incident is the ultimate vindication of the whole "wHaT WiLL tHEy dO iN ThE WinTEr" meme going around since the project was approved. Because again apparently Waterloo is uniquely unsuitable for an LRT among every cold weather location in the entire worldÂ
I was disappointed in the CTV news article. It happily quoted frustrated commuters referencing a billion dollars and commenting that "this is Canada" without giving any information whatsoever about the weather, or how other methods of transportation were faring yesterday.
Reading the article, it is entirely possible to conclude that a negligible amount of freezing rain affected the Ion, but roads were cleared to bare conditions and all other transportation was moving normally. In reality, roads were at times icy yesterday, and motor traffic much lessened- many church services were cancelled (this doesn't tend to happen more than once a winter), and people were staying off the roads earlier in the day. Hopefully Keolis addresses whatever the issue was for future events, but perfection is unreasonable to expect. "We're in Canada": sometimes there is disruptive weather.
Anyway, I await their news article this morning about public sidewalks being difficult to navigate, and seeking someone to blame for their incompetence for that.