06-06-2020, 09:45 AM
Dan can seem inflammatory at time, but his frustration is real. The fact of the matter is that cyclists were at best a second though when it comes to the LRT. I seem to recall at one point that one of the staff members actually suggested cyclists should just not use King Street at all.
I don't really know where the process failed, but regardless of your views on the qualifications of the engineers, the result is indisputably unsafe for cyclists. I suspect part of the problem is that this was bundled as a P3 project which meant that a lot of the consultation that would have occurred through the design stages never really happened, or was disregarded. I suspect issues like this one, or the Traynor crossing, would have been identified prior to construction if it was not done through a P3.
I don't really know where the process failed, but regardless of your views on the qualifications of the engineers, the result is indisputably unsafe for cyclists. I suspect part of the problem is that this was bundled as a P3 project which meant that a lot of the consultation that would have occurred through the design stages never really happened, or was disregarded. I suspect issues like this one, or the Traynor crossing, would have been identified prior to construction if it was not done through a P3.