05-01-2021, 04:10 PM
(05-01-2021, 02:23 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(04-30-2021, 09:43 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Not only is it surrounded by parking lots, but the station (one of the busiest on the network) doesn't even have an enclosed waiting area (you know, to protect passengers from our occasionally biting weather) because there wasn't enough room...because they'd have had to shrink the parking lots.
I will assume that the region really doesn't like doing expropriation ...
First of all, they did thousands of expropriations for the LRT, so whether they like doing them or not, they did them for this project.
Second of all, the lot is owned by the City of Waterloo, not only an organization that the Region already had to expropriate property from, and also one which would absolutely work in good faith with the Region towards a good solution, but also is absolutely strongly invested in a good solution.
If this were a stand alone project next to an unco-operative private property owner, I'd buy, "it was easier and faster not to fight with the property owner and build a substandard infra"...I'd still not agree with that decision, but in this case, it absolutely does not apply.