Ottawa LRT

[Pheidippides]

When will government's learn that secrecy is never a good strategy? People either assume you hiding something bad or you are actually hiding something bad and that's going to come out anyway - probably before they want it to.

Just be upfront. Own your mistakes. Focus on solutions. The public is more forgiving than most think - provided they aren't taken for a ride (and for granted) in the process.

Which secrecy are you referring to?  That they have not yet announced a new date?  Or something else?

Actually it was this line in the article that I was referring:

But even when the consortium does give the city a new date, the public won't find out what it is for weeks.

Manconi and other rail officials said they will update council's finance and economic development committee sometime in the first quarter of this year.

There are two finance committees scheduled during the first three months of this year, on Feb. 6 and March 6.

The consortium is going to tell the city, but the city isn't going to publicize for weeks.


On the other hand the city's general manager of transportation was being a little more straightforward:

"Our assessment — and every indication we have — leads us to believe there's no way they're going to make May 24,"

I'd like to see some of that locally given we are 103 workdays from "late spring" (June 21).