Strata | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed

[ijmorlan]

The writer is also disingenuous in the mould of John Shortreed. Shortreed would tout his transportation planning knowledge as to why he should be trusted on LRT matters, but his area of focus for research was on long haul trucking. In this case, J. Gordon's area of focus is on environmental assessments of ecologically significant and undeveloped lands.

Wasn’t he also heavily involved in Ottawa’s Transitway? I always got the feeling that he viewed LRT, especially in Ottawa, as a repudiation of his life’s work. I saw it instead as a validation of his life’s work: well planned transit can be highly successful, and sometimes the way to get to highly successful transit that merits LRT is to build a BRT.

In any case, I agree that expertise isn’t always as relevant as it may appear at first.