05-11-2018, 01:18 PM
(05-11-2018, 01:11 PM)KevinL Wrote: I'd like to see more coordination between the cities (especially on active transportation and route planning) and some services should be uploaded to the Region (firefighting) but wholesale merging is not the solution.
Totally agree. The worst active transportation stuff so far has been the region. I mean the LRT is awesome but most regional roads are absolutely brutal. Kitchener and Waterloo are really trying to work together on solutions. The planners know each other by name and meet semi-frequently. On the regional side it's a black box. I don't quite see how people think that is suddenly going to be better if it is just Kitchener and Waterloo.
Firefighting should be something like Waste Management whereby the cities outsource the job to the region. Part of the issue with firefighting has been a result of no one seeing the whole arbitration aspect coming. That has changed the nature of the costs of firefighting.