10-13-2018, 09:10 AM
(10-13-2018, 08:57 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-13-2018, 07:24 AM)jamincan Wrote: I just read through it; what a fantastic resource. I was on the fence about who to vote for, and it's already helped me decide for regional chair (Redman) and my local councillor (Stretch - Ward 1 Kitchener). If you can't even go to the effort to complete an election survey from an organization as important as TriTAG, you don't deserve my vote.
Care to say what you felt was compelling in her answers?
I liked her statements on Transit but her statements on Development, Active Transportation, and especially Safe Streets I found to be not particularly compelling. They varied between political hedging and completely empty (her safe streets statement amounted to "we already have a perfectly good process for fixing the broken stuff we build").
The survey didn't change my mind too much. My preferred candidate (Rob) didn't say anything too shocking or disappointing. My main reason for supporting him is still is very vocal support for active transport, plus his exceptional efforts to engage voters all over the region of all stripes (yesterday he apparently rode GRT for the day to meet and engage transit riders). I didn't like his sidewalk clearing answer on the survey, or his answer on LRT Phase 2 but at the end of the day I'm not going to like every answer and I get the idea he would listen to pursuasive arguments .
I agree. Karen Redman would probably be fine but Rob Deutschmann has made more noise about segregated bike lanes, so he gets my vote.