King-Victoria Transit Hub

[bravado]

^ Society fails when we lose empathy…

Didn't you hear? Empathy is weakness now!

Other generations had empathy for us - we seem to not want to keep paying it forward.

Edit: I think that a significant chunk of our population looks at the homeless and the addicted and the suffering and genuinely never thinks that it could be them next.

[ZEBuilder]

For those curious Metrolinx has pushed the RFP for their portion of the work to Q2 2026 from Q1 2026.

[KevinL]

Canada, Ontario and the Region of Waterloo invest in public transit improvements

Part of today’s investments will support the construction of the Kitchener Central Transit Hub (KCTH). Seamlessly uniting active transportation, ION light rail, GO transit, VIA rail, intercity buses, passenger vehicles and Grand River Transit, the new facility will operate as an important node connecting Kitchener to the greater Region of Waterloo and beyond. It will include modern and accessible features such as Wi-Fi, advanced security systems, a central plaza, and integration with the local trail network. Through this investment, the adjacent bus terminal at the corner of King Street and Victoria Street will also be upgraded with four additional bus bays and one mobility bus stop.

[ac3r]

^ Society fails when we lose empathy…

Yeah and society has thus failed since we - or rather, some people - have fully accepted this and normalized these issues. They've made it "acceptable" to promote these failures, but suggest it's an abhorrent point of view to have if an individual or a collective sees these things and says hell no. Anyone who says things like harm reduction as it is now actually works, that it's not the addicts fault they're addicts, legalizing slums in cities, who can walk past people nodding off on fentanyl every single time they go out their door or who votes for or supports any moron that supports this is a truly unempathetic, sick asshole. A person is VOID of all empathy if they can look at the situation and think they're being empathetic.

Fortunately it's not the majority of us who are like that, just the ones who seem to have a chokehold on the political and media world. But unfortunately...it's those people who have the power and the loudest voices. What a shame, too. This region is hovering close to 700'000 people and is one of the most economically and intellectually productive places in the province, if not country and it hasn't managed to build a new train station after planning it half a decade ago. They literally haven't done anything tangible - except the fence. Much of that goes to Metrolinx, some to this region just being run by morons, some by voters and some by those living in a space that is meant to be used at this point to build a new train station.

The original Kitchener Station was built 169 years ago. It took them less than 10 months, including actually extending the GT Railway line to it. It has been half a decade since the "intermodal station" was proposed. What has this region done, besides burn millions of dollars on this with nothing to show? And now that the region is sorta slightly maybe possible kinda but probably not really going to start the project, it's being held up AGAIN because of a bunch of drug addicts and their enablers. If empathy is a concern, then the economic failures and losses to the local society has been a symptom of that - and of course those addicts who have never been given real help, just syringes. It's not just the societal failure that we've legally allowed this mess to exist, but that it's also costing everyone else more money to deal with. Regular, productive people and the overall local/extralocal society are losing out economically and other ways due to this stagnation.

Feelings should not be part of this equation but in clown world they somehow seem to take a high prescident. Someone empathetic would say yeah get these people off the street by whatever means to help, while also steamrolling the development of this project as it provides an incredibly high net benefit for everyone in Ontario and places connected.