09-10-2015, 06:56 AM
(09-09-2015, 10:50 PM)timio Wrote: Unannounced closure at William and Caroline tonight. It was odd seeing route 7 travelling across William to Westmount for the detour. They were digging a trench with some green water pipes nearby, but who knows what for.
I was there a few nights ago and there were signs posted advertising night closures September 8 - 10 so I’m expecting it to be closed this evening also.
However, as far as I can tell this closure is not mentioned on rideion.ca or the linked http://rideion.tumblr.com site (why does that even exist?). So this is actually a good example of the sort of deficiency I’ve noticed in their notifications. All they need is one really smart co-op student to communicate with the construction scheduling people (the people who call up work crew X and send them to intersection Y on day D), update the website, and command the sign-deploying crews. In fairness you would not know ahead of time whether the co-op student was good enough so maybe it should be a permanent person. Who could also be below standard. But what I’m trying to say is they’re clearly spending enough; they’re just not actually doing a good job of communicating what is happening.