03-09-2016, 11:26 PM
(03-09-2016, 08:46 PM)kps Wrote:(03-09-2016, 08:10 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: On the other hand, there are so many pointless or unnecessary closures [...]
There's been no work at Waterloo St for at least 3 months… other than repairing the fence.
I haven’t seen it myself, but that certainly sounds like an unnecessary closure. I understand there is some regrading of the rail corridor, which might be a possible reason why Waterloo needs to be closed, but given the extensive closures of King and Duke, significant effort should have been put in to keep Waterloo open to pedestrian traffic.
I think there is a tendency to kneejerk: either any complaint about closures is just a version of NIMBY — any excuse to complain about the LRT project; or any closure is just part of Ken Seiling’s master plan to force everybody to ride the white elephant LRT by snarling traffic. Real life, of course, is more complicated than either of these options.