09-02-2016, 02:41 PM
(09-02-2016, 02:29 PM)Canard Wrote: Not at all different Joe - valid point totally and very much agreed.
The folks who live next to Canada's Wonderland kicked up a huge stink when they built Behemoth (and later, Leviathan) at the perimeter of the park. Yet they chose that location to live when they moved in!
I suppose the only thing you might argue is that back in 2008 (when occupancy took place), LRT wasn't really in anyone's radar at all.
Although as far as I know, the "lights and bells" locations are all on existing railway lines. So if one were to assume that an existing rail line would slowly fade towards abandonment, that would be a bet which one might win or lose, and in either case one has no grounds to complain about the outcome.
Way back when the first tourist train started up between Waterloo and St. Jacobs I remember people complaining. I remember thinking that unless they had been living in their house since 1880 they really don't have much cause for complaint. Although to be fair I think some of them had concerns about the station layout and so on, not just the presence of the train itself.
I hadn't heard of the Canada's Wonderland situation. That's kind of funny.