06-06-2020, 10:03 AM
(06-06-2020, 08:13 AM)creative Wrote: So “childish” name calling is ok but defending civil engineers is not! I have close friends who work for/have worked for the city engineering department. I find this constant reference to “incompetent” highly offensive!
If you think the things called out as incompetent aren’t, explain why.
I’ll just take one example, because one is enough: crossings of the LRT between Courtland and Wilson. Anybody who took a quick glance at Google Maps aerial photography could see that there were numerous paths crossing that corridor; and anybody working on engineering for a Regional project can reasonably be expected, as part of their professional due diligence, to be aware of stated Regional priorities and policies, including supporting multiple modes of transportation. Having done these things, any competent engineering organization would have brought up the issue during the design phase and ensured that the bad effects we saw did not happen.
By your way of thinking, we’re not ever allowed to criticize work done by a professional, even when it is obviously shoddy.
The problem in this discussion board is not Dan’s frustration that cyclists and pedestrians continue to be treated as second-class citizens in infrastructure design, but rather your refusal to try to understand where he is coming from.