Regular updates about the LRT are too little, too late

Re: Residents will be kept in loop about LRT cars — April 20

It’s no secret that I have a serious distaste for the LRT or Ion or whatever you want to call it. I prefer to call it a disaster. The residents of this region have had to put up with two years of dodging the construction and detours; watching businesses struggle to stay alive or go out of business due to lack of accessibility; listening to broken promises on the cost and delivery of the trains, and when the system will actually be up and running.

And now after we learn Ion will not be ready to go into service until the end of 2018, the region wants to keep us in the loop about what is going on? Hmmm, could that have something to do with the upcoming municipal elections scheduled for October?

It’s funny how councillors want to keep us informed now that the damage is done. Perhaps the elected officials who thrust this upon the taxpayers should have had more communication with us before taking the plunge.

It is a shame that the money we spent on what I see as a white elephant didn’t go toward fixing roads in the region that are in dire need of repair. These are the same roads that hundreds of thousands of residents drive on each and every day, drivers who likely will never see the inside of one of those late-in-coming Ion trains.

Joan V. McKinnon

Kitchener