Pretty universal. Just some choice quotes that make it newsworthy.
Nobody wants a bus going by their front door. I remember reading some Region of Waterloo documentation on the study process that went into a recent rerouting, and it listed the complaints and GRT's responses. Read something like this:
Complaint: Too noisy, too polluting Response: GRT buses are less noisy than garbage trucks, and less polluting than the traffic they replace.
Complaint: Unsafe in neighbourhoods with children playing Response: Private cars are responsible for the vast majority of accidents involving children.
My favourite: Complaint: (X) Street not suitable for buses, bus traffic lowers property values Response: (X) Street was designated a future transit route in 1991 and designed to support it. This information was publicly available.
Kind of a weak response about buses being less noisy than garbage trucks. Sure they are, but the garbage truck only goes by once a week as opposed to several times a day!
Anyway. I used to live in an apartment on University Ave where the 7, 8 and 12 ran right past me. The noise really did suck (window-rattlingly loud, sometimes) but the convenience was awesome. I was way more irritated by the noise of the drunken people on the patio at McGinnis Front Row.
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Date: 2008-08-13 03:37 pm (UTC)Nobody wants a bus going by their front door. I remember reading some Region of Waterloo documentation on the study process that went into a recent rerouting, and it listed the complaints and GRT's responses. Read something like this:
Complaint: Too noisy, too polluting
Response: GRT buses are less noisy than garbage trucks, and less polluting than the traffic they replace.
Complaint: Unsafe in neighbourhoods with children playing
Response: Private cars are responsible for the vast majority of accidents involving children.
My favourite:
Complaint: (X) Street not suitable for buses, bus traffic lowers property values
Response: (X) Street was designated a future transit route in 1991 and designed to support it. This information was publicly available.
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Date: 2008-08-13 04:00 pm (UTC)Anyway. I used to live in an apartment on University Ave where the 7, 8 and 12 ran right past me. The noise really did suck (window-rattlingly loud, sometimes) but the convenience was awesome. I was way more irritated by the noise of the drunken people on the patio at McGinnis Front Row.