<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Lulu et al.,</span><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">All good points with very much in common with my own publicly expressed thoughts but with few energy tech details — at least you were listening unlike some others.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">Your public health thoughts were important — I have not mentioned this in my own researched LR articles. However, the current poorly designed LRT plan would.not improve environmental health nearly as much as is possible.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">But you overlooked some key faults in the design of the current LRT plan which would lead to: greatly increased C & O costs, far fewer commuters attracted, road capacities more than halved and roads generally made more problematic, less intensification effects, businesses permanently impaired, a majority of Tri-city residents paying extra LRT taxes in tough economic times but receiving few benefits, etc. </div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">Overall we are currently stuck with an LRT plan that will do far too little for far too much $ — an un-smart approach that would tarnish Waterloo Region’s pioneering innovative image at a time when we are trying to recover from Blackberry’s degradation. </div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">The many LRT supporters are insufficiently constructively critical to our community’s great disadvantage. These supporters should keep in mind this modified Biblical expression, “Forgive them Father for they do not sufficiently know what they support” (Sorry John).</div><div><div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">Like so many others, I too support an LRT project but only the current plan if some essential modifications are made — far beyond the RE changes that you and I agree on.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">Best.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;">Robert</div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">PS: Please keep in mind that the LRT project was "never intended to improve (public) transportation [former CAO Gerry Thompson] or " to be a people mover” [RC Jim Wideman] — unlike all other transit systems in the world that were created to improve their transit system by moving people better.This is RMW’s unique innovative idea for project success. It certainly merits a special Nobel Prize for unsurpassed technological brilliance.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;">A pandemic of selective LRT blindness+ that seems to have infected a susceptible few in WR — beginning with Ken & Gerry's 2001 LRT vision — continues unabated to this day!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Feb 11, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Louisette Lanteigne <<a href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:59:51 PM, Louisette Lanteigne <<a href="mailto:butterflybluelu@rogers.com">butterflybluelu@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2648303458"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="background-color:transparent;">Dear Council members</div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;">Here is a letter to the editor<span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;"> I submitted to the KW Record regarding the LRT. Thought I would relay to you for your reference. I do support the project.</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><div style="background-color:transparent;">LRT: Legacy of Resilient Transportation </div><div><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;">Light Rail Transit systems are electric and can be powered<span style="font-size:10pt;"> by
solar, wind and hydro. With Ontario having to sell surplus energy, projects like our LRT can provide renewable </span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;">energy storage capacity saving taxpayers money. </span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">In reducing emissions, the LRT can reduce the illness costs of smog saving on Regional healthcare.</span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Each Train can carry 5 times more passengers than a bus: less drivers to move more people. Again, tax savings. </span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;"><span style="
font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">LRT's do not require tire changes, tune ups,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;"> paving of roadways needed to function. The life span of a bus is 15 years. The lifespan of LRT is over 30. Again, tax dollars saved.</span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Waterloo Region's water supply comes from groundwater. Unlike buses, LRT's don't require road salts. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">Less pollution, less water treatment and associated health care costs. </span></div><div style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="
background-color:transparent;">In <span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">the age of climate change we could see physical disruption of oil supply or massive price swings. Investing in an LRT is a great way to bypass long term economic risks so we can offer mass transit at reasonable, predictable prices. </span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">Although some say </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">they won't use it, the investment now would be a stitch in time that saves nine. We all need clean water. We all need the clean air no matter where in the Region you live. If oil supply chains are disrupted, we need choices to adapt and it's cheaper to build the system now, than it is to delay. </span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">Louisette Lanteigne</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">700 Star Flower Ave.</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">Waterloo Ont.</span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">N2V 2L2</span></div></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><br></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div>_______________________________________________<br>All mailing list<br><a href="mailto:All@gren.ca">All@gren.ca</a><br>http://mail.gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>