Work is getting underway on regional transit hub
Posted Feb 28, 2012 12:35:50 PM.
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A preliminary site design for the regional transit hub is expected to be finished by the end of August.
I-B-I Group out of Toronto has been awarded the contract and will be looking at a number of things including the exact location, design and parking.
Councillor Jane Haalboom requested that the Grand River Accessibility Committee be involved in the planning from the beginning, “Frequently we see consultants reports and then we go out to the public and get requests on how does the plan work. But my opinion is that we can save ourselves some time and move ahead if we get those opinions right away.”
Haalboom notes it’s not always easy to know what issues those with accessibility needs will have, “We don’t realize what the problems are. If you have a difficulty with your vision or hearing or even street car tracks and how they can interfere with the wheelchairs that need to go across them.” “In other words, those people who are blind or in wheel chairs and even, shall I say, the older people, and we’re all getting there, so we want to make it as friendly as possible and as easy as possible.”
No word at this time when public consultations will take place.
