It has the heavy gates at crossings because CN owns the rail corridor between Uptown Waterloo & Northfield drive and runs freight trains late at night. Since it is not a dedicated line, is has the have standard gates.
Everyone hated it until it was done and it was a hard sell to many people that can’t imagine living without having a car. Also they decided to replace the water pipes and sewers at the same time as installing the LRT line on some major roads and fucked the city up for 3 years passing people off.







One of the hardest things to grasp is how someone is smarter than you. You can know that a person is smarter than you but understanding why is something that we have trouble figuring out. The default is that they know more than you, which is just information, but how do you make sense of someone being able to handle logic better than you or solve a math problem that you both have never seen before.