SupplyChain Magazine April 2015 | Page 115

SECTOR the development of the Region of Waterloo over the past four decades . With planning in place , the region has been able to build its cities up with its vision of strong and cohesive rapid transit in mind , making transit a well-conceived and perfectly integrated part of the region instead of a complicated solution to a growing problem .
“ Traditionally for a lot of light rail projects , engineering is done first and then planning starts ,” said Bhatti . “ In our case , planning was established much earlier . Since 1976 many policies have been put in place to focus more intensification along the corridor . So we have the intensification we need to justify investment in higher order transit . Then , with the implementation of higher order
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