These updates look identical in style and format to those of the Line 5 construction and other Metrolinx projects of the past. And its very frustrating and annoying to read. I have worked on projects all my working life and I have had to do stakeholder communication and producing progress reports/ documents for stakeholders. Ok, my field is not construction or construction projects, but some the practices of status reporting are pretty consistent in all fields & industries. And, if I sent out something like that to stakeholders, i wouldn't have lasted. The most important thing that stakeholders (i.e..: the public is considered a stakeholder for publicly funded transit projects) want to see or inferred is Progress against Planned. And I have never seen this in any of those construction updates for Metrolinx projects.
I have never seen those reports communicate anything directly to indirectly relating to how. the project is progressing and that is the number one thing that stakeholders on any project want to know from those reports. Instead, they give us atomized and pedantic details broken into tiny pieces that obscure the whole bigger picture and tell you nothing relative or relevant. Stakeholders don't care for things like : "Excavation is continuing at XYZ" or "This pole has to be moved" or worst still " Work may be rescheduled due to inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances". Well Duh!!. They tell us nothing at a "high level" or big picture. Perhaps, some of the intent here is to alert the the affected neighborhoods, fair enough but if you look closely it fails even at that level. The public should be getting the same info as the public officials are getting, rather than hear the news through the media, remember, we are all stakeholders.
