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Here is a listing of some of the resources on this website relating to problems with the CastleGlenn Consultants Traffic and Parking Report presented to the City of Kingston in May 2005.

• September 30th, 2004, the City of Kingston hires Don Gedge as LVEC Project Manager.
• On October 19th 2004, CastleGlenn Consultants are hand-picked without tender by project manager Don Gedge for their "keen understanding of the Wellington Street Corridor" (pages 13 and 16 therein) to conduct the Traffic and Parking Study for the proposed LVEC on Anglin Bay. 
• April 20th, 2005. CastleGlenn tables a draft of its report.  The City chooses to release online only its related PowerPoint presentation, which they first convert to an Adobe PDF file, DRAFT - Phase I: Traffic and Parking Viability Assessment Study , a file which is a stunning 2.4 Mb in size but contains just 22 kb of textual information, for an unprecedented presentation bloat factor of 109:1.
• April 21st, 2005, a story breaks in Ottawa about serious parking problems with the Ottawa Lynx baseball stadium.  CastleGlenn Consultants is a consultant on that project, which involves fair weather-only events with dispersed parking with shorter outdoor walking distances than are proposed for Kingston's LVEC for winter attractions.
• April 23rd, 2005, Bruce Todd, with more than 40 years experience in traffic engineering and planning, highlights some of his measurements from the LVEC along Wellington to nearby parking lots. They clearly show erroneous distance  measurement problems within the CastleGlenn report..
• April 24th, 2005, KCAL publishes what it believes are some other Serious Problems with the LVEC Parking and Traffic Study.
• April 25th, 2005, Bruce Todd releases a more in-depth and damning analysis of the CastleGlenn report.
• April 25th 2005, the city hosts a televised Have Your Say public meeting at City Hall.  Despite the clearly voiced legitimate concerns about the project, the next morning, with full knowledge of the problems with the CastleGlenn Traffic and Parking study, the project is approved by Councillor Ed Smith and the LVEC Steering Committee.  KCAL later reveals that THE  meeting was stacked by Kingston's BIA. We also believe thatthe BIA may have controlled the agenda and the roll of speakers. Councillor Ed Smith is both a BIA board member and the chairman of the LVEC Steering Committee. He was the stager and moderator of that crucial meeting and we believe that he is partly responsible for this "make believe" indication of genuine public consultation.
• April 30th, 2005, KCAL publishes more corrections to the CastleGlenn traffic and parking report.
• May 21st, 2005, members of KCAL, not the City, scan and put CastleGlenn's full Phase I Traffic and Parking Study  online for citizens to download.
• In late May 2005, the serious problems with the CastleGlenn report are still not acknowledged by the City, project manager Don Gedge, Councillors, the mainstream media, or anyone working for CastleGlenn Consultants. This prompts KCAL's Bruce Todd to write a series of 14 daily letters to The Mayor and Councillors, each is about a different aspect of the problems associated with the CastleGlenn Traffic and Parking study, as follows: 

  Articles in the Daily Points on LVEC Traffic and Parking series
  #1 - Concerns About the Content of Phase I (May 19) #2 - No  Pedestrian Counts in Intersection Analysis (May 20) #3 - A Discussion of the Two Adjacent Parking Lots (May 21) #4 - Drop Off and Pick Up Mode of Access (May 22) #5 - Display Maps (May 23) #6 - The Anglin Parking Lot (May 24) #7 - Reporting of Available On-Street Parking (May 25)	#8 - Determination of Mode of Travel (May 26) #9 - Infrastructure and Management Requirements (May 27) #10- Study Area and Study Data (May 28) #11- Traffic Counts (May 29) #12- Acceptable Walking Distance (May 30) #13- Parking Availability and Key Factors (May 31) #14- Clearance Time After an Event (June 1)

  A satisfactory response to Mr. Todd's letters is not received. The first six letters were replied to by Mr. Gedge and said, in effect, "trust us". No replies were ever received to the last eight letters. Mr Todd has, we remind you, over 40 years experience in the field of traffic engineering and planning.

• May 2005: A peer review of CastleGlenn's Traffic and Parking study is "quietly" ordered. It is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2005.
• Also, to date, none of Kingston's print or television outlets has reported on any of the problems with CastleGlenn's April 20, 2005 Traffic and Parking report, as noted by Mr. Todd.
• Yet, armed with this report on Traffic and Parking that we believe is is fudged to justify the Anglin Bay location, Council is being asked to approve the North Block location for the LVEC at the November 1st 2005 Council meeting.

Last updated: October 31 2005