Only The Shadow Knows

If you care to  drive north on Bathurst Street., please note a fence building project being undertaken by the Region. The last figure I heard for this project is $2.million.
The fence is to protect  owners who  complained about noise of  increasing regional traffic.
It's similar to where people bought homes backing on to a railway track, then complained about train whistles. 
Normally,  responsibility for protection rests with the subdivision developer. Cost is then be included in the price of  homes.
This way, the rest of us get to pay for the amenity of a privacy and accoustic fence for the Regional  Street dwellers.

If that's not enough aggravation, let me draw  attention to the rise and fall of the land and how this beautful , no doubt most expensive fancy fencing follows the contours of the land. 
Yards of it dip deep into the hollows.
 Houses it is supposed to protect are up at the level of the road and therefore.... the traffic. 
In those areas, the fence serves no purpose whatsoever.It is lost in the woods.
It would appear,whoever drew up  specifications for the fence , never moved their backsides from the draftsman's stool that accommodates them  throughout their working day..
For  almost fifty years the Town of Aurora  strove to control development  so that Bathurst Street retained its rural ambiance.
Trees and brush were not disturbed. Houses were required to be built thirty metres back from the road  and hidden  in the woods where there was any. 
Now  trees and shrubs are hidden behind the fence.Whatever  vegetation was in the way, has been cut down and removed.
It's  sort of like the great slabs of concrete that appeared on boulevards all over town, at a time there  was raving or rhapsodizing, depending on one's perspective, about the urgent need to protect  Oak Ridges Moraine.
Owners with homes in the Moraine can't as much as lay a slab for a garden shed ,without making an application to the committee of adjustment for the right,at a cost of several hundred dollars.

But the Region can drive around ,apparently in the dead of night, and like the shoemaker's elves,lay hundreds of yards of concrete to accommodate bus passengers who are never seen,. waiting for,  getting on  or off or  riding on a regional bus.
Did they ask anybody?
Only the Shadow knows.