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RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - Canard - 10-19-2016

Still no railings, but now the concrete has been torn up and repoured on the sidewalks! What on earth is going on?

http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=201&pid=26402#pid26402

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - Canard - 10-19-2016

What is going on here?  Are the platforms too close to the....road? Big Grin

   

(This is Weber/Wellington)

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - JCnb - 10-20-2016

(10-19-2016, 09:13 PM)Canard Wrote: What is going on here?  Are the platforms too close to the....road? Big Grin



(This is Weber/Wellington)

Some of those sidewalk panels appear to be cracked.... warranty repair?

(unless broken by the smashing)

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - danbrotherston - 10-20-2016

(10-20-2016, 03:14 PM)JCnb Wrote:
(10-19-2016, 09:13 PM)Canard Wrote: What is going on here?  Are the platforms too close to the....road? Big Grin



(This is Weber/Wellington)

Some of those sidewalk panels appear to be cracked.... warranty repair?

(unless broken by the smashing)

At least one portion appeared to have been cracked by heavy equipment on the sidewalk (as evidenced by tire tracks in the vicinity of the cracking), so maybe the original contractor.

In either case, is it considered warranty repair if its not even completed yet.  There are a few things left to finish.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - Canard - 10-31-2016


I don't believe my eyes! Big Grin

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - tomh009 - 10-31-2016

You beat me to it!

   

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - Viewfromthe42 - 10-31-2016

Now, let's see if the railings are close enough to the walking portion of the sidewalk - in height and sideways offset - to actually be usable.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - tomh009 - 10-31-2016

You can see the height in the photos. It looks pretty reasonable.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - panamaniac - 10-31-2016

(10-31-2016, 04:13 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Now, let's see if the railings are close enough to the walking portion of the sidewalk - in height and sideways offset - to actually be usable.

I still think it looks more like seating.  The latest pictures again make it look too far from the sidewalk to actually be used as a hand rail.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - Canard - 10-31-2016

I'm more curious what they're going to do about the sag in the flat bar...

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - danbrotherston - 10-31-2016

The problem WRT horizontal alignment is there is a huge (very oversized for pedestrian infrastructure) footer on the railing which means you cannot walk that closely to the railing.

The whole thing seems poorly designed though, the "Multi-use trail" is a joke, and it's actually getting worse, the contractors who repaired some of the cracked tiles put sidewalk style groves into the concrete which makes it extremely unpleasant to bike on.....rather, even more unpleasant than it already was.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - curious_look - 11-01-2016

At least they are finally connecting that 'sidewalk to nowhere' by the train tracks! New sidewalk appeared to be setting when I was on my way by today.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - danbrotherston - 11-02-2016

The new railings are on, they basically cap the metal rod entirely, no sagging issues.  I didn't get a picture because I was on my run this morning and it was pretty dark, but I'm pretty sure they're finished with them on the west side at least.

RE: Weber Street Reconstruction - College to Union - KevinL - 11-02-2016

Had a chance to get a hands-on look from the Victoria end. Quite elegant and reasonably functional; though I can see vandals getting sharp objects into their surface easily enough and making that particular type of graffiti.