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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Why would someone drive to sportsworld to get dropped off instead of just getting dropped off at the airport?
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 Yesterday, 02:35 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Structural steel is galvanized individually before it's erected, so this won't be galvanized. White could be the final colour, a lot of structural steel is primed with grey or red oxide. They'll proba...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 88 39,032 05-11-2024, 10:28 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
There's an incinerator in Durham, near Darlington nuke and Bowmanville cement plant. Need steady stream of waste to keep it running full bore. There's still some emissions, and the ashes that need to ...
   clasher Politics 196 7,563 04-04-2024, 12:59 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
Can we move all the off topic posts out of this thread?
   clasher Politics 196 7,563 04-02-2024, 06:09 AM
  Thread: Racism in the Region
Post: RE: Racism in the Region
I check the local reddits sometimes and keep seeing a lot of repeat comments and similar threads, it almost seems like bots or some kind of coordinated postings.
   clasher General and Off-Topic Discussion 32 2,991 10-03-2023, 09:14 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Probably built with union construction too...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 707,761 09-13-2023, 06:00 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Acitta Wrote: (08-30-2023, 08:01 PM) -- clasher Wrote: (08-30-2023, 06:50 PM) -- They could at least have the ticket machines working so schmucks like me can buy a bus ticket after midnight. -- Wh...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 08-31-2023, 09:16 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
They could at least have the ticket machines working so schmucks like me can buy a bus ticket after midnight.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 08-30-2023, 06:50 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I'd had a few pops so I was a bit pissed so I ended up with a 18$ cab ride. I'd normally just do a drunken walk home but my partner was in heels. I could understand a bit less service along school...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 08-29-2023, 12:29 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
It's not just LRT that is getting ridiculous, there was nr s that a section of the planned 413 is gonna have one km section cost 444$ million for the bridge over the Humber.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 707,761 08-28-2023, 03:09 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
GRT summer schedule sucks. Last LRT left uptown at 2348, like wtf. The fare machine stopped working too so I couldn't buy a ticket for the bus and didn't have any cash. It certainly seemed like it was...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 08-28-2023, 09:56 AM
  Thread: General Retail News
Post: RE: General Retail News
I went to Towne bowl in the spring on a Saturday and all the lanes were full, but it definitely feels like a bit of a timewarp going in there, hasn't seemed to change since the first time I was there ...
   clasher Retail 983 893,089 08-11-2023, 06:10 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
If the box didn't want to get hit it should have been wearing a helmet and neon vest
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,612,105 08-08-2023, 03:06 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (08-01-2023, 05:20 PM) -- clasher Wrote: (08-01-2023, 03:50 PM) -- I'm gonna miss that little public path between the pond and the patio. I hope they have some good luck with th...
   clasher Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,229 08-01-2023, 07:32 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Bytor Wrote: (08-01-2023, 02:31 PM) -- The Boathouse has construction fencing up around it. -- I'm gonna miss that little public path between the pond and the patio. I hope they have some good l...
   clasher Urban Areas 5,589 3,989,229 08-01-2023, 03:50 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
There's great cross country skiing there in the winter. Also great for summer walking, just don't bring your dog.
   clasher Suburbs 1,233 955,362 08-01-2023, 02:06 PM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/...
Jobs sites today look and are way different than they were in the 1980s. Mobile elevated work platforms and telescoping forklifts have completely changed the look of a modern site. Battery powered too...
   clasher Urban Areas 781 435,509 07-31-2023, 03:17 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I rode that trail a few weeks ago and there was still some dirt left on the path but it was passable.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,878 07-25-2023, 10:59 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
They should give it to Red Raccoon bicycle rescue to use!
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 3,005,171 06-14-2023, 09:14 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I saw the ion go under the 'bridge' tonight so I guess it's not going to fall down.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,612,105 06-01-2023, 10:48 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
They've re-paved the cycle track in front of the Bell building at Water/Duke. Part of it is blocked off because it looks like something big scraped a pair of deep gouges into the new asphalt, so I ima...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 3,005,171 05-23-2023, 03:54 PM
  Thread: The COVID-19 pandemic
Post: RE: The COVID-19 pandemic
Doesn't seem like Sweden did better than its neighbours: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/scathing-evaluation-swedens-covid-response-reveals-failures-control/story?id=83644832
   clasher General and Off-Topic Discussion 4,356 878,930 05-05-2023, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Strikes wouldn't work if they weren't disruptive.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 05-03-2023, 07:30 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
lol what do you think the scooters are for?
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,470 05-01-2023, 02:53 PM
  Thread: Micromobility (bikeshare, scootershare)
Post: RE: Micromobility 2021+ (bikeshare, scootershare)
I ran into a similar logjam early morning last weekend at Columbia. If I weren't in a hurry I'd have moved them onto the grass.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 67 13,905 04-26-2023, 07:05 PM
  Thread: GGH Transportation and Growth Plan
Post: RE: GGH Transportation and Growth Plan
Ion was still funded by the gov't, vs. something like a condo building or a steel mill that's just one company building it.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 48 9,455 04-26-2023, 07:02 PM

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