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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

Who wants to chip in and buy 20 old fareboxes for $15 each (https://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.AdvSearchResultsNew&searchPg=Location&inv_num=&category=00&kWord=&kWordSelect=2&sortBy=ad&agency=...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 4,282 3,205,663 09-12-2017, 01:07 PM
  Thread: Traffic calming and effective street cross-sections
Post: RE: Traffic calming and effective street cross-sec...

I just saw this GIF that happens to show the importance of a good streetscape design. Cover the outside thirds of the GIF and then cover only the inside third of the GIF. You should notice that the...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 34 26,831 07-20-2017, 01:28 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

Good news! A Google-derived anti-bot system has been added to their security! https://i.imgur.com/bhwkrHZ.gif
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 4,282 3,205,663 06-19-2017, 07:13 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

andrewhann7 Wrote: (06-02-2017, 12:58 PM) -- timc Wrote: (06-01-2017, 05:24 PM) -- I don't understand how free transit would work. Wouldn't the buses be horribly overcrowded? -- A few years ago YR...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 4,282 3,205,663 06-02-2017, 01:28 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

With the deviations from the patterns in the published documents, I'm just really hoping no kind-of-but-not-really-Swastikas accidentally get installed. (Reference (http://www.therecord.com/news-st...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 04-18-2017, 04:25 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Canard Wrote: (04-07-2017, 03:17 PM) -- Vehicle number is fine, just should have been right justified. -- I'm not so sure about that. (The first part.)
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 04-07-2017, 05:13 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Markster Wrote: (04-07-2017, 02:41 PM) -- (Though, that off-level 501B on the front is pretty close) -- Okay, so it wasn't just me.
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 04-07-2017, 02:58 PM
  Thread: Tax Returns
Post: RE: Tax Returns

Unless your taxes are overly complicated: https://simpletax.ca It's pay-what-you-want.
  isUsername General and Off-Topic Discussion 13 12,592 03-21-2017, 06:21 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

danbrotherston Wrote: (03-12-2017, 08:45 AM) -- Does anyone know why they appear to have transit signals on both the near and far side of intersections? -- The far side signal can be blocked by cro...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 03-12-2017, 03:59 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

MidTowner Wrote: (02-19-2017, 02:35 PM) -- Won't "Ion Phase 1" discussion be included with Grand River Transit once it's actually operational? We only have one transit system. In any case, though,...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 02-20-2017, 01:55 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Canard Wrote: (01-02-2017, 02:01 PM) -- I get a bit snippy around negativity toward the project (since the media loves to lather it on nice and thick and get people all soaped up), and it's hard to i...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 01-02-2017, 09:52 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

BrianT Wrote: (12-31-2016, 02:47 PM) -- Taxpayers are going to be paying for part of the dome. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/downtown-kitchener-getting-heated-dome-for-lrt-works...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 12-31-2016, 04:49 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Pheidippides Wrote: (11-26-2016, 10:47 AM) -- Will the Ion on a flatbed rail car fit under the catenary they've already strung? -- I don't know the exact measurements, but the pantograph (the arm t...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 11-26-2016, 01:57 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Pheidippides Wrote: (11-21-2016, 10:42 PM) -- Uptown was bustling with activity today; sorry too cold and windy to stop for photos though. Other than that a bit of a slow "news" day so here is som...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 11-21-2016, 11:58 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

KevinL Wrote: (11-06-2016, 10:19 PM) -- isUsername Wrote: (11-06-2016, 09:28 PM) -- Isn't the buried track the freight track? It's next to the signal and the chain link fence across the street separ...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 11-06-2016, 11:27 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

KevinL Wrote: (11-06-2016, 04:40 PM) -- Starting at Ottawa and Mill... they've taken a very curious approach to the southbound track at Ottawa. For the time being (presumably over the coming winter),...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 11-06-2016, 09:28 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Markster Wrote: (11-03-2016, 11:06 AM) -- "OMFG" is the one you're thinking of -- You can make OMSF work. Oh my sweet... fudgsicle.
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 11-03-2016, 12:00 PM
  Thread: 357 King St East
Post: RE: 357 King St East

What's happening next door? Seems silly to redevelop such a small lot in such a prime location. I wonder why the adjacent property isn't combined with it.
  isUsername Urban Areas 49 49,127 10-26-2016, 09:41 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

chutten Wrote: (10-20-2016, 02:20 PM) -- So I'm having a conversation with GRT on Twitter that started with my now-bog-standard complaint report of a bus zooming past a stop ahead (-2min) of schedule...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 4,282 3,205,663 10-20-2016, 03:29 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

The obstruction sign is also wrong. I don't know whether it should be a gold-and-black chevron type, or a diagonal-down and left type, but it definitely shouldn't be a diagonal-down and right type. ...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 10-04-2016, 11:58 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

I'm not entirely convinced those speed signs are installed backwards. They go (arrow indicates facing direction) ,
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 10-02-2016, 06:44 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

tomh009 Wrote: (10-01-2016, 11:45 AM) -- Charles now open for two-way traffic from Benton to Gaukel.  And it would be much more if not for the new digs E of Benton and between Gaukel and Water.  Hope...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 10-01-2016, 02:33 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Canard Wrote: (09-04-2016, 11:56 AM) -- ...that is such a terrible numbering system. How not-forward-thinking can you get?! Part numbering systems are something I hold very close to my heart and now ...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 09-04-2016, 01:06 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

KevinL Wrote: (09-02-2016, 07:54 PM) -- I see from some Twitter posts that the Wilson Avenue track has been put in - embedded! I was expecting plates on sleepers, here. -- Could it be because it is...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 09-02-2016, 08:52 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Canard Wrote: (09-01-2016, 08:07 PM) -- http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/bombardier-misses-deadline-to-finish-lrt-test-vehicle-1.3054718 More news here; unless CTV has made a mistake, now only 2 of our...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 09-01-2016, 09:42 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

KevinL Wrote: (09-01-2016, 01:03 PM) -- This sort of wall (https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.448548,-80.4888788,3a,45.3y,215.74h,82.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKb8S578xS3BYX4KW65MMQw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656), th...
  isUsername Transportation and Infrastructure 17,473 10,453,468 09-01-2016, 01:26 PM

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