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  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Bob_McBob Wrote: (08-09-2022, 03:17 PM) -- Teenage pedestrian struck at the Erb and Ira Needles roundabout. https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/teen-pedestrian-airlifted-to-hospital-following-ira-needles...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 601 194,951 08-11-2022, 12:00 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (05-08-2022, 08:35 PM) -- Someone on Reddit made this interesting fantasy LRT map. I wish we had transit this extensive. -- They also did a Google map of it: https://www.google.com/maps/d...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 05-09-2022, 04:01 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-24-2022, 01:47 PM) -- God our province is fucked. -- Yup.
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,391 02-24-2022, 01:57 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Highway 7 left off list of provincial priorities ruffles feathers at local chamber of commerce https://kitchener.citynews.ca/local-news/highway-7-left-off-list-of-provincial-priorities-ruffles-feat...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,391 02-24-2022, 01:41 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
neonjoe Wrote: (07-08-2021, 03:57 PM) -- May just be for lighting as the maneuver to cross over could be unexpected or dangerous if not lit properly. -- Drove by today after lunch.  It's for lighting...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 07-09-2021, 04:06 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
neonjoe Wrote: (07-08-2021, 03:57 PM) -- May just be for lighting as the maneuver to cross over could be unexpected or dangerous if not lit properly. -- Could be.  But retro reflective signs and barr...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 07-09-2021, 11:34 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
jeffster Wrote: (07-07-2021, 11:01 PM) -- It looked like they were creating cross over lanes for westbound traffic, which I'd imagine will be swapped once they do what they need to do on the one half...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 07-08-2021, 10:27 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
jamincan Wrote: (07-05-2021, 12:07 PM) -- Whereabouts is the work being done? There was an EA done a few years ago on widening 7/8 to 4-lanes through to Stratford. http://www.7and8corridorstudy.ca/ma...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 07-06-2021, 02:51 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Anyone know what's going on with highway 7/8 west of Kitchener? They're doing road work and they've put large wooden power poles down the center median. They're right next to the shoulder on one sid...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 07-05-2021, 10:53 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Some kind of announcement happening: https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/local-mpps-set-to-make-highway-7-announcement-2563724 Can't find any more info.
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 966 836,391 07-15-2020, 09:28 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
jwilliamson Wrote: (03-03-2020, 04:38 PM) -- Some machinery was delivered and site prep started today for the R&T Park station area improvements. -- I've been watching them dig up the site over the l...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 03-03-2020, 05:30 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I wonder how much extra the induction powered system would have cost.
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 12-02-2019, 02:36 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Bob_McBob Wrote: (11-12-2019, 02:55 PM) -- Faulty LRT arm delays fire officials on way to medical emergency (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/faulty-lrt-arm-delays-fire-officials-on-way-to-medical-emerge...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 11-12-2019, 03:04 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
danbrotherston Wrote: (10-27-2019, 01:13 PM) -- Also, right turn lanes are 100% unnecessary if they have pedestrian scrambles. -- Unless they screw it up like Toronto did and allow pedestrians to als...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 10-28-2019, 01:19 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Bob_McBob Wrote: (09-17-2019, 01:48 PM) -- WRPS say there is almost nothing they can charge the driver with because it happened in a parking lot. I guess it's ok to mow down pedestrians as long as yo...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 3,159 2,258,338 09-17-2019, 02:03 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (09-04-2019, 09:54 AM) -- Editorial in the Record: Light rail system needs to meet its promise https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/9578815-editorial-light-rail-system-needs-to-meet-...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 09-04-2019, 10:13 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (09-03-2019, 03:56 PM) -- At some point, it becomes excessive, and is its own, worse, UI problem. I’d rather “sometimes I’m confused as to whether my card has been read” than “sometim...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 09-04-2019, 10:07 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (08-30-2019, 10:22 AM) -- I disagree. If you need to lay the card on the sensor because it has to be close enough to read the NFC's weak signal, and the user holds it up too far away, th...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 09-03-2019, 02:31 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
jeffster Wrote: (08-19-2019, 03:59 PM) -- Or: 301 North and 301 South -- Using North and South for directions in KW?  LOL.  That's a good one.   :D
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 08-19-2019, 04:18 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
trainspotter139 Wrote: (08-06-2019, 02:53 PM) -- Not all of it is. As soon as rail grade crossings or federally regulated rail right-of-ways are involved those sections with rail grade crossings or f...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 08-06-2019, 03:16 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
jamincan Wrote: (08-06-2019, 11:24 AM) -- Since the HTA doesn't reference the Railway Safety Act, would this specific definition apply? It's logical, sure, but I'm not a lawyer and don't know if the ...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 08-06-2019, 02:04 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
kps Wrote: (08-06-2019, 11:19 AM) -- The Highway Traffic Act (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08) doesn't have one. I think you want the federal Grade Crossings Standards (https://www.tc.gc.ca...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 08-06-2019, 02:00 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Coke6pk Wrote: (08-06-2019, 10:27 AM) -- From MTO site: -- Saw that.  That shows an example and the text says they are marked with signs.  What I'm looking for is a HTA definition of "railway crossin...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 08-06-2019, 11:02 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Coke6pk Wrote: (08-02-2019, 01:07 PM) -- (b) There is no reason why someone blowing a red light or making a turn in front of train in the centre of the road shouldn't be charged.  But before you blam...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,681,656 08-06-2019, 09:35 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
MidTowner Wrote: (07-26-2019, 10:30 AM) -- That is a workaround, but I can't see anyone waiting to ride a bus for one stop for no other reason than to make sure GRT is getting the full fare. -- I d...
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 4,340 3,278,197 07-26-2019, 11:14 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Acitta Wrote: (07-26-2019, 09:25 AM) -- "Group fares are not currently available on ION light rail." -- Workaround: Do a one stop ride on a bus then take the ION for the rest of the trip.
   avernar Transportation and Infrastructure 4,340 3,278,197 07-26-2019, 10:18 AM

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