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  Thread: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and more
Post: RE: Light Rail Vehicles - LRT, ICTS, Monorail, and...
It helps that the QLine is completely privately funded.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 384 339,840 05-07-2017, 08:04 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Mods, can you please ban trainspotter139? There's no report option and their last two posts have been unnecessarily inflammatory and steeped in discrimination.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,261,650 04-06-2017, 11:30 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
RER New Stations Initial Business Case: Breslau Station (http://www.metrolinx.com/en/regionalplanning/newstations/IBC_Breslau_EN.pdf) Just released today.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,002 1,180,326 03-16-2017, 08:02 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
As someone who recently started in *transit* customer service in the GTA, at the biggest one of them all, branching is terrible and confuses everyone everywhere. And it's not just buses, like yige_t m...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,002 1,180,326 03-08-2017, 10:16 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
So I live in Brampton, which is closer to Toronto, and the 31, which is the train-bus service that serves the Kitchener Line, is complicated, and has been for ages. There are in fact EIGHT branches of...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,002 1,180,326 03-05-2017, 08:50 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King and Victoria Intermodal Station
Yes, it does.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,030,965 01-27-2017, 03:36 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Canard Wrote: (01-27-2017, 10:50 AM) -- Some kind of announcement coming today. Saw them setting up for it in Cambridge on the EB 401>24 ramp as I drove past. -- Highway 401 Widening (including HOV...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 3,137 2,247,771 01-27-2017, 12:12 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Conceptual Breslau GO station layout Link here. (http://www.metrolinx.com/en/docs/pdf/board_agenda/20161208/20161208_BoardMtg_New_Stations_Update_EN.pdf) Page 22.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,002 1,180,326 12-06-2016, 12:19 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
If the Market Square overpass owned by the public, or is it private sector?
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 11-24-2016, 10:16 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
The UW anchor wall tiles are so drab. Instead of going with the colours of the boring engineering buildings, they should have gone black and gold/yellow, UW's school colours. The contrast would've bri...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 11-01-2016, 10:05 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
From where the handrail start to the intersection, is that a slope? Because if it is, then the handrail is part new "ramp" guildlines under AODA. The above part is now a standard part of the Cit...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 10-21-2016, 05:20 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Getting close to laying track in Uptown Waterloo. (https://www.instagram.com/p/BLTZeE-gdDC/)
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 10-08-2016, 11:18 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Well, considering bicycles *shouldn't* use the sidewalk/crosswalks.... Anyways Canard, the rightmost/NW sidewalk crossing will be built, because they have to do the same thing on the southeast side...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 10-04-2016, 04:28 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Viewfromthe42 Wrote: (09-30-2016, 11:25 AM) -- Right in front of that sign, though, there's a sign saying transit only this lane, pointing a bus towards the rail, which has sufficient dimensions to a...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 09-30-2016, 11:56 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Every students pays for a bus pass + 75% of them live off campus and hence pay property tax through their rent.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,261,650 09-29-2016, 10:56 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
A question: Can buses fit on the embedded ION right-of-way? I know we probably don't want them to, but could, say, the Ottawa iXpress split at Borden/Ottawa, and use the ION stops?
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,261,650 09-29-2016, 11:32 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Wellington Township is completely within, smothered by, the Greenbelt. I don't we have to worry too much about sprawl along the highway. We might have concerns about Guelph though.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 935 832,008 09-27-2016, 08:48 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Canard Wrote: (09-22-2016, 11:11 AM) -- Yeah, what are these plant/tree things? I've never heard of them. urbd - On my next trip out, I'll be mindful to take some photos of the various sidewalk ch...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 09-22-2016, 11:20 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Pheidippides Wrote: (09-21-2016, 09:33 PM) -- What are the orange supports for? Room to plant trees and let them grow? -- Are these the first silva cells in Waterloo Region?
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 09-22-2016, 10:59 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
The Region of Waterloo has several discounted fare programs.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,261,650 08-30-2016, 08:55 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Canard Wrote: (08-28-2016, 09:37 PM) -- Didn't we have this exact discussion several years ago? Elmira is not Waterloo Region's Scarborough. -- Right. That's Cambridge. I'M KIDDING.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 08-28-2016, 10:20 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
New GRT fare cards could disadvantage the poor (http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6828047-new-grt-fare-cards-could-disadvantage-poor/) Honestly, most of the problems in this don't seem difficult ...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,261,650 08-28-2016, 04:40 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Pheidippides Wrote: (08-24-2016, 06:28 AM) -- Per capita we did ok with funding: -- Apparently, it also is calculated and doled out by ridership. The GTHA municipalities will be getting funding ...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,261,650 08-24-2016, 07:57 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I know that could possibly delay the LRT more but it's so amazing and cool.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 07-20-2016, 10:18 PM
  Thread: Ottawa Street Widening (Hwy. 7 to Lackner)
Post: RE: Ottawa Street Widening (Hwy. 7 to Lackner)
MUT tends to be for recreational users, and all sorts of users. On-street tends to be for people who are using for commuting, or speed.
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 62 60,131 07-03-2016, 09:52 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I say it's a whole line announcement. I've heard through a friend that the mayor of Brampton will be in attendance today (or at least, she's been invited). 2 extra trains in the morning from KW probab...
   DKsan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,631,904 06-14-2016, 08:01 AM

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