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  Thread: Bingeman Park former Campground area
Post: RE: Bingeman Park former Campground area
OntMtbr Wrote: (02-28-2024, 09:46 PM) -- Bingeman was floating the idea of build a new large hotel and convention center there a number of years back (2011). -- My memory is very hazy, but I think ...
   SammyOES Urban Design 10 1,278 02-29-2024, 02:50 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
ijmorlan Wrote: (02-23-2024, 08:20 PM) -- That’s basically my point. There should be a lot less of random vehicles driving in and out. It’s ridiculous to screen pilots through the screening checkpoin...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-23-2024, 11:48 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
ijmorlan Wrote: (02-23-2024, 12:44 PM) -- That being said, it’s not hard to come up with a scenario: the bus driver could be compromised. Now of course anybody anywhere could be compromised, but havi...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-23-2024, 03:14 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-23-2024, 02:41 AM) -- I'm very much confused as to what you think "could happen" that the bus operator wouldn't notice. I think they'd notice if someone boarded the bus, and...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-23-2024, 08:04 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-22-2024, 04:45 PM) -- I don't even see why this is a bad thing...we should prefer to have more efficient ground transportation...preferring planes because we cannot get our ...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-22-2024, 05:25 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Rainrider22 Wrote: (02-22-2024, 12:46 PM) -- It is an ok idea. What I dont like is that it is a way for Air Canada not to service our airport with actual aircraft... -- Yes, I agree. And if it’s e...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-22-2024, 04:14 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
ijmorlan Wrote: (02-22-2024, 12:45 AM) -- SammyOES Wrote: (02-21-2024, 11:35 PM) -- I think the only real reason to have the bus start at YKF is if the goal really is to get permission to do securit...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-22-2024, 08:35 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
I like it when companies do things like this. I have no idea how well it’ll work but it’s different enough that I don’t really think anyone else does either. Depending on times I’d have used this a...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 02-21-2024, 11:35 PM
  Thread: Childcare in the region
Post: RE: Childcare in the region
How does the childcare funding from the Feds play into this? I’m not sure of the timelines leading up to this but I believe it was 2022 when daycare costs were cut in half for many centres. Obviousl...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 3 379 02-20-2024, 11:41 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
And the announcement comes with the same silly sucking up to the Provincial Government. “Today’s announcement is an important next step in the provincial government’s commitment to move the Highwa...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 927 830,824 02-15-2024, 08:00 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
So this is an "intersection pedestrian signal" (IPS) and I can find some stuff here: https://www.tcat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OTM-BOOK-15-Pedestrain-Crossing-Treatments-June-2016-ONLINE.pdf F...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 601 192,959 11-09-2023, 10:14 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
dtkvictim Wrote: (11-09-2023, 09:35 PM) -- SammyOES Wrote: (11-09-2023, 08:44 PM) -- I don’t entirely understand the signalized crossing comment.  Is it just the stop sign on Seagram that keeps it f...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 601 192,959 11-09-2023, 09:50 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
I didn’t get a great look but it was a car turning left onto Albert that looked like it had slammed on their brakes. Possible that they didn’t look to their right well enough and just assumed everyon...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 601 192,959 11-09-2023, 08:44 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
jwilliamson Wrote: (07-04-2022, 12:15 PM) -- Does anyone know what the rules are when there is a traffic light for a pedestrian crossing at an intersection, but the traffic light doesn't cross one of...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 601 192,959 11-09-2023, 10:37 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
My understanding is that Flair cuts back their routes in the Winter (Oct 1) and so they don’t need the capacity right now. And it doesn’t make a ton of sense to plow or run shuttles if they don’t nee...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 10-23-2023, 01:41 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Chris Wrote: (10-16-2023, 03:29 PM) -- MTA buses and trains. You can tap with your debit or credit card. They also cap your weekly fee so once you hit a certain amount spent your rides are free. You ...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,027 10-17-2023, 11:46 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
I sometimes feel like the existing highway 7 being described on this forum is the highway from 20 years ago and not the highway that exists now and definitely not the highway that will exist in 20 yea...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 927 830,824 10-02-2023, 09:38 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
SammyOES Wrote: (05-04-2023, 08:04 PM) -- It just seems weird to slow down the highway 7 traffic at this spot (nothing else around) and divert traffic from the bigger roads to this small two lane sec...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,609 06-12-2023, 11:08 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Gotcha. I agree about west of Lackner. I think I mentioned this in the other thread but I don’t really care what we do at this point in terms of the new highway (I have opinions but nothing that s...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,609 05-05-2023, 06:19 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
ijmorlan Wrote: (05-04-2023, 09:57 PM) -- Interesting, because that is my proposed main route. If everybody starts doing that the rest of Victoria will have less traffic. -- I don’t really see why ...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,609 05-05-2023, 12:47 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
westwardloo Wrote: (05-02-2023, 01:53 PM) -- Driving down Victoria the other day, Looks like the Region is adding a stop light at the intersection of Victoria and Shirley Drive. -- I don’t really u...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,609 05-04-2023, 08:04 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-13-2023, 03:30 PM) -- Quote: -- “I’m going to get a firecracker going and move these guys along,” Ford said. “We’re actually seeing progress now.” -- -- Lol, that p...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 927 830,824 04-14-2023, 06:27 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
From: https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/the-new-highway-7-once-again-promised-in-2023-provincial-budget-1.6331066 Quote: -- The province has always been quite hesitant. They have been quite, I guess,...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 927 830,824 03-28-2023, 10:49 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
jeffster Wrote: (03-26-2023, 11:57 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (05-12-2022, 04:04 PM) -- Get Doug Ford it done for drivers is once again promising to get Highway 7 rebuilt after failing to achieve it over an...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 927 830,824 03-27-2023, 12:55 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
danbrotherston Wrote: (03-11-2023, 04:41 PM) -- This does seem strange, I was under the impression that the lessor was the majority shareholder (albeit ostensibly not the controlling shareholder) of ...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,115,084 03-14-2023, 03:19 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
tomh009 Wrote: (01-13-2023, 01:57 PM) -- SammyOES Wrote: (12-07-2022, 01:58 PM) -- I'm not sure you'd be able to do 3 lanes under the Lancaster street bridge.  But if you could I'd say extend the we...
   SammyOES Transportation and Infrastructure 3,126 2,243,609 01-18-2023, 01:24 PM

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