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  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
The contraflow bike lanes on Erb from Caroline to East of King were painted last night or early this morning! There are cones up to prevent entry (probably to let the paint cure and the reflective dus...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 3,000,884 09-05-2019, 10:17 AM
  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) -- drum118 Wrote: (08-19-2019, 12:27 AM) -- Easy to read short than long.            Why have ION in the direction when its the system in the first place???   ...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,610,539 08-19-2019, 04:22 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
In my case I arrived in Waterloo from a rural area without bike lanes and thought that the bike lanes were for whichever direction. It wasn't until I was yelled at did I do the research to learn that,...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 3,000,884 08-15-2019, 11:40 AM
  Thread: How would you rate ION service so far?
Post: RE: How would you rate ION service so far?
My downsides are the schedule adherence (though they had the realtime arrival info posted this morning when I bicycled past) and the underlying design flaws of the system (pedestrian movements aren't ...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 35 17,069 06-26-2019, 12:47 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Another factor might be that Belmont has destinations on it as well as serving as a throughway. Most of the segregated cycle infrastructure that I bike on is useful only for safely getting between one...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 3,000,884 06-12-2019, 12:31 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
If we look at the June 18, 2018 report on the subject (starts page 32, but the "good stuff" is in the tables on page 37) (https://events.waterloo.ca/meetings/Detail/2018-06-18-1500-Finance-Strategic-P...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,153 05-28-2019, 02:54 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
goggolor Wrote: (05-28-2019, 12:02 PM) -- I pass that way on a bike every day, and motorists are mostly good about yielding (except for the one guy on a Harley who got mad at the person in front of h...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,610,539 05-28-2019, 01:05 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Seems like the sort of light you could turn off as soon as the LRV's entered the intersection. A big blue and white train'd act as a more obvious turn restriction than a sign at that point, and it wil...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,610,539 05-15-2019, 03:36 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Service volumes go down because passenger volumes go down because service volumes are down... I know I stop taking the bus as frequently in Spring because they discontinue the route that goes near ...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,153 04-30-2019, 02:50 PM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
jeffster Wrote: (02-21-2019, 02:13 AM) -- chutten Wrote: (02-20-2019, 03:31 PM) -- Depends how you're interpret the "service" of sidewalk clearing, though. Is the service really only to people who w...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 1,198 491,919 02-21-2019, 09:35 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
jeffster Wrote: (02-20-2019, 03:21 PM) -- At the same time, that Google couple living in a condo, along with the 200 other households in that condo, are paying for services that doesn't come close to...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 1,198 491,919 02-20-2019, 03:31 PM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
the_councillor Wrote: (02-19-2019, 11:32 PM) -- chutten Wrote: (02-19-2019, 05:13 PM) -- the_councillor, welcome to the thread and the board. We are happy to have you engaging with us here on this f...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 1,198 491,919 02-20-2019, 03:14 PM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
the_councillor, welcome to the thread and the board. We are happy to have you engaging with us here on this fraught, seasonal topic about how best to ensure people can safely and reliably transport th...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 1,198 491,919 02-19-2019, 05:13 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
trainspotter139 Wrote: (02-15-2019, 12:45 PM) -- News on the fare card https://www.grt.ca/en/fares-passes/easygo-fare-card-launch.aspx -- Also interesting Quote: -- GRT and GRT agents will s...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,153 02-15-2019, 01:23 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
https://youtu.be/NuWS4XGb-G4 What.
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 1,998 1,179,203 02-15-2019, 09:53 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
I fail to see how sidewalks are sufficiently different from streets to warrant different treatment. Where do I apply to be exempt from the property tax levy for clearing my half of the carriageway in ...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 1,198 491,919 02-01-2019, 06:23 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Is there a law against touching cars? Damaging/defacing them would be vandalism, certainly... but I can't think of a statute we'd be falling afoul of for touching, tapping, leaning on... even rearran...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 3,000,884 01-30-2019, 06:03 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Earlier this week I happened upon an LRV returning up King St making the left into Waterloo Public Square Stn. As it passed I noticed that the interior had been festively decorated: decals on the wind...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,610,539 11-29-2018, 11:08 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
robdrimmie Wrote: (11-02-2018, 12:37 PM) -- We're going to have to start a bike shed thread soon. :D -- Well, -I- think it should be called the bikeshed thread. :D
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 4,338 3,256,153 11-02-2018, 07:03 PM
  Thread: Toronto transit projects
Post: RE: Toronto transit projects
Canard Wrote: (10-23-2018, 11:19 PM) -- Viewfromthe42 Wrote: (10-23-2018, 11:12 AM) -- The EasyGO cards are intended such that you can go to a driver and say "for me any my friend" and they press a ...
   chutten Outside Waterloo Region 383 244,843 10-27-2018, 07:39 PM
  Thread: Election Results Discussion
Post: RE: Election Results Discussion
Ranked ballots are in for Cambridge's 2022 election according to CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-ranked-ballot-referendum-1.4874304
   chutten 2018 Municipal Elections 110 42,051 10-23-2018, 08:23 AM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Is that the altered one or the real one? I can't remember.
   chutten Urban Areas 1,237 994,554 10-05-2018, 12:14 PM
  Thread: Aiming for Bare Minimum: Why Cycletrack Networks Are the Only Way Forward
Post: RE: Aiming for Bare Minimum: Why Cycletrack Networ...
This is a lovely narrative piece introducing Mr. Mazumder, exploring advocacy burnout, and highlighting a local engagement group. I'm not sure the piece answers the premise "Why Cycletrack Networks Ar...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 29 23,175 10-03-2018, 10:32 AM
  Thread: Parking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Parking in Waterloo Region
NotStan Wrote: (10-02-2018, 01:41 PM) -- Canard Wrote: (10-02-2018, 01:16 PM) -- Likewise, neither do people who don’t have a car or who hate cars/don’t drive. -- The city should have message boar...
   chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 707 789,620 10-02-2018, 04:06 PM
  Thread: How do we retain talent in KW?
Post: RE: How do we retain talent in KW?
I'd like to see more places to work. Remote work is common, but places to work remotely aren't. Ubiquitous, frequent transit would make this a little better so that the uncommon spaces are possible to...
   chutten Urban Issues 61 32,188 10-02-2018, 03:01 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
It worked for me, here we go:
  chutten Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,610,539 09-30-2018, 03:47 PM

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