ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Viewfromthe42]

Still decent amount of work at King and Victoria. Saw a woman barrel through the open-for-dump-trucks construction gates coming from the north Victoria side. If anything proves that motorists will do whatever you make physically possible, it's been shown in living at Kaufman. To this day, every 30 seconds from before dawn til after dusk, someone will wind up at the gates, and every day someone will drive into the construction area or worse.

[JCnb]

Still decent amount of work at King and Victoria. Saw a woman barrel through the open-for-dump-trucks construction gates coming from the north Victoria side. If anything proves that motorists will do whatever you make physically possible, it's been shown in living at Kaufman. To this day, every 30 seconds from before dawn til after dusk, someone will wind up at the gates, and every day someone will drive into the construction area or worse.

I watch them from my deck at 1 Victoria and every 30 seconds is no exaggeration. They don't seem to believe that 'closed' means CLOSED, even though the signs are pretty clear.

It was the same when Weber was closed at Dutton for a few weeks, drivers would still waste time driving down Weber from Parkside (Signed as access to Dutton only) only to have to U-turn back around after waiting 20 minutes in line behind flaggers.

[GtwoK]

My favourite passtime is watching them do it at Duke / Francis. Drive past 2 "ROAD CLOSED" signs, and slowly squeeze their car in between the traffic cones, which don't look ~open~ per se, but do happen to be JUST wide enough to squeeze a car through. Yet somehow, despite all that, they'd get to the hole carved for the track across Duke, and stop for 30 seconds while they figure out, "Huh, I can't cross here?", before attempting a 25 point turn to get out of the not-so subtle construction zone.

[kps]

I watch them from my deck at 1 Victoria and every 30 seconds is no exaggeration. They don't seem to believe that 'closed' means CLOSED, even though the signs are pretty clear.

That's because there are too many signs crying wolf, and ‘closed’ often doesn't mean closed, and ‘local traffic’ rarely tells you whether you can reach your destination or not.

[danbrotherston]

There are stories like this from all over, I've had drivers drive up the sidewalk and yell at me for being "in the road". I've seen try to drive over, and get wedged on the rail tracks in the park at the pedestrian crossing.

I'm not sure there's an answer, part of the cause is the city's misuse of closed signs to do traffic calming, but that only explains so much.

[BuildingScout]

I watch them from my deck at 1 Victoria and every 30 seconds is no exaggeration. They don't seem to believe that 'closed' means CLOSED, even though the signs are pretty clear.

That's because there are too many signs crying wolf, and ‘closed’ often doesn't mean closed, and ‘local traffic’ rarely tells you whether you can reach your destination or not.

Yes, I routinely turn Eastbound on "closed" Erb St W. at Westmount and then turn right on David Bauer, which quite often has been "closed" too.

[Canard]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pouring cement between the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> tracks in front of <a href="https://twitter.com/GRHospitalKW">@GRHospitalKW</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/CTVKitchener">@CTVKitchener</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> is lookin' good! <a href="https://t.co/ieawDame7F">pic.twitter.com/ieawDame7F</a></p>&mdash; Dan Lauckner (@vidman) <a href="https://twitter.com/vidman/status/761248338708529152">August 4, 2016</a></blockquote>

Centre concrete going in near GRH! This is a first (concrete pour to finish off the gaps between embedded track segments).

[GtwoK]

I knew it was going to be concrete that went in the middle, but seeing it actually there, it looks so... utilitarian? I kinda wish it was at least coloured concrete, if not landscaping.

[Canard]

Have a look at G:Link's Nerang St. section - that's pretty much exactly what the Midtown King, Charles, and Northfield sections will look like!

   

[GtwoK]

The difference there, though is the yellow of the curbs, the pink painted areas, and the green of the trees. Helps make it look a lot more colourful. Ours will be entirely greyscale, with the exception of some blue on the trains

[danbrotherston]

Plus a nice, occasionally green coloured, bike lane.

[tomh009]

Very pleased to spot the welding crew by Full Circle just now. Once that is welded and the track embedded, it will close the final gap on Charles within the downtown loop!

The welds are done and ground down now.  Where is the concrete truck when we need it?

   

[KevinL]

Fresh drone video of the Waterloo Spur, on the official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BIsUXD5ghsw/

[Pheidippides]

Rails with rubber boot now extend all the way to George along King, mostly on wooden blocks for now, but the metal cross beams are all set to be installed.
   

[Canard]

Decided to take a detour this morning on my drive to the office, and man - they're flying on King... I thought that concrete pour yesterday at GRH was the first "centre" fill section... But nope! We now are nearly "concrete-complete" all the way from Wellington to GRH!