ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Viewfromthe42]

Reports surrounding that photo yesterday: that first train had an end-of-August deadline to be ready for testing. As of that deadline, they are expecting it will be another 3-4 weeks to finish that one vehicle. So unless there's further compression in the schedule, where this first car doesn't affect later cars' deliveries, we could be talking about another month onto whatever date Bomb-ardier gave the region.

[Canard]

Correct; it was supposed to be in Millhaven by now.

(What reports are you seeing? Just curious)

[Canard]

...oh.

[chutten]

Make sure the wheels don't fall off, that kind of thing.

That's my annual reminder to watch this.

[Elmira Guy]

/\ LOL! Neverr seen that. Very good.

[tomh009]

This morning's Charles St update ...

Track now (mostly) embedded between Borden and Ottawa:
   

Charles & Ottawa is graded and has curbs but is distinctly lacking rails:
   

Retaining wall being constructed on the "north" side sidewalk, between Queen and Ontario:
   

[Markster]

I always wondered how the old retaining wall was made. Concrete in burlap sacks? What happened to the sacks? Did they disintegrate? Was is a special sack meant to disintegrate quickly?

[Canard]

I don't follow - where are these burlap sacks?

[Viewfromthe42]

My old garage featured bags of concrete that got wet, solidified, and the bag effectively disintegrated, so it's possible

[KevinL]

This sort of wall, they mean. It looks like concrete was cured within stacked-up sacks.

[tomh009]

The elevation difference between the parking lot and the street was substantially smaller before the street was reprofiled for the LRT. As I recall, the old wall (which was neither very long nor very tall) used ordinary concrete blocks, certainly less stable than what they are building now.

I do hope they redo the stairs, too.

[isUsername]

This sort of wall, they mean. It looks like concrete was cured within stacked-up sacks.

That wall is on the south side. The wall in tomh009's photo is on the north side.

[KevinL]

This sort of wall, they mean. It looks like concrete was cured within stacked-up sacks.

That wall is on the south side. The wall in tomh009's photo is on the north side.

Yes, but it's an example I could easily present for the style of construction.

[Markster]

Yeah, streetview doesn't have a good look at the actual retaining wall we're talking about. It was much shorter, but it was made of the same stacked-sacks.

[BuildingScout]

Reports surrounding that photo yesterday: that first train had an end-of-August deadline to be ready for testing. As of that deadline, they are expecting it will be another 3-4 weeks to finish that one vehicle. So unless there's further compression in the schedule, where this first car doesn't affect later cars' deliveries, we could be talking about another month onto whatever date Bomb-ardier gave the region.

Gosh, under intense media pressure they can't deliver one train in time? Not good, not good at all. This means they are having major design problems with the vehicle and/or the production line. When are they going to come clean and tell us what the real problem is?