ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[bpoland]

Where are other examples of lane-painted U-turn arrows?

Here's an example on Spadina in Toronto (had to go back to old Street View to see it clearly haha):

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6506022,-...328!8i1664

[Canard]

Cool; thank you!

I note that the design of the arrow is very different - I would have thought these would be standardized and controlled in some way. I think that's what threw me the most about the ones on King - the radii and the shape of the arrow are very "non-standard" to me! That's why I wondered if GrandLinq just made something up, which certainly seems to be the case. I don't like that, everything should have design guidelines and standards. I like standards. And rules.

[bpoland]

Yeah the ones on King street are definitely funky.

[trainspotter139]

Exactly the same horizontal bar that goes on some parking garage entrances, hooked up to some sort of motion sensor to detect the horizontal bar being hit by the load. I just like the idea of the same black-and-yellow striped bar getting shoved by the train.

No, I guess what I'm getting at is, yeah, I could have guessed it might be like that too - but we don't know the exact type of sensor they're using.  I was wondering if someone did - I don't recall ever seeing a setup like this anywhere in the world that I've ridden trains.  I design automation - I know sensors.

There's a high/wide detector on the CP Windsor Sub at MP 102.4 just off Manning Rd. in Tecumseh, ON that's similar to what will be installed on the Waterloo Spur. It looks to be an array of either infrared sensors or lasers. It transmits a radio message about whether the train fits in the clearance envelope for the rail tunnels between Windsor and Detroit. 


It can be seen in this Street View:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.2878852,-...312!8i6656

[Markster]

It can be seen in this Street View:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@42.2878852,-...312!8i6656

Neat, you can just draw in the lines connecting the sensors:
   

[Canard]

Ours isn't quite so elaborate; just 3 pairs, all you need for overwidth and overheight.

   

Looks like a couple of M30 round barrel through-beams:

   

Awfully heavy duty weather guard.

   

View from Northfield:

   
Disclaimer: I'm standing well off to the side of the tracks, here - there's a hefty jog in the tracks at Northfield, and I'm just zoomed in far enough you can't see the jog itself.

[Square]

Does anybody know what the white round things on the traffic poles at intersections along the LRT route are? Thank you.

[UrbanCanoe]

Sensor support structure is being installed on the south end of the Spur line at Roger Street this morning:

       

[Canard]

Nice! I was thinking last night while photographing the "North" one how and when the pieces for the "South" one might arrive.

We have a big one-up on Toronto - wooden ties??????????????? What is this, 1750??

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Progress on <a href="https://twitter.com/CrosstownTO">@CrosstownTO</a>. So much happening at Mount Dennis <a href="https://t.co/7ZtS8QVEff">pic.twitter.com/7ZtS8QVEff</a></p>&mdash; Anne Marie Aikins (@femwriter) <a href="https://twitter.com/femwriter/status/895298081809420291">August 9, 2017</a></blockquote>

(All ties/sleepers on ION are concrete, even in the yard! Spared no expense!)

[trainspotter139]

Nice!  I was thinking last night while photographing the "North" one how and when the pieces for the "South" one might arrive.

We have a big one-up on Toronto - wooden ties??????????????? What is this, 1750??

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Progress on <a href="https://twitter.com/CrosstownTO">@CrosstownTO</a>. So much happening at Mount Dennis <a href="https://t.co/7ZtS8QVEff">pic.twitter.com/7ZtS8QVEff</a></p>&mdash; Anne Marie Aikins (@femwriter) <a href="https://twitter.com/femwriter/status/895298081809420291">August 9, 2017</a></blockquote>

(All ties/sleepers on ION are concrete, even in the yard! Spared no expense!)

tbh i think it makes sense for some sections of the crosstown track to be on wooden sleepers especially if it needs to be replaced more often than regular track, like the turnouts.

[clasher]

Should have gone plastic.

[Canard]

Over the past couple of days, concrete stairs have been poured for the last-minute signal house that was added just South of the Kitchener Market station.

...yeah, I know, that's the point we're at for updates. It's a good thing: things are wrapping up!

[jwilliamson]

The gantry on the Spur Line was up by this afternoon.

[tomh009]

Over the past couple of days, concrete stairs have been poured for the last-minute signal house that was added just South of the Kitchener Market station.

...yeah, I know, that's the point we're at for updates.  It's a good thing:  things are wrapping up!

So was this signal house an afterthought?  It just appeared one day ...

[Canard]

Over the past couple of days, concrete stairs have been poured for the last-minute signal house that was added just South of the Kitchener Market station.

...yeah, I know, that's the point we're at for updates.  It's a good thing:  things are wrapping up!

So was this signal house an afterthought?  It just appeared one day ...

Yep - the concrete got all jackhammered out, all the way from Kitchener Market to Cameron... all new conduits were laid in, and covered back up - huge job with tons of rework over many weeks after everything was all done.  Definitely something that was missed in the original design.

jwilliamson - thanks for the photo!  They made quick work of that, although with it being just 3 pieces, it really shouldn't have taken more than a few hours to get up and installed.