Just finished a late lunch at the Duke Food Block and within a less than 30 min span I saw 3 different trains out. Last one I saw was 511. Before that might have been 507 or 505. Certainly looks like lots of activity today.
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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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11-02-2018, 02:20 PM
(11-02-2018, 02:16 PM)JJTL Wrote: Just finished a late lunch at the Duke Food Block and within a less than 30 min span I saw 3 different trains out. Last one I saw was 511. Before that might have been 507 or 505. Certainly looks like lots of activity today. I saw 505, 507 and 509 yesterday. The odd trains are definitely doing more testing!
11-02-2018, 02:26 PM
(11-02-2018, 02:20 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-02-2018, 02:16 PM)JJTL Wrote: Just finished a late lunch at the Duke Food Block and within a less than 30 min span I saw 3 different trains out. Last one I saw was 511. Before that might have been 507 or 505. Certainly looks like lots of activity today. Oh for sure! Trains 5, 7 and 11 I saw today are... prime...examples of that .
11-02-2018, 02:26 PM
(11-02-2018, 02:20 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-02-2018, 02:16 PM)JJTL Wrote: Just finished a late lunch at the Duke Food Block and within a less than 30 min span I saw 3 different trains out. Last one I saw was 511. Before that might have been 507 or 505. Certainly looks like lots of activity today. The even-numbered trains (506 & 508) I think are unavailable for testing at the moment. (11-02-2018, 02:09 PM)plam Wrote:(11-02-2018, 10:32 AM)KevinT Wrote: I noticed this at the University Ave crossing on two separate occasions a few weeks ago, and there the pedestrian signal continued to block both pedestrians and cars for an extended period of time, like 3 or 4 extra minutes. Glad to hear it. I know from the radio that they were doing signal timings in the University area earlier this week with 511, I think the Automatic Train Protection signalling is layered on top of traditional rail predictors, so where before they were dialing in the traditional system which will probably remain as backup, now they're dialing in the stuff based on communicated train positions and speeds. That should give us a much tighter system, a boon to car drivers when the LRV headways are short during peak time.
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11-02-2018, 03:34 PM
No word of an ion delay in the planning and works agenda. Lots of news on other things though (hub, Bridgeport signal relocation, GRT pccs, 2017 collision report, road construction season update, etc.).
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
11-02-2018, 03:54 PM
Could you please provide a link to the document? Thanks in advance.
(Is this the document which will be discussed on Tuesday?)
11-02-2018, 04:02 PM
(11-02-2018, 03:34 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: No word of an ion delay in the planning and works agenda. Lots of news on other things though (hub, Bridgeport signal relocation, GRT pccs, 2017 collision report, road construction season update, etc.). It won't be included in the agenda until the morning of the meeting, as per usual practice. (11-02-2018, 03:54 PM)Canard Wrote: Could you please provide a link to the document? Thanks in advance. https://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Cou...202018.pdf (11-02-2018, 04:02 PM)trainspotter139 Wrote:(11-02-2018, 03:54 PM)Canard Wrote: Could you please provide a link to the document? Thanks in advance. How do you go about finding this? It's not in the city's calendar, searching through public records for this exact file name gives me no result, and the folder structure only shows committees for Audit, Comm & Infra, Fin & Corp, and Plan & Strat - none of which contain this document
11-02-2018, 04:32 PM
(11-02-2018, 04:12 PM)GtwoK Wrote:(11-02-2018, 04:02 PM)trainspotter139 Wrote: https://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Cou...202018.pdf https://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Council has all the agendas for the Regional Committee and Council meetings that have been posted.
11-02-2018, 09:45 PM
(11-02-2018, 04:02 PM)trainspotter139 Wrote:(11-02-2018, 03:34 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: No word of an ion delay in the planning and works agenda. Lots of news on other things though (hub, Bridgeport signal relocation, GRT pccs, 2017 collision report, road construction season update, etc.). That's the usual practice for iON delays? Or for iON discussion in general?
11-02-2018, 10:15 PM
(11-02-2018, 09:45 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-02-2018, 04:02 PM)trainspotter139 Wrote: It won't be included in the agenda until the morning of the meeting, as per usual practice. That's usually the practice for the monthly vehicle report; other reports tend to show up on the agenda beforehand. The vehicle report is expected on the 14th.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
11-03-2018, 07:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2018, 07:19 AM by trainspotter139.)
(11-02-2018, 10:15 PM)Pheidippides Wrote:It's the usual practice for the reports to be left off the agenda until the day of the meeting so that it is kept out of the press cycle until it is discussed at the meeting. The media (and the ion twitter account) are saying it will be at the P&W Committee meeting(11-02-2018, 09:45 PM)tomh009 Wrote: That's the usual practice for iON delays? Or for iON discussion in general?
I think 511 is out today!
(...with low windshield washer fluid! Lol) 505 is out already too!! AND! They’re going all the way from Conestoga to Mill Crossover today! (Normally they just go to Cameron).
11-03-2018, 08:08 AM
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