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(09-04-2020, 10:55 PM)panamaniac Wrote: (09-04-2020, 10:37 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: It seems like the pedestrian and cyclist collisions are typically unreported and unnoticed by the public.
Pedestrians have collided with the ION trains? I AM impressed ...
Have you seen some of the pedestrian interactions? I would not blame a pedestrian for getting hit at a place like King/Victoria.
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(09-04-2020, 10:55 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Pedestrians have collided with the ION trains? I AM impressed ...
In January. Male pedestrian dies after being hit by LRT train in Waterloo
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(09-05-2020, 10:58 AM)ac3r Wrote: And, apparently, a trash can.
They can sneak up on you like that....
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Does anyone know if ATP is on the trains yet? I haven't paid much attention to the news of the LRT in the last few months since it was more or less operational in all regards except for a few minor things.
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ATP has been active for a couple months now, I think.
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(10-02-2020, 12:32 PM)KevinL Wrote: ATP has been active for a couple months now, I think. ATP has been on since at least the 16th of June
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This article about Abe Erb's closing has the first mention I've seen in about 2 years of any law suits against the Region for losses due to LRT construction.
https://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-st...on-guelph/
Has anybody got more information on that topic?
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(10-13-2020, 11:24 AM)Bytor Wrote: This article about Abe Erb's closing has the first mention I've seen in about 2 years of any law suits against the Region for losses due to LRT construction.
https://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-st...on-guelph/
Has anybody got more information on that topic? An administrative process, not a lawsuit.
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Another accident at King/Green. Looking at the CTV Photo, looks like a Southbound train.
Seeing how the damage is, and the way the intersection is, my initial guess is someone was trying to make a U-Turn or pull into the parking lot there and didn't look. There is however a Left Turn signal at this intersection so I wonder if they ignored it.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/no-injuries...-1.5151583
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(10-19-2020, 07:16 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: Another accident at King/Green. Looking at the CTV Photo, looks like a Southbound train.
Seeing how the damage is, and the way the intersection is, my initial guess is someone was trying to make a U-Turn or pull into the parking lot there and didn't look. There is however a Left Turn signal at this intersection so I wonder if they ignored it.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/no-injuries...-1.5151583
I don't wonder...I assume...and frankly, I don't think I'm likely to be made an ass of.
And while they are at the section of track with a ridiculous number of signals (another issue entirely) if they were southbound, they were facing away from those signals. Now, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't intentionally run a red (although it's certainly possible, I've seen it plenty), but there is still no excuse for not seeing a signal.
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At least we'll be keeping Bombardier in business for a while with all the spare bumper parts we've burned through in a year.
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(10-20-2020, 07:48 AM)ac3r Wrote: At least we'll be keeping Bombardier in business for a while with all the spare bumper parts we've burned through in a year.
Well, it'll be Alstom soon enough, maybe six months from now.
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(10-20-2020, 10:29 AM)tomh009 Wrote: (10-20-2020, 07:48 AM)ac3r Wrote: At least we'll be keeping Bombardier in business for a while with all the spare bumper parts we've burned through in a year.
Well, it'll be Alstom soon enough, maybe six months from now.
The shareholder meeting to approve was supposed to happen this month, but I don't know if that got put off and delayed like everything else during the pandemic.
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