ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[MidTowner]

Do we have any indication right now of when Victoria is going to be closed for track work? GTwoK is right that it will be a new level of disruption. Victoria’s closure will have impacts all over KW.

[Markster]

We somehow survived the full closure of Victoria/Weber!

Expect Joseph to become very congested.

[MidTowner]

No doubt we’ll survive the closure of Victoria. I expect it will cause significant delays for a lot of people.

Joseph will be busy all right. Probably the few residential streets before Joseph, too, as smarty pants try to avoid what will be a delay turning onto Joseph from Victoria. Park to Water I bet will be popular for rat-runners.

[Canard]

There was a bypass at Victoria/Weber.

[Markster]

There was a bypass at Victoria/Weber.

Not for 6 weeks near the end of the construction.

How long did Charles/Benton take? 8 weeks? Early September to early Novemberish? King/Victoria should be about the same complexity.

[GtwoK]

I continually have wished that Wellington would extend to Park. But not with the damn seed company in the way, it won't.

Side note: I find it funny that Wellington St S is only a single block long. Looks like that wanted to make it longer, but didn't. Was it longer at some point, and demolished?

EDIT: ^^^^ I don't think King / Vic will be as complicated as Benton / Charles - It doesn't seem like the intersection will need t be too reconfigured, especially  with the track at Charles only needing to cross at the intersection, and then running alongside the road rather than down the middle. That being said, Benton / Charles also didnt require any  underground work along the length of the road (ie from Charles to Victoria here) before the intersection could reopen.

[Smore]

Wasn't King/Vic closed last summer or 2 summers ago for a few weeks with some utility movement? What happened to traffic then?

[Canard]

How long did Charles/Benton take? 8 weeks? Early September to early Novemberish?  King/Victoria should be about the same complexity.

Well, it all depends on what has to happen underground, and I don't think any of us are privy to that information. If it's all set to go underground? Sure, a couple of weeks to blast through the embedded track. If water and sewer mains have to move? Nightmare.

[tomh009]

I assume this is FLEXITY Freedom, right?

It says up to 275 passengers, so I think the 7-car image is just Bombardier stock imagery, and Edmonton will actually have the same train sets as ION.

[Markster]

Uh, I think discussion about Edmonton's LRT vehicles might be better placed in the LRT vehicle thread

Let's keep this thread about our LRT

[GtwoK]

Noticed this morning that there were at least 5 dump trucks lined along Victoria, hence that mysterious 1-day road closure I reported yesterday. I'd assume that means there's some excavation going on!

[chutten]

Noticed this morning that there were at least 5 dump trucks lined along Victoria, hence that mysterious 1-day road closure I reported yesterday. I'd assume that means there's some excavation going on!

See the King Street Underpass thread for photos and stuff. They'd already begun some excavation by early this morning.

[GtwoK]

Quite a large amount was excavated when I drove by around 2. Now's the fun part!

[tomh009]

Quite a large amount was excavated when I drove by around 2. Now's the fun part!

I'll check it out when the weather warms up a little bit!

[Canard]

All in good fun. It was actually the ion Rapid Transit team that posted this on facebook yesterday.