ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Bob_McBob]

I don't get a lot of ION spottings but I coincidentally came across 512 in its new livery at Erb and Caroline just before 10pm tonight. The electronic signs were displaying "SPECIAL". Signal timing seemed to be improved since the last time I saw a train there. I did notice a lot of cars tear off the moment the arms go up rather than waiting until they actually deactivate.

[Acitta]

ION LRV #512 at Mill Station. 2019-05-02
   

[Acitta]

While at Mill Station, I tested the fare vending machine. It seems to be fully functional. I got as far as the page to add funds to the EasyGo fare card but didn't actually add funds because I already had plenty of funds on my card. Maybe somebody else can test one.

[tomh009]

Revenue Service Livery being applied to some trains already

Thinking about this, this is a really positive sign that revenue service is getting close. They surely would not be applying the GRT livery now if they were expecting revenue service to still be six months away.

[urbd]

[kitborn]

Integration of bus transit and ION:

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/933...ion-event/

[Bob_McBob]

Interesting photo in The Record today.

https://www.therecord.com/living-story/9...ar-owners/

"Hurrying to get to David Brash's Supertest service station in 1944, this Chevy coupe lost a race with Kitchener PUC streetcar #64, a "one-man" safety car. - Kitchener Public Library"

[Bob_McBob]

Also, our favourite political cartoonist at the Woolwich Observer is at it again.

"As with many items on store shelves, “New and Improved” doesn’t always mean what they say it means."

[KevinL]

Um, whut? Yes, there are new routes to adjust to; but they're being made more direct, removing these sorts of deviations.

[tomh009]

Um, whut? Yes, there are new routes to adjust to; but they're being made more direct, removing these sorts of deviations.

Inconvenient truths have never stopped his cartoons before, either ...

[ijmorlan]

Um, whut? Yes, there are new routes to adjust to; but they're being made more direct, removing these sorts of deviations.

That cartoonist doesn’t understand the first rule of humour: there needs to be a core of truth.

Or maybe they do understand it and they’re just lying for the benefit of grumpy old men (to use a stereotype).

[jamincan]

It's lazy and cheap humour for people who don't care to actually be informed and rather have their ignorance reinforced.

[KevinL]

Doesn't help that they use a real map of north Waterloo, but then overlay completely fictional routes.

[danbrotherston]

It's lazy and cheap humour for people who don't care to actually be informed and rather have their ignorance reinforced.

I mean, possibly it's lazy and cheap, but it could also cynically be intentionally misleading.  Pushing an anti-region agenda....

Our society these days just seems toxic with government hate.  And I have no love of regional engineers, I call them out HARD when they make mistakes.  But the problem seems to be a large group of people who think government, or even the idea of cooperation between people is inherently wrong, or impossible.

[neonjoe]

No one has an office on Bridge St between King and McMurray. Woolwich observer = fake news