ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[plam]

Today's count of LRVs sighted = 3 in Kitchener. One under the train underpass, and two on Charles. It sure looked like simulated service, a train was making a stop at Charles St Terminal, opening the doors, making the door close sound, then dinging before it got going... Still, I don't know what the max count of simultaneous LRVs out is. Is it more than 4 yet?

[ijmorlan]

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

For that matter, nobody lives in a house at University and Weber, either. I guess our mistake is to assume that the author is sloppy about the truth only in trivial matters like whether anybody actually lives in a house at the point shown on their map when they’re actually sloppy with the truth in all matters.

[jwilliamson]

I saw 7 LRVs over the course of about 2 hours at Waterloo Park and Uptown Waterloo today. That's by far the most I've seen in a single day.

[plam]

I saw 7 LRVs over the course of about 2 hours at Waterloo Park and Uptown Waterloo today. That's by far the most I've seen in a single day.

Today's count for me is at 2 so far. They must be at more than 4 out at a time now.

[jeffster]

I saw 7 LRVs over the course of about 2 hours at Waterloo Park and Uptown Waterloo today. That's by far the most I've seen in a single day.

I got to see one zipping down by the Expressway over by Courtland -- gotta say, very cool and awesome view. There are a lot of parts of Kitchener-Waterloo that we simply never see from the ground while driving, biking or walking. The LRT will change this.

[KevinT]

Today's count of LRVs sighted = 3 in Kitchener. One under the train underpass, and two on Charles. It sure looked like simulated service, a train was making a stop at Charles St Terminal, opening the doors, making the door close sound, then dinging before it got going... Still, I don't know what the max count of simultaneous LRVs out is. Is it more than 4 yet?

I was listening to the radio chatter on Saturday, and after one of the "Attention all LRVs" messages I counted 6 reporting back with acknowledgements.  I don't know if they were actually all out on the alignment or not, but it was great to hear!

[nms]

There was heavy LRT movement yesterday afternoon at Erb and Caroline, but a frequent repetitions in the LRVs used. They must have been short turning (KCI?). I didn't get a chance to keep track of which ones went by, but I kept enough track to recognize a repeat number.

[danbrotherston]

There was heavy LRT movement yesterday afternoon at Erb and Caroline, but a frequent repetitions in the LRVs used.  They must have been short turning (KCI?). I didn't get a chance to keep track of which ones went by, but I kept enough track to recognize a repeat number.

Also on Saturday.  I don't know if this matters long term, but the light is programmed wrong here. When the LRT phase ends, Erb gets a green, at least when I was there, that happened every time. This is a problem when the next LRV arrives before Caroline gets a green.

[urbd]

There was heavy LRT movement yesterday afternoon at Erb and Caroline, but a frequent repetitions in the LRVs used.  They must have been short turning (KCI?). I didn't get a chance to keep track of which ones went by, but I kept enough track to recognize a repeat number.

Also on Saturday.  I don't know if this matters long term, but the light is programmed wrong here. When the LRT phase ends, Erb gets a green, at least when I was there, that happened every time. This is a problem when the next LRV arrives before Caroline gets a green.

You should tweet or send this to the ION team. Seems important enough to point out?

[danbrotherston]

Also on Saturday.  I don't know if this matters long term, but the light is programmed wrong here. When the LRT phase ends, Erb gets a green, at least when I was there, that happened every time. This is a problem when the next LRV arrives before Caroline gets a green.

You should tweet or send this to the ION team. Seems important enough to point out?

*shrugs*...I've given up trying to get them to fix signals. There are still ped signals giving priority to cars who wish to crash head long into a retaining wall at Moore St.

I'm more likely to reprogram them myself than bother wasting my time with regional engineers.

[timio]

Mill Station is getting it's artwork tomorrow morning, according to Tom Galloway on Twitter.

[ijmorlan]

Mill Station is getting it's artwork tomorrow morning, according to Tom Galloway on Twitter.

Any news on the birbs?

[timio]

Canard seems to have disappeared from these boards (still on Facebook), I'm sure he'd know if they were coming.

[Bob_McBob]

Tom Galloway having a bit of fun on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...8924916736

[timc]

Tom Galloway having a bit of fun on Twitter...

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...8924916736

Thanks for reaching out.