ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[BuildingScout]

My point is that giving a name without explanation is not much better than no names or just random names. If we decide to use names we should have a blurb explaining who or what its named after.

[Canard]

Yeah that's what the system in France I linked the video to has done. Look just to the left of the signature below his face.

   

from http://www.caf.es/upload/prensa/multimed....c.11..jpg

[ookpik]

Yeah that's what the system in France I linked the video to has done.  Look just to the left of the signature below his face.

That strikes me as the worst possible location to stick several paragraphs of text. Riders, especially tourists, will stop to read, blocking the entrance. A better location for that sort of stuff would be at the back of the car, perhaps with signs at the front to invite people to go there.

[Smore]

Holey Crow! Is Outhit coming around on Transit?? (He still hates bikes).

http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5...s-similar/

[Canard]

Current DC Metro "Randi Miller" Automated Door Announcements:
http://youtu.be/kqVNvO6kVlc?t=9s

My favourite:  the two-tone Door-Open chime on the Bombardier MKVI Monorails that operate at the Walt Disney World Resort.  A modified version of this chime is used for announcements from the driver:
http://youtu.be/uk2U5ozOqHY?t=4m5s

In all likelihood, as the trains are part of the same order as the TTC's Eglinton Crosstown vehicles, this is what we'll get:
http://youtu.be/E7Xq_mYSdx8

I just hope it's not this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqdR2aMP4E
Nothing is more boring than simple beeps!

As I mentioned earlier, the TTC's ubiquitous three-tone door close chime was first introduced on the Scarborough RT, which was developed by the Ontario Crown Corporation UTDC - now Bombardier.  You can find the same tone on all sorts of Bombardier products all over the world.  I've heard people say "Oh hey, they have Toronto's door chime!" when riding these other systems.

(I would have embedded these, but the forum has a limit on 1 video per post)

[Canard]

Holey Crow!  Is Outhit coming around on Transit?? (He still hates bikes).

http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5...s-similar/

Hey, not bad. Did he seriously write all that crap before without ever riding a system?! How can someone have such a firm opinion with absolutely no basis for it? He should try visiting some other cities, and ride their systems, too.

Toulouse' two other lines aren't subways, they're light metros which are partially underground - VAL, by MATRA (now Siemens). They run a combination of 206 and 208 rolling stock (I prefer the former).

"I had to smile, reading that. Cycling, oversold here, oversold there."

I think I just changed my mind, this guy deserves no respect. Such a smug.

[KevinL]

Here's how the Nottingham system posts their namesake bios:

[BuildingScout]

Hey, not bad.  Did he seriously write all that crap before without ever riding a system?!  How can someone have such a firm opinion with absolutely no basis for it?  He should try visiting some other cities, and ride their systems, too.

He's a dimwit. As simple as that. Not every opponent of LRT is one. Intelligent people might have different opinions about a subject. Outhit is not one of them. He is incapable of imagining the town a few years hence, which is why he opposed the four lanes in Ira Needles Blvd, only to see in a few short years how wrong he was. Once he and another 50,000 people hop in the LRT he will come around and sing its praises but not a minute before then.

[timio]

Question re: aBRT

The functional design plans have a dedicated aBRT offramp from Highway 8 to Fairway road [link - Plan page 29], yet I haven't seen any construction on this.  Did this plan get quietly dropped, or did I miss something?

[DHLawrence]

I expect all 401 plans are in a holding pattern until the Fountain Street bridge is rebuilt. Right now it's too narrow for any BRT infrastructure to be installed - and for the proposed fourth lane in each direction.

[timio]

I expect all 401 plans are in a holding pattern until the Fountain Street bridge is rebuilt. Right now it's too narrow for any BRT infrastructure to be installed - and for the proposed fourth lane in each direction.

Highway 8 at Fairway, not 401.

[Canard]

Great catch, Timio; I hadn't noticed that before.

   

[YKF]

I hope that this bus-only ramp becomes a reality. The current Kitchener-bound off ramp to Fairway Road from highway 8 always seemed like a slight jog and this proposed off-ramp will solve that problem. I wonder if the ramp could be used as a general off-ramp for motorists once phase 2 of the LRT is constructed to Cambridge, rendering the bus-only off-ramp useless since the aBRT would no longer be in operation.

[mpd618]

I hope that this bus-only ramp becomes a reality. The current Kitchener-bound off ramp to Fairway Road from highway 8 always seemed like a slight jog and this proposed off-ramp will solve that problem. I wonder if the ramp could be used as a general off-ramp for motorists once phase 2 of the LRT is constructed to Cambridge, rendering the bus-only off-ramp useless since the aBRT would no longer be in operation.

I don't think this is in the current plans. Given the River Road extension will have an off-ramp from westbound Highway 8, I think that would provide a reasonable way of accomplishing the same thing.

[Markster]

Judging by the land ownership, and some artifacts you can see on Google Maps, I assume there used to be a loop ramp there long ago. I would imagine it was removed to eliminate weaving of cars on Fairway. I don't think getting a ramp back there is ever in the cards.