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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Catpoles are finally going up along the hydro corridor near Fairview Park station
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#CantKeepUp
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(03-23-2017, 02:42 PM)KevinT Wrote: You may find https://www.apta.com/mc/rail/previous/20...PWhite.pdf to be interesting reading.  It's about the TTC's wiring upgrade from the legacy 'trolley pole' system to the new 'trolley + panto' system...

Quote:The system was a traditional direct suspension double insulated system using 1/4” and 5/16” span wire made up with preformed end fittings, fiberglass rod insulators used for span wire insulation at poles, with AGC span wire hanger or cap and cone hangers with 12 inch HS clamp ears to hold the trolley wire, No-Bo section insulators, Type SH trolley frogs and crossover pans and a 2/0 grooved alloy 80 bronze trolley wire.

Huh  Smile
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Iain's a little excited.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MixedCase?src=hash">#MixedCase</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fontgasm?src=hash">#Fontgasm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CantKeepUp?src=hash">#CantKeepUp</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZehpFCgm64">pic.twitter.com/ZehpFCgm64</a></p>&mdash; iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/845042633969991680">March 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I CANT EVEN
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(03-23-2017, 07:40 PM)Canard Wrote: I CANT EVEN

Neither could the installers, evidently. When do they fix it?
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(03-23-2017, 07:57 PM)kps Wrote:
(03-23-2017, 07:40 PM)Canard Wrote: I CANT EVEN

Neither could the installers, evidently. When do they fix it?

Fix what?! It's perfect!!!!!! It's everything I ever dreamed of. I mean, I might have gone with a slightly tighter kern... and I'm always down for Helvetica, but Clearview is fine, too!

I SWEAR if they had ended up with the all-caps as shown in the concept renderings I would have been DONE
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1/1 - Thursday, March 23, 2017

   
Thanks for the heads up to timc; I raced up to R&T tonight with my fastest average speed on Strava yet!  The anchor walls really, in the words of Amy Schumer, "Pop!"

   
Looking South along the Waterloo Spur.  So far, this is the fastest section of the line - signed at 70 km/h just beyond here (for a very, very short stint).

   
I literally yelled "FONTGASM" as I rode into the parking lot at Northfield Crossing and saw this.

   
...and that ion logo!  It's perfect!  So THICC

   
On Northfield, this U-turn for emergency vehicles has popped up with those "drive-overable" bollards. I guess this is so Westbound emergency vehicles can do a U-Turn before the tracks, and use the Eastbound>Southbound ramp onto the Conestoga Parkway (just past the Mazda dealership).
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(03-23-2017, 08:06 PM)Canard Wrote: Fix what?!

Several letters are crooked (‘h’, ‘f’, ‘i’, and ‘d’). Also, the ‘o’ and ‘e’ are mounted too high (nobody told the installers about overshoot).

   

(03-23-2017, 08:06 PM)Canard Wrote: I mean, I might have gone with a slightly tighter kern...

That aspect is ugly but authentically Clearview.
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the dot on the 'i' in the ion logo is also slightly crooked
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cancel the project
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(03-23-2017, 08:39 PM)kps Wrote: (nobody told the installers about overshoot).

You'll want to take up your issues with Pride Signs, they're the ones who did the signage (look closer. it's installed on a common backplane, so was supplied as a finished unit)
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(03-23-2017, 08:53 PM)Canard Wrote: You'll want to take up your issues with Pride Signs

I guess we'll see whether they have any.
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Wow, did you write to them or something?

Lots of action along the line this morning!!!
  • At Grand River Hospital, a crew was using a big jackhammer mounted to a backhoe to dig up a big section of the concrete at the intersection.
  • Same thing at Cedar, although a much, much larger section - probably about 5m square. Huge chunks of rubble everywhere!
  • The anchor wall and station weldments just arrived at the Transit Hub stop! The trailer is parked on Victoria, in front of School of Pharmacy, and they have a big crane ready.
  • Catenary is up all along Ottawa, and...
  • ...all along Courtland, down to the tensioners at Shelley!

It's so exciting to see all these finishing touches come together.
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There's sidewalk dug up at King and Frederick (with crews actively installing... stuff) and they've cut into it at Duke and Frederick with apparently the same intention.

Also, the contact wire along Frederick is up and almost entirely secured.
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