ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[jeffster]

Hi MacBerry,

I design precision high-speed automation. I understand fully that things don’t always work or go as planned. No one is saying that things shouldn’t be fixed.

My issue is that heavy construction wrapped up a year ago. Track measurements resulting in the discovery of fatal flaws requiring concrete to be jackhammered should have been taken a year ago, not months before service start. It is now a critical path item which will undoubtedly result in delays.

Had it been resolved last spring/summer, there would be no impact to service start. Now they are holding up testing.

My thinking is that once the trains went onto these tracks they noticed minor issues, hence the fine tuning. Might be simply a matter of reducing wear-and-tear on trains by aligning things better.