ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[trainspotter139]

I was just out and about and it looked like there was a lot of maintenance. Crews working on signals at Erb/Caroline and Mill St. Saw a street sweeper cleaning the tracks in front of Grand River Hospital.

I passed the Keolis sweeper truck on my way into work this morning near Borden and Courtland, and heard on the radio that it was headed back to the OMSF for water.  On my lunch break I drove along Northfield from Parkside to Bridge and the ION right of way looked immaculate.  I'm guessing there's a huge cleanup effort going on ahead of opening day...

gotta clean up that coagulated brake dust / sand / lube mix somehow (if you ever want to see a great example of it the frog points at the Fairway double crossover had quite a bit when I was there this morning)

I also wouldn't doubt that they break out some power washers for the platforms too.