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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(07-02-2015, 01:31 PM)Chris Wrote:
(07-02-2015, 01:12 PM)chutten Wrote: The LRT's wiring (which seems to be consistently omitted from every rendering I've seen of the system) will complicate using double-decker buses on any routes that cross the tracks. Those routes would be the most likely to be the high-volume routes, too.

Thanks.

I guess that may affect the GO buses running out of the universities as well.

Oh, and specifically correcting myself here, the Go double-deckers have a max height of 4.3m which offers clearance underneath the IEE-recommended overhead catenary minimum height of 5.2m.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by chutten - 07-02-2015, 02:05 PM
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