ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[danbrotherston]

Thanks for that information. Looks like I might be slightly exaggerating. But still, only a little because we’ve had lots of storms where enough snow fell that it made travel difficult; the exact amount of snow isn’t hugely important. If they’d said once in 10 years I’d have to eat crow right about now.

15 cm might trigger a snow day for schools, but for the LRT, 30 cm is much more than twice as bad. Combine the train ground clearance with the excess snow being plowed onto the tracks, and you get a mess like we had now. At 15 cm we would have been OK, maybe even at 20 cm.

Generally also the rate matters.

I'm sure we've gotten 30cm of snow in a week many times in the last decade, but getting it in a 24 hour period (or even like 18 hours) is really quite a big more problematic.