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  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (03-23-2022, 02:31 PM) -- They bought crappy trains and designed this LRT poorly. There's USSR era trams that can run year round in Russia but the slightest bit of ice cripples our system...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 03-24-2022, 03:29 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (01-28-2022, 04:10 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (01-28-2022, 04:01 PM) -- Makes sense to me. Some routes don't need full sized buses, particularly the 27. At most that route gets 5 passe...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 4,311 3,223,966 01-29-2022, 01:49 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (01-20-2022, 01:42 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (01-20-2022, 01:37 PM) -- I half-heartedly tried to google this but I couldn't find an answer: Do we know how reliable our Flexity Fre...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 01-20-2022, 04:10 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (01-18-2022, 02:41 PM) -- jeffster Wrote: (01-17-2022, 07:30 PM) -- Right. It's been a long time since we had this type of crazy snow. CTV is saying 25-35 cm in the region, which migh...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 01-19-2022, 01:30 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (01-18-2022, 02:41 PM) -- jeffster Wrote: (01-17-2022, 07:30 PM) -- Right. It's been a long time since we had this type of crazy snow. CTV is saying 25-35 cm in the region, which mi...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 01-19-2022, 01:26 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (12-29-2021, 05:08 PM) -- It's a phone app, dude. You don't need a whole team working full-time jobs unless your business model is to make money. You can still provide a good application ...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 4,311 3,223,966 12-30-2021, 06:18 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
515 out and about testing. Seen here at Fairway Station
  trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 06-04-2021, 11:16 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
panamaniac Wrote: (06-03-2021, 10:30 PM) -- I’ve been waiting and waiting, every time I see a new post in this thread. Apart from it generally being a bad idea to turn into the path of a moving tr...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 06-04-2021, 03:37 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-13-2021, 07:16 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-13-2021, 04:54 PM) -- One of the biggest reasons why it's going through Sportsworld Crossing is because of the Highway 401 and 8 inter...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,544 04-14-2021, 01:32 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (03-31-2021, 08:40 AM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (03-31-2021, 07:11 AM) -- I mean, yes, they do hold up traffic for a short time, and yes, drivers do seem to be offended by that, but ...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,544 04-01-2021, 06:48 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
bgb_ca Wrote: (03-03-2021, 01:24 PM) -- 515 is now apparently at Lancaster. My guess is it will make the journey up the spur line tonight. https://twitter.com/mrjasonli/status/1367116568770002946?...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 03-03-2021, 10:14 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-09-2021, 08:04 AM) -- trainspotter139 Wrote: (02-09-2021, 03:08 AM) -- the River Rd. extension is already going through environmentally sensitive land. not putting the LRT ...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,544 02-09-2021, 04:55 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
dunkalunk Wrote: (02-09-2021, 02:06 AM) -- I don't get why the line is running in the middle of the River road Extension at the speed of traffic instead of between River Rd and the Hidden Valley. See...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,544 02-09-2021, 03:08 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (12-13-2020, 09:29 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (12-13-2020, 04:30 PM) -- Cut and cover is about 3x more expensive, costing about $150M/km on average compared to surface rail which costs $45M/...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,544 12-14-2020, 04:25 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (12-13-2020, 04:46 PM) -- Does anybody know how long a TPAP lasts after a minister's approval? The TPAP for Stage 1 started on November 26th, 2011, and construction started less that 3 y...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,544 12-14-2020, 04:03 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (12-11-2020, 11:51 AM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (12-11-2020, 11:23 AM) -- Wishful thinking? I mean, I honestly do not understand the purpose of the restriction there...it's ridicu...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 12-14-2020, 03:57 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (12-01-2020, 10:26 PM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (12-01-2020, 10:15 PM) -- It is true that it is not built to carry existing demand, which is still well within the range that can be handled by ...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 12-02-2020, 04:20 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (11-27-2020, 10:28 PM) -- I read an article which said that any train with a door that wouldn’t close would be locked out by the ATP (automatic train protection) and could only be mov...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 11-29-2020, 07:10 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
danbrotherston Wrote: (11-20-2020, 11:53 AM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (11-20-2020, 10:05 AM) -- Overall I like the design. At first I wasn't a fan of the white, but it is growing on me. It will definit...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,143 1,017,262 11-20-2020, 02:31 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (11-19-2020, 01:10 PM) -- Oops, didn't realize I had linked the French version! Mais...nous l'apprenons tous passionnément pendant de nombreuses années à l'école, no? :') -- Unfortunate...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 11-19-2020, 02:41 PM
  Thread: Inter-region transit
Post: RE: Inter-region transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (11-14-2020, 11:32 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (11-14-2020, 10:11 PM) -- The 200 only went to Fairway at first; the 52 was the first route to properly connect the cities. Before the G...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 40 5,533 11-15-2020, 12:31 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
KevinL Wrote: (10-02-2020, 12:32 PM) -- ATP has been active for a couple months now, I think. -- ATP has been on since at least the 16th of June
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 10-02-2020, 02:58 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-26-2020, 01:07 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (08-26-2020, 12:56 PM) -- I would guess that a maintenance person using equipment on the tracks is much cheaper in terms of labour costs ...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 08-26-2020, 02:30 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Plans underway to upgrade Kitchener GO to electric trains (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/plans-underway-to-upgrade-kitchener-go-to-electric-trains-1.5035494) Quote: -- KITCHENER -- Metrolinx has la...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,989 1,164,200 07-23-2020, 06:16 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (06-23-2020, 03:22 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (06-23-2020, 01:46 PM) -- Fixing things is relative, given my experience with the software, "fixing" things won't ever result in a good...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,495,302 06-23-2020, 03:32 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
KevinL Wrote: (06-16-2020, 04:47 PM) -- -I'll quote this one directly as I don't quite get the meaning: "30 new digital information displays at LRT platforms and nine new on-board information display...
   trainspotter139 Transportation and Infrastructure 4,311 3,223,966 06-20-2020, 12:10 PM

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