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02-11-2016, 05:20 PM
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I continually have wished that Wellington would extend to Park. But not with the damn seed company in the way, it won't.
Side note: I find it funny that Wellington St S is only a single block long. Looks like that wanted to make it longer, but didn't. Was it longer at some point, and demolished?
EDIT: ^^^^ I don't think King / Vic will be as complicated as Benton / Charles - It doesn't seem like the intersection will need t be too reconfigured, especially with the track at Charles only needing to cross at the intersection, and then running alongside the road rather than down the middle. That being said, Benton / Charles also didnt require any underground work along the length of the road (ie from Charles to Victoria here) before the intersection could reopen.
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Wasn't King/Vic closed last summer or 2 summers ago for a few weeks with some utility movement? What happened to traffic then?
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(02-11-2016, 05:17 PM)Markster Wrote: How long did Charles/Benton take? 8 weeks? Early September to early Novemberish? King/Victoria should be about the same complexity.
Well, it all depends on what has to happen underground, and I don't think any of us are privy to that information. If it's all set to go underground? Sure, a couple of weeks to blast through the embedded track. If water and sewer mains have to move? Nightmare.
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I assume this is FLEXITY Freedom, right?
It says up to 275 passengers, so I think the 7-car image is just Bombardier stock imagery, and Edmonton will actually have the same train sets as ION.
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Uh, I think discussion about Edmonton's LRT vehicles might be better placed in the LRT vehicle thread
Let's keep this thread about our LRT
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Noticed this morning that there were at least 5 dump trucks lined along Victoria, hence that mysterious 1-day road closure I reported yesterday. I'd assume that means there's some excavation going on!
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(02-12-2016, 10:41 AM)GtwoK Wrote: Noticed this morning that there were at least 5 dump trucks lined along Victoria, hence that mysterious 1-day road closure I reported yesterday. I'd assume that means there's some excavation going on!
See the King Street Underpass thread for photos and stuff. They'd already begun some excavation by early this morning.
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Quite a large amount was excavated when I drove by around 2. Now's the fun part!
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(02-12-2016, 05:50 PM)GtwoK Wrote: Quite a large amount was excavated when I drove by around 2. Now's the fun part!
I'll check it out when the weather warms up a little bit! 
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All in good fun. It was actually the ion Rapid Transit team that posted this on facebook yesterday.
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Just... don't look at the comments on the source video posted by The Beat.
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A bit late posting, but a few photos from last week (apologies for the quality, I really should upgrade to a phone with a better quality camera):
GRH:
KCI:
Uptown:
Dome from other side:
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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There's an active thread on Kitchener subreddit about the LRT, it feels like we went back in time to the last municipal election: https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...an_busses/
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02-15-2016, 05:40 PM
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(02-15-2016, 03:15 PM)JoeKW Wrote: There's an active thread on Kitchener subreddit about the LRT, it feels like we went back in time to the last municipal election: https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...an_busses/
It's an /r/metacanada troll being chirped on by Perilaxe from The Record's comment section. I wouldn't give it much thought.
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(02-15-2016, 05:40 PM)isUsername Wrote: (02-15-2016, 03:15 PM)JoeKW Wrote: There's an active thread on Kitchener subreddit about the LRT, it feels like we went back in time to the last municipal election: https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...an_busses/
It's an /r/metacanada troll being chirped on by Perilaxe from The Record's comment section. I wouldn't give it much thought.
Yes ... I spent 10 minutes reading it, gained zero value except that now I can stay off Reddit for another six months again.
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