ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[tomh009]

Top-notch fabrication here - beautiful welds and finish on this!  If only the weldments I designed could come back to our shop this nice.

Agreed, very nice indeed!

[Canard]

Is there a reason the pole bases are sunk into the concrete? Will they be refilled, or covered somehow? If they fill with water, will this be a problem if there's a sudden freeze?

They'll be covered for sure, if not filled with concrete.  They don't just leave things like that exposed. The top surface of the concrete is not the final finish, either.

[MacBerry]

Actually looks like a station! Ironic that the station that will likely have the least utility in the system seems to be getting a lot of the "firsts."

No bias in your evaluation of this station (seeing RED above) ... Your view does not mean that this is a quid pro quo for the real world. Yes even bias can be ironic

[KevinL]

Not very busy on Frederick when I passed by earlier - but it was certainly well lit.

[Waterlooer]

Walked by the freight rail crossing King in Uptown tonight and looks like it's connected to the northbound ION line now!

[chutten]

Walked by the freight rail crossing King in Uptown tonight and looks like it's connected to the northbound ION line now!

It is!
   

They were running that rail-bound machine that chuffs up a lot of dust behind the train station this morning. I'm thinking it's evening out the ballast? They also had some other dragon just hanging out near the (currently-closed) rail crossing in the parking lot.

[kps]

Very fascinated by the stop work under the grade sep. It's so hard to see what's going on there, especially since the connection path in front of Google is now closed.

It's open again.

[tomh009]

Some activity again this morning on the eastern part of Charles.  No sign of anything happening on Ottawa ahead of next week's scheduled opening, though.

Preparing the track for concrete just W of Stirling
   

More preparation a little bit W of Borden, just E of the station
   

The pavement has now been cut across Borden, to allow for track to be laid and the concrete to be poured
   

[Pheidippides]

I noticed these wayfinding sign examples in the GRT presentation at council today with a different symbol (sorry last second screen grab):
   

[Canard]

That's close, but not the final design.

[GtwoK]

I appreciate this, and hope that some fines were given. Whatever they may be for.

[Canard]

Tweet that out to the local media, please. Closed means closed!

At first, I thought the car was in the one open quadrant of the intersection - but now I realize they were trying to cross over the canyon for the Northbound track.

[Pheidippides]

Speaking of dumb, in Uptown yesterday, I watched, in fear, as a woman lifted up some caution tape, move a fence out of the way, then nearly fall about 20 times as she tried to cross the work site from the pizza/yogurt place to the public square passing about 1m behind the Mark IV machine that was hard at work aligning the new track crossing at king. She then get irritated when a very patient and extreme concerned worker tried to direct her out of the site safely.

The workers were having a really hard time keeping people from crossing the tracks yesterday along the town square parking lot between King and Caroline, but were always exceptionally patient when dealing with any attempting to shortcut the current pedestrian detour (currently the two options are either Caroline or Regina, everything else is closed).

[Canard]

I think we've pretty much established that the general public have very little respect or understanding for worksite safety. I'm amazed nobody has been injured or killed yet.

[tomh009]

More things happening today on Charles and Ottawa!

Getting the last bit of embedded track ready for concrete at the Charles/Stirling intersection:
   

Only one section of the EB curve left to pour at the Charles/Borden intersection:
   

Curbing machine was here yesterday!  E side of Ottawa now has curbs between Charles and (I think) Courtland:
   

And the bridge mystery is solved -- it will be a sidewalk (sorry, I was wrong in my earlier predictions), and the track will be next to it.  (On the other side the sidewalk width is being cut back a bit due to the limited width of the bridge.)
   

Marker posts in place on N side of Ottawa for the curbing machine: