ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

KevinL, your photos still don't show up. How are you uploading them? Just do them as attachments and say "Insert into Post."

[KevinL]

Google Photos (which manages my phone's automatic backups) seems to have changed their formats so I'll have to try a different method than I have in the past.

[GtwoK]

Google Photos' share links expire after a few hours, I've had the same problem. I just copy them form Google Photos and rehost them on Imgur

[KevinL]

Back to more current events, Queen and charles is now closed. Access to the parking garage is now from Benton.

[Canard]

Just use the forum's built in uploader. Way easier!

[GtwoK]

Didn't notice much happening today on my nightly drive around. There were a bunch of orange tarps lining portions of King St (NB) lanes, that I WANT to say were covering curbs — they went around corners and met up with existing curbs and everything. But they were also pretty flat to the ground. No idea what these would have been for.

Did Alexandra / Caroline or FDB / Caroline open today, as they were supposed to?

[KevinL]

The tarps may have been covering curb alignment work - wires strung from small rebar posts are often placed to help guide the curb form as it is poured.

[timio]

The Laurel Trail between Columbia and University is now paved and people are using it again.

[kwliving]

Here is the link   http://www.rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo...sRFPV3.pdf

Thanks!

I posted that a while back, but after talking with someone with the city and the school I was informed that is an old idea and not the one that will be implemented.

[KevinL]

As I noted a few days ago, this plan would have preserved the upper steps. As they have since been demolished, another design is clearly going forward.

[panamaniac]

As I noted a few days ago, this plan would have preserved the upper steps. As they have since been demolished, another design is clearly going forward.

I was wondering about that yesterday - I went up to the Central and noticed that they have excavated right back to the school's foundation.

[Square]

It seems that all the drawings are from 2013. When I ask ION for updated renders all I get is "Coming Soon".

[GtwoK]

As of today, there were NB curbs on King from Louisa to Green. Also some trenching in front of GRH, either for catpoles or traffic signals.

Also some trenching going on in the the ION ROW between Borden and Stirling. The large pit at Borden is almost filled in now.

The Schnieder's Creek bridge on Borden has been closed for a strangely long time, especially since they had already done a large amount of underground work there previously. What is there to do? It's not like they could've dug down far.

[ijmorlan]

It seems that all the drawings are from 2013.  When I ask ION for updated renders all I get is "Coming Soon".

Heh, they’re waiting for 2017 so they can just take photos!

I have to say I’m not particularly impressed with their communication. It has had some good aspects, but it doesn’t really stand out as being better than one would have expected. Compare with the Ottawa LRT site which is almost like a mini-newspaper just for LRT-related items.

[isUsername]

It seems that all the drawings are from 2013.  When I ask ION for updated renders all I get is "Coming Soon".

Heh, they’re waiting for 2017 so they can just take photos!

I have to say I’m not particularly impressed with their communication. It has had some good aspects, but it doesn’t really stand out as being better than one would have expected. Compare with the Ottawa LRT site which is almost like a mini-newspaper just for LRT-related items.

I asked them to consider "what's new" format for their email newsletters, instead of just putting new activities in with the numerous existing activities, thus providing no distinction.

Didn't even get a "we'll consider it" courtesy reply.

I don't even read the newsletter anymore.