ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

.........they just found another Corduroy road.

I'm out, folks.

:: flips desk ::

[BuildingScout]

Previous construction that likely ran into the road(s), though possibly less intensely, might have ignored it for concern over tying up their personnel during investigations, without any/sufficient remuneration, and future opportunities that had to be foregone (or worse, booked ones that would have to be postponed with fines paid).

I saw at least one utility pipe lying very close to the surface of the corduroy road. Likely they ran into it and simply stopped digging.

Cities used to get buried overtime, about 1cm per year, between garbage, silt and repaving. Modern cities have garbage collection, no longer flood as much and current repaving techniques remove the previous layer, so we might have just recently stopped a thousands of year old historical trend.

The corduroy road is about 200 years old, so you expect to find it about 2m below surface.

[kps]

.........they just found another Corduroy road.

I'm out, folks.

:: flips desk ::

Hey, just look at it as Bombardier not getting all the blame when the line doesn't open on time.

[timc]

I'll just take this opportunity to point out that if we had built an overhead monorail, the corduroy road(s) could stay right where they are, and we would be blissfully unaware. I know what Canard is thinking.

[panamaniac]

To think, Waterloo facing the kind of construction problems you would expect from Rome, Athens or Cairo.

[notmyfriends]

Work at King & Union

   

[KevinL]

To think, Waterloo facing the kind of construction problems you would expect from Rome, Athens or Cairo.

Well, it's no plague pit, but it does keep us hopping.

[kps]

It is also possible that the previous road work did not go deep enough to uncover the corduroy road

Yeah, last time they barely dug a foot.

[timio]

Work at King & Union

Wow. It may be ready to open next week.

[GtwoK]

Work at King & Union

Woah! That was fast! They don't even have curbs in yet!

[Canard]

I'll just take this opportunity to point out that if we had built an overhead monorail, the corduroy road(s) could stay right where they are, and we would be blissfully unaware. I know what Canard is thinking.  

I am thinking that I agree wholeheartedly with you!


Bombardier INNOVIA 300 Monorail, designed and built in Kingston (Millhaven), Ontario.

[eizenstriet]

I'll just take this opportunity to point out that if we had built an overhead monorail, the corduroy road(s) could stay right where they are, and we would be blissfully unaware. I know what Canard is thinking.  

I am thinking that I agree wholeheartedly with you!


Bombardier INNOVIA 300 Monorail, designed and built in Kingston (Millhaven), Ontario.

Simple solution might be just to write off the work done to date and slap up the monorail. Could we still make the target launch date?

[timc]

Simple solution might be just to write off the work done to date and slap up the monorail. Could we still make the target launch date?

Yeah, but the trains will still be late.

[panamaniac]

Not sure if this is the correct thread, but the remnants from the corduroy road were made available to the public this morning beginning at 7AM. Each person was allowed one 2 foot segment. My wife and FIL were there at 5:45AM ahead of the 7AM open (god bless them), but were still 20th in line! 200 pieces in total were available.

Now to figure out how to preserve the wood and what to do with it...

They should have sold the segments for $10 dollars a pop and donated the proceeds to the Waterloo Museum and the Region of Waterloo Museum.

[Canard]

So much work along the line today! For those in the area, they're installing the first crossover today in front of the Perimeter Institute.

Also, word of warning - University Ave at the tracks is closed for some kind of "vacuum excavation". There are signs up saying Columbia will be closed next weekend, probably for the same thing.