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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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 King at William. From King at Union, looking South. The crews smoked through this intersection! For sure this will open on time for next weekend. Hydro was out working on the poles on both sides of the intersection, just out of frame. No more corduroy road in uptown Waterloo. 
05-07-2016, 02:01 PM
What an update! Thanks for all the photos, Canard!
05-08-2016, 08:28 AM
It's measure twice, cut once. I'm pretty sure the process went something like measure - pour - measure - cut, so basically by the book!
05-08-2016, 02:58 PM
I was told yesterday that ION will require Benton to be widened by a full car lane between King and Charles, meaning a significant bite will be taken out of Speakers Corner. The sculpture in the plaza will need to be moved. I had been hoping that this would be limited to the chunk that has already been taken in front of the Downtown Crepe Café, but apparently not.
ION made me sad all day!
05-08-2016, 03:10 PM
05-08-2016, 03:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2016, 03:18 PM by panamaniac.)
(05-08-2016, 03:10 PM)BuildingScout Wrote:(05-08-2016, 02:58 PM)panamaniac Wrote: meaning a significant bite will be taken out of Speakers Corner. I agree wrt the corner that they parked the Cenotaph in, but not Speakers Corner - it doesn't get as much use as it should, but it's hardly dead space. Re the Cenotaph, I think it's unfortunate that some way couldn't have been found to get it back to its original site in Frederick St at King.
05-08-2016, 03:34 PM
Does anyone know how the concrete panels in the crossing at Columbia became uneven? Looking at Canard's photos on facebook, it appears they just sit on the ties, so I don't see how they could become askew like they did.
05-08-2016, 03:44 PM
I wasn't aware that they were uneven or askew; I can't figure out what picture you're looking at that shows this. I was just there this morning and I didn't notice
 Sometimes I feel like I pay attention to the most innate details of things, but miss the most obvious ones!
05-08-2016, 03:46 PM
I dusted off my husband's bike today and decided to give going for a ride a try... I was having so much fun, I actually ended up biking all the way from central Kitchener to the R&T Park platform and back home! Probably not a big feat for anyone else who rides on a regular basis, but for me, I was pretty proud of myself.
 The newly opened Spur Line trail from Aherns, and Laurel trails are just fantastic.The track switch that the guys were working on yesterday is now installed and complete! This particular pair of switches will only be used by freight trains, so they can pass between the Southbound ion track which heads up to Elmira, and the Northbound track, which will connect to the line out of town to the East. Here, the ballast trucks are getting loaded up with ballast... ...then heading up to University Ave. University Ave crossing. My guess is that they wanted to tamp the Northbound track (only the Southbound one had been), so to do that, they had to pull up the road plates, then tamp the track, then reinstall the plates. That's what they were doing this morning. Moving the road plates into place. Looking South from University, down the line. Looking North, with the tracks passing under the pedestrian walkway for the Engineering building at University of Waterloo. Looking North from the University of Waterloo; that's Columbia in the background. Fence posts have been installed now along the spur line here. I'm OK with these, because the berm is still so high that the fence won't really get in the way of the view of the trains flying through this corridor! At the Research & Technology stop, a bunch of work has happened off to the left there for ducts (communications/signaling?). The gauntlet track switch gear has been installed here, too. That's a hydraulic pump on the right, and two hydraulic lines connect to a cylinder that drives the points between the rails. These will be a very low duty cycle, operating only twice per day - once in the morning, and once at night, once service has finished for the day. Switch gear nameplate shot. For more information on the switch machines for the gauntlet tracks: https://www.voestalpine.com/signaling/st..._hr_en.pdf 
05-08-2016, 04:55 PM
(05-08-2016, 03:34 PM)jamincan Wrote: Does anyone know how the concrete panels in the crossing at Columbia became uneven? Looking at Canard's photos on facebook, it appears they just sit on the ties, so I don't see how they could become askew like they did. The panels were askew at the University crossing when I went by on Tuesday, but I did not get a shot of them. I presume with the work that Canard just documented, they will be fixed. 
05-08-2016, 09:18 PM
(05-08-2016, 04:55 PM)KevinL Wrote: The panels were askew at the University crossing when I went by on Tuesday, but I did not get a shot of them. The ones at Columbia are as well, and have been for quite a while. But I assume they will fix those when Columbia is closed next weekend. |
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