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KevinL said; "I remember that night well - there was a party at McCabes afterward, where we also watched the Bruins beat the Canucks to take the Stanley Cup..."
So right prevailed twice that night. 
I was at the last meeting of the year for my Lions Club, and several members who were opposed to the LRT were certain that their conservative, car-lovin', anti-transit ways would prevail.
I may not have been an entirely gracious winner. :-D
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06-16-2016, 11:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-16-2016, 11:45 AM by GtwoK.)
Couldn't sleep last night, went for a walk along King and was surprised to see crews still working at 1am! They were digging up some of the old pavement at King / Louisa, in order to place curbs. Looked like between Louisa and Wellington will be paved soon on, so we should be seeing two way traffic on King in not too long!
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Yeah, CTV was reporting that they were beginning to make use of their 24-hr excemption a week or so ago. Naturally, they interviewed nearby residents who claimed they weren't notified (fun fact: they were).
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CTV and The Record can both cram it with walnuts.
When (and I do mean when) the LRT ends up meeting and indeed surpassing the goals it was designed for, it will be interesting to NOT hear these two sources acknowledge those accomplishments. After all, they're in the business of creating news, not reporting news.
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(06-16-2016, 11:45 AM)GtwoK Wrote: Couldn't sleep last night, went for a walk along King and was surprised to see crews still working at 1am! They were digging up some of the old pavement at King / Louisa, in order to place curbs. Looked like between Louisa and Wellington will be paved soon on, so we should be seeing two way traffic on King in not too long! Here I thought there was something going on at the nightclub. I was awake at that time with the windows open and all I heard was talking most of the night. I'm down closer to Moore but I'm amazed I didn't hear asphalt coming up. It will be awesome once King is opened up to Wellington to divert some of the hauling trucks and soon to be cement trucks off of Louisa St. Can't wait.
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(06-16-2016, 03:06 PM)C Plus Wrote: Here I thought there was something going on at the nightclub. I was awake at that time with the windows open and all I heard was talking most of the night. I'm down closer to Moore but I'm amazed I didn't hear asphalt coming up. It will be awesome once King is opened up to Wellington to divert some of the hauling trucks and soon to be cement trucks off of Louisa St. Can't wait.
It won't be too long now before King is opened, and the neighbourhood is quieter again.
Question for you: does Louisa get a lot of cut-through traffic on your block, or is it generally pretty quiet (I mean before the construction period)?
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Still just a big, now wet, hole on the north side of King:
A paved Willis:
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Looks like they will NOT be opening Queen at Charles after all - that strip of asphalt has been pulled up and the trench for embedding has been dug all the way from Benton to Ontario. They've put one of those temporary pedestrian bridges over the gap at Queen (and metal plates for vehicles at the Full Circle parking entrance).
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Queen and Charles and Duke between Queen and Frederick seem to have become the spots where construction progress goes to die.
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If construction progress goes to die at Queen/Charles, then clearly someone has invented resurrection:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Progress lookin' good. Queen & Charles <a href="https://twitter.com/CityKitchener">@CityKitchener</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kitchener?src=hash">#kitchener</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/everydayisnew?src=hash">#everydayisnew</a> <a href="https://t.co/6ltuwS8vbM">pic.twitter.com/6ltuwS8vbM</a></p>— Sandy Sabourin (@Etherialle1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Etherialle1/status/743852879409217538">June 17, 2016</a></blockquote>
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I think panamaniac was hoping for vehicular access to open as part of the progress.
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Indeed - with the King St closing season now upon us, the sooner Charles is back in action the better, imo.
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(06-16-2016, 03:18 PM)MidTowner Wrote: (06-16-2016, 03:06 PM)C Plus Wrote: Here I thought there was something going on at the nightclub. I was awake at that time with the windows open and all I heard was talking most of the night. I'm down closer to Moore but I'm amazed I didn't hear asphalt coming up. It will be awesome once King is opened up to Wellington to divert some of the hauling trucks and soon to be cement trucks off of Louisa St. Can't wait.
It won't be too long now before King is opened, and the neighbourhood is quieter again.
Question for you: does Louisa get a lot of cut-through traffic on your block, or is it generally pretty quiet (I mean before the construction period)?
I would have to say there wasn't much cut through traffic because of the proximity of Wellington and the added amount of stop signs on Louisa. But I only lived on the street for about 5 months before King St construction so take this response with that in mind.
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Yeah, it sure would be nice to see some of King and Charles open back up.
The official closing was in March of last year, and things were being torn up in April. It's been well over a year now.
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