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(09-14-2016, 10:26 PM)GtwoK Wrote: One thing I noticed at Queen / Charles - the sidewalks are very tight here, on the Northwest side. They are a reduced width and radius, because of having to fit around the 2 older buildings here, PLUS, there's traffic poles (the permanent ones) sticking out. People walking can get by if walking single file, but there's not a chance a wheelchair or mobility scooter would fit. Not sure what could be done about this.
You can see it all on streetview, I walk by there often and the only thing I can think of would be to bolt the pedestrian signals to the building and use the poles on the other corners with longer arms hang two traffic signals off of.
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(09-14-2016, 10:26 PM)GtwoK Wrote: One thing I noticed at Queen / Charles - the sidewalks are very tight here, on the Northwest side. They are a reduced width and radius, because of having to fit around the 2 older buildings here, PLUS, there's traffic poles (the permanent ones) sticking out. People walking can get by if walking single file, but there's not a chance a wheelchair or mobility scooter would fit. Not sure what could be done about this.
Basically, they needed to leave the corner alone. They stole some of the sidewalk to make a turn radius. It used to be pretty close to square.
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(09-14-2016, 10:26 PM)GtwoK Wrote: All the poles and lights in at Benton / Charles, just waiting to be turned on. Very neat looking. Will probably get a bit messier once catenary is strung. Nice to see the sidewalk on the corner with the church has finally been poured, as well!
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One thing I noticed at Queen / Charles - the sidewalks are very tight here, on the Northwest side. They are a reduced width and radius, because of having to fit around the 2 older buildings here, PLUS, there's traffic poles (the permanent ones) sticking out. People walking can get by if walking single file, but there's not a chance a wheelchair or mobility scooter would fit. Not sure what could be done about this.
Benton/Charles will get a bit messier with the catenary, but on the other hand the temporary traffic light cables will go away, so I think it'll be no worse, hopefully actually better.
The sidewalks at Queen/Charles were always tight. They may be a little bit more so now, but on the upside they've been reconstructed and should be much less hazardous. (Ditto for the stairs a little bit further down Charles.)
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(09-14-2016, 09:51 PM)KevinL Wrote: A few more pieces got delivered to the Cameron crossover, including these flange-intersection bits (don't know the proper name, sorry).
![[Image: zL0yS8C.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/zL0yS8C.jpg)
Frogs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_s...rossing.29
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Duke / Water closing down next Wednesday. That'll be fun. With Victoria set to open up within 2 weeks, could they not have just waited until then before closing the detour of the detour in order to create another detour?
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A lot of people are going to have to discover that Francis is open.
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(09-14-2016, 08:39 AM)Canard Wrote: Where are you guys finding best access to take photos and get these updates?
During business hours — 51 Breithaupt, third floor washroom hallway:
There's also a view of the overpass from the west stairwell, but it's not very good unless you are willing to hold your camera (phone) out the window.
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Uptown is humming with activity resulting in lots of visible progress:
-paving ongoing at king and Allen
-light fixture poles are now installed along king extending the antique looking black ones from the uptown core to at least John
-Kitchener glass installing the canopy at Ellis station
-Caroline and Erb getting graded and rolled in preparation for paving
-traffic signals now up at Caroline and erb too
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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09-15-2016, 08:08 PM
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Seagram station canopy. They were finishing paving the intersection, my guess is that it will be open by tomorrow morning at the latest.
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Concrete poured for the SB track along Victoria today, along with the sidewalks (out of frame).
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4/4 - Thursday, September 15, 2016
Erb/Caroline.
Uptown Waterloo station - a very deep pit has been dug, here. I wonder why?
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(09-15-2016, 08:52 PM)Canard Wrote: 4/4 - Thursday, September 15, 2016
Erb/Caroline.
Uptown Waterloo station - a very deep pit has been dug, here. I wonder why?
I speculate that the deep pit might be to deal with poor soil conditions. The pit is almost on top of where the creek ran before it was buried in a tunnel. So possibly they dug out muddy stuff that would be a poor base for the coming construction.
But that’s just my speculation. It could be anything.
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