ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

1/4 - Tuesday, November 1, 2016

   
Looking down Frederick, from Duke.

   
Curbs going in at Duke/Frederick!

   
Trackwork along Duke.

   

[Canard]

2/4 - Tuesday, November 1, 2016

   
Trackwork on Duke, continued.

   
Rolling/Paving on Duke.

   
A flurry of activity at the King St. Grade Separation.

   

[Canard]

3/4 - Tuesday, November 1, 2016

   
The track curve from Ottawa, onto Charles, is now completely poured and is curing.

   
Ottawa/Courtland is getting started.

   
Looking back up Ottawa, from Courtland.

   
UpTown.

[Canard]

4/4 - Tuesday, November 1, 2016

   
Foundation slab work for the future Waterloo Town Centre station. That heater is looking a little too eager.

   

   
Here's some of the rail work I was mentioning in a previous post; the freight-carrying gauntlet track rails had been unclipped, painted black (?!) and are being re-clipped.  Also note the installation of the Anchor Wall tiles here; only the 2nd station in the system to receive them so far.

   
OMSF.

[DKsan]

The UW anchor wall tiles are so drab. Instead of going with the colours of the boring engineering buildings, they should have gone black and gold/yellow, UW's school colours. The contrast would've brightened up a relatively hideous (aside from Eng V) part of campus.

[Pheidippides]

I actually had to go look at the pictures of the Willis anchor wall to see if they were the same and to see the final design render to see if it was a mistake. Even if it is modest looking, it still looks like quality work.

[Canard]

   

(From http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/...mittee.pdf)

No one will care how they had to change a few of the colours a bit when they see the illuminated ion logo begin to glow and pulse when a train approaches

I am just still praying they'll used mixed-case tight-kern Helvetica for the station names on the anchor walls, and not some godawful stretched-out all-caps garbage.

[tomh009]

I am just still praying they'll used mixed-case tight-kern Helvetica for the station names on the anchor walls, and not some godawful stretched-out all-caps garbage.

Like this? 

[KevinL]

Or this? 

[ert86]

those OMSF pictures always remind me of HAARP, at least until they run the cables through.

[jordan2423]

(From http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/...mittee.pdf)

No one will care how they had to change a few of the colours a bit when they see the illuminated ion logo begin to glow and pulse when a train approaches

I am just still praying they'll used mixed-case tight-kern Helvetica for the station names on the anchor walls, and not some godawful stretched-out all-caps garbage.

How come they didn't get rid of the hills and flatten it like seen in the render?

[Pheidippides]

I never noticed that there is an iXpress stop on the east side of the ion platform in that render (between the anchor wall and train).

[Canard]

Phew; station font is mixed-case Clearview Highway; acceptable!

[jwilliamson]

Embedded track is exposed from HSBC down to Willis Way in Uptown.

[timc]

No, I'm talking about this:



Straighten out that thing to match what any normal person is going to actually walk.

I was in the area today, and it looks like this is happening. The pedestrian crossing button and bumps are both on that side of the post, although the paint on the road hasn't been changed.