ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Viewfromthe42]

Moderator, should we move these discussions to a phase 2 thread?

[kps]

Moderator, should we move these discussions to a phase 2 thread?

UrbanToronto has a “Transit fantasy maps” thread :-)

[Canard]

Whee, more FLEXITY photos!

Bombardier shifts blame for LRT delays to Metrolinx, files court injunction

   

[Canard]

Gah, today is mega-news day!  Public Art Pieces announced!

From Page 3:  http://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Coun...7-0214.pdf

All submissions: http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/discov...rogram.asp

The recommended pieces are as follows:

• Continuum by Catherine Paleczny at Conestoga
  
• Network by Ken Hall at Research and Technology
  
• Spinal Column by Sandra Dunn at Grand River Hospital
  
• Because Cats Can’t Fly by Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales at Kitchener Market
  
• Tall Tales of Mill Street by Terry O’Neill and Tara Cooper at Mill
  
• Three Sisters by Katharine Harvey and Lindsey Lickers at Block Line
  
• Shaping Residency by Stephen Cruise at Fairway
  

Additionally,

• The Passenger by Brandon Vickerd as part of the Research and Technology Stop Improvements
  
• Arras by Lauren Judge and Elana Chand as part of the Fairway Transit Driver’s Facility
  
• Fabric of Place by Lilly Otasevic for a barrier enhancement in a pedestrian area or LRT stop
  

[KevinL]

Have just come from Midtown; the KCI crossover is fully embedded and covers are off. Would have grabbed a picture, but not only was it dark a lot of snow had drifted in and obscured the details.

[Section ThirtyOne]

Gah, today is mega-news day!  Public Art Pieces announced!

From Page 3:  http://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Coun...7-0214.pdf

All submissions:  http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/discov...rogram.asp

The recommended pieces are as follows:

• Continuum by Catherine Paleczny at Conestoga
  
• Network by Ken Hall at Research and Technology
  
• Spinal Column by Sandra Dunn at Grand River Hospital
  
• Because Cats Can’t Fly by Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales at Kitchener Market
  
• Tall Tales of Mill Street by Terry O’Neill and Tara Cooper at Mill
  
• Three Sisters by Katharine Harvey and Lindsey Lickers at Block Line
  
• Shaping Residency by Stephen Cruise at Fairway
  

Additionally,

• The Passenger by Brandon Vickerd as part of the Research and Technology Stop Improvements
  
• Arras by Lauren Judge and Elana Chand as part of the Fairway Transit Driver’s Facility
  
• Fabric of Place by Lilly Otasevic for a barrier enhancement in a pedestrian area or LRT stop
  

I really like the two pieces recommended for the R&T stop. Thanks for taking the time to put this post together.

[jordan2423]

Gah, today is mega-news day!  Public Art Pieces announced!

From Page 3:  http://calendar.regionofwaterloo.ca/Coun...7-0214.pdf

All submissions:  http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/discov...rogram.asp

The recommended pieces are as follows:

• Continuum by Catherine Paleczny at Conestoga
  
• Network by Ken Hall at Research and Technology
  
• Spinal Column by Sandra Dunn at Grand River Hospital
  
• Because Cats Can’t Fly by Veronica and Edwin Dam de Nogales at Kitchener Market
  
• Tall Tales of Mill Street by Terry O’Neill and Tara Cooper at Mill
  
• Three Sisters by Katharine Harvey and Lindsey Lickers at Block Line
  
• Shaping Residency by Stephen Cruise at Fairway
  

Additionally,

• The Passenger by Brandon Vickerd as part of the Research and Technology Stop Improvements
  
• Arras by Lauren Judge and Elana Chand as part of the Fairway Transit Driver’s Facility
  
• Fabric of Place by Lilly Otasevic for a barrier enhancement in a pedestrian area or LRT stop
  

I really like the two pieces recommended for the R&T stop. Thanks for taking the time to put this post together.

Not really digging the fairview stop art piece...

[tomh009]

I really like the two pieces recommended for the R&T stop. Thanks for taking the time to put this post together.

Not really digging the fairview stop art piece...

Of the ones chosen, I really like Network, Cats and Passenger.

But in the end this is art, which is highly subjective.  It's unrealistic for me to expect to enjoy every piece that has been selected.  Nevertheless, I am very happy that there is art at the stations!

[KevinL]

I enjoy almost all the art chosen, and am merely indifferent to the others. So that's well done.

[Canard]

Duke is closed for 4 months for KW Hydro work, related to ion:

   

   

[GtwoK]

Ah, I figured that would happen at some point. There were those giant grates / vents / something in the ground there, the kind of thing you'd see in the ground above a subway system. They only extended to the edge of the sidewalk before (iirc), but with realignment, now went into the middle of the road. Figured that was a safety issue. Seems like will require a massive dig-up to fix though? Why wouldn't it have been done while underground utils were being done?

[Canard]

1/5 - Saturday, February 11, 2017

   
Kitchener City Hall station platform is now complete (well, except for the tactile edge and top-surface) - and the Anchor Wall is up, too!

   
Kitchener City Hall station

   
Nice to see a more permanent-looking solution to the track lubricator reservoir/pump units! There are little tents ("hoardings") up all over town, starting to come down, now that they have these finished off.

   
King Street Grade Separation.

   
Platform forms are in for the Northbound platform, here!

[Canard]

2/5 - Saturday, February 11, 2017

   

   
A crew was busy working on the Southbound platform forms.

   
Mass Electric still working away at the catenary on Charles, in front of Cameron Heights.

   
There sure is a lot of delicate work involved in this!

   
The platform is more-or-less finished off at Mill, and now the work is focusing on the embedded track curve onto Ottawa (under the tents at the left).

[Canard]

3/5 - Saturday, February 11, 2017

   
Mill, looking South from Ottawa. Trains are going to look great going through that S-curve.

   
New signage up at the KCI crossover!

   
KCI crossover, now exposed and complete!

   

   

[Canard]

4/5 - Saturday, February 11, 2017

   

   
All of the traffic lights, except two (I think) are now active on King, between Wellington and Union!

   
Here are some photos of the massive "hoarding" structure going up around the trackwork just South of Wellington.