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(05-02-2017, 09:42 AM)NotStan Wrote: Yeah why wouldn't we box in traffic so if this happens there's a 30-45 minute delay. Not like there's a hospital nearby that people might be trying to get to.
I expect there are going to be multiple "annual (?) occurences" that we will encounter that stress the limitations of our system.
Of course we don't want it to happen. But everything in life is a trade-off. And this isn't even in the top 1000 negative side effects of having an LRT.
And the hospital argument is especially absurd. We'd need this to happen at the exact instance an ambulance was in the section that gets blocked. Otherwise there are lots of routes into the hospital and we're talking about a very minor delay. The expected value of negative health effects from this problem are trivial. Easily dwarfed by the negative health effects of the LRT and cars already.
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CKCO news at noon reported on the broken down car and subsequent traffic tie-up with their usual anti-LRT slant.
Trying to reconcile with myself why I even watch their news at all anymore. It certainly isn't for their reporting of local sports.
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05-02-2017, 12:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-02-2017, 12:50 PM by SammyOES2.)
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1113673
Lol. HALF AN HOUR!!!!!!!
Edit: Canard, you made it on the news! Although I noticed they didn't mention what you were saying.
Let's say there were 20 cars stuck for 30 minutes (which I think is overstating it). That's a 600 minute car-delay. That's barely a major 'break down delay', let alone construction / congestion / rubber necking / etc. delay for this area.
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(05-02-2017, 12:47 PM)SammyOES2 Wrote: Edit: Canard, you made it on the news! Although I noticed they didn't mention what you were saying.
Hmm? No, I'm not anywhere in that clip, other than some of my tweets...
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Apparently they're working on Charles and Queen. I wonder if they will fix the nonsense sidewalk. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/kitch...-1.4095332
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(05-02-2017, 01:04 PM)Canard Wrote: other than some of my tweets...
Sorry, that's what I meant.
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(05-02-2017, 12:55 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I believe BobMcBob called it. http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId...tPageNum=1
Aaaand... yep. Thought-provoking and intelligent commentary as usual.
https://www.facebook.com/ctvkitchener/po...5920605363
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(05-02-2017, 01:38 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Apparently they're working on Charles and Queen. I wonder if they will fix the nonsense sidewalk. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/kitch...-1.4095332
Quote:The intersection of Queen and Charles streets will be closed for the next three weeks, as Grandlinq puts the finishing touches on the Ion LRT tracks and makes minor repairs
Three weeks! Yeah, that definitely sounds like it could be fixing the corner.
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Per a discussion on the Facebook group ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/81680629...804124051/), it will be fixed. The process will involve a different grade for the storefronts than from the through traffic.
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05-02-2017, 02:54 PM
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(05-02-2017, 12:09 PM)Elmira Guy Wrote: CKCO news at noon reported on the broken down car and subsequent traffic tie-up with their usual anti-LRT slant.
Trying to reconcile with myself why I even watch their news at all anymore. It certainly isn't for their reporting of local sports.
I haven't noticed an anti-LRT slant on CKCO. The piece seems to be reporting what happened around a story of interest.
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(05-02-2017, 02:49 PM)KevinL Wrote: Per a discussion on the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/81680629...804124051/), it will be fixed. The process will involve a different grade for the storefronts than from the through traffic.
I had wondered if there was concern about getting rid of the awkward and non-accessible corner there, that doing so would mean drivers could not use the LRT as a turning lane and turn exceedingly wide, lest they run the risk of clipping a raised redesigned corner. I'm glad/hopeful that they've decided that cars can figure out how to execute a better turn, especially with an extra lanewidth to work with due to the rapidway.
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Where can we see the revised design?
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(05-02-2017, 03:21 PM)Canard Wrote: Where can we see the revised design?
Don't know; the Facebook poster simply said that he had seen it.
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The current conditions:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sidewalks at <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> corners.<br>Who poured it better?<br>(Charles St on left, Duke St on right) <a href="https://t.co/UMMnbgoaTl">pic.twitter.com/UMMnbgoaTl</a></p>— Mark Jackson-Brown (@Markster3000) <a href="https://twitter.com/Markster3000/status/777627993107759104">September 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
Considering that the pole blocks a significant chunk of the sidewalk, it's not entirely absurd to imagine a ramp up to the businesses tucked partially behind it.
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