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Earlier this week I happened upon an LRV returning up King St making the left into Waterloo Public Square Stn. As it passed I noticed that the interior had been festively decorated: decals on the windows, garlands on the overhead handrails... It was nice to see, but a bit bittersweet that they'd all be removed before service begins next year.
I presume it's decorated for the scheduled public viewings.
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(11-29-2018, 11:08 AM)chutten Wrote: Earlier this week I happened upon an LRV returning up King St making the left into Waterloo Public Square Stn. As it passed I noticed that the interior had been festively decorated: decals on the windows, garlands on the overhead handrails... It was nice to see, but a bit bittersweet that they'd all be removed before service begins next year.
I presume it's decorated for the scheduled public viewings.
Yes, the LRT that was used for the public viewings last weekend was decorated.
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I believe it's also parked near City Hall for Christkindl next week?
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Got to see signal priority in action, firsthand - I was on a bus coming up Charles Street into downtown, and 507 came up next to us as we approached Benton. My bus had a red and the Ion had a horizontal bar so we stopped right next to each other - but our light stayed red while they got a vertical bar and moved through.
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(11-29-2018, 02:20 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: As for operators getting spooked, these are transit stations, operators had better get used to seeing people there.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's certain equipment validation tests that require them to do things they would never do in normal operation. Maybe there's tests coming up that require them to blow through stations at speed without stopping, and having pedestrians milling about would force them to abort those tests and re-run them, delaying completion. I see comments and questions on Facebook all the time where people equate what they see now to how things will be when the system is up and running, but one does not equate with the other. They bend airplane wings until they snap during testing to find out what the limits are, even though they will never hit a quarter of those load forces in revenue flight.
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(11-29-2018, 02:20 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's kind of a shame how clear they were given that our sidewalks are a disaster...ironic even, I'm not sure they can stop maintaining them though, they're required to by contract, unless they have an agreement with the city to decrease costs.
Not a disaster in DTK, though, thanks to the BIA.
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(11-29-2018, 04:14 PM)tomh009 Wrote: (11-29-2018, 02:20 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's kind of a shame how clear they were given that our sidewalks are a disaster...ironic even, I'm not sure they can stop maintaining them though, they're required to by contract, unless they have an agreement with the city to decrease costs.
Not a disaster in DTK, though, thanks to the BIA.
Yes! Absolutely. City clearing downtown is quite good.
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(11-29-2018, 02:50 PM)KevinT Wrote: (11-29-2018, 02:20 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: As for operators getting spooked, these are transit stations, operators had better get used to seeing people there.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's certain equipment validation tests that require them to do things they would never do in normal operation. Maybe there's tests coming up that require them to blow through stations at speed without stopping, and having pedestrians milling about would force them to abort those tests and re-run them, delaying completion. I see comments and questions on Facebook all the time where people equate what they see now to how things will be when the system is up and running, but one does not equate with the other. They bend airplane wings until they snap during testing to find out what the limits are, even though they will never hit a quarter of those load forces in revenue flight.
If that's the case then they would need to clear the platform specifically to achieve that. Putting up a sign is clearly not sufficient.
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Sounds to me like the signs should just say “No Winter Maintenance”.
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(11-29-2018, 05:16 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Sounds to me like the signs should just say “No Winter Maintenance”.
Not enough in terms of potential liability defence.
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(11-29-2018, 06:40 PM)panamaniac Wrote: (11-29-2018, 05:16 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Sounds to me like the signs should just say “No Winter Maintenance”.
Not enough in terms of potential liability defence.
The city seems to believe it is in every other circumstance where they don't do winter maintenance in a pedestrian realm.
And I'm not sure we've established the reason is no winter maintenance.
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There are signs on all the doors indicating it’s a test train and not to board.
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