ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[kitborn]

Integration of bus transit and ION:

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/933...ion-event/

[Bob_McBob]

Interesting photo in The Record today.

https://www.therecord.com/living-story/9...ar-owners/

"Hurrying to get to David Brash's Supertest service station in 1944, this Chevy coupe lost a race with Kitchener PUC streetcar #64, a "one-man" safety car. - Kitchener Public Library"

[Bob_McBob]

Also, our favourite political cartoonist at the Woolwich Observer is at it again.

"As with many items on store shelves, “New and Improved” doesn’t always mean what they say it means."

[KevinL]

Um, whut? Yes, there are new routes to adjust to; but they're being made more direct, removing these sorts of deviations.

[tomh009]

Um, whut? Yes, there are new routes to adjust to; but they're being made more direct, removing these sorts of deviations.

Inconvenient truths have never stopped his cartoons before, either ...

[ijmorlan]

Um, whut? Yes, there are new routes to adjust to; but they're being made more direct, removing these sorts of deviations.

That cartoonist doesn’t understand the first rule of humour: there needs to be a core of truth.

Or maybe they do understand it and they’re just lying for the benefit of grumpy old men (to use a stereotype).

[jamincan]

It's lazy and cheap humour for people who don't care to actually be informed and rather have their ignorance reinforced.

[KevinL]

Doesn't help that they use a real map of north Waterloo, but then overlay completely fictional routes.

[danbrotherston]

It's lazy and cheap humour for people who don't care to actually be informed and rather have their ignorance reinforced.

I mean, possibly it's lazy and cheap, but it could also cynically be intentionally misleading.  Pushing an anti-region agenda....

Our society these days just seems toxic with government hate.  And I have no love of regional engineers, I call them out HARD when they make mistakes.  But the problem seems to be a large group of people who think government, or even the idea of cooperation between people is inherently wrong, or impossible.

[neonjoe]

No one has an office on Bridge St between King and McMurray. Woolwich observer = fake news

[plam]

Today's count of LRVs sighted = 3 in Kitchener. One under the train underpass, and two on Charles. It sure looked like simulated service, a train was making a stop at Charles St Terminal, opening the doors, making the door close sound, then dinging before it got going... Still, I don't know what the max count of simultaneous LRVs out is. Is it more than 4 yet?

[ijmorlan]

No one has an office on Bridge St between King and McMurray. Woolwich observer = fake news

For that matter, nobody lives in a house at University and Weber, either. I guess our mistake is to assume that the author is sloppy about the truth only in trivial matters like whether anybody actually lives in a house at the point shown on their map when they’re actually sloppy with the truth in all matters.

[jwilliamson]

I saw 7 LRVs over the course of about 2 hours at Waterloo Park and Uptown Waterloo today. That's by far the most I've seen in a single day.

[plam]

I saw 7 LRVs over the course of about 2 hours at Waterloo Park and Uptown Waterloo today. That's by far the most I've seen in a single day.

Today's count for me is at 2 so far. They must be at more than 4 out at a time now.

[jeffster]

I saw 7 LRVs over the course of about 2 hours at Waterloo Park and Uptown Waterloo today. That's by far the most I've seen in a single day.

I got to see one zipping down by the Expressway over by Courtland -- gotta say, very cool and awesome view. There are a lot of parts of Kitchener-Waterloo that we simply never see from the ground while driving, biking or walking. The LRT will change this.