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(05-19-2019, 06:47 AM)creative Wrote: Aren’t roll curbs at corners for people with disabilities?
Yes, but for that purpose they don’t go all the way around the corner, only where the crossings meet the sidewalk. They won’t much help a vehicle that wants to use the sidewalk to make its turn.
I wasn’t actually criticizing any specific location, although one might be able to find examples. I was just trying to imagine scenarios in which I could understand why somebody would install a roll curb, even if I disagreed, and contrast with the situation on Charles where I don’t even understand what they are trying to accomplish.
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I was driving around Monday afternoon around 2pm and saw an LRV parked at the City Hall Station on Duke. Thought it was strange cause I almost never see them sitting at a station like they used to. Continued on and saw another one at Central Station at Victoria. Turns out there was a train stopped with its flashers on just before the Grand River Hospital station. Not sure if it was unable to move or some other reason. There was a Keolis truck parked on the opposite track.
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Just now I saw an LRV at conestoga mall with a bunch of workers looking at the trucks underneath. The cladding was removed. Perhaps simulating a break down?
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(05-21-2019, 01:35 PM)neonjoe Wrote: Just now I saw an LRV at conestoga mall with a bunch of workers looking at the trucks underneath. The cladding was removed. Perhaps simulating a break down?
Or maybe it ran over something and they were looking to clear it.
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There's a freight train going up the spurline right now (1:50 PM). Wonder how that works with LRT testing...
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No doubt all pre-arranged. They can have LRVs on the northbound tracks (except in Uptown) during that.
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The CN train talks with LRT control when they need to use the spur and they will coordinate. You can hear them on the scanner too 
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(05-21-2019, 02:50 PM)KevinL Wrote: No doubt all pre-arranged. They can have LRVs on the northbound tracks (except in Uptown) during that.
Southbound track, except for between the crossover at the Perimeter Institute and the Waterloo Town Square parking lot, where it is indeed the northbound track. You can actually see that the ties on the freight track are closer together than on the LRT-only track.
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(05-21-2019, 01:35 PM)neonjoe Wrote: Just now I saw an LRV at conestoga mall with a bunch of workers looking at the trucks underneath. The cladding was removed. Perhaps simulating a break down?
Hmmm, the other day I heard one making an unusual amount of loud clunking noises heading south across Columbia. I was all the way at Phillip, far enough that normally I'd only know it's passing because of the crossing signals
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(05-21-2019, 08:08 PM)ert86 Wrote: Hmmm, the other day I heard one making an unusual amount of loud clunking noises heading south across Columbia. I was all the way at Phillip, far enough that normally I'd only know it's passing because of the crossing signals
I saw one a week or two ago heading south near the University. It was making a repetitive clunking sound, something like what I imagine a wheel with a flat in it might sound like. Not sure if we both heard the same thing. I don’t know much about the details but I know wheels can develop flats due to excessive braking — if the wheel locks up during braking, then a single point on the circumference slides along the track, and it doesn’t take much wear under that circumstance to take the wheel out of circular.
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(05-21-2019, 08:43 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: (05-21-2019, 08:08 PM)ert86 Wrote: Hmmm, the other day I heard one making an unusual amount of loud clunking noises heading south across Columbia. I was all the way at Phillip, far enough that normally I'd only know it's passing because of the crossing signals
I saw one a week or two ago heading south near the University. It was making a repetitive clunking sound, something like what I imagine a wheel with a flat in it might sound like. Not sure if we both heard the same thing. I don’t know much about the details but I know wheels can develop flats due to excessive braking — if the wheel locks up during braking, then a single point on the circumference slides along the track, and it doesn’t take much wear under that circumstance to take the wheel out of circular.
Wheel flats are quite common during the testing, training and commissioning phase of a new system.
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The RideIONlrt Twitter account responded to a question about the bags over crossover signals today saying that they're all operational and the bags will be removed within a week.
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Has anyone made a fleet of the paper models that they give during ION train and station showings?
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(05-21-2019, 09:49 PM)kalis0490 Wrote: Has anyone made a fleet of the paper models that they give during ION train and station showings?
Something like this? 
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