ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

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Did anyone ever figure out what actually happened at Erb and Caroline last night?

Scanning social media today, my guess is what ijmorlan said above is what happened.  I mean no news outlet reported a LRT crash, and they would be all over it if 2 crashes happened in 1 day, lol

[timc]

I saw some wayfinding signs being installed around the Willis Way station.

[boatracer]

I was just out and about and it looked like there was a lot of maintenance. Crews working on signals at Erb/Caroline and Mill St. Saw a street sweeper cleaning the tracks in front of Grand River Hospital.

[robdrimmie]

Crews were doing detail work at the Victoria Park station over my lunch time as well - some form of caulking around some of the access panels in the concrete was applied and being trimmed up nice, smaller items like that.

[timc]

I was just out and about and it looked like there was a lot of maintenance. Crews working on signals at Erb/Caroline and Mill St. Saw a street sweeper cleaning the tracks in front of Grand River Hospital.

That probably explains why I have only seen two trains today.

[KevinT]

I was just out and about and it looked like there was a lot of maintenance. Crews working on signals at Erb/Caroline and Mill St. Saw a street sweeper cleaning the tracks in front of Grand River Hospital.

I passed the Keolis sweeper truck on my way into work this morning near Borden and Courtland, and heard on the radio that it was headed back to the OMSF for water.  On my lunch break I drove along Northfield from Parkside to Bridge and the ION right of way looked immaculate.  I'm guessing there's a huge cleanup effort going on ahead of opening day...

[danbrotherston]

I also saw one on Charles at Water in the morning on my way to work.

[urbd]

WRPS:

WA19141105-MVC PERSONAL INJURY
Posted Monday, 17 June, 2019
Incident #: WA19141105
Incident Date: Jun 17, 2019 11:12:00 PM
Location: Between CAROLINE ST N and ERB ST W, WATERLOO

Did anyone ever figure out what actually happened at Erb and Caroline last night?

I live very close to there and I heard tires screeching at that time, and it was a looooong screech! I didn't hear any actual crash, so my guess is that a pedestrian or bike got hit by the car. That stretch along Caroline is pretty much a slide for cars: with 3.5 lanes of one way traffic, a slight curve, and on a downward slope. Recipe for disaster. Can't wait until these highway-roads are turned into two way streets again.

[trainspotter139]

I was just out and about and it looked like there was a lot of maintenance. Crews working on signals at Erb/Caroline and Mill St. Saw a street sweeper cleaning the tracks in front of Grand River Hospital.

I passed the Keolis sweeper truck on my way into work this morning near Borden and Courtland, and heard on the radio that it was headed back to the OMSF for water.  On my lunch break I drove along Northfield from Parkside to Bridge and the ION right of way looked immaculate.  I'm guessing there's a huge cleanup effort going on ahead of opening day...

gotta clean up that coagulated brake dust / sand / lube mix somehow (if you ever want to see a great example of it the frog points at the Fairway double crossover had quite a bit when I was there this morning)

I also wouldn't doubt that they break out some power washers for the platforms too.

[GtwoK]

WRPS:

WA19141105-MVC PERSONAL INJURY
Posted Monday, 17 June, 2019
Incident #: WA19141105
Incident Date: Jun 17, 2019 11:12:00 PM
Location: Between CAROLINE ST N and ERB ST W, WATERLOO

Did anyone ever figure out what actually happened at Erb and Caroline last night?

I live very close to there and I heard tires screeching at that time, and it was a looooong screech! I didn't hear any actual crash, so my guess is that a pedestrian or bike got hit by the car. That stretch along Caroline is pretty much a slide for cars: with 3.5 lanes of one way traffic, a slight curve, and on a downward slope. Recipe for disaster. Can't wait until these highway-roads are turned into two way streets again.

Whatever it was, it happened on the Shopify (south) side of Caroline. Saw a tow truck lifting a car (that was facing the Erb / Caroline intersection) onto it. Didn't look banged up, so not sure what happened

[Bob_McBob]

Kitchener council has approved buying the land for the Traynor crossing.

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/944...or-avenue/

[Bob_McBob]

Also, saw this on Reddit 

[Acitta]

OK, this has nothing directly to do with ION, but one of the vehicles actually crossed the tracks on Charles to hit another head on. How could this happen unless it was deliberate? Head-on crash in downtown Kitchener

[ijmorlan]

Whatever it was, it happened on the Shopify (south) side of Caroline. Saw a tow truck lifting a car (that was facing the Erb / Caroline intersection) onto it. Didn't look banged up, so not sure what happened

If it’s the same flatbed truck I saw, the car on the truck had a smashed front corner. It also towed a second car behind it with a smashed back corner. So I’m guessing one car hit the other, with no train involvement other than the collision happening in the intersection where the tracks cross.

[KevinL]

OK, this has nothing directly to do with ION, but one of the vehicles actually crossed the tracks on Charles to hit another head on. How could this happen unless it was deliberate? Head-on crash in downtown Kitchener

That's some extremely erratic driving, yikes.