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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Would LRVs put less wear and tear on the heritage bridge than the current road traffic? If so, I say put the Ion on the old bridge and build a new road bridge next to it. Far less engineering needed t...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 4,324 3,226,805 04-17-2024, 03:18 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Kitchener and Guelph service increases are, I understand, dependent on some track updates (various double-tracked sections, etc) that are not yet fully complete. Hopefully that gets activated by the s...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,601 04-15-2024, 04:34 PM
  Thread: Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization
Post: RE: Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization
It has not yet been reconstructed, just went over it earlier today and it's still the same old one.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 52 13,608 04-12-2024, 12:21 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
Eclipses are an exception, as the sun doesn't look as bright as usual but the dangerous rays are still present. It's why it's safe to watch a sunset - there's far more atmosphere filtering out the bad...
   KevinL Urban Areas 148 30,878 04-11-2024, 02:16 PM
  Thread: Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization
Post: RE: Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization
I lived in that neighbourhood as a kid, the spring floods would regularly cause the creek banks to shift and trails would often need rebuilding. Haven't been by in a while, but I'm not surprised this ...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 52 13,608 04-11-2024, 12:42 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
UW's NDP group wants night service to return; it was removed during the pandemic and still hasn't come back. They've created a petition. https://www.change.org/p/bring-back-late-night-transit
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 4,324 3,226,805 04-10-2024, 02:30 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
Fence posts have been placed around the perimeter of the lot, should be fully fenced by next week.
   KevinL Urban Areas 148 30,878 04-06-2024, 03:07 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
I can't imagine the work-from-home trend is helping; they can't get tenants for existing office space, I can't see new space being in any big degree of demand.
   KevinL Urban Areas 77 5,394 04-04-2024, 02:55 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
westwardloo Wrote: (04-02-2024, 09:02 AM) -- I agree we should probably move this over to either the Economy or Politics section or general suburbs. -- There's already parallel discussion in the Ge...
   KevinL Politics 133 3,000 04-02-2024, 09:18 AM
  Thread: Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization
Post: RE: Storm Water Management - Stream Naturalization
Zoom meetings are much more accessible, whether due to mobility or schedule limitations. I doubt they're going away.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 52 13,608 03-29-2024, 09:21 PM
  Thread: 15 Dellroy Ave | 18 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 15 Dellroy Ave | 18 fl | Proposed
Yes, this lot has been empty and sunken for as long as I can remember.
   KevinL Suburbs 5 1,215 03-28-2024, 06:12 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
There's a big resurgence of night trains in Europe right now, with new rolling stock coming on. Maybe Via could jump into that parade.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 296 189,490 03-28-2024, 06:00 PM
  Thread: Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46...
That crisscross 'atrium' feature is certainly unique, I do appreciate original touches.
   KevinL Urban Areas 12 519 03-27-2024, 09:40 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Activa's development on Erinbrook opposite Rittenhouse is now named (very originally) 'Erin Brook', and described as '2-over-2 stacked condo towns'.
   KevinL Suburbs 1,207 942,714 03-24-2024, 01:20 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I've heard from some folks familiar with bus operations, that the smaller model used by GRT has reliability issues. Not sure if that is the actual factor here.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 4,324 3,226,805 03-23-2024, 10:04 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Funded entirely by grants and development fees - excellent.
   KevinL Suburbs 1,207 942,714 03-21-2024, 12:54 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
Yeah, it's easier to build connected arrangements like a grid, and if necessary you can later restrict movements using bollards or other street furniture. Building a cul-de-sac to begin with restricts...
   KevinL Townships 170 158,617 03-20-2024, 05:18 PM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
danbrotherston Wrote: (03-20-2024, 02:29 AM) -- I think a lot of the high resolution 3D maps for cities are not from satellites but from airplanes. -- Correct, you can't get that 3D resolution from ...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 2,700 1,590,376 03-20-2024, 05:00 PM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
SF22 Wrote: (03-19-2024, 04:00 PM) -- Also, who else has noticed that the Google satellite view is 6+ years out of date? They're still installing the LRT line in the images. Google Canada is headquar...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 2,700 1,590,376 03-19-2024, 06:56 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
The purpose of this is to say 'we got you a GO train to Cambridge' with the least possible effort (financially, politically, or otherwise). It's an easy answer to a hot potato that will get them re-el...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,601 03-19-2024, 02:35 PM
  Thread: Parkside Urban Towns (née 83 Elmsdale Dr) | U/C
Post: RE: Parkside Urban Towns (née 83 Elmsdale Dr) | U/...
The apartments are called Verde. http://verdekw.ca/
   KevinL Suburbs 93 89,286 03-17-2024, 08:16 PM
  Thread: Parkside Urban Towns (née 83 Elmsdale Dr) | U/C
Post: RE: 83 Elmsdale Dr | U/C
The seven townhouse units right at the Ottawa/Elmsdale corner have been open for a while; their entrance is actually on a new internal road off Elmsdale, so their addresses are 10 and 20 Palace Street...
   KevinL Suburbs 93 89,286 03-17-2024, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
danbrotherston Wrote: (03-15-2024, 04:59 PM) -- the worst thing that will happen will be vastly more freezing rain...which is like...no big deal. -- So long as they finally get the Ion working durin...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 4,723 2,966,212 03-15-2024, 05:15 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
bravado Wrote: (03-09-2024, 03:24 PM) -- The fact that nobody knows who plows their sidewalk or fixes potholes or programs the traffic signals or staffs the fire trucks without needing to read a dens...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 698,548 03-09-2024, 06:50 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
bravado Wrote: (02-21-2024, 04:04 PM) -- My main beef is that this whole plan seems to be based on the thought that the Milton line will never extend to Galt, which is just such a lack of ambition an...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,601 02-24-2024, 11:55 AM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
As Abigail puts it here, such people have 'phantasms' about how they should approach the world that they self-rationalize to avoid the anxiety that would come from confronting the fact that they've no...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,169,152 02-23-2024, 01:37 PM

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