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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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Bombardier will only deliver 16 new streetcars to TTC this year

Sad

Bombardier is still my favourite company and I still say they were the right choice of vehicle for our system.
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Wow. Instead of four vehicles per month, they are delivering 16 vehicles this year. Also, if this project is Bombardier's top priority, does that spell bad news for delivery of ION vehicles?
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Moving frame production to Québec sounds like a step in the right direction, but La Pocatière has to be swamped with building the Azur cars for the STM...
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Corduroy road is in the process of being removed this morning.

There is track with rubber boot on wooden supports now through union on king.

Also, it looks like the grh platform has been poured.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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I've heard that the logs from the corduroy road are going to be up for grabs by residents. Does anyone have info on how this process is going to work? I'd love to get one and craft something unique out of it. These are a piece of our regions history, after all!
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Also, note that Wilson Avenue from Fairway to Kingsway is closed until later this week for track installation (or so it appears). The closure caused quite a lot of gridlock yesterday, especially in the Fairview Park Mall parking lot that folks were using as a bypass.

In addition to the closure, I found it frustrating that Grandlinq (or their vendors) chose 5PM as the time to deliver a wide load of rails to the site. They had escort trucks blocking all lanes of traffic moving westbound on Fairway while the truck crept along. Perhaps sometime outside of rush hour might have been more appropriate?
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(04-26-2016, 03:30 PM)Section ThirtyOne Wrote: I've heard that the logs from the corduroy road are going to be up for grabs by residents. Does anyone have info on how this process is going to work? I'd love to get one and craft something unique out of it. These are a piece of our regions history, after all!
The details have yet to be announced. 100 2 foot sections will be available on first come first serve, likely from the landfill site.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6506...uncertain/
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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No way Wilson is closed for track installation yet. They only just started utility work, and the closure is only for 3 days.
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Uptown Waterloo:
   
   
   
   
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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King near Union:
   
   

GRH platform:
   
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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(04-26-2016, 03:43 PM)Pheidippides Wrote:
(04-26-2016, 03:30 PM)Section ThirtyOne Wrote: I've heard that the logs from the corduroy road are going to be up for grabs by residents. Does anyone have info on how this process is going to work? I'd love to get one and craft something unique out of it. These are a piece of our regions history, after all!
The details have yet to be announced. 100 2 foot sections will be available on first come first serve, likely from the landfill site.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6506...uncertain/

I may have finally found the right thing to display in my yard!
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(04-26-2016, 10:46 PM)notmyfriends Wrote:
(04-26-2016, 03:43 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: The details have yet to be announced. 100 2 foot sections will be available on first come first serve, likely from the landfill site.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6506...uncertain/

I may have finally found the right thing to display in my yard!

you could use pretty much any weathered log, no one would be able to tell the difference.
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(04-26-2016, 11:19 PM)darts Wrote:
(04-26-2016, 10:46 PM)notmyfriends Wrote: I may have finally found the right thing to display in my yard!

you could use pretty much any weathered log, no one would be able to tell the difference.

My heart could tell, darts.  My heart could tell.
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Just remember that they're only preserving one themselves, because of how expensive it is. The estimates out there are that unpreserved logs will last less than a month before disintegrating, now that they aren't artificially preserved in the ground. I had my own example of this, where a Seagram's barrel I'd gotten my hands on after their pyramid disassembly for CIGI, it didn't take too long on a covered outdoor space to rot and fall apart.
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