ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Section ThirtyOne]

The centre of King Street near the hospital has fences up down the centre of the street; one would think they are getting serious about putting track down there as well!

[Section ThirtyOne]

Also, King is heavily potholed along that same stretch due to the weekend rains. Grandlinq would be wise to run the grader down there tomorrow.

[GtwoK]

Huh, are they embedding the ties into concrete as well? Didn't realize that was how it was done!

[Canard]

No, the crossings are done with removable pre-cast concrete topper plates. Scroll back a few pages and you can see detail close-up shots showing this. They sit on rubber isolation pads on top of the ties.

[timio]

Also, King is heavily potholed along that same stretch due to the weekend rains. Grandlinq would be wise to run the grader down there tomorrow.

Northfield at the rail crossing was also heavily potholed on Saturday when I passed. Traffic slowed to a crawl through the stretch causing what should have been a 2 minute drive to turn into a 15 minute drive.

[KevinL]

Lots of rebar delivered to Benton/Charles, and they've already started placing it.

[tomh009]

Lots of rebar delivered to Benton/Charles, and they've already started placing it.

It looks to be going quite well:

[tomh009]

Victoria Park station is completely poured, walked by and lifted the tarp to check.

The tarp is off now:

[GtwoK]

Few more curbs in at Caroline today. Willis Way stop was being built, rebar being laid for the track.

Charles from Victoria – Francis is looking strangely nice and smoothed out with top layers of soil... did they even do any underground work here? Seems like they just demolished the road and now are ready to put it back together.

Intersection at Water / Charles was being flattened today, due to reopen tomorrow.

Victoria Park station all poured, as seen above!

Work going on at Charles / Ontario. Between here and Water is nice and flat, would expect asphalt to be laid next week.

Benton / Charles looking very nice.


Charles from Benton — Eby (or possibly Cedar? Don't remember) had something weird going on. The entire southern half of the road was dug up. But not "large pit" dug up, just lowered and smoothed, compared to the northern half. Not sure what this was for. Seems kind of strange to be adjusting the grade so dramatically at this point — and it didn't look like any of the driveways were accessible (at least without a steep incline).

Retaining wall FINALLY going up at Stirling. We can really get going once this is done


Also the first embedded track on Borden north of Courtland was actually poured today, in front of all those houses. They should be happy to get their driveways back soon!

[KevinL]

End of the work day they were tarping over the newly arranged rebar - likely to protect it from tonight's expected storm.

[Canard]

Thanks for all the photos everyone - a very busy day today!  All that rebar mesh at Charles/Benton looks beautiful - they really know how to weave that stuff!

In other news, Brampton is voting on the Hurontario-Main LRT project tonight (well, whether or not it will end at Steeles, or run the full length from the Port Credit GO station on the Lakeshore line, up to the Brampton station on the Kitchener line.  You can watch live, here:

http://www.rogerstv.com/page.aspx?lid=12...ityCouncil

Memories of our own vote with countless delegations a few years back.

[Rainrider22]

Thanks for all the photos everyone - a very busy day today!  All that rebar mesh at Charles/Benton looks beautiful - they really know how to weave that stuff!

In other news, Hamilton is voting on the Hurontario-Main LRT project tonight (well, whether or not it will end at Steeles, or run the full length from the Port Credit GO station on the Lakeshore line, up to the Brampton station on the Kitchener line.  You can watch live, here:

http://www.rogerstv.com/page.aspx?lid=12...ityCouncil

Memories of our own vote with countless delegations a few years back.

um  I think you mean Brampton....

[DKsan]

I may or may not have dropped quite a few KW references in my delegation.

[Canard]

Unbelievably, they voted 6-5 against. So it will still be built, but it will only run from Port Credit GO up to Steeles, missing the connection at the Brampton GO station by about 3 kilometres, and the money (~400 Million) goes back to the province. Nice job, Brampton. What a useless endeavour. This CBC article sums it up pretty well:

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toron...-1.3291894

[BuildingScout]

Unbelievably, they voted 6-5 against. So it will still be built, but it will only run from Port Credit GO up to Steeles, missing the connection at the Brampton GO station by about 3 kilometres, and the money (~400 Million) goes back to the province. Nice job, Brampton. What a useless endeavour. This CBC article sums it up pretty well:

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toron...-1.3291894

This reminds me of the Buffalo LRT which was condemned to fail from the get go by virtue of being left a couple of kilometers short of its natural destination, namely the University at Buffalo.

You can conveniently hop in downtown Buffalo on the LRT and take a ride to nowhere you'd like to go.

p.s. Since the money is being returned to the province perhaps someone can suggest to Premier Wynne that certain LRT is ready to go to phase II.