ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Pheidippides]

Also, I am wondering if the King underpass will be able to meet the 18 month closure window. I think it closed March 23, 2015 which means they expected it to reopen in September of 2016, but they haven't even started yet. The Weber underpass was 18 months of steady work (June 2013 to Dec 2014) and still has incomplete elements nearly a year later, and the King job seems much bigger and more complicated, although the need to keep it open like they did for Weber is not present which should speed things a bit.

You've got the dates mixed up — the road is scheduled to be closed until December of next year, which is 3 extra months than the September that you were thinking

You are correct. The dates I was looking at in different articles and reports referenced the March 23, 2015 closure, but looking at the rideion tumblr feed the intersection didn't actually close until June 8, 2015. This actually re-affirms my thought that the "late 2016" completion won't be met. The start dates may have shifted, but one thing that has remained consistent is that it is an 18 month project, so whether they start digging in March, June, or September 2015 it is scheduled to take 18 months which would currently put the project into 2017-Q1 completion.

Driving down Strange this evening it looked like traffic was moving across the tracks at Park again.