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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(07-02-2015, 02:55 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: The Columbia St. crossing is open now.

I know I'm playing armchair quarterback here, but it is hard to see where three weeks of work went here. If the region had a record of timely completions, I would say nothing, but given that RoW seems to be slow central (ask 144 Park) I'll put it out there. Why three weeks on a simple double crossing with culvert?

I'm not really impressed with the record so far. But in this case, I think it was a combination of a couple of factors. First of all, service needed to be maintained for the tanker that runs to Elmira and back daily. So if there was any work that couldn't be done during the day, it needed to be scheduled for the round-the-clock weekend work. Secondly, there was poor weather for one of those weekends which delayed the progress. Other than that, I'm not aware of any significant issues that were encountered which would delay completion.

I'm scared of what will happen when University Avenue is closed. It would be nice if Albert could be open before University is closed, but I don't know the timeline for that work.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by timc - 07-03-2015, 02:25 PM
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