<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What a beautiful morning here in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kwAwesome?src=hash">#kwAwesome</a> at the King Street Grade Separation. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/haEAkRmwr4">pic.twitter.com/haEAkRmwr4</a></p>— iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/832592389076303872">February 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
If anyone cares, according to the CPTDB wiki, there are retired Cambridge Transit vehicles numbered 511 and 514. I doubt that it really matters though.
February 17: Latest update from Bombardier... ION train headed for Sudbury later today.
(02-17-2017, 03:29 PM)timc Wrote: [ -> ]If anyone cares, according to the CPTDB wiki, there are retired Cambridge Transit vehicles numbered 511 and 514. I doubt that it really matters though.
Can't remember if I ever rode on them. New Looks were generally only used on school runs in the 90s.
And now for something completely different:
I encountered a deer wandering around the LRT right of way in Waterloo Park. Â I didn't think they were that common in the city, but this one was very tame, didn't bolt as I biked up, and hung around all chill like as I videoed it and shone my helmet light in it's face. Â For a moment I thought it was one of the animals kept in the park. Â I do wonder how much of an issue that would be for the LRT, it is a natural area, and the animals could be corralled by the fences to stay in the right of way. Â Today however, just added some interest to my ride home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDAppF2fyX0
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Some photos from Bryan Martyniuk from this morning - from one of the yards in Thunder Bay. Â Still shuffling around.
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Before you say "I can't believe it hasn't left yet!", keep in mind it only takes a day or two once a train leaves from Thunder Bay to make it down to Toronto. Â The 10-12 day delivery time we keep hearing factors in all this shuffling around in yards.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A thought: Start ticketing/towing, and use the cash to pay off the businesses suing the <a href="https://twitter.com/RegionWaterloo">@RegionWaterloo</a>? Cc: <a href="https://twitter.com/Kim_Moser">@Kim_Moser</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/5ampbXVZ9y">pic.twitter.com/5ampbXVZ9y</a></p>— iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/832773157236797440">February 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
(02-17-2017, 06:49 PM)DHLawrence Wrote: [ -> ] (02-17-2017, 03:29 PM)timc Wrote: [ -> ]If anyone cares, according to the CPTDB wiki, there are retired Cambridge Transit vehicles numbered 511 and 514. I doubt that it really matters though.
Can't remember if I ever rode on them. New Looks were generally only used on school runs in the 90s.
They were soooo much nicer than the Old Look buses I was riding on in the late 70s!
(02-17-2017, 08:30 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: [ -> ]Â I do wonder how much of an issue that would be for the LRT, it is a natural area, and the animals could be corralled by the fences to stay in the right of way. Â
I'm sure this is one reason that the right of way is so much wider than the tracks - to allow any such interlopers (human or otherwise) space to get out of the way of an oncoming train.
Yeah, I think you're right, Kevin - hence the high tracks, low ditches, etc. - all Transport Canada stuff. Â A narrow fence right up close to the tracks wouldn't leave any opportunity to ditch to the sides.
Some delivery updates:
The TTC's latest FLEXITY Outlook 4432 left a day earlier on CP 420 - and that train
hit and killed a snowmobiler yesterday.
Ours left this morning at 1am, on another CP 420 (there's a daily departure from Thunder Bay Eastbound called 420, and daily departure from Toronto called 421). Will likely hit Sudbury Sunday Evening/Monday Morning. Then 5-7 hours to the MacTier sub.
Quick informal poll: Â Should we create a separate thread for ION phase 2? Â Or keep it all together?
Together. It's the same system.
I think together. Even the Grade Sep thread is lightly attended, because most of those updates are here.