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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
neonjoe Wrote: (10-10-2024, 04:37 PM) -- E-buses not viable for GRT fleet, Waterloo Region council told https://archive.ph/BznjA It appears that GRT is having some challenges with the short range...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 Yesterday, 02:19 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Maybe the plan is to do a feasibility study, publicize how much it would cost, and then use that to make some other project more palatable. I have to believe it would be cheaper to buy back the 40...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 3,233 2,360,643 09-26-2024, 10:51 AM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Yeah, Highway 7 is the Lucy-holding-the-football of construction projects. Every election we think she's not going to pull the ball away, but you know what happens.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 974 873,293 09-24-2024, 12:22 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I thought the region said this land wasn't usable as farmland. Or does that just mean that feed corn doesn't count?
   timc Politics 226 19,110 08-02-2024, 12:35 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Bjays93 Wrote: (05-23-2024, 02:13 PM) -- It's all the more frustrating because the answer is so simple, just move the pedestrian crossings slightly away from the intersections and maybe add some flas...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 3,233 2,360,643 05-24-2024, 03:31 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
In the same area ... why is nothing happening with the Manulife lot on the other side of Weber? It seems like that one lot should be usable for something.
   timc Urban Areas 1,270 1,067,482 05-22-2024, 02:08 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
That's good news. I just want to call out the weird photo that CBC used for the story. They show passengers disembarking from a Route 200 iXpress bus, which hasn't run in years. And it's at the Camb...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 04-25-2024, 04:01 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I don't know if replacing the Freeport bridge is desirable. It is a heritage bridge, "widely recognized as the most important bridge in the Region" (https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 04-17-2024, 12:35 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
The longer things are delayed, the higher that number will go.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 04-16-2024, 10:24 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
"May be dissuaded". I think it's pretty obvious that pedestrians and cyclists are strongly dissuaded from crossing on the Northfield Bridge.
   timc Urban Areas 173 36,081 04-10-2024, 10:53 AM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
Ford doesn't make Tauruses anymore either.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,220,231 02-20-2024, 02:24 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
It could just be my love of brutalism, but I think the Long Lines building looks a lot nicer than this.
   timc Urban Areas 153 39,635 01-29-2024, 11:46 AM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
danbrotherston Wrote: (01-22-2024, 11:07 AM) -- The reason I felt it was worth trying to explain it three times is that Ottawa (you know, the just as car centric capital city), their traffic signals ...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,220,231 01-22-2024, 01:05 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
ac3r Wrote: (12-31-2023, 08:09 AM) -- Is that the one that comes out behind Central Station? I have yet to see a single soul ever use that yet. I'm hoping that as more development goes up along Victo...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,764 3,177,535 01-02-2024, 10:41 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
The spikes were removed a couple of months ago.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,764 3,177,535 12-20-2023, 01:58 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Speaking of Laurier, what is taking so long with the work there?
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 12-14-2023, 10:39 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
coriander Wrote: (12-07-2023, 02:54 PM) -- 5 minute headways would be phenomenal and put the ION truly in the category of urban rail. I don't imagine it'll be that long before that kind of demand eme...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,212,263 12-07-2023, 03:18 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I don't know what a Runescape gp is, but there's no freezing rain predicted tonight.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,212,263 11-21-2023, 03:13 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
dtkvictim Wrote: (11-06-2023, 06:04 PM) -- Yep, very poor survey. Every question has clearly positive and negative things bundled together in a single score. I complained and clarified in the text fi...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,212,263 11-07-2023, 10:59 AM
  Thread: 180 King Street South | 10 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Allen Square (condo conversion) | 10 fl | Prop...
This one, right? https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=1780
   timc Urban Areas 14 2,644 10-26-2023, 11:48 AM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
I thought they finished renovating the building. What do you mean they have given up?
   timc Urban Areas 1,270 1,067,482 10-17-2023, 12:14 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
We were promised that there would be no wraps on ION trains. I recommend that whoever suggested this take it back.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 10-06-2023, 07:11 PM
  Thread: Strong mayor powers
Post: RE: Strong mayor powers
My understanding of the powers is that they are only applicable in ways that the province wants things to go anyway. Maybe I'm wrong about that?
   timc Politics 15 2,612 09-12-2023, 05:26 PM
  Thread: Strong mayor powers
Post: RE: Strong mayor powers
How could you overuse them? The strong mayor powers that are given are ones that align with the provincial government strategy of building more housing. Are you saying we could somehow build too much ...
   timc Politics 15 2,612 09-12-2023, 02:32 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
You mean like the 91 Late Night Loop? I forgot it had existed until just now.
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,440 08-31-2023, 05:49 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
neonjoe Wrote: (08-09-2023, 08:37 AM) -- I do like how the new signage does include the Regional Road Numbers.  I assume that \15/ King St N. St Jacob’s May be slightly less confusing than  ...
   timc Transportation and Infrastructure 3,233 2,360,643 08-09-2023, 11:17 AM

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