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  Thread: Recycling Issues
Post: RE: Recycling Issues
ijmorlan Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:46 PM) -- neonjoe Wrote: (03-22-2023, 05:17 PM) -- The Ontario government mandated that the producers of the materials now have to manage the recycling. They already a...
   KevinL Urban Issues 136 150,781 11 hours ago
  Thread: Recycling Issues
Post: RE: Recycling Issues
Big changes coming to garbage collection in Waterloo Region (https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2023/03/22/big-changes-coming-to-garbage-collection-in-waterloo-region.html) Quote: --...
   KevinL Urban Issues 136 150,781 03-22-2023, 02:45 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
So the somewhat honor-system based method of free transfer from GRT to a GO train is being phased out at the end of the month. By the description here (https://www.grt.ca/en/fares-passes/go-train-ride...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,790 992,827 03-17-2023, 08:05 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Yeah, it's like the old phrase 'don't measure the need for a bridge by counting the number of people swimming across the river'. There could be a LOT of latent demand unlocked.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 892 513,463 03-12-2023, 10:04 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
The victim has been confirmed to be a 16-year-old male (https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2023/03/09/cameron-heights-school-devastated-after-teen-hit-by-ion-train-waterloo-region-public-b...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,915 03-09-2023, 07:12 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (03-06-2023, 09:57 AM) -- mastermind Wrote: (03-06-2023, 09:50 AM) -- Is it actually going to go under highway 8 and connect to River Road? -- Unless the design has change...
   KevinL Suburbs 1,052 781,971 03-07-2023, 05:05 PM
  Thread: General Business Updates and News
Post: RE: General Business Updates and News
Quote: -- municipalities are just a figment of the provincial imagination -- That's the key point, yes. The provinces have full and final control over how their municipalities operate, even i...
   KevinL Waterloo Region Economy 562 516,720 03-01-2023, 06:29 PM
  Thread: 459 Mill St | 15, 21, 31, 40 and 44 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 459 Mill St | 15, ??, 21, 27, 29 and 44 fl | P...
Plus a large portion of the area is industrial. I think they can get it to work.
   KevinL Urban Areas 115 10,378 02-28-2023, 07:34 PM
  Thread: 459 Mill St | 15, 21, 31, 40 and 44 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 459 Mill St | 15, ??, 21, 27, 29 and 44 fl | P...
Wow. That's quite the glow-up.
   KevinL Urban Areas 115 10,378 02-28-2023, 01:20 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
If it's some disruption today for little to no disruption tomorrow, then fine. If it's an early start to another long disruption, then no, that's not the way.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,915 02-22-2023, 07:07 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Hopefully it's all back up tomorrow morning, I'm planning to run some errands using it.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,915 02-17-2023, 11:43 PM
  Thread: Books/films/lectures/films/art/events on architecture, urban planning and design
Post: RE: Books/films/lectures/films/art/events on archi...
It's a very unfortunate near-monopoly. A successful fantasy author, Brandon Sanderson, is trying to do some pushback and is boosting Spotify and Speechify as alternatives, but there's still along way ...
   KevinL Urban Design 33 4,062 02-17-2023, 01:41 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
The white cladding is still misaligned! I guess that's a 'heritage feature' (kidding).
   KevinL Urban Areas 5,184 3,311,307 02-16-2023, 02:02 PM
  Thread: 744 King Street East | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 744 King Street East | 8 fl | Proposed
This is just the corner lot (currently grassed with a single large tree), then? Because 720 with its single story commercial and large parking area seems ripe for development as well.
   KevinL Urban Areas 10 861 02-15-2023, 02:01 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-13-2023, 03:28 PM) --  Also, Ottawa west of Homer Watson is shown without bike trails but as "bike friend"...which is...about as far from reality as possible. Seems like the...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 39 20,563 02-13-2023, 03:56 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-12-2023, 05:54 AM) -- As a complete aside, does anyone know why trains move so slowly 1km from Union Station and what it would take to fix this? It takes nearly 5 minutes to...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 260 152,503 02-12-2023, 01:49 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-11-2023, 04:37 AM) -- Are you guys suggesting that they are running revenue service on the new trains right now? I feel like we'd have heard about that. -- 'We' have heard...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 260 152,503 02-11-2023, 05:24 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
They're gradually being rolled out, mostly on Ottawa-Montreal runs as that's adjacent to their operations base.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 260 152,503 02-10-2023, 10:51 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
KevinT Wrote: (02-10-2023, 12:34 PM) -- I'm of two minds about that article. It would not surprise me at all that there are regulatory gaps in the system, but it seems that the sheer neglect/stupidit...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,790 992,827 02-10-2023, 10:48 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Chris Wrote: (02-10-2023, 08:19 PM) -- Speaking of different sized buses. When did the GRT get the stubby bus that is about 50% smaller than their typical buses? I saw one on Charles this week but di...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 3,980 2,851,669 02-10-2023, 10:12 PM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | U/C
Yeah, whatever plastic was chosen did not have the correct thermal rating for the application. Someone cut a corner somewhere.
   KevinL Urban Areas 1,378 468,850 02-10-2023, 12:21 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
The spot worst hit by the 2 closing would be the Stirling-Greenbrook area; that is mitigated a bit by the new pedestrian bridge from Avalon to Strasburg, giving the area access to the 3. Still less th...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 3,980 2,851,669 02-10-2023, 12:15 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Some interesting regulatory complications have been revealed by the 2019 Lancaster incident. A GO train seriously injured an adult and child in Kitchener in 2019. Now a safety board says Ontario do...
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,790 992,827 02-09-2023, 04:00 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Correct, GRT has never planned any routes to layover or enter this terminal, they all pass by on the street.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,124 796,927 02-09-2023, 03:59 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
There's a slight curve just west of Duke St that may need to be straightened out.
   KevinL Transportation and Infrastructure 1,124 796,927 02-08-2023, 01:47 PM
  Thread: 459 Mill St | 15, 21, 31, 40 and 44 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 459 Mill St | 11, 14, 21, 27, 29 and 32 fl | P...
If the golf course goes away, I'd propose naturalizing much of it - rewilding the creek with meanders, removing the groomed lawns and planting native meadows, etc. Some parts of it could be developed ...
   KevinL Urban Areas 115 10,378 01-31-2023, 06:21 PM

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