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  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
The issue isn't the data, it's the negative slant Outhit always puts on it. Like the way he cites the entire 30 year operating cost of ION in situations where most people would use the $880m construct...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 1,234 882,720 11-03-2025, 02:02 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
dtkvictim Wrote: (10-07-2025, 03:58 PM) -- I've learned that a lot of people (both motorists and pedestrians) don't know the difference between a yellow (warning) and white (regulatory) pedestrian si...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 10-07-2025, 04:32 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
creative Wrote: (10-07-2025, 10:50 AM) -- The concept of cross rides is great but I particularly don’t like them. They are quite random on the Iron Horse and Spur Line trails. I can not always rememb...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 10-07-2025, 12:36 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
The lack of public education about crossrides is becoming very concerning. Municipalities are using them more and more for cycling infrastructure, but most drivers don't seem to be aware they even exi...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 10-07-2025, 12:07 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Everyone knows stolen bicycles go straight to one of the local chop shops to have the serial number removed and be painted and parted out. WRPS doesn't give a shit about them, and I doubt they were in...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 08-11-2025, 11:21 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (05-30-2025, 06:12 PM) -- So it's "Pride Month" again and they wrapped another bus in alphabet iconography. For how long and how many tens (hundreds?) of thousands of our dollars do they ...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,506 3,774,968 05-31-2025, 02:10 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
As usual, ION is completely out of service due to ice accumulation, despite doubling up trains and deploying ice scrapers.
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 03-29-2025, 10:44 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
From Reddit: GRT Pay, a new app/site for mobile fare payments. Passes will continue to be restricted to EasyGO. GRT is doing some low key advertising of this service at bus stations, but the site and ...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,506 3,774,968 03-14-2025, 07:49 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
taylortbb Wrote: (07-18-2024, 11:25 PM) -- You're just making stuff up. The region doesn't refuse to change, they literally just awarded a new recycling contract which includes the new bins. -- You...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,506 3,774,968 07-26-2024, 10:38 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
During severe weather, it seems to be standard practice to couple LRVs for extra traction, or to recover them with the shunter, so I assume they open the access panels preemptively now. The night of t...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 01-16-2024, 09:38 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
ac3r Wrote: (12-17-2023, 05:27 PM) -- Blocked or not I gotta say, this is paranoia. To think people are putting steel rods in the ground to haem cyclists is nonsense and baselet. I'd like to see.proo...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 12-17-2023, 05:59 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
ac3r Wrote: (12-13-2023, 07:24 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (11-30-2023, 11:37 AM) -- That's a pretty foolish thing to do... I mean, I'm not saying it would be easy to prove intent, but if you coul...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 12-16-2023, 10:03 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
So apparently the owner of the Waterloo Denture Clinic on the east side of Weber St at the Laurel Trail is so hostile to cyclists that they installed a literal spike trap on the corner a couple years ...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,837 3,519,489 11-30-2023, 10:26 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Riders question LRT reliability after freezing rain disrupts service – again (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/riders-question-lrt-reliability-after-freezing-rain-disrupts-service-again-1.6639064)
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 11-10-2023, 02:44 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Don't worry, KevinL Wrote: (11-08-2023, 10:41 AM) -- Freezing rain expected this afternoon. Is the anti-ice equipment finally ready? -- Don't worry, someone helpfully took out the system before th...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 11-08-2023, 12:44 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (10-29-2023, 01:47 PM) -- Do you have a link for the complete document? -- It's a slide from a staff presentation at the October 18 budget review at the Strategic Planning and Budget...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 10-29-2023, 04:00 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
They mean 30 minute frequency, which is ridiculous for an LRT system.
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 10-28-2023, 03:44 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
https://i.imgur.com/cNHxu38.jpg
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 10-28-2023, 02:29 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
And just a few days later and someone posted a video of yet another pedestrian nearly being struck at this roundabout. Amazingly quite a few people think the pedestrian is at fault here for "not looki...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 644 258,630 07-14-2023, 12:36 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
A pedestrian has been struck by a vehicle at the Erb and Ira Needles roundabout for the third time since December. https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/pedestrian-hit-by-vehicle-in-waterloo-1.6475180
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 644 258,630 07-11-2023, 02:55 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I know there's a "Help Out!" link in one of the menus on the site, but I never really got the impression TriTAG was actively recruiting new members, or I might have made more of an effort. I'm still n...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 4,506 3,774,968 06-09-2023, 06:26 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Suspended sentence for helping conceal a fatal hit and run while the victim lay dead in a ditch. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2023/05/31/waterloo-man-sentenced-for-attempting-to-o...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 644 258,630 06-01-2023, 01:25 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
24 hours later, ION is still out of service between Grand River and Market. Apparently they had a structural engineer out assessing the damage yesterday, so I wonder how long it will take to get the a...
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 06-01-2023, 10:03 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Just for posterity I think service finally resumed not long after my previous post. So nearly the entire line was out of service for 12 hours during the day.
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 05-27-2023, 11:52 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Update 4:20pm: Nearly the entire line is down again from Conestoga to Mill due to a collision. The previous outage was never listed as resolved so I assume both are ongoing.
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 05-26-2023, 04:24 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
They finally managed to get most of the route running around 1:15pm. Still out of service between Conestoga and Waterloo Town Square/Willis Way.
   Bob_McBob Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,432 05-26-2023, 01:44 PM

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