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  Thread: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Springs Hotel) | 26, 24 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Spri...
cherrypark Wrote: (11-29-2023, 10:10 AM) -- … or Incan temple. -- Come on, that would be awesome!
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 30 3,537 11-29-2023, 09:46 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
jwilliamson Wrote: (11-28-2023, 02:21 PM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (11-27-2023, 08:29 AM) -- The newer ones do have a sign. Actually, the newer ones are all the same except for the sign: either "audible s...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 568 151,509 11-28-2023, 09:12 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
tomh009 Wrote: (11-27-2023, 05:06 AM) -- The far-smaller number that have functional buttons have no signage, I think. And maybe that should be added to make it clear that you do need to press the bu...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 568 151,509 11-27-2023, 08:29 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
neonjoe Wrote: (11-25-2023, 10:39 PM) -- Looks like they have changed the plan for iON Frequency https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=6231 15 minute freque...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-25-2023, 11:43 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
KevinL Wrote: (11-25-2023, 11:17 PM) -- If you look closely at the map on the explainer page, all the stops and route sections affected have a serious grade difference or tight turning radius that ma...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,192 3,100,065 11-25-2023, 11:42 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Actually I’d rather they have a specific plan for extreme weather rather than just blundering along until many buses are stuck. Interesting that they don’t have anything for the LRT. Does that mean...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,192 3,100,065 11-24-2023, 07:32 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
panamaniac Wrote: (11-22-2023, 11:24 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (11-22-2023, 11:33 AM) -- Still hiring tho...haha. -- Failed a health inspection? -- No — that’s the point, they are closed because their ...
   ijmorlan Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,267 1,940,660 11-23-2023, 10:13 AM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
ac3r Wrote: (11-21-2023, 02:12 PM) -- How does a place that busy fail to pay rent? -- Hilariously, their site says “Dear customers, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to close the ...
   ijmorlan Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,267 1,940,660 11-22-2023, 01:04 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
cherrypark Wrote: (11-20-2023, 05:36 PM) -- Seems to me he's speaking in reference to other LRT systems and not rapid transit generally? Definitely performing better, notwithstanding the very fair cr...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-21-2023, 02:30 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Acitta Wrote: (11-20-2023, 10:25 PM) -- bravado Wrote: (11-20-2023, 09:58 PM) -- That is such a specific type of mental illness -- You have to admire his dedication. -- It would probably break h...
   ijmorlan Politics 448 156,078 11-21-2023, 02:25 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (11-19-2023, 06:17 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (11-19-2023, 04:09 PM) -- Service changes may put brakes on Ion’s gold standard of transit (https://www.therecord.com/opinion/columnists/servic...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-20-2023, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
dtkvictim Wrote: (11-10-2023, 07:46 PM) -- 2) I'm pretty sure the Gaukel crossing over Charles St has been replaced with a beg button, and gives an otherwise permanent green to traffic on Charles St....
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 568 151,509 11-11-2023, 12:00 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
This is way too cynical, and implicitly suggests that we could have a society with no police. Spoiler alert: you cannot have a modern urban society without police. What you can have is a society wi...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-09-2023, 07:31 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
SammyOES Wrote: (11-09-2023, 10:37 AM) -- jwilliamson Wrote: (07-04-2022, 12:15 PM) -- Does anyone know what the rules are when there is a traffic light for a pedestrian crossing at an intersection,...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 568 151,509 11-09-2023, 04:06 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
I just want to know why that box was standing in the path of the car. Didn’t it know that people need to get places?
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-08-2023, 06:08 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
timc Wrote: (11-07-2023, 10:59 AM) -- 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 ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-07-2023, 08:36 PM
  Thread: The Bright Building (749 King St W) | 18 + 3 fl | U/C
Post: RE: The Bright Building (749 King St W) | 18 + 3 f...
ac3r Wrote: (11-07-2023, 03:31 PM) -- It's not meant to be used by people. I'm referring to green track in this case, which can be anything from grass, moss to sedum but there are also additional thi...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 220 82,882 11-07-2023, 08:32 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
neonjoe Wrote: (11-03-2023, 11:57 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (11-03-2023, 11:26 AM) -- It's the Ottawa light metro still having issues? I figured they would have solved most of them by now. -- They have a...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-03-2023, 12:08 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
plam Wrote: (11-02-2023, 08:42 PM) -- Not perfect, but way better than Ottawa! -- Not the comparison we want, at this point! Ottawa’s system is a fiasco.
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-02-2023, 09:57 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (11-01-2023, 01:04 PM) -- KevinL Wrote: (11-01-2023, 12:40 PM) -- Between Mill and Block Line alone trips could shave several minutes. The creek bridge and the run along Haywar...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-02-2023, 12:02 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (10-31-2023, 04:57 PM) -- SF22 Wrote: (10-31-2023, 12:30 PM) -- But we'll need to order new trains and fix up each station platform, and both of those things will take at least a coup...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 11-01-2023, 11:36 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
plam Wrote: (10-30-2023, 04:48 PM) -- The Via train also does car splitting from Toronto to Montreal/Ottawa. -- I believe that one is two trains coupled together: engine and cars to one destination...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 10-30-2023, 10:38 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
dtkvictim Wrote: (10-29-2023, 02:06 PM) -- I know nothing about transit and train operations though, I'm just curious. -- Great questions! I’m going to suggest that you aren’t going to see doubling...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 10-30-2023, 12:28 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (10-29-2023, 04:37 PM) -- I'm glad I rarely have to come to Waterloo Region now as I'm mostly working and living in Toronto. At least they know how to run transit systems. -- Actually th...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 10-30-2023, 12:24 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Agreed with everyone. Increase daytime frequencies to 8 per hour, keep it at 4 per hour the rest of the time. The only 2 per hour should be if we extend the operation times of the system, like maybe a...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,404 10,142,798 10-28-2023, 07:28 PM
  Thread: Q Condos (20 Queen St N) | 34 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Q Condos (20 Queen St N) | 34 fl | Proposed
KaiserWilhelmsBust Wrote: (10-22-2023, 05:02 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (10-22-2023, 04:18 PM) -- Looks like a realtor was having an open house for this project today. I wonder why this one didn't sell so e...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 208 50,268 10-23-2023, 10:29 AM

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