ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[jgsz]

Well, no wonder Peter Shawn Taylor wrote such an unkind opinion piece for The Record.  He saw the drawing for the Fairview Park Mall LRT Stop and there is only one person on the platform.  If I took pictures so literally I too would be shitting bricks.    And writing about it!

[Canard]

Here's what G:Link's Broadbeach terminus station looks like - notice the setup is the same as Fairway and Conestoga, with outside platforms.  In this case they built a temporary platform across the 2nd track, so they can do flush loading.  When they start work on Phase 2, they can tear up the temporary platform extension.

https://goo.gl/ossgm6

   


Temporary platform extension is the foreground, you can see the seam where it interfaces the actual, permanent platform.

[Canard]

Obviously Canard doesn't know about the poor ridership of the UPX...

I'm sorry, what?

[MidTowner]

I'm sorry, what?

You didn't hear about the poor ridership on the Union Pearson Express? And the MacLean's editor throwing chicken bones and coming to the realization that LRT will meet the same fate, since both systems use acronyms and run on rails?

[Canard]

Of course I did - it's on the previous page of this thread and all over the news. What has that got to do with side vs. centre platforms at station terminals? Just confused, that's all.

[MidTowner]

I'm pretty sure that SammyOES' comment was a joke. (Mine was sarcastic, too.)

Edit: It's all over the news? Ugh, that's unfortunate. That was a fairly stupid column. It's fun to poke fun at things like that, but unfortunate to think anyone would give it real attention.

[tomh009]

ION LRV deliveries not to be affected by BBD cuts. As expected.
http://www.kitchenerpost.ca/news-story/6...on-s-lrvs/

[KevinL]

That article also confirms that all the units (14 trainsets) will be delivered by the end of the year!

[Canard]

The big (and very exciting!) news out of that excellent Kitchener Post article is that all 14 trains are scheduled to be delivered this year!  I previously had only thought we'd see one or two trains before the end of the year, for clearance testing and so on, with the remainder being delivered over the 2017 calendar year.  I didn't realize the plan was to have all 14 trains at the OMSF this year!

Now, being realistic with everything going on with Bombardier, even I, a huge BBD fanboy can say I fully expect that we'll see a slower than planned rollout of our trains... but I was thinking that if they were delayed, we might not see trains this year at all.  A delay from having 14 trains this year might mean we only see a couple - but we'll see at least one, which is all I really care about.

Will be by Millhaven again within a month so I'll be sure to stop by the test track and see if I can spot any activity there!

I really, really, really wish the Project Team and Bombardier would just release some kind of construction photo at least showing a partially assembled vehicle to whet our appetite and settle our nerves.

[SammyOES]

Sorry Canard. I was just mocking the stupid article comparing the LRT to the UPX and replying to your comment that it will all work.

I'm not as confident as you are about the success of the LRT, but I'm cautiously optimistic and think it's important to try.

[clasher]

Toronto is only 2 streetcars behind where they should be now, which isn't awesome but I think BBD might start getting their stuff together.

[ijmorlan]

Toronto is only 2 streetcars behind where they should be now, which isn't awesome but I think BBD might start getting their stuff together.

Behind where they should be according to the revised revised revised delivery schedule. According to the original schedule, they are way behind (by dozens of vehicles).

[GtwoK]

The Dome has officially been covered! The northernmost lane of Victoria was also blocked off again this morning. More dump trucks to haul away dirt?

Also, do we know if the footings of the dome will have any use in the final span? Would they possibly be the "walls" of the span, and they are waiting to pour the bed the connects them? I have no idea if the footings were even sitting on the bridge foundation they created last summer or not.

[Markster]

I can't imagine that they're going to be used in the final product. They looked very utilitarian and single-purpose.

[timio]

The pictures seemed to suggest the footings are just concrete blocks on a pile of dirt.