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Caroline looking good with catpole arms. Some last remaining sidewalk panels were poured along Caroline today, as well as a new pedestrian island at the corner of Willis Way, which will be useful to get to the station. Speaking of which, has been all boarded up!
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At Caroline / Erb, the last remaining curb was poured here today. There's a weld to be made, and then the embedded track can be poured, too!
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King / Conestoga Mall - The forms are off the stations, and the ground around the area has been tamped for pouring the sidewalks. The missing piece of the median on King (left missing so as to allow left turns temporarily) has now been blocked off, and the ground in there tamped too!
King North - the majority of the track is now embedded here. There were 2 remaining sections right where it curves onto Northfield
Northfield - busy as ANYTHING today! Multiple small section of curb poured, multiple sections of sidewalk poured, work going on all along the strip. There's a HUGE patch of grass in between the on/off ramps on both ends, which is great. The road looks complete here, apart from all the pylons all over the place. The highway ramps were NOT open when I drove by an hour ago, but they definitely could have been if it wasn't for the pylons blocking it - the concrete parapet walls that have been blocking the ramps at highway level were gone, and replaced with traffic cones, so they'd be easy to remove. Should still be opening today, if not already. Huzzah!
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(09-30-2016, 09:59 PM)GtwoK Wrote: ...
Sidewalks alongside the Bauer lofts were also poured today, proving that those hydro poles in the middle of the sidewalks really WERE temporary.
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On the other hand the decorative light standards that take up 1/3 of the sidewalk and are located unnecessarily right on the sidewalk instead of in the utility space are in fact permanent.
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What they could do at the corner of Caroline to improve compliance is have a transit style light for the left turn and then instead of a regular green light, have a right turn green light instead. People trying to turn left would never receive a signal that would be interpreted as proceed.
Similarly, they could have a red right arrow, possible in addition to the regular red light.
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Thank so for the update, GtwoK! The photospheres are really cool.
You mentioned you can drive King all the way to William, but it's closed at William; do they force a U-turn there, like they did on Charles at Borden for a while?
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It is interesting that a railing was needed along the sidewalk along the west side of King at Union in front of the Sunlife gates; I guess it was too high and steep with the revised grade. I think snow clearing along various stretches of the route is going to be interesting to say the least. May Clearpath can invent some snowplow bots to get in to theses narrow and odd spaces.
This is not a new sign, but an older one that did not get removed in front of the Allen Square building. There used to be a delivery/loading bay along King and now the sign implies that you can unload for 30min while parked on the tracks:
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Well, that's going to be no problem since we're likely now looking at an opening with significantly reduced service due to the delays at Bombardier. 
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Charles now open for two-way traffic from Benton to Gaukel. And it would be much more if not for the new digs E of Benton and between Gaukel and Water. Hopefully those will be done quickly.
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Yeah, I wondered why they opened that back up fully when it's down to a single lane "narrow bridge style - yield" there at Manulife.
My guess was September 30 was a project milestone for payment so they wanted to say "look, it's open! cheque plz".
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Are the new digs Grandlinq or city/region? I actually didn't pay attention ...
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I'm not sure - I just saw a big hole with fences and noted traffic was down to one lane with a big "YEILD TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC" sign up when headed South there.
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(10-01-2016, 08:22 AM)Canard Wrote: Thank so for the update, GtwoK! The photospheres are really cool.
You mentioned you can drive King all the way to William, but it's closed at William; do they force a U-turn there, like they did on Charles at Borden for a while?
I don't believe there was a U-Turn sign there, though I suppose it's technically "forced" since you can't drive through it : 
Like I said though, there's the 2 little side arms right before William that connect up with William - if one absolutely needed to get into William, those are open!
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Ohhhh, I've never noticed those before. I see what you mean.
Might have to go out for a drive this afternoon - no 30 km bike rides today. 
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I appreciate that someone has been meticulously adding track but can someone please fix this?
(Should be a double/full crossover at the terminus)
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(10-01-2016, 11:45 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Charles now open for two-way traffic from Benton to Gaukel. And it would be much more if not for the new digs E of Benton and between Gaukel and Water. Hopefully those will be done quickly.
Why aren't the new streetlights properly-shielded LED lights?
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(10-01-2016, 11:45 AM)tomh009 Wrote: Charles now open for two-way traffic from Benton to Gaukel. And it would be much more if not for the new digs E of Benton and between Gaukel and Water. Hopefully those will be done quickly.
Actually the dig just E of Benton is done, so Charles is open for two-way traffic all the way from Gaukel to Ottawa. Almost there!
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