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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
It's official!!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Absolutely thrilled to see the new Ontario standard LRT icon make its premiere in Waterloo Region! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrisjamesdrew">@chrisjamesdrew</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RegionWaterloo">@RegionWaterloo</a> https://t.co/aXiqicskTQ</p>&mdash; iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/787041221143298048">October 14, 2016</a></blockquote>

Beyond all realms of thrilled! Big Grin
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Looks great!
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Does the ION track count as a lane?
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No. If you're suggesting they should use another word, what word should they use?
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The Record is also reporting the work to rebuild some of the concrete platforms, using the same quotes as CTV it seems.

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6912...y-mistake/

Of course, bravo to the record for clearly and accurately stating:

"The cost falls on GrandLinq as part of its light rail project agreement with the Region of Waterloo."
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GrandLinq has a paint crew out this morning painting all the traction power substations to remove the graffiti! There are also, unfortunately, a whackload of guys at R&T who are now chipping away the concrete that was already repoured once *again*. Holy moley.
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(10-14-2016, 03:11 PM)Canard Wrote: Yes! Also, all the streetlights in the King/Victoria are now all the "pancake" super-bright LED ones. I seem to remember comments before about them not being the new ones. Well, they are now!

Why would they change them twice in about two weeks?  Kind of silly to not do it the first time!
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1/11 - Saturday, October 15, 2016

   
Duke/Queen

   
Duke/Water

   
Duke/Water

   
New signage

   
Heart
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2/11 - Saturday, October 15, 2016

   

   
Platform at Gaukel/Victoria Park

   
Platform at Cedar

   
Future site of Cedar TPSS

   
Looking down Charles
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3/11 - Saturday, October 15, 2016

   
The crossover at Cameron Heights is still a long ways away from being completed.  About 10 welds/rail joins left to go.

   

   

   

   
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4/11 - Saturday, October 15, 2016

   
Work yet to be completed on Cameron Heights Crossover, cont'd...

   

   

   
Platform edge rework at Borden.

   
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(10-14-2016, 10:14 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: The Record is also reporting the work to rebuild some of the concrete platforms, using the same quotes as CTV it seems.

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6912...y-mistake/

Of course, bravo to the record for clearly and accurately stating:

"The cost falls on GrandLinq as part of its light rail project agreement with the Region of Waterloo."

So is anybody clear on the real reason for the re-work? People around here were I believe convinced it was to ground the rebar. But the article mentions only the distance from the track. So it is not clear to me which is the real explanation (or maybe two mistakes were made and both are correct).
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(10-16-2016, 05:35 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:
(10-14-2016, 10:14 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: The Record is also reporting the work to rebuild some of the concrete platforms, using the same quotes as CTV it seems.

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6912...y-mistake/

Of course, bravo to the record for clearly and accurately stating:

"The cost falls on GrandLinq as part of its light rail project agreement with the Region of Waterloo."

So is anybody clear on the real reason for the re-work? People around here were I believe convinced it was to ground the rebar. But the article mentions only the distance from the track. So it is not clear to me which is the real explanation (or maybe two mistakes were made and both are correct).

I thought they had already made an error with distance to track in Waterloo a while back. That is why I was surprised to hear they made the error again.
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(10-16-2016, 05:35 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: So is anybody clear on the real reason for the re-work? People around here were I believe convinced it was to ground the rebar. But the article mentions only the distance from the track. So it is not clear to me which is the real explanation (or maybe two mistakes were made and both are correct).

(10-16-2016, 07:01 AM)C Plus Wrote: I thought they had already made an error with distance to track in Waterloo a while back. That is why I was surprised to hear they made the error again.

Two separate issues. The media is correct that the new platform rework that started in the past few weeks was for the distance to the rail CL. They don't know about the grounding issue.
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5/11 - Saturday, October 15, 2016

   
Pre-rolled rail segments have arrived at Ottawa/Charles!

   
Track on Ottawa.

   

   

   
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