ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

Is that something that the public can attend, or a document published online? I'd like to read/hear it.

[timio]

It was at a general council meeting sometime in the spring, can't remember the date.

Check the agendas (posted the Friday before the meeting) to see if it's coming (http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/region...mid_=17572).

[GtwoK]

But the 6 month report from February was only recently posted online, wasn't it? If there is another report coming soon, we could still be months off from actually seeing it

[Canard]

http://www.kitchenerpost.ca/uncategorize...roduction/

[Pheidippides]

There are curbs now installed between just north of Green to just south of Union on the west side of King.

[Pheidippides]

From the look of Park St at the tracks yesterday (September 9) it shouldn't be much longer now.

[Canard]

Crews were busy this afternoon in Waterloo Park at the culvert, building the forms that hold the concrete sidewalls that will retain the ballast for the final trackage.

[GtwoK]

There are curbs now installed between just north of Green to just south of Union on the west side of King.

And according to the construction update posted yesterday, this stretch will be paved on Monday! Were the curbs just for the one side of the east-bound ROW, or for both sides, out of curiosity (assuming the "middle" side will have curbs, though I'm probably wrong)?

[KevinL]

Amazing view of the work in the Charles/Benton area from the top of the parking garage!

[Canard]

Oh that's brilliant to go up there!

Also, told ya that this intersection was going to involve an insane amount of work the whole intersection is reprofiled.

[Pheidippides]

There are curbs now installed between just north of Green to just south of Union on the west side of King.

And according to the construction update posted yesterday, this stretch will be paved on Monday! Were the curbs just for the one side of the east-bound ROW, or for both sides, out of curiosity (assuming the "middle" side will have curbs, though I'm probably wrong)?

The curbs I saw were for the edge of the right of way and the regular road curb, both on the west side of King, but I would have call it south-bound.

[Canard]

It's interesting to see how the various teams interface; ie, the roadworks people stop somewhere and that's where the track hardware people will pick up along that edge. I wonder if they ever have issues with alignment and so on.

[Canard]

OMG! Crews are installing the gauntlet track hardware this morning! Kewitt guys. Looks like a spring switch on the merge end! Interesting - make ssense, for how infrequently it will be used, I guess. Will just mean no reversing over it (especially if a train is halfway across!). They're also on site near Columbia installing what I think is a crossover.

   

   

   

   

   

[Canard]

Columbia crossover:

   

   

The use of wooden ties makes me believe this is just temporary...

[taylortbb]

I wouldn't be sure it's temporary. I think there's some exceptions to the concrete ties requirements for switches. It's quite common to use wooden ties for switches because they can be drilled where necessary, whereas concrete ties need to be manufactured with the correct mounting points. For a switch every single tie need to be different, so the manufacturing would be difficult.

Personal speculation though, it's possible it's temporary.