ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[GtwoK]

It was the NB curbs that were the permanent concrete ones, actually. All others (SB (Union to Allen, Both directions Allen to William) were temporary.

Benton is also up to grade now. Wouldn't be surprised if we see paving here today.

Also: embedded track across FDB was poured. They must need to repave the streets here, because at the height it was at, it's pretty much a speed bump.

[tomh009]

Benton is also up to grade now. Wouldn't be surprised if we see paving here today.

Charles and Benton as of last night ...

[GtwoK]

Good lord man, wipe your camera lens clean

Kent / Charles is closed as of today until the 27th (Surprise! No warning for this one). The final curbs are being installed here, for the EB lanes, this time. Seems like Borden will be the next station to be built!

[Canard]

The camera's not dirty, any high-iso shot would have looked like that at night with glare.

Some great shots on the facebook group showing paving happening right now at Charles/Benton!

[GtwoK]

Iso shouldn't impact glare, just the artificial brightness. Even a slight smudge on the lens would distort the light like that, a good microfiber cloth always fixes it for me!

Where are these photos you mention? The most recent thing I see on the facebook page is the post about "The Savoury"

[Markster]

tomh009, your picture is fine!

As always, an imperfect picture that's posted is always better than a picture that is not posted!

[GtwoK]

My apologies, I hope I didn't come across as rude, I just realized it may not be obvious I'm joking around.

Anywho, I got a few photos of the area last night as well! There was a man walking around inside the fenced off area as well, based on the timing, maybe it was you, tomh!

[Waterlooer]

The camera's not dirty, any high-iso shot would have looked like that at night with glare.

Some great shots on the facebook group showing paving happening right now at Charles/Benton!

What Facebook group is this?

[Waterlooer]

Northbound on King between John and Union you can see the concrete curb:

[tomh009]

Iso shouldn't impact glare, just the artificial brightness. Even a slight smudge on the lens would distort the light like that, a good microfiber cloth always fixes it for me!

It's just a phone camera, so poor-quality lens, small sensor, poor high-ISO performance -- and, yes, probably smudges.    I wasn't going out for photos, but decided to take a picture anyway since I was there.

[jamincan]

I'm curious about the facebook group as well.

[Canard]

It's the "I support rapid transit in the region of Waterloo" facebook group where all the updates are.

[taylortbb]

URL for the Facebook group is https://www.facebook.com/groups/81680629050/

[GtwoK]

Mount Hope / King closing on Thursday for 2 days, maintained by flaggers. What's going on here? Will we finally get the first section of road to have both Northbound and Southbound completed? Or more underground work?

[GtwoK]

Some photos from tonight!

Benton is completely paved North (East?) of the tracks, and in between them. The first layer of asphalt is about 80% done South / West of the SB track.







There are curbs for both NB and SB on Charles between Stirling / Borden now. Well, missing one side of the SB curbs, which are marked out to do tomorrow. Still a giant pit at Borden though. It's crazy seeing the size of the train ROW compared to the road.







One thing I don't understand: the inner curbs become depressed / end in front of Mr Transmission / KW Counselling, but not straight across from each other — on an angle. I'm standing in the area in the 2nd photo. What would this be for? There wouldn't be a u-turn point here, the turn would be much too tight for cars to make onto the opposing directional road (believe me, I tried). The depression is also way too wide for just pedestrians.