ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[kps]

Is it necessary?  It seems like simple common sense to me.  Wait, now that I say that, I can see where extensive pubic education might be required! 

Common sense would be to make the line crossable by emergency vehicles.

[jamincan]

I think his response is maybe a bit vague due to being removed from the context of the question. My interpretation is that he is pointing out that they involved emergency services in consultation from the beginning of the project and that it is now a bit late to be identifying major issues such as this. Which is a perfectly legitimate point.

[JoeKW]

Is it necessary?  It seems like simple common sense to me.  Wait, now that I say that, I can see where extensive pubic education might be required! 

Common sense would be to make the line crossable by emergency vehicles.

This is the real problem. It's ridiculous that the area in front of the hospital, that has the main ER entrance, has single lanes with no way to bypass a stopped or stalled car.

[Canard]

I wonder why they chose these high curbs, and not the lower, flush curbs like they have on Borden, or Charles near the transit terminal.

[schooner77]

During that CTV piece, the spokesman for the paramedics also mentioned alternative routing and I suspect Park will become the routing street, especially during rush hours.

[Square]

At one point they were going to go with using Mount Hope as the Emergency entrance/exit thru the parking lot. I wonder why that idea was scrapped.

[tomh009]

New sidewalks now (partially) poured in front of the bus station on Charles:

   

[timio]

According to Twitter, the corduroy road pieces were gone in 27 minutes with people lining up as early as 3am.

[kitborn]

Always good to get a positive letter for the Ion.

[Pheidippides]

Curbs and CAT poles are in on Caroline (Freemont to Allen) and curbs are in Allen (Caroline to King).
   
   

[Section ThirtyOne]

Not sure if this is the correct thread, but the remnants from the corduroy road were made available to the public this morning beginning at 7AM. Each person was allowed one 2 foot segment. My wife and FIL were there at 5:45AM ahead of the 7AM open (god bless them), but were still 20th in line! 200 pieces in total were available.

Now to figure out how to preserve the wood and what to do with it...

[Pheidippides]

The record is reporting a possible second corduroy road at king street and conestoga road. Construction halted while being confirmed.

[GtwoK]

Good lord. Another one? What would it even have been crossing? And it wasn't discovered during the work on that road for the past 8 months?

Curbs and CAT poles are in on Caroline (Freemont to Allen) and curbs are in Allen (Caroline to King).

Wow! Nice! I thought work here was supposed to be going until July, wasn't expecting curbs this early!

[Viewfromthe42]

I am slightly curious about these finds. Given rules that seem to be being followed by GrandLinq, and previous work whose outlines almost surely had to have turned up these same findings, I wonder if previous contractors could be charged or fined in any way. GrandLinq is coming forward because they truly have to dig through everything, and probably because the time/cost penalties for revealing things winds up on the RoW side of the ledger. Previous construction that likely ran into the road(s), though possibly less intensely, might have ignored it for concern over tying up their personnel during investigations, without any/sufficient remuneration, and future opportunities that had to be foregone (or worse, booked ones that would have to be postponed with fines paid).

[Section ThirtyOne]

It is also possible that the previous road work did not go deep enough to uncover the corduroy road; much of the construction this time include utility replacement/relocation which requires deeper excavation than simple resurfacing/new curbs/etc.

I was surprised at how far down the corduroy road was when it was uncovered in Uptown.