ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

4/5 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016

   
OMSF Overview.

   
Another close up of those funky switches.

   

   

   
Forms taking shape at the future Northfield platform.

[Canard]

5/5 - Wednesday, July 20, 2016

   
At Erb/Caroline, it's becoming fairly obvious where the freight alignment is going to go!

   
Back at Duke/Queen, an hour and a half later, they're all done.

   
The finishing touches.  And I thought King/Union was fast, at <2 weeks!  This must be a new record.

That's all for today, folks.  I'm pooped!

[notmyfriends]

I certainly hope that we will!

But they're not ours. They're Metrolinx'. GrandLinq is on a timeline and would have no drive or desire to risk missing a timeline and incurring a penalty because someone else was doddling or getting in the way.

If I were Metrolinx, I would be begging the Region to run trains here. Makes so much meow sense than sending a team to camp out at Millhaven for months. Toronto has nowhere to run their two trains.

   

[GtwoK]

Benton and Charles is being paved.

Strange that they're paving it before adding int the Northbound rail crossing. Seemed like they were so close to doing that - why pave now?

[KevinL]

Guess they're going it 'Gaukel' or 'Queen and Charles' style - pave, mark the guideway, pull up just that asphalt, and form and pour within the cut gap.

[KevinL]

 Big, wide, black duct tape.  

I knew it was duct tape, but I didn't know they used such a wide roll! Very cool how many specialized items go into this.

[Canard]

There are weird black fabric tarps covering the fences now just North of the freight tracks where they cross King in uptown Waterloo. It's almost like they're setting up welding tarps, except welding tarps are usually like a vinyl/plastic material. What's going on/what's being hidden?

[Markster]

Looks like an old version of the creek culvert.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Forget corduroy road - huge stone cavern tunnel found under King Street! Former creek aqueduct? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WRAwesome?src=hash">#WRAwesome</a> <a href="https://t.co/9B7OwkiILy">pic.twitter.com/9B7OwkiILy</a></p>&mdash; Kevin Thomason (@kthomason) <a href="https://twitter.com/kthomason/status/755862172031455234">July 20, 2016</a></blockquote>

[DKsan]

I know that could possibly delay the LRT more but it's so amazing and cool.

[Waterlooer]

Hmm, if this is north of the freight line crossing King, and this needs to be investigated, I'd hope that it wouldn't effect the main Uptown ION construction south of the fright line.

[BuildingScout]

They were running power generators to the signal boxes North of Bearinger Rd. and they installed in the middle of the tracks something that looked like an induction or AC motion detector to activate the signal.

[Viewfromthe42]

Got a notice in the mail last night saying that Frederick/Benton would close from Charles to Weber as of late July, so expect it to disappear next week, and for there to be further traffic chaos as people figure out their workaround routes.

[panamaniac]

Got a notice in the mail last night saying that Frederick/Benton would close from Charles to Weber as of late July, so expect it to disappear next week, and for there to be further traffic chaos as people figure out their workaround routes.

Does that include the intersections at King and at Duke?

[timc]

Hmm, if this is north of the freight line crossing King, and this needs to be investigated, I'd hope that it wouldn't effect the main Uptown ION construction south of the fright line.

I'd be more concerned about it affecting the reopening of King Street than I am about the rail construction.

[Canard]

As a resident, that is the concern, yes.

The freight operator requires that the line be available every night; and only certain exemptions from CN (lots of fancy paperwork) will permit a multi-day shutdown (like what was done for the Culvert last summer).