ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[KevinL]

Frederick at King and Frederick at Duke will be closing for the duration, yes. This will make access on the southeast side tricky.

[BuildingScout]

I was talking to a taxi driver the other day and he jokingly described the LRT obstruction as "the new Berlin wall". He added that we would cross to the other side at Checkpoint Charlie (William St.)

[Markster]

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.

I imagine that it will close within a week of Queen/Duke opening. It sounds like they'll try to make it within days.

[KevinL]

Estimated date on the Frederick closure is the 27th (Wednesday).

[GtwoK]

Duke / Young closing again for 10 days starting next Wednesday. Rail installation, possibly? Not sure what else left there would be to do here. Seems kinda strange that they would just jump around doing all the intersection trackwork first, then filling in the gaps in between - the process so far has been doing the trackwork sequentially and closing the intersections as needed.

[Canard]

I love the idea of doing the intersections first - I think it's brilliant, personally. If there are tight enough curves in between the intersections that there are pre-rolled rail sections there anyway (rather than long strings of ribbon rail, like further south on Charles with gentle curves), there is no penalty to doing this - only benefit.

[chutten]

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.

It is north of the freight line (streetview). Hard to figure out which way it lies to see if it gets close enough to the freight line for it to be a concern for CN or just for the utility relocation (which I assume is the only reason we're digging there in the first place?).

[Viewfromthe42]

Regardless, a camera drone or rover would be great footage for the team to post.

[Canard]

Meanwhile, in Ottawa:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We’'re bringing electric trains back to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OttCity?src=hash">#OttCity</a>. So exciting! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OttLRT?src=hash">#OttLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TBT?src=hash">#TBT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnTrack2018?src=hash">#OnTrack2018</a> <a href="https://t.co/w38XQC2Xv6">pic.twitter.com/w38XQC2Xv6</a></p>&mdash; City of Ottawa (@ottawacity) <a href="https://twitter.com/ottawacity/status/756188296527671297">July 21, 2016</a></blockquote>

Totes jelly!

[Canard]

Happening meow!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meet the newest member of the TPSS Family! This little guy will call home Block Line at Courtland. <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/rlXiSpXmiH">pic.twitter.com/rlXiSpXmiH</a></p>&mdash; iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/756244301315727360">July 21, 2016</a></blockquote>

[GtwoK]

Throw a little bit of asphalt in there, and we'll be just about ready to reopen!

[Pheidippides]

Walked along the line from King and Willis to Duke and Frederick this morning. 

Activity was concentrated
-on King between Union and John with concrete pouring of the NB track
-at King and Moore with an even deeper hole now
-on Francis between King and Duke with concrete pouring
-at Victoria and Charles

   
   
   

[Pheidippides]

Also, I don't know when it came down, but the house near GRH where the TPSS is to go is no longer there:
   
   
   

[Canard]

Awesome photos! As always, I am so envious of those who get to see the daytime activities. Stupid work.

[GtwoK]

Just realised Ottawa / Charles is supposed to reopen next Tuesday! Anyone been out there recently? I'm assuming the track must at least be PLACED by now, if not embedded.