ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

Bombardier to add 70 staff for light rail projects - The Whig

[ijmorlan]

Bombardier to add 70 staff for light rail projects - The Whig

Nice to find these archival stories from a few years back when they were ramping up capacity to deliver the various LRV orders on time!  

[KevinT]

Bombardier to add 70 staff for light rail projects - The Whig

Lol at the photo caption "Bombardier employees work on a Metrolinx train car" when the blue clearly denotes it as an Ion train.  Ahh, modern journalism...

(Heh:  Says the guy who didn't pay them a cent to read the article, the root cause of the very modern journalism I hate.)

[Canard]

Internally at Bombardier, they don’t differentiate between ML and RoW. Our 504 is their “Car 6”, with the ML Pilot LRV’s being 1 and 2.

So, I imagine when they didn’t their little show-and-tell to the Media, they likely just said it was the “Metrolinx Order”.

[nms]

And the Whig article didn't mention anything about deadlines...

[jeffster]

I'm putting the Las Vegas bus back out here....



Coke

Ha...that would be awesome...obviously blue would be the main colour, but it would be sweet none the less.

[Canard]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New signage in <a href="https://twitter.com/WaterlooPrk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WaterlooPrk</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrLRT</a> testing. Us fans first noticed these didn’t work during delivery of LRV 502, when cycling alongside. <a href="https://t.co/UGQGaXC2Lw">pic.twitter.com/UGQGaXC2Lw</a></p>&mdash; ? Iain Hendry ? (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/934462389872988160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2017</a></blockquote>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rideIONrt</a>. The crossing at the South end of R&amp;T Station is complete, but the North connection to Philip is still blocked. Timeline? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bikeWR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bikeWR</a> <a href="https://t.co/O3zbZ0hvoa">pic.twitter.com/O3zbZ0hvoa</a></p>&mdash; ? Iain Hendry ? (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/934467248085000193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2017</a></blockquote>

[bgb_ca]

Any one hear any updates on the other vehicles? We are nearing the end of November and no sign of 503/504.

[Pheidippides]

The Rockway PARTS is out (page 45)

A slight modification to the midtown PARTS to appease AirBoss (page 3).

[danbrotherston]

Seem to have trouble with the links. What was the change to midtown?

[ijmorlan]

The Rockway PARTS is out (page 45)

A slight modification to the midtown PARTS to appease AirBoss (page 3).

Links aren’t working, although I strongly suspect the reason is that Kitchener has grossly incompetent web staff (at some level; don’t go telling off any specific person on my say-so!) rather than that there is anything wrong with your post. I thought I saw another comment about how searching doesn’t work properly and the PDFs have to be “generated” in order to see more than a preview. This is the thing that most irritates me about my profession: the backtalk us competent people get when we tell people how things should be done. I’m pretty sure civil engineers don’t get random incompetents telling them their proposed girder size on a new bridge is wrong. Whereas in my profession, I’m as likely as not to find that somebody I need to work with is ignorant of basic principles of whatever it is we are doing.

[Rainrider22]

The Rockway PARTS is out (page 45)

A slight modification to the midtown PARTS to appease AirBoss (page 3).

Links aren’t working, although I strongly suspect the reason is that Kitchener has grossly incompetent web staff (at some level; don’t go telling off any specific person on my say-so!) rather than that there is anything wrong with your post. I thought I saw another comment about how searching doesn’t work properly and the PDFs have to be “generated” in order to see more than a preview. This is the thing that most irritates me about my profession: the backtalk us competent people get when we tell people how things should be done. I’m pretty sure civil engineers don’t get random incompetents telling them their proposed girder size on a new bridge is wrong. Whereas in my profession, I’m as likely as not to find that somebody I need to work with is ignorant of basic principles of whatever it is we are doing.

What is your profession ?

[MidTowner]

The City of Kitchener has a new web site as of not too long ago, which has messed up searching, among other things.

[Pheidippides]

Try this link (pages 3 and 45):
https://lf.kitchener.ca/WebLinkExt/DocVi...74765&cr=1

Otherwise you have to go to the City of Kitchener site.
Click on "City Services" (since when in council a city service?).
Click on "Council and Committee meetings". Click on "Council and committee calendar" (don't be fooled by clicking on "Current Agendas and Reports" because that will just take you to another page that tells you to click on the "Council and committee calendar".
Then click on the "Planning and Strategic Initiatives Committee" agenda.
Wait for it to load and then scroll slowly.

Basically the change to the Midtown PARTS was just clarifying the language that that potentially proposed street between Glasgow and Elm, and the proposed trail between the IHT and the hub are just that, conceptual, and that they don't limit the owner from expanding or changing the land use and that any actual changes would have to still be negotiated properly.

[panamaniac]

Try this link (pages 3 and 45):
https://lf.kitchener.ca/WebLinkExt/DocVi...74765&cr=1

Otherwise you have to go to the City of Kitchener site.
Click on "City Services" (since when in council a city service?).
Click on "Council and Committee meetings". Click on "Council and committee calendar" (don't be fooled by clicking on "Current Agendas and Reports" because that will just take you to another page that tells you to click on the "Council and committee calendar".
Then click on the "Planning and Strategic Initiatives Committee" agenda.
Wait for it to load and then scroll slowly.

Basically the change to the Midtown PARTS was just clarifying the language that that potentially proposed street between Glasgow and Elm, and the proposed trail between the IHT and the hub are just that, conceptual, and that they don't limit the owner from expanding or changing the land use and that any actual changes would have to still be negotiated properly.

I.e. Airboss will not permit a new roadway beside it's high security facility.