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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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03-19-2018, 08:35 PM
I like Joe Reda’s reply to Outhit’s tweet. He just links to the Wikipedia page on Present Value:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_value Will probably fly over the head of Outhit’s fans, but a very appropriate response. 
03-20-2018, 10:05 AM
504 is at Kitchener Market heading SB. There is a car parked on the tracks on Borden in the usual spot, in front of that sketchy auto repair place. Wonder what’s gonna happen?
03-20-2018, 01:02 PM
(03-20-2018, 12:52 PM)Canard Wrote: 504 is at Kitchener Market heading SB. There is a car parked on the tracks on Borden in the usual spot, in front of that sketchy auto repair place. Wonder what’s gonna happen? I hope they are towing them ASAP. (but probably not). They should have a tow truck following the LRT vehicle to haul off these offenders quickly. Only way people will learn. 
03-20-2018, 01:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2018, 01:17 PM by Coke6pk.
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(03-19-2018, 05:36 PM)creative Wrote: Mortgage payments plus down payment does add up to the ultimate cost of a house. Technically true. But we don't use stats that way in a normal setting. One would say, we bought our house for $400,000, and not $1.7 million because I factored in interest on my mortgage, property taxes, a new roof, maintenance on the appliances, etc. One would say, I bought my car for $12,000, not $236,000 because I included the interest on my loan, the licencing fees, insurance, car repairs, fuel, etc. Coke ** OOPS - ijmorlan basically said this already.... maybe I should read all the replies before replying.... LOL **
03-20-2018, 01:15 PM
(03-20-2018, 12:52 PM)Canard Wrote: 504 is at Kitchener Market heading SB. There is a car parked on the tracks on Borden in the usual spot, in front of that sketchy auto repair place. Wonder what’s gonna happen? My vote is nothing. Not even a $30 parking ticket. We need at add a battering ram to the front of the trains....  Coke 
03-20-2018, 02:15 PM
(03-20-2018, 01:15 PM)Coke6pk Wrote:(03-20-2018, 12:52 PM)Canard Wrote: 504 is at Kitchener Market heading SB. There is a car parked on the tracks on Borden in the usual spot, in front of that sketchy auto repair place. Wonder what’s gonna happen? ![[Image: 63a5ada7e4dcf7f7b79fee157cedb12a.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/63/a5/ad/63a5ada7e4dcf7f7b79fee157cedb12a.jpg)
03-20-2018, 04:49 PM
FYI not sure if it was reported here, but the BING maps satellite shot shows the majority of the line complete. Looks like the pic was from last fall as you can see the embedded around king/vic but it was not paved.
03-21-2018, 09:19 AM
(03-20-2018, 04:49 PM)bgb_ca Wrote: FYI not sure if it was reported here, but the BING maps satellite shot shows the majority of the line complete. Looks like the pic was from last fall as you can see the embedded around king/vic but it was not paved. I recently noticed that ESRI has much higher resolution imagery from what I guess to be last spring. See King & Victoria here: http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer...0&level=20 
03-21-2018, 10:33 AM
(03-21-2018, 09:19 AM)Ace Wrote: I recently noticed that ESRI has much higher resolution imagery from what I guess to be last spring. I just used that to move up to the Waterloo spur - I realized for the first time that the freight-shared track has more closely spaced sleepers! Makes perfect sense,but I hadn't caught on until now. 
03-21-2018, 11:57 AM
(03-21-2018, 10:33 AM)KevinL Wrote: I just used that to move up to the Waterloo spur - I realized for the first time that the freight-shared track has more closely spaced sleepers! Makes perfect sense,but I hadn't caught on until now. I noticed that from the ground last year and even posted a pic of it someplace (here, Facebook, UrbanToronto? I no longer recall) but it's far more dramatic when seen from above! Love this view of the freight crossover: ![[Image: IonTies.jpg]](http://www.kevint.ca/wrc/IonTies.jpg) Thanks for the tip about ESRI guys!
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Yes, 600 mm vs. 750 mm! KevinT pointed this out to me at the first unloading (501). I thought they had looked a little different during construction, but always attributed it to an optical illusion of being further away.
"Back in the Day", some roller coaster manufacturers, like Arrow, Vekoma and Meisho, used to do this with the track ties (ledgers) on their coasters at areas of track subject to higher G-forces. Most famously perhaps was on the giant Pretzel Knot inversion on Moonsault Scramble at Fuji-Q Highland (RIP  )Re: Imagery; this is awesome! Full installation at the OMSF now, too! What's the deal with this site vs. Google Maps? I had always just assumed there was only one "Satelite Camera" gathering all this data for public, is that not the case? Hey Square! Has your friend got that radio thing hooked up online yet? If not, I’m dropping $500 this weekend on one, I can’t wait any longer. 
03-21-2018, 03:48 PM
(03-21-2018, 01:13 PM)Canard Wrote: Re: Imagery; this is awesome! Full installation at the OMSF now, too! What's the deal with this site vs. Google Maps? I had always just assumed there was only one "Satelite Camera" gathering all this data for public, is that not the case? Imagery is purchased, sold, and licensed in various terms to various parties at various times. Satellites might take some of it, and airplanes might be used for other parts. I had a lot of fun fiddling around with the base layers in the Region's GIS to see old aerial photography of the region, before they inexplicably removed it (probably when they switched to the newer http://maps.waterloo.ca front-end) This particular dataset is "World Imagery" which has 30cm resolution in most of North America: https://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS...apServer/3 At this resolution it's definitely aerial imagery. Satellite imagery is usually above 1m resolution. |
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