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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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10-30-2018, 08:50 AM
Watching it head north from Waterloo Town Square, it seems that the timing for the gates to go up is pretty good there. It seemed they were popping up pretty much immediately after the LRV passed by. It wasn't clear to me how long they were down prior to that point, though.
10-30-2018, 10:08 AM
 (10-30-2018, 10:08 AM)panamaniac Wrote: At 0:49 et seq - I think that might have been a church bell rather than the glockenspiel. Not sure if the glockenspiel and bells were linked or independent (some clock towers play a melody before chiming the time or vice versa), but there was both. I'm just impressed that it was quiet enough for me to _hear_ the bells! The 507 Saturday Testing video I got on this corner back in May was much louder, I had actually turned the audio from my phone down in that video to make it less annoying, whereas this time I used the audio as-is.
...K
10-30-2018, 10:40 AM
(10-30-2018, 10:35 AM)KevinT Wrote:(10-30-2018, 10:08 AM)panamaniac Wrote: At 0:49 et seq - I think that might have been a church bell rather than the glockenspiel. Off topic, but Kitchener was once known for its church bells, many, many years ago. I think only one or two of the Downtown churches still ring them regularly (St Peters and St Marys, I think).
10-30-2018, 10:59 AM
(10-30-2018, 10:40 AM)panamaniac Wrote: Off topic, but Kitchener was once known for its church bells, many, many years ago. I think only one or two of the Downtown churches still ring them regularly (St Peters and St Marys, I think). A fellow on reddit just posted "FYI That's St John the Evangelist Church bells you're hearing at the 1 minute mark. Not glockenspiel. (It's the church I work at, so I know those bells all too well)." My recollection remains that I heard multiple notes in a musical fashion like a glockenspiel, followed by a monotone bell.
...K
10-30-2018, 12:45 PM
I'll point out (since I've had to on twitter several times now) that the audio thing works like this:
When there's lots of ambient city noise, the LRV's sound quiet. When there is no other noise at all, and the LRV is the only thing making any noise... they sound loud. The reason is that your phone (or any camera) will automatically adjust the recording volume based on input. If the input is small, it scales it up, so it sounds loud. Your brain also automatically does this, to some extent. 
10-30-2018, 01:41 PM
As someone that hasn't been fortunate enough to see one in person yet (seriously, what the heck?!?), do they seem loud in person?
10-30-2018, 01:48 PM
10-30-2018, 02:02 PM
(10-30-2018, 01:48 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-30-2018, 01:41 PM)Spokes Wrote: As someone that hasn't been fortunate enough to see one in person yet (seriously, what the heck?!?), do they seem loud in person? Totally depends on how lubricated the tracks are! the LRV itself is very very quiet, but the tracks sometimes are not. 
10-30-2018, 02:26 PM
Yeah, if it's driving straight or the curves are well-lubricated, it's as loud as a large electric car.
10-30-2018, 03:40 PM
I stood on the sidewalk at the intersection of Water and Charles as one passed by perhaps a meter away from me. It was fantastic. Smooth, no rail squeals (though it is straight track there), light EV motor hum. It felt very much like a subway passing a platform but with considerably less wind and almost none of the noise.
10-30-2018, 06:00 PM
(10-30-2018, 01:41 PM)Spokes Wrote: As someone that hasn't been fortunate enough to see one in person yet (seriously, what the heck?!?), do they seem loud in person? The ones I've seen have been on straight sections so they seemed pretty quiet, certainly below the car and city noise around me at the time. 
10-30-2018, 06:50 PM
So I guess we find out next week if the ION starts this year or not.
Doesn't look promising, being that we're still missing trains, but who knows. |
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