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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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#13,066
11-13-2018, 02:44 PM
A few tweets from Tom hinting at future developments along the line:

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...5505490944

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...7813859328
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#13,067
11-13-2018, 04:04 PM (This post was last modified: 11-13-2018, 04:08 PM by panamaniac.)
(11-13-2018, 02:44 PM)Lens Wrote: A few tweets from Tom hinting at future developments along the line:

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...5505490944

https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/statu...7813859328

The old lumber yard adjacent to the Mill Station would be a prime site for redevelopment, istm, as would the Ernst Landscaping property down Mill St.

I assume Galloway's reference at Borden Stn would be to the Ottawa/King/Borden/Charles block.
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#13,068
11-13-2018, 04:24 PM
Wow, lucky Tom! Must have been quite exciting to go for a ride along the entire length of the system.

I'm a little concerned by the time it took, though. Based on the timing of the twitter posts, it appears the round trip took 2.5 hours...

   
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#13,069
11-13-2018, 04:36 PM
A Record story said that Vive was assembling the Ottawa-Charles-Borden-King block, so the Perimeter block is likely from Borden to Sterling/Kent, Charles, and likely the King side, but possibly the towards-Courtland side.
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11-13-2018, 04:45 PM
(11-13-2018, 04:36 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: A Record story said that Vive was assembling the Ottawa-Charles-Borden-King block, so the Perimeter block is likely from Borden to Sterling/Kent, Charles, and likely the King side, but possibly the towards-Courtland side.

The more the merrier in that part of town.
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#13,071
11-13-2018, 05:56 PM
(11-13-2018, 04:24 PM)UrbanCanoe Wrote: Wow, lucky Tom! Must have been quite exciting to go for a ride along the entire length of the system.

I'm a little concerned by the time it took, though. Based on the timing of the twitter posts, it appears the round trip took 2.5 hours...

I wouldn't be too concerned about it when they were using a vehicle without all the FIE. Next time someone takes a round trip in a train that has the FIE the round trip will be much shorter. The train Tom was in still had to stop for inductive loops to activate signals.
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#13,072
11-13-2018, 09:29 PM
East end properties are probably still fairly cheap compared to DTK prices
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#13,073
11-13-2018, 09:30 PM
(11-13-2018, 05:56 PM)trainspotter139 Wrote:
(11-13-2018, 04:24 PM)UrbanCanoe Wrote: Wow, lucky Tom! Must have been quite exciting to go for a ride along the entire length of the system.

I'm a little concerned by the time it took, though. Based on the timing of the twitter posts, it appears the round trip took 2.5 hours...

I wouldn't be too concerned about it when they were using a vehicle without all the FIE. Next time someone takes a round trip in a train that has the FIE the round trip will be much shorter. The train Tom was in still had to stop for inductive loops to activate signals.

Plus it seemed like he was getting out from time to time.  Who knows how long they were stopped for.
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11-13-2018, 10:11 PM
Chris Klein and Markster did an analysis and posted it on the Facebook group claiming the end-to-end time was actually very close to the initial estimates.

As they couldn’t run at full 70 km/h along the 3 Spur sections, this only means the travel time should get even better.

Close to an hour to go 19 km/h is not good.
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11-13-2018, 10:59 PM
(11-13-2018, 10:11 PM)Canard Wrote: Chris Klein and Markster did an analysis and posted it on the Facebook group claiming the end-to-end time was actually very close to the initial estimates.

As they couldn’t run at full 70 km/h along the 3 Spur sections, this only means the travel time should get even better.

Close to an hour to go 19 km is not good.

FTFY
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11-14-2018, 07:27 AM
(11-13-2018, 10:11 PM)Canard Wrote: Chris Klein and Markster did an analysis and posted it on the Facebook group claiming the end-to-end time was actually very close to the initial estimates.

As they couldn’t run at full 70 km/h along the 3 Spur sections, this only means the travel time should get even better.

Close to an hour to go 19 km/h is not good.

What was the time supposed to be? I can't recall, but I thought it was 45 minutes end to end.
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11-14-2018, 08:49 AM (This post was last modified: 11-14-2018, 10:08 AM by trainspotter139.)
Heard on the radio: 512 doing pre-departure procedures.

Update (9:05 AM): 512 is now leaving the yard
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#13,078
11-14-2018, 12:51 PM
“What will rapid transit travel times be?
Approximately 46 minutes from Conestoga to Fairview Park Mall for light rail transit and approximately 40 minutes from Fairview Park mall to Ainslie Street terminal with bus rapid transit.”
http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/...ons.asp#dd
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11-15-2018, 10:15 AM (This post was last modified: 11-15-2018, 10:15 AM by Chris.)
Another train being delivered was at the Lancaster yard this morning getting shunted around.
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#13,080
11-15-2018, 08:03 PM
I am surprised that Keolis is only hiring a communications specialist now. Perhaps signalling a new phase of the project?
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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