ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[boatracer]

Canard will be happy to hear that I've seen trains out with Bombardier emblems on them. 503 and 512 are two of them that I've seen with the emblems.

According to this tweet from a Record reporter they are starting to apply them to all of the trains.

https://twitter.com/WeidnerRecord/status...2171225088

[Bob_McBob]

Yet another dig at ION from the Woolwich Observer.

"Like the bounty on Mother's Day, Father's Day has its own traditions that come into play every year."

[KevinT]

Canard will be happy to hear that I've seen trains out with Bombardier emblems on them. 503 and 512 are two of them that I've seen with the emblems.

Awesome.  Can't wait to see it, and thanks for the heads-up!

[jeffster]

Yet another dig at ION from the Woolwich Observer.

"Like the bounty on Mother's Day, Father's Day has its own traditions that come into play every year."

OK...well, I'm just going to chalk this up to them being butt hurt over not have the LRT go that last KM into St. Jacobs Market.

(In many way, I wish it had, would have been nice taking the LRT up to that area -- now the only reason for me to take the LRT towards Waterloo, if I wanted to, is to go to the Apple Store or see a movie)...

[danbrotherston]

Some information about launch day: https://www.therecord.com/news-story/943...tm_content=

[Bob_McBob]

[timc]

Too funny. I was on the other side.

[ijmorlan]

Too funny. I was on the other side.

They were probably doing that dumb “stop and open the door to listen for trains” thing that buses do. Unfortunately I have an idea that school bus operating companies don’t have the option of deciding to stop doing that like GRT.

Of course, that doesn’t mean they’re right to stay in an intersection … how a bus driver can be unaware that you proceed through if the light turns red while you’re over the stop line is beyond me. But then again, maybe the gate dropped on them while they were pointlessly stopped listening for trains.

Sigh.

[danbrotherston]

Too funny. I was on the other side.

They were probably doing that dumb “stop and open the door to listen for trains” thing that buses do. Unfortunately I have an idea that school bus operating companies don’t have the option of deciding to stop doing that like GRT.

Of course, that doesn’t mean they’re right to stay in an intersection … how a bus driver can be unaware that you proceed through if the light turns red while you’re over the stop line is beyond me. But then again, maybe the gate dropped on them while they were pointlessly stopped listening for trains.

Sigh.

Failing to stop at the stop line is so common, and so easy to fix.

[jeffster]

thanks for confirming my suspicions of tri-city drivers being idiots.

True story: Got off the expressway (towards Stratford) to go right onto Fischer-Hallman. Some idiot in front of me decides now was a good time to slow and yield at the red light and proceeds her right turn (typical) despite there being a plethora of signs. OK. I get the green light, and I am behind her again, she goes right onto Ottawa and STOPS. There is no light. No stop sign. No yield sign. Nothing. I start honking after about 10 seconds and she's still not moving. I continue to honk until Ottawa Street light turns right, then she moves she gets to the next set of light, which is all red except for the green arrow, and she stops, again....and honk, again...then she proceeds turn her right when all the lights were green, then she stops again at the three way stop (her right of way) as she attempts to make a left, but stopping there confused the other drivers, so I honk again, as does the person behind me, as does the car to my right. She gets out of her car at Shoppers Drug Mart, and as do I, and starts yelling "Why you honk me, why you honk me?" and I am like "Because you treat red lights like a yield, right away light a stop sign, a green arrow light like a red light, and a 3-way stop sign like a 4-way stop sign..." and she was like "you no how drive..you no how drive, you dumb driver, go back to India you Paki" and goes off cursing. (I do have Native Canadian blood in me, and the sun makes me much darker, but I am not from India..go figure, stupid driver and racist and clearly geographically impaired)

Thing is, I see this daily (the driving, that is). Most people respond to a quick honk, this woman was ignorant as hell.

[Spokes]

The kid in the back of that bus is loving life right there.

[Bob_McBob]

Any idea what specific work they're doing outside Grand River Hospital tonight?

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/grand-river...-1.4468912

[KevinL]

In the GRT thread, the term 'CCTV scans' was found. Not sure what that means.

[Acitta]

Ion LRT will reshape development in Waterloo Region for decades to come

[KevinT]

Ion LRT will reshape development in Waterloo Region for decades to come

Thanks Gary!  I had to read it as the dim backdrop of the paywall pop-up in a desktop browser, but it was worth it.  (I know, I should just subscribe to The Record already...)