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(10-13-2016, 03:01 PM)Canard Wrote: (10-13-2016, 02:29 PM)chutten Wrote: I thought the No Left Turn signs at King@Vic were taped over until the underpass opened?
Correct! There's nowhere to get "stuck" here. If you're on Victoria and stopped, move into the right lane and proceed. If you're on King, left turns don't hold anyone up because there's no traffic coming South.
Part of what was causing the jam was the Lane Closed sign just before the intersection on Victoria. It was referring to the Right turn lane towards the overpass, but everyone thought it was referring to the right through lane, so all traffic shifted into the left through lane. Which was causing quite the jam, because of all the people trying to turn left
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Embedded track crossing Block line at Courtland:
Looking south along Courtland at Block line:
Looking south along Courtland at Hayward:
Lots of curb poured on Ottawa today between Courtland and Mill (and near Ottawa and Mill intersection):
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Kitchener market station:
The infrastructure for the TPSS across the street from this station looks about 90% complete. TPSS delivery late next week maybe?
Frederick at King:
Duke at Young:
Duke at Water, tracks and concrete framing well under way:
Victoria Park station looks to be about to get something done to its surface (note wood frame):
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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(10-13-2016, 03:28 PM)GtwoK Wrote: Part of what was causing the jam was the Lane Closed sign just before the intersection on Victoria. It was referring to the Right turn lane towards the overpass, but everyone thought it was referring to the right through lane, so all traffic shifted into the left through lane. Which was causing quite the jam, because of all the people trying to turn left
Oh yes, westbound on Victoria is broken for sure, but I don't think there's a turn prohibition there. I think the lane markings are just messed up. Someone should call grandlink and get them to fix it before someone crashes into the pylons.
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So CTV covered the partial demolition of some of the station platforms, but quoted Grandlinq giving an entirely different reason than we have understood here:
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId...tPageNum=1
The quote suggests that the platforms are not the correct size and that places them too far from the tracks.
Either that, or they're tearing up 6 more platforms.
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Welp, looks like the local media finally clued in that something was going on:
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/jackhammers-...-1.3114257
Interesting that they're claiming it's for the distance thing, again (as was the original issue at Willis Way) - this goes against the info I've received, so I wonder if they're trying to downplay it a bit.
The video also misleads the viewers by asking "What's this going to cost?", as if only to get people all riled up. The answer, of course, is $0, but why would we report that?
:: fumes ::
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I posted that immediately previous.
But yes, I am incredibly frustrated by their misleading statement. Even Grandlinq in their quote explicitly stated they're covering the cost. But that hasn't stopped all 44 commenters (so far) on the CTV Facebook post from whining about "taxpayer" dollars.
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I forgot to mention yesterday that Charles from Borden to Ottawa was 90% paved.
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Yes! Also, all the streetlights in the King/Victoria are now all the "pancake" super-bright LED ones. I seem to remember comments before about them not being the new ones. Well, they are now!
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Sign just went up; Ottawa/Courtland closing October 17 for track installation!
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It's official!!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Absolutely thrilled to see the new Ontario standard LRT icon make its premiere in Waterloo Region! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chrisjamesdrew">@chrisjamesdrew</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RegionWaterloo">@RegionWaterloo</a> https://t.co/aXiqicskTQ</p>— iain (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/787041221143298048">October 14, 2016</a></blockquote>
Beyond all realms of thrilled! 
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Does the ION track count as a lane?
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No. If you're suggesting they should use another word, what word should they use?
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The Record is also reporting the work to rebuild some of the concrete platforms, using the same quotes as CTV it seems.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6912...y-mistake/
Of course, bravo to the record for clearly and accurately stating:
"The cost falls on GrandLinq as part of its light rail project agreement with the Region of Waterloo."
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