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The Crosstown vehicle's exterior colour scheme is consistent with the branding of Metrolinx.

Maybe you should tell that to all the systems who are purchasing EMUs around the world with open gangways. Those are a single vehicle yet also a train. The Flexity Freedom is NOT a streetcar. Anyone telling you otherwise is WRONG.

Not to mention the reality that there might be random E-brake applications as they debug the ATP system.

nope. It's an Electric Multiple Unit train. These vehicles can be arranged in up to 4 vehicle trains operated from a single cab with each trailing unit self-powered. They have a Scharfenberg coupler for inter-vehicle communication and control. That's something that the new Toronto Streetcars...

These Flexity Freedom LRVs are 0.6 m longer and 0.11m wider than the Toronto Flexity Outlook LFLRV

Unfortunately Metrolinx decided on Metrolinx Grey as the colour for the accents on these vehicles.

511 is currently the only vehicle authorized to travel at maximum operational speed due to the presence of Automatic Train Protection (ATP) equipment on board. They have been using this vehicle to debug the operating software integrations with the ATP equipment as it enters and exits ATP...

It's manual. The drivers are all trained to look for landmarks on the platform to stop at.

At the moment the track lubricators aren't tuned precisely yet and so they aren't necessarily greasing the track enough. That will change in the coming weeks as more and more vehicles start travelling the line as testing ramps up. Our curves are also 25m minimums compared to 11m minimums with...

Can we move the Viva discussion out of the thread for the ION LRT please.

It's because diverting the B-Line from it's main alignment to connect to Confederation GO would be extremely inefficient for the B-Line

On that note behold gifts from KW (It's a streetview image so it's a little rough looking) Tactile crosswalks using a faux thermoplastic brick pattern. Tactile metal inserts to indicate beginning of crossings. AND stamped & tinted concrete edges for the sidewalks beyond crosswalk areas.

431 terminates in Stratford. but they stop in Kitchener to switch out cars that are destined for Elmira/CP Interchange/Kitchener

Yay! (also boo diesel particulates on our brand new shiny LRV)

3 of the ones currently in Waterloo are in the final stages of equipment installation with another one from Kingston expected to be shipped with equipment fully installed soon (it was due for inspection the week of September 24th).

that 6 months was quoted starting from 4 months ago. They don't need all the trains here to finish all the testing.

Every indication here is that it will begin service in December

They are scheduled for that but can never adhere to that schedule and often bunch so bad they have to short turn some. The changes they are implementing once ION launches will see the 7 run straight up King via Connaught at 7-8 minute frequency in peak and 15 minutes off-peak as an infill...

The buses here aren't really any better than that to be quite honest. Though I can see it changing based on what I'm seeing on the ground in ridership trends...

Draft baseline service plans available here: http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/projectinformation/resources/2014-Schedfule15-Sch.15-3AppendixDBaselineServicePlans2017to2047RFPV3.pdf