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Pictures from today. I'll avoid redundancies with @Duck's from yesterday. Looks like traffic will soon shift to Northfield's north side. Space for LRT in the median all the way to the Highway 85 overpass. Untitled by ION Construction, on Flickr Space for LRT ROW on Highway 85 overpass...

Only from Square One or York University.

The dome is a contingency measure. The King St. grade separation is already on the critical path to project completion and it is behind schedule, apparently due to complicated negotiations with CN/GEXR. The equivalent project on Weber St. took 18 months, and work started in earnest here in the...

That's the Uptown Waterloo portion. The portion by Grand River Hospital is between Uptown Waterloo and Kitchener, and is well underway.

I did this about 2 years ago, and it worked flawlessly.

One spot around here I recommend is to walk up the stairs to the top level of the Grand River Hospital parking lot, provides a great view of the work on King St.

I completely agree. BRT, or sometimes "adapted BRT", whatever that is supposed to be, is the term used by the project. See: http://rideion.ca/abrt.html

Since this is the ION thread.... Pretty much all construction complete for the "BRT" portion in Cambridge. Southbound stop at Hespeler Road and Eagle/Pinebush, far side stop, south of Eagle (presumably to allow for conversion to LRT stop, as the LRT will run along Eagle). Untitled by ION...

Looks like the sensible plan is what city staff will be recommending to council. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/john-torys-smarttrack-transit-plan-for-toronto-getting-smaller-cheaper/article28208774/

Nice - looks like second track installed to R&T Park station. Also, love the ION-stamped manhole cover. Where is that?

Using the existing rail ROWs comes with the benefit of pre-existing crossing protection at road intersections - no fights with drivers for transit priority. Piggybacking on the Highway 7 widening through Kitchener to get a second rail tunnel was a great move. That probably would have been the...

Nov 28 Waterloo Spur is 100% on new rails from Uptown Waterloo to Northfield. At Columbia, crossing protection is being re-installed, new signal bungalow has arrived and old rails are torn up. Untitled by ION Construction, on Flickr More LRT track and Uptown Waterloo station complete on...

Here's how King St. was looking a few weeks ago, where the LRT will run centre of the street as well. Untitled by ION Construction, on Flickr

Yes, they just haven't started to lay track in those segments (at least last time I had seen it). There are a few on-street double-tracked sections coming. From Conestogta Mall to Waterloo Spur, King Street from Uptown Waterloo to Downtown Kitchener, Charles St. from Benton to Border and...

From the public consultation materials - page 7 is where the route options start.. http://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/multimedialibrary/resources/RT_ION_Information_package_Nov2015_FINAL_access.pdf

The proposed alternate route is to head straight through that intersection and immediately cross the Speed river. So it avoids the sharp corners, but looks like it runs straight up/down the hill.

Thanks for the link. Very interesting material. Sounds like the region is heavily reconsidering the original routing through the CP Rail Corridor, which would require crossing CP Rail twice. The alternate route of running LRT on King St. from Fairway to Eagle makes way more sense, though...

Work has started, but nothing really taking shape yet. Untitled by ION Construction, on Flickr

Now that on-street trackwork has started there is tangible visible progress, especially in the Waterloo section, but there are a few major components that will hold up completion of construction. King St. Grade separation at Guelph Sub. just got underway within the last month or two, and is...

Very nice - saw over the weekend that pouring concrete at Charles/Benton looked imminent.