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Here's a tweet showing it in motion: https://twitter.com/mikeboos/status/943164350138929152

This is literally the exact reason for running Ghost service. They expect issues to arise. This is entirely normal.

Whatever the causality, the real grumble is that we were promised more cars by the end of November, and it's a slap in the face to see fully operational cars in action in Kingston.

An unfortunate consequence of 100% low floor. Those double seats are sitting on top of the bogies for the wheels. They couldn't move them if they wanted to. Having been inside the Waterloo LRV, which will be the same as Toronto's, it is a noticeably wider hallway between those seats. That...

Tom Galloway (chair of the Rapid Transit committee) is optimistic that powered testing will start next week: http://www.570news.com/2017/11/07/ion-testing-underway-waterloo-2/

It would also be a phenomenally, unbelievably expensive project.

Lots of photos and videos of the train finally on the line over in the I Support Light Rail facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/81680629050/ It's all unpowered testing. They're pushing/pulling the LRV with a tug. But it's HERE! And it's ON THE TRACKS!!!!

Yeah, after the last time they promised a testing date (supposed to have been about 2 weeks ago), but then it didn't happen, they got pilloried in the media. They're not making that mistake again.

It has not been a good month for commuting on the 401 west of Toronto. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/401-closure-tractor-trailer-fire-diesel-1.4363954?cmp=rss 401 closes for 4th time in 9 days between Milton and Cambridge

I think the entire question about Union is worth quoting. I particularly note the statement about the signalling system, since it's clear that the Union station rail corridor capacity is constrained by that, and not physical space. Other rail stations do much more with less. What has to be...

We're getting 14 vehicles total.

It's a regional project, but yeah, including Cambridge population is a bit questionable, since the line is quite disconnected from it. Sure, when Calgary and Edmonton's systems opened, they didn't serve the whole city, but they certainly served the singular business core. Cambridge is a...

A Flexity Freedom, sitting at Northfield Station in Waterloo, courtesy of Bombardier's twitter https://twitter.com/BombardierRail/status/915554622479192065

And that, is the first time a Metrolinx-equivalent LRV has pulled up to a platform. @Sandpit You should see the TTC streetcar thread! Let's just embed that photo in the thread:

Some new videos of the (reportedly) fully functional Waterloo LRV being offloaded at the maintenance facility have been posted to the Waterloo ION thread: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/ion-light-rail-kitchener-waterloo-u-c-king-victoria-transit-terminal.19202/page-107#post-1262458...

"This overall" includes me. You cannot exempt me. Are you sure that a transportation enthusiast forum is the right place to complain about people being enthusiastic about transportation?

Your first sentence contradicts your second. Your value judgement of what I do in my spare time for my own enjoyment is not appreciated.

I rounded down from GrandLinq's own statement (in July): http://www.570news.com/2017/07/28/grandlinq-says-99-5-done-work-needed-get-ion-running/ In other news, we got the second LRV delivered up to Waterloo last night! I did a live stream on facebook, doing a chasecam on my bicycle: (30...

Construction is 99% complete, but there are a lot of little details all along the line that still need remediation. Largely these affect pedestrians and the transit agency GRT, and are therefore not important enough to receive any priority, and so glaring issues have dragged on for months...

Yes, they want functional vehicles ASAP. I didn't feel "don't send them until they're done" is "a delay at the request of the client".