Ion Light Rail (Kitchener-Waterloo) & King/Victoria Transit Terminal

[chinesehorse]

I'm in Waterloo for school right now and one of our frosh events had an LRT vehicle on display. It's really quite narrow in the passageways between the seats.

 

[robmausser]

I'm in Waterloo for school right now and one of our frosh events had an LRT vehicle on display. It's really quite narrow in the passageways between the seats.

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Pretty common on most transit systems in the world. The TTC subway is an exception, its huge compared to most transit systems.

I just rode the London Tube and Paris Metro and this kind of stuff is par for the course for spacing between seats

 

[adrianaliu]

I'm in Waterloo for school right now and one of our frosh events had an LRT vehicle on display. It's really quite narrow in the passageways between the seats.

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dawg im at uw too but i skipped that whats up

 

[chinesehorse]

dawg im at uw too but i skipped that whats up

We're both in planning

See you in class on Monday.

 

[steveintoronto]

I'm in Waterloo for school right now and one of our frosh events had an LRT vehicle on display. It's really quite narrow in the passageways between the seats.

Only away from the doors. Closer to the doors are benches along the walls with a large amount of standing space. Interior arrangements are optimized for the considered amount of time between stations, and whether or not emphasis should be placed on the necessity of providing seats for distance, or room for standing, for shorter trips.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Anyone know what kind of bicycle storage they have on board the light rail vehicles?

This is from Hiawatha Line in Minnesota.

From link.

This from Stuttgart, Germany.

From link.

 

[steveintoronto]

^ More applicable to GO DD coaches than LRT, but obvious for both...*especially* with quick-release front wheels that can be popped off in two seconds, thus reducing the space taken even more.

In the newer DD coaches, there's a space either side of the doors where you can stand a bike on the bars and fork tips w/ the front wheel popped off, takes far less space, and leaves the very awkward area under the stairs usable still for the seats.

It's all a bit too sophisticated for Toronto though....

Btw: The system for 'lashing' a bike on the Flexities is utterly ridiculous. I just use a loop of Velcro that I carry with me on the bike to secure the rear wheel rim to GO bus bike racks.

 

[DonValleyRainbow]

From link.

If only our society was mature and reasonable enough to do things like this. Instead, this just screams 'safety risk' and a lawsuit, it would never happen in Canada or the US.

 

[OCCheetos]

So I might be right on my bet that Ottawa goes into service first....

Well... it's still a tight race.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-delivery-late-november-2-1.4817010

 

[kEiThZ]

Well... it's still a tight race.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-delivery-late-november-2-1.4817010

Dammit. KWC is back on top.

 

[TOareaFan]

Dammit. KWC is back on top.

It is still early!

 

[micheal_can]

AFAIK Ottawa is not running along the entire route yet....

 

[Streety McCarface]

Well... it's still a tight race.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lrt-delivery-late-november-2-1.4817010

A race where, to the bottom? This is ridiculous, for both cities.

 

[hw621]

A race where, to the bottom? This is ridiculous, for both cities.

Maybe Eglinton will join the race

 

[kEiThZ]

A race where, to the bottom? This is ridiculous, for both cities.

KW's delays are worse in my opinion. Ottawa had a massive sinkhole to deal with.