jamincan
Active Member
Ran past it along Ring Road this evening and noticed some cat wire up at Columbia as well.
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Waterloo Region Transit Developments (ION LRT, new terminal, GRT buses)
drum118
Superstar
Time to give up the ghost of BBD and look elsewhere
Bombardier LRVs for Waterloo region to be delayed
Bombardier LRVs for Waterloo region to be delayed
P0per
New Member
What ever happened with the log road situation? Is the work on that segment of King still on hold?
mpd618
Active Member
What choice does Waterloo Region have at this point?
drum118
Superstar
They have none since this is a Metrolinx order.
If they want to, they could tender the cars themselves and this will delay the opening until 2019/20, depending who suppling them.
CAF has delay the last car for Cincinnati a month and is already 4 months late.
Its costing CAF $1,000 a day per car for delivery and up to $300,000 now with the line going live on Sept 1st. Its taking 14-21 days to burn the cars in and make any changes that need to be done. CAF was late in delivering cars to Kansas City and their line goes live May 6. The last KC car was delivery last week as an option car.
P0per
New Member
I will answer my own question. Looks like the whole focus at the moment is uncovering the log road.
More photos from the day coming soon.
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mdrejhon
Senior Member
We are prolly stuck.
Rumor is indirect bailout of Bombardier via either VIA HFR EMU and/or GO RER EMU orders as the federal "billion".
P0per
New Member
April 17
Incredible amount of work going on - more photos that usual. Pretty much every major leg of the route is in progress now, with the Waterloo Spur, Borden and Caroline sections looking close to complete.
Catenary poles partially wired at R&T Park.
IMG_0969 by ION Construction, on Flickr
Enstire section of corduroy road uncovered on King St.
IMG_0993 by ION Construction, on Flickr
Lots of new track laid on King St.
IMG_1019 by ION Construction, on Flickr
You'll notice in the photo above that... the dome is gone! Here's the now-visible progress on Guelph Sub underpass:
IMG_1022-1027 by ION Construction, on Flickr
Utility relocation beginning on Duke St:
IMG_1032 by ION Construction, on Flickr
Track laid on Charles up to Market Station:
IMG_1043 by ION Construction, on Flickr
They've fixed the lubricator @Duck noticed was incorrectly installed
IMG_1046 by ION Construction, on Flickr
Track now extending from Borden onto Charles
IMG_1052-1057 by ION Construction, on Flickr
And the final leg of the route is now under construction - Ottawa between Charles and Huron Park Spur is now closed and utility work has begun
IMG_1058 by ION Construction, on Flickr
Rest of the day's pictures here
Incredible amount of work going on - more photos that usual. Pretty much every major leg of the route is in progress now, with the Waterloo Spur, Borden and Caroline sections looking close to complete.
Catenary poles partially wired at R&T Park.
IMG_0969 by ION Construction, on FlickrEnstire section of corduroy road uncovered on King St.
IMG_0993 by ION Construction, on FlickrLots of new track laid on King St.
IMG_1019 by ION Construction, on FlickrYou'll notice in the photo above that... the dome is gone! Here's the now-visible progress on Guelph Sub underpass:
IMG_1022-1027 by ION Construction, on FlickrUtility relocation beginning on Duke St:
IMG_1032 by ION Construction, on FlickrTrack laid on Charles up to Market Station:
IMG_1043 by ION Construction, on FlickrThey've fixed the lubricator @Duck noticed was incorrectly installed
IMG_1046 by ION Construction, on FlickrTrack now extending from Borden onto Charles
IMG_1052-1057 by ION Construction, on FlickrAnd the final leg of the route is now under construction - Ottawa between Charles and Huron Park Spur is now closed and utility work has begun
IMG_1058 by ION Construction, on FlickrRest of the day's pictures here
reaperexpress
Senior Member
OCS feeder lines are now installed from just south of Columbia Road to just north of Quiet Place.
Start of installed section:
Looking north across Columbia Road:
Looking south across Columbia Road:
Detail of mounting brackets:
Extra-wide arms on R&T Station platform:
R&T Station:
Looking north from R&T Station:
Looking south from Bearinger Road:
Start of overhead, looking south from Quiet Place:
Start of installed section:
Looking north across Columbia Road:
Looking south across Columbia Road:
Detail of mounting brackets:
Extra-wide arms on R&T Station platform:
R&T Station:
Looking north from R&T Station:
Looking south from Bearinger Road:
Start of overhead, looking south from Quiet Place:
TOareaFan
Superstar
If they were/are looking for $1B in federal aid as equity....and the "rumour" is (although I have only seen it here not in any media/press) that they would fabricate that with additional orders....does anyone know how many of those vehicles would have to be bought to generate $1B in profit that BBD would then keep as retained earnings/equity?
drum118
Superstar
Sorry to say, this line will not open until 2018 from what I saw today from end to end, with 700 photos of it showing up some time this week since they are back of the 1,450 I have to tag and fix now. Unless a major push is done to complete all the work in the next 14 months, no time to train drivers with a fall opening as plan.
Testing of the prototype car will be late winter this year or early 2017.
The 4 blocks in Waterloo was to be completed March 24 and no real work has yet to start because of the 1800's sewer line. Surveyors on site today for this area.
Can't believe that 2 block downtown in Kitchener is still not finish that I saw in Dec, with a May 24 date now.
No mast in the maintenance yard as well west-south of it to where the mast have brackets and wire.
The T&J station is next to no one in a short walking distance and will need a shuttle bus to service the area, otherwise no one/or a few will use that stop.
The Hydro ROW is almost ready to have sleepers and rails place along it and hope there are a number of crossing along it to allow people from the north side to the south side to shop, otherwise a low of cut fences and people illegal crossing the track.
The King Bridge is 5 feet higher than the existing rail corridor with the east switches to GO layover remove. GO trains have to use the west end to get in/out at this time. Will be about 3% grade out that yard until it relocated next year. Still require the corridor to be raise to about 2% plus grade.
Testing of the prototype car will be late winter this year or early 2017.
The 4 blocks in Waterloo was to be completed March 24 and no real work has yet to start because of the 1800's sewer line. Surveyors on site today for this area.
Can't believe that 2 block downtown in Kitchener is still not finish that I saw in Dec, with a May 24 date now.
No mast in the maintenance yard as well west-south of it to where the mast have brackets and wire.
The T&J station is next to no one in a short walking distance and will need a shuttle bus to service the area, otherwise no one/or a few will use that stop.
The Hydro ROW is almost ready to have sleepers and rails place along it and hope there are a number of crossing along it to allow people from the north side to the south side to shop, otherwise a low of cut fences and people illegal crossing the track.
The King Bridge is 5 feet higher than the existing rail corridor with the east switches to GO layover remove. GO trains have to use the west end to get in/out at this time. Will be about 3% grade out that yard until it relocated next year. Still require the corridor to be raise to about 2% plus grade.
P0per
New Member
R&T station this afternoon. Note that the platform has circular OCS poles, rather than the I-beam poles used between stations
The on-street sections will also use the circular poles. They have been installed on a stretch of Borden. Also, there's a depot full of them at the West end of Borden.
IMG_1065 by ION Construction, on Flickr
IMG_1066 by ION Construction, on Flickrtimio
Active Member
King in Waterloo was always scheduled to be closed through November. The corduroy road has set them back a bit, but they're pushing hard to finish the archaeological assessments to move forward.
The R&T Station isn't very nicely located. Perhaps when/if the area gets built out more it'll be better. There are hopes that there will be a crossing to Phillip made available. Some have argued that the stops should have been at University and Columbia rather than R&T and E5 to better interline with the bus routes that cross the rail corridor, but it's too late now with tracks laid through the area and both stations poured. Time will tell. Every subway system has a station out in the middle of nowhere, e.g. Bessarion, so it's not unique in that regard.
jamincan
Active Member
It would have been nice to have a station at Columbia and then another station at Quiet Place. Compromises were made to keep costs lower, unfortunately. While there have certainly been delays, the scale and pace of construction is pretty astonishing to me.
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Duck
Guest
LOL. What? So an out-of-towner shows up and decides after looking at our system for a day it's no longer on time and won't open until 2018?
Right.
Thanks for the input.
