Waterloo Region Transit Developments (ION LRT, new terminal, GRT buses)

[drum118]

As it stands today, King St in Downtown Waterloo will open Nov 30.

They were doing a mass concrete pour for the sidewalks in Downtown Waterloo and not sure if all of it was done on Sat. If not only a small area to be done come Monday. Traffic lights being install. One block north of the RR tracks should be pave on Monday.

If Hayward is to open in December, a major push to get the tracks in place and pour at the rail corridor. Road is pave with sidewalk being pour.

The fence in the old hydro corridor is cut like I said it would happen in a number of places as people were crossing the new ROW at various points. Never visit those site. Both tracks are completely ballast, but still to be aline and compacted.

Some snap track has been built for the driveway for a car dealership. Less than a dozen workers on site at various locations outside the Downtown Waterloo area.

 

[ttcfan123]

I found out about this forum early this year and I must say it's pretty satisfying to see all the finished work that the workers (myself included) have achieved throughout this project.

Thanks everyone for the update posts.

 

[P0per]

November 27.

Rails are down for almost the entire length of the line. Uptown Waterloo and Ottawa remain to be finished.


Crossover into Conestoga Mall station
IMG_1761 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Northfield complete and looking magnificent.
IMG_1772 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Tie-in from Northfield to WaterlooSpur complete
IMG_1777 by ION Construction, on Flickr
IMG_1778 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Waterloo Spur portion complete up to Caroline and Erb
IMG_1815 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Tie-in to Caroline Complete
IMG_1819 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Lot of concrete curing to finish sidewalks and tracks on King St. in Uptown Waterloo
IMG_1823 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Crossover on King St. portion north of Green.
IMG_1837 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Excavation progress on CN Guelph underpass
IMG_1840 by ION Construction, on Flickr
IMG_1843 by ION Construction, on Flickr


Rails down on Fredrick between Duke and Charles
IMG_1852 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Ottawa St. after a contruction season
IMG_1865 by ION Construction, on Flickr

LRT track now down parallel to Huron Park Spur
IMG_1868 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Whoops, not sure how this got here... wrong project.
IMG_1881 by ION Construction, on Flickr

Terminus at Fairview Mall
IMG_1887 by ION Construction, on Flickr

View the rest on Flickr

 

[Markster]

I found out about this forum early this year and I must say it's pretty satisfying to see all the finished work that the workers (myself included) have achieved throughout this project.

Thanks everyone for the update posts.

Heh, do you like this thread, but want 10 times more activity and pictures?
Check out the thread on Waterloo Region Connected:
http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=14
Or the facebook group "I Support Light Rail in Region of Waterloo":
https://www.facebook.com/groups/81680629050/

This thread is positively slow compared to those!

 

[drum118]

I should note that construction fencing has been place on Weber St N Overpass Bridge by the railing. Like all overpass over electrify lines, fence protection has to be install for it.

 

[TransitBart]

Hahahahahahahaha....oh, you!

And it turns out that this was unnecessarily negative. May the trajectory be upwards from here. We have a prototype in transit and photographic evidence of a production unit in, well, production.

 

[crs1026]

Looking at these pictures I'm just astounded at the difference in the K-W urban photoscape between when I took this photo looking north on King St in 1969 and today. It's really great to see this project coming together. And while there may be a delay getting the rolling stock, the project has mostly run on schedule and without any real scandal arising along the way. One accomplishment worth celebrating.

- Paul

 

[KevinT]

Looking at these pictures I'm just astounded at the difference in the K-W urban photoscape between when I took this photo looking north on King St in 1969 and today. It's really great to see this project coming together. And while there may be a delay getting the rolling stock, the project has mostly run on schedule and without any real scandal arising along the way. One accomplishment worth celebrating.

View attachment 92783

Thanks for that, and the photo.

I had entirely forgotten that that ugly strip mall wasn't always an ugly strip mall! If we could have that factory back and convert it to lofts it would be a huge improvement. (Although the proposed King's Crossing development, http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=38&pid=19184#pid19184, would be even more of an improvement, assuming they addressed that pedestrian-unfriendly retaining wall and parking entrance.)

 

[drum118]

King Street in Uptown Waterloo to re-open Wednesday night

 

[drum118]

Region receives ‘Brownie’ award for rapid transit project

 

[drum118]

He looking after the Hurontario Project

Region’s LRT director leaving for Metrolinx

 

[Markster]

Some more from the ION facebook page. For generous values of "now".

Midtown (Grand River Hospital on the left, CTV Kitchener on the right)

Uptown Waterloo
The corduroy road has been replaced with LRT.

 

[drum118]

I finally got my backlog of photos up to date and it includes this one

All 250 photos I shot on Nov 26 for the system, including the open house are now up on site and you can find them at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/drum118/al...0590612016

 

[micheal_can]

I know an extension south to Cambridge is possible, and planned.

Besides that, is there anywhere in K-W that a second line would go to?

 

[innsertnamehere]

KW is the smallest city in North America to have a light rail line. Even the extension to Cambridge is rather overkill if you ask me.. two lines would be a long, long way off.