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Once per day in each direction, late at night northbound and early morning southbound. When the LRT is operational, it will be restricted to between 1AM and 5AM as they share the southbound LRT track from Erb through Northfield.

Locks in Sault and Niagara are closed for the winter, not to mention the massive amount of ice in the way of reaching said locks. Ice was freely flowing down the St. Clair River near Sarnia this week, but there are likely some fun jams upstream.

There is a co-fare of $.50 on GRT for those transferring from/to GO. Just show your Presto/ticket.

Waterloo Region required the fare card to go to tender, and Metrolinx/Presto doesn't respond to tenders.

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The third LRV (504) has been delivered to the maintenance facility.

I read that the event was postponed by a day. The article is no longer available, suggesting the Whig may have jumped the gun on whatever it was they were reporting.

Soon, is the message at least. No firm dates that are public yet.

Latest report to Regional Council stated that 504 would be delivered in Nov with 503 coming in December.

Current rumbling in KW is that Bombardier is delaying delivery to use the vehicle as a showpiece for this event. Not sure how substantiated, but it's somewhat ridiculous if true.

Variable speed limits with speed cameras mounted to the back: https://goo.gl/maps/3iSPkFNmip52

Speed cameras are prevalent throughout the UK with signage reminding you that there are cameras in use, although I saw a stat recently that only 52% of them are active.

There always is the potential that Bombardier is still surprised that they could actually produce LRVs for Ion so fast that they haven't gotten over the shock yet... Once they snap out of it, they'll come flying out the doors.

502 is in the Lancaster yard in Kitchener.

The old NB-EB on-ramp was a bit deceiving because although it started out like a regular on-ramp, it did a very, somewhat unexpected, sharp turn. They've moved this turn into part of the roundabout, which, by it's nature, forces people to slow naturally.

Unlike Hillcrest, the ramp for unloading is mobile. They can move it further down the line and tow 502 to the shop.

Side note: I was working for 411 at the time of the crash and remember fielding a bunch of calls requesting obscure airlines in smaller airports, eg Finnair in London, ON. Took us a while to figure out what was going on.

^ You can find the webcast here. I'm sure the presentation will find its way online soon.

It was Metrolinx LRV 1 that went to Ottawa.

Still open, AFAIK. No issues with the LRT - they built the King Street Grade separation without impacting access to the yard.