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For the most part this project is dead. Killam withdrew their OPA/ZBA application in November of 2020 citing uncertainty in the commercial/office markets. Since then there hasn't been any additional plans for the site. The only building that is progressing is the currently under construction...

There's a total of 4 fields on the site, 3 that can be used for football/soccer, then the purpose built cricket pitch.

This is actually phase 3 of the overall park project. Phase 1 was completed in September of 2020 which included the opening of the two artificial fields, parking and play ground facilities. The cricket field and the natural turf field were built, however they opened a year or two later. Phase 2...

Developers do take most of the refused projects in Waterloo to the OLT and some have come out with height increases, others are just sitting there slowly working their way through the system. There's all sorts of projects in the University area but there all student housing but they do tend to...

Kitchener will definitely have a cool skyline, Waterloo definitely won't, they fight over anything taller than 25 floors, so developers only build 25 floors which makes Waterloo's skyline rather uninteresting.

As a side project I've been modelling the future skyline of KW, inspiration for it was originally taken from pancanadianskylines on Instagram, who after discovering UT happens to be @ericmacm. Since the last post about the model for KW there's been a bunch of additional proposals that have...

There was a Record article earlier this month that showed the breakdown of boardings by fare type compared to 2019. Another of the charts displays the % of ridership by type. The data is from the September/October periods of 2019 and 2023. In 2019 the amount of monthly pass holders and other...

You beat me too it, I was going through all the docs last night and was planning on making threads for some of the projects that seem to be furthest along. Like you mention it's certainly a project thats way out, but considering everything planned around here it certainly fits. However...

ION opened without ATP to begin with, it was months into operation before they finally got it to work, I want to say late 2019 or early 2020 but it could've been later than that, the signs that indicate the various signaling blocks were up by late 2020. Even now nearly 5 years after the ION...

You're mixing up Cambridge city council and the Regional Council, this project is not a Cambridge project it is a Regional project, you'd be hard pressed to find a Cambridge councillor who thinks the city should get higher order transit, they're all a bunch of NIMBYs. Secondly there is...

Yeah, getting to Cambridge from the existing terminus at Fairway requires 6 bridges which make the price astronomical. The primary issue is that all the bridges are from Fairway to Pinebush so for the business case they are considering a case where they only building the Pinebush to Galt stretch...

Yes they run summer courses, so do many institutions, the point however is that the college is not purely the reason for an increase in ridership, certainly it plays a substantial role of the general ridership increase throughout various parts of the GRT network but it isn't entirely why. If...

Sure routes feeding into the college are exceptionally busy but you certainly see more families and younger people using it when compared to 5 years ago so there is definitely a modal shift happening, sure it isn't necessarily substantial yet but it's definitely happening. It was particularly...

There's no reason they couldn't go the same speed as traffic running right next to the LRT. The same dangers that are presented to an LRT(Bikes, Pedestrians, Driveways) are the exact same as those presented to cars driving on the road, if it's safe for a car/transport truck to drive 60kmh...

Waterloo Region has an obsession with roads changing names at intersections and it's definitely something that people who move here find to be extremely strange. A lot of it has to do with how the cities grew into each other and how the subdivisions were made so in this particular case Eagle St...

Between downtown and Fairway there's more than a few improvements they could make to speed up the route, the entire section from Mill to Block Line comes to mind, the slow down before the bridge in the train corridor, the slow order on either side of the Hayward S bend etc. Alot of it has to do...

When Waterloo Region was first switching to cards from paper tickets Presto didn't want to work with the Region so ultimately the Region ended up picking EasyGo, even though Presto was the preference. The entire implementation of EasyGo was a fiasco, machines would randomly stop working, the...

That parking lot is owned by Manulife, they had a proposal for two towers that got to the site plan stage but since then it's gone stagnant. If they do go forward with it again it's going to be completely redesigned since the density originally proposed is nothing compared to what the rest of...

The Region already owns everything that they needed for the transit hub to go ahead, the platforms as well as the transit hub is on land the Region previously owned between King and Duke. Everything for the transit hub was self contained to that site. Phase 1 which includes the bus...

Another thing is that the contract that the RoW signed with Grandlinq only mentioned peak headways of around 7.5 minutes, there are currently enough trains for doubles. The region has 15 trains and during peak times there are 5 sitting in the yard so they could certainly run doubles. However...