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There is great opposition to the rails going through some middle class residential neighborhoods, such as on Allen Street. The much wider John Street nearby has larger houses and richer people. This article should mention that part of the issue.
210.0.205.235 ( talk) 01:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
This page should be deleted, or someone should take the time (likely a day or two) to write a proper article on it. However, I think the section about the rapid transit proposal on the "Grand River Transit" wiki page more than covers to topic with links to the Region of Waterloo's EA website.
The "Rapid Transit in Waterloo Region" page is very poorly written, with very little info and extremely poor grammar. It serves no useful purpose, as all the relavant info is already elsewhere on wikipedia, and should be removed.
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Every line article worth its salt has one of these now, so I've started a prototype in my userspace (see User:Radagast/Template:WRRT). Comments welcome. Radagast ( talk) 18:25, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
This is most likely the new name, given the staff recommmendation in today's regional report. I've already created Ion (transit system) and redirected it here; we can do a formal move when it's fully official. Radagast ( talk) 22:02, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:TRADEMARK:
So it should be: "Ion (corporately styled ION) is a proposed rapid trasit system...." Also, the article is about the system, not about the name. Ground Zero | t 18:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Source at Template:Ion LRT route diagram. Feedback welcome! Radagast ( talk) 02:54, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
This tag has been on the article nearly a year; do any concerns remain given how much work has been done in that time? If nobody objects I'll be taking it off soon. Radagast ( talk) 02:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
The info box shows that "Grand River Transit" is the operator, but that's not entirely correct, is it? Should it be listed as GrandLinq? -- timc talk 18:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Canadian stations) for details. Secondarywaltz ( talk) 17:33, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
I felt it was about time for individual station articles to start coming together. I'm working on a representative one in the draftspace - please look over Draft:Kitchener Market station and provide any edits or comments you feel necessary. Radagast ( talk) 20:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Not separately notable from the Ion transit project itself. RA0808 talk contribs 18:48, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
When those who push unnecessary merges succeed the utility of watchlists is strongly and worthlessly eroded. It guarantees that those who are interested in only one of the two merged topics will get a lot of false positives.
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The stylized logo is ion but in printed material, it's ION. https://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/FINAL_Stage-2-ION-PCC-No.-2-Display-Boards_reduced2.pdf
and http://www.grt.ca/en/travelwithus/FAQ-ION-Bus-Rapid-Transit.asp for confirmation.
IMHO, the title should also show ION, not Ion.
Peter K Burian ( talk) 18:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
@ Radagast: You have done major edits on this article. What are your thoughts on this? Ion or ION? Peter K Burian ( talk) 19:45, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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I did a minor update today but I see there is very little recent coverage of the future Cambridge plan. See my new content in the Opposition section; this should also be mentioned earlier in the article now that Cambridge is becoming the primary aspect of the Ion system. Granted, work on that line is not expected to start for another 8 years.
More info at https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7408649-cambridge-council-opposes-proposed-lrt-route-through-preston/ and https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story/7406690-city-council-endorses-lrt-opposes-region-s-preferred-route-into-cambridge/ and http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-city-council-planning-development-committee-lrt-proposed-route-1.4191845 Peter K Burian ( talk) 14:36, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
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The Ion system has more resemblance to a streetcar system than a true light rail system. That being said, the stations seem more like more stops than stations. Especially the downtown stops and one directions stops. They are not enclosed and only partially covered, many are roadside or in the right of way, no fare gates. I'm suggesting a wording change to stops. Saboteurest ( talk) 01:12, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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@ Blaixx: I already created a map a while ago. Is it that what you had in mind? -- Nobelium ( talk) 20:08, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Slambo: I already created a map a while ago. Is it that what you had in mind? -- Nobelium ( talk) 13:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Saboteurest: Hello, there is currently a discussion going on at Talk:Northfield station (Waterloo) about how to name the surface-LRT stops/stations on Ion rapid transit. Should it follow the convention of the surface stops on Line 5 Eglinton? Official sources tend to use neither stop nor station but lean towards station. Thanks, BLAIXX 18:38, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
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There is great opposition to the rails going through some middle class residential neighborhoods, such as on Allen Street. The much wider John Street nearby has larger houses and richer people. This article should mention that part of the issue.
210.0.205.235 ( talk) 01:22, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
This page should be deleted, or someone should take the time (likely a day or two) to write a proper article on it. However, I think the section about the rapid transit proposal on the "Grand River Transit" wiki page more than covers to topic with links to the Region of Waterloo's EA website.
The "Rapid Transit in Waterloo Region" page is very poorly written, with very little info and extremely poor grammar. It serves no useful purpose, as all the relavant info is already elsewhere on wikipedia, and should be removed.
70.49.41.11 04:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
Every line article worth its salt has one of these now, so I've started a prototype in my userspace (see User:Radagast/Template:WRRT). Comments welcome. Radagast ( talk) 18:25, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
This is most likely the new name, given the staff recommmendation in today's regional report. I've already created Ion (transit system) and redirected it here; we can do a formal move when it's fully official. Radagast ( talk) 22:02, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Per Wikipedia:TRADEMARK:
So it should be: "Ion (corporately styled ION) is a proposed rapid trasit system...." Also, the article is about the system, not about the name. Ground Zero | t 18:07, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Source at Template:Ion LRT route diagram. Feedback welcome! Radagast ( talk) 02:54, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
This tag has been on the article nearly a year; do any concerns remain given how much work has been done in that time? If nobody objects I'll be taking it off soon. Radagast ( talk) 02:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
The info box shows that "Grand River Transit" is the operator, but that's not entirely correct, is it? Should it be listed as GrandLinq? -- timc talk 18:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Canadian stations) for details. Secondarywaltz ( talk) 17:33, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
I felt it was about time for individual station articles to start coming together. I'm working on a representative one in the draftspace - please look over Draft:Kitchener Market station and provide any edits or comments you feel necessary. Radagast ( talk) 20:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Not separately notable from the Ion transit project itself. RA0808 talk contribs 18:48, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
When those who push unnecessary merges succeed the utility of watchlists is strongly and worthlessly eroded. It guarantees that those who are interested in only one of the two merged topics will get a lot of false positives.
In the days before authors were able to write modern hyperlinked documents, and they got to a point where they wanted to give readers a choice of what to read next, they used less than ideal work-around. They used traditional footnotes, sidebars, captions to illustration, to make their second points. These techniques are all far less usefinul than hyperlinks, like our wikilinks.
What mergists are ignoring is that using the wikipedia's wikilinks is a far superior way to navigate to a remote block of information than the techniques one uses in a linear document.
Once that information is foolishly merged, the reader can scroll to it. That is time consuming, and easy to overshoot. It requires cognitive capacity, better served to concentrating on finding one's answers. And, once you got there, how do you return to where you came from?
One can use your browser's built in "find" feature, to search for that other block of information. But modern browsers are primitive, and only allow users to search for one term at a time. Experienced users are probably already searching for something else, and will have to throw that away. Plus, once they got there, how do they return to where they came from?
When the urge to merge is resisted, returning from accessing a remote piece of information is trivially easy. The reader navigates to the remote information by following a wikilink, and, when they are finished, they return to where they left by clicking on the back button.
I've mentioned the brilliant Ted Nelson in other discussions. He was the brilliant guy who first coined the term " hyperlink", and who first popularized it in his 1974 book Computer Lib. He pointed out that there are all kind of perfectly reasonable ways for readers to navigate the written sum of human knowledge. It is really terribly unfair to our readers to force them to follow the path to knowledge mergists think makes sense.
The stylized logo is ion but in printed material, it's ION. https://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/FINAL_Stage-2-ION-PCC-No.-2-Display-Boards_reduced2.pdf
and http://www.grt.ca/en/travelwithus/FAQ-ION-Bus-Rapid-Transit.asp for confirmation.
IMHO, the title should also show ION, not Ion.
Peter K Burian ( talk) 18:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
@ Radagast: You have done major edits on this article. What are your thoughts on this? Ion or ION? Peter K Burian ( talk) 19:45, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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I did a minor update today but I see there is very little recent coverage of the future Cambridge plan. See my new content in the Opposition section; this should also be mentioned earlier in the article now that Cambridge is becoming the primary aspect of the Ion system. Granted, work on that line is not expected to start for another 8 years.
More info at https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7408649-cambridge-council-opposes-proposed-lrt-route-through-preston/ and https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story/7406690-city-council-endorses-lrt-opposes-region-s-preferred-route-into-cambridge/ and http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-city-council-planning-development-committee-lrt-proposed-route-1.4191845 Peter K Burian ( talk) 14:36, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
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The Ion system has more resemblance to a streetcar system than a true light rail system. That being said, the stations seem more like more stops than stations. Especially the downtown stops and one directions stops. They are not enclosed and only partially covered, many are roadside or in the right of way, no fare gates. I'm suggesting a wording change to stops. Saboteurest ( talk) 01:12, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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@ Blaixx: I already created a map a while ago. Is it that what you had in mind? -- Nobelium ( talk) 20:08, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Slambo: I already created a map a while ago. Is it that what you had in mind? -- Nobelium ( talk) 13:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
@ Saboteurest: Hello, there is currently a discussion going on at Talk:Northfield station (Waterloo) about how to name the surface-LRT stops/stations on Ion rapid transit. Should it follow the convention of the surface stops on Line 5 Eglinton? Official sources tend to use neither stop nor station but lean towards station. Thanks, BLAIXX 18:38, 10 March 2018 (UTC)