Light-rail update: ION; Southwest LRT; DART

摘要

The Region of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, celebrated the start of ION Stage 1 Light Rail Transit (LRT) construction August 21 with an event at the future home of ION's Operations, Maintenance and Storage Facility on Dutton Drive. Stage 1 of the two-stage project is a 22-mile corridor that includes 11 miles of light rail from the Conestoga Mall transit terminal in Waterloo to the Fairview Park Mall transit terminal in Kitchener. Operations are scheduled to begin in 2017. In Minnesota, the Minneapolis City Council, Hennepin County and the cities of Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, Hopkins and St. Louis Park all provided municipal consent of the Metropolitan Council's planned Southwest LRT project. The project will operate from downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie and include 17 stations and 16 miles of double track.