Mill station

Mill
Station structurally complete, November 2017
Location Kitchener, Ontario
Canada
Coordinates 43°26′02″N 80°28′42″W / 43.43395°N 80.47839°W / 43.43395; -80.47839Coordinates: 43°26′02″N 80°28′42″W / 43.43395°N 80.47839°W / 43.43395; -80.47839
Platforms Centre platform
Tracks 2
Connections Bus interchange GRT buses
Construction
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Status Under construction
History
Opening 2018
Services
Preceding station   Grand River Transit   Following station
toward Conestoga
 Ion
toward Fairway

Mill[1] will be a stop on the Region of Waterloo's Ion rapid transit system. It will be located southeast of the intersection of Ottawa and Mill Streets in Kitchener, alongside the CN Huron Subdivision. It is scheduled to open in 2018.

Access to the platform is from the west, directly from the Ottawa Street sidewalk; to the east, there is only an emergency egress on the northern side.

The station's feature wall consists of ceramic tiles in a pattern of white, brown, and gray. The station will also feature the artwork Tall Tales of Mill Street by Terry O’Neill and Tara Cooper with totems displaying elements about local legends.[2]

The station is primarily surrounded by residential and light industrial areas; the closest major landmark is the Concordia Club, a major venue for Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, located 300m to the south.

South of the station, the LRT tracks share a corridor with the freight tracks but are physically separated from them. Each rail service has its own underpass of the Conestoga Parkway and bridge over Schneider Creek, before the LRT tracks divert at Hayward Avenue.

Rail tracks have bisected the Mill-Ottawa intersection for decades, but the addition of LRT tracks necessitated that it be rebuilt in a way that Mill Street would no longer be directly connected. Traffic along Mill coming eastward from the direction of downtown is now directed southeast along the tracks to a T-intersection with Ottawa, south of the former four-way intersection; that intersection is similarly now only a T, with Mill continuing east but westward traffic having to redirect along Ottawa.

References

  1. ↑ "Mill". About ION. GrandLinq Contractors. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
  2. ↑ Beattie, Samantha (February 16, 2017). "Ion public art costs more than anticipated but will make region "friendlier"". Waterloo Region Record. Retrieved January 3, 2018.


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