ION Trains

• Cost of Grand River Transit monthly fares set to rise 2.5% this summer

  Waterloo Regional Council approved a 25 per cent increase to Grand River Transit Fares on Wednesday as part of 2023 budget deliberations.

  Canada

  Feb 24, 2023
  
• ION trains, GRT buses to pause Friday to honour children who died at B.C. residential school

  GRT buses and ION trains will pause Friday in remembrance of the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were recently discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2021
  
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• Kitchener Remembrance Day ceremony to disrupt ION trains, GRT buses

  ION LRT trains and several bus routes will be disrupted for several hours on Monday for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph in downtown Kitchener.

  Canada

  Nov 8, 2019
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• Waterloo Region earns international honour for TravelWise program

  The Association for Commuter Transportation has bestowed its annual Outstanding Transportation Management Association Award on the region.

  Canada

  Aug 14, 2019
• 2 ION LRT trains damaged in collisions on Monday morning

  There were two separate collisions involving ION LRT vehicles on Monday morning.

  Canada

  Jul 9, 2019
• Nearly 300,000 passengers boarded ION trains in Waterloo over first 11 days of service

  A total of 299,760 people took advantage of the region’s offer to test the trains for free.

  Canada

  Jul 3, 2019
• Tens of thousands in Waterloo region ride ION trains over opening weekend

  A release from the region says between Friday and Sunday, 73,000 passengers were on the trains which run on 19 km circuit through Kitchener and Waterloo.

  Traffic

  Jun 24, 2019
• ION LRT gets on track in Kitchener and Waterloo

  Grand River Transit cut it close on its promise to have the ION LRT vehicles taking passengers through Kitchener and Waterloo.

  Canada

  Jun 21, 2019
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• Why is Waterloo’s new LRT system named ION?

  Why is the new LRT line named ION?

  Canada

  Jun 21, 2019
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• ION launch to affect service at 600 GRT bus stops in Kitchener-Waterloo

  The ION LRT vehicles will begin taking on customers Friday but even more changes to GRT service will occur on Monday.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2019