Mill
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Kitchener, Ontario Canada |
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Coordinates | 43°26′02″N 80°28′42″W / 43.43395°N 80.47839°WCoordinates: 43°26′02″N 80°28′42″W / 43.43395°N 80.47839°W | ||||||||||
Platforms | Centre platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Connections | GRT buses | ||||||||||
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Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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Status | Under construction | ||||||||||
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Opening | 2018 | ||||||||||
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Mill 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.
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.