Recent content by innsertnamehere

Everything above the ground floor is good. That ground floor retail space needs some architectural expression though to bring those materials down to the human level.

Sites like these really highlight how ridiculous the City's loading standards are. Like, look at that asinine ground floor plan. It kills the entire project. Just allow the Type G to reverse onto Beech. Better yet, allow curbside loading off Beech so you don't need a 20 foot tall ground floor.

I will add that there is still an onus to identify that an OPA/ZBA meets the tests of the Planning Act even with a settlement - The City and Developer cannot just agree to anything. Now, given that it's the City's entire job to evaluate those tests, usually they don't agree to anything that...

love the new york brownstone type vibe of these but they look out of place in suburban Aurora.

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Welcome to Toronto where the City is allergic to 4-lane roads and where any transit operating above 10km/h is illegal. If you are going to live here I hope you like cycling - it will be a great place for that. Otherwise, good luck!

anecdotally projects seem to be moving faster lately and I think it's because crews aren't spread so thin. There is a lot of... availability right now in trades from my understanding.

Building permit was issued here in October:

light metro. Only Toronto thinks you need 15,000 PPHD to justify a metro line. And BRT can handle higher volumes than you think - a well designed one can do 5,000PPHD or so. Demand routes higher than that need metro lines. Ottawa can absolutely justify a subway and that's effectively what they...

Yes, but even with those incursions they operate significantly faster which is the crazy thing. The money is better spent clearly delineating and enforcing the bus lanes - bollards, etc. - and it's not like there aren't solutions for right turning traffic and high volume intersections. As I...

Yes but even with TPS it struggles to keep up with curbside. Curbside with TPS works even better than median with TPS. Simpler is better. The bigger and more complex you make intersections the slower streets operate. Small things like centre running lanes creating longer pedestrian crossings...

That costs roughly double per mile and actually results in slower operations than curbside operations as you now have to deal with protected left turn movements for vehicles. You could do curbside lanes with an actual curb protecting the bus lane mid-block if you want, opening to allow...

Toronto has likely lost around 100,000 people in population in the last 12 months. The whole out-of-control TFW program pumped numbers up artificially high and it's correcting now. Finch should have seen a "simple" 6-lane widening with curbside bus lanes and more bus service, IMO, and taken the...

The report does indicated a realistic path to construction that would be difficult to accelerate from this point. These projects need ~2 years for detailed design and procurement and this is fairly consistent across municipalities. That said - the fact that they have not done any of this work...

lol, how about no? A giant blank wall beside the City's new park? Nope, Nope, Nope. Not the place for self storage. First Capital, what are you thinking?