Recent content by jmi22

There was no change in alignment, station count or grade assumptions in the updated business case, and yet the speed magically increased? I don't think you even believe this.

Page 30, EGLINTON EAST LRT INITIAL BUSINESS CASE https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-226595.pdf Page 8, Sheppard-Finch LRT Benefits Case https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1663237567/Documents/Metrolinx/Benefits_Case-Sheppard-Finch.pdf 22kph over 10.3km =...

Goodness gracious that's quite a bill for just three years! 😂

What a mess, there's no excuse for these two bastions of incompetence to not have resolved these jurisdictional matters decades into the station overhaul project. That being said, the City needs to end it's ridiculous outsourcing of "security" to dubious 3rd parties, and have the public sphere...

New article up on the Scarborough East definitely, totally, for sure, Rapid Transit line: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2026/04/eglinton-further-east-city-council-reboots-scarborough-lrt-plans.60883 If this project's business case is estimating slower operations that the current buses, and Line...

Somebody got a fire lit under their derriere

It will be a mix of market rate and affordable. I was referring to the market rate units as obviously affordable units have essentially unlimited latent demand.

Agreed, it ruins what would otherwise be a stunning podium, and completely disrupts the potential for a quality public realm by preventing proper sidewalk widening.

Zero residential parking? With a fire station built into the building? We can safely expect this to take 15 years to fully lease out from first occupancy.

New frontpage story up: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2026/04/rapidto-express-lane-work-lagging-bathurst-and-dufferin.60835

Man that original house (hotel?) is stunning.

I think that barded wire is deserving of a heritage designation

Our own, temporary, taste of Detroit

Don't worry, I have it on good authority that we'll have a HSR station just around the corner..... and in Smith's Falls.... and maybe Laval.

Great! Now once they finish painting Nassau to Bloor, they can get started once more on the flaked off section from Lakeshore to Dundas.....and the repeat the whole thing over again ad nauseum. I must admit, the city bureaucracy knows how to keep a job going.