Recent content by junctionist

Despite the fact that St. Clair Avenue West isn't pretty here with the used car lots and mechanics' garages, this area is quite interesting and surprisingly walkable. It kind of feels like a slice of Old Toronto (e.g. Little Portugal) before seemingly every neighbourhood gentrified. There's a...

Indeed they will be. That plant produced a plume of toxic pollution that impeded high-rise development in the surrounding area and depressed property values. With that said, it's sad that the building was torn down. It was actually an interesting Victorian or early 20th-century industrial...

This station is attractive and looks to have been well built. The GO connection is going to be amazing, especially with fare integration. It's just unfortunate that it meets the street awkwardly. The neighbourhood to the south was like an afterthought to the planners. There are no south-side...

Couldn't they have finished that cinderblock mechanical room on the roof or even painted it? "No one will see it!" the builder might have said dismissively at the suggestion. Well, clearly we can see it, and it looks cheap.

Many land owners look to inflate the value of their holdings for business reasons (e.g. to use as collateral for other projects). However, there seem to be people involved here who want to build here. They see that the area isn't going to be industrial anymore. They see the coming arrival of the...

‘Not having money’ means that they didn’t want to be bothered to preserve it. It’s actually really sad that our regional transportation authority, Metrolinx, couldn’t have been bothered to keep a part of a historically significant predecessor’s history alive by preserving the transformer house...

It's always a head scratcher to hear people talk about how Yonge has so much traffic downtown and then to see it outside of rush hour with about as many cars as minor side streets between Queen and Bloor. Yet the sidewalks remain crowded throughout the day. Yonge doesn't have much traffic most...

Filling up Hamilton's older neighbourhoods with low-rent housing, shelters, and half-way houses has been great for the downtown so far. More please.

More institutionalization strikes me as effective at reducing the number of homeless people on the streets and on transit vehicles. I think it's cringeworthy to see CAMH's new $1 billion+ campus replacing a campus of buildings that was just 40 years old and quite functional. That $1 billion...

The historic Toronto Suburban Railway transformer house on the site dating back to 1894 was recently demolished. It would have been far better for the community to reuse this historic building.

We just need one more highway, bro!

...and sold to people who don't care about that, unfortunately, because they never plan to live in the "home".

The best public and Catholic school buildings in the kindergarten to Grade 12 range in my opinion haven't been monochromatic. I'm thinking of the likes of Lord Lansdowne Public School, Carlton Village Junior and Senior Public School, Davisville Public School, Central Technical School, and...

There are some nice flourishes like the playful pattern in the narrow windows, but it's dull and overly corporate facade overall. Some colour would have enlivened it. Monochromatic facades often look amazing in renderings but end up looking dull when built and very dull as they age and lose the...

You put licence plate cameras at every intersection. Also, stickers could be made available to locals to be able to use the road economically (e.g. by paying a price for a year's worth of access) or for free.