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Kingston can be a pleasant town to walk around in the late spring. Lots of old [for Ontario] limestone buildings. London is decent for a budget golfing holiday but the 20+ courses are outside city limits; so you'd probably be renting a car for that. There are abundant riverside bike trails as...

Given significant increases in construction costs, isn't there a fairly large viability gap? Vacancy is dropping but lease prices have been pretty flat since 2020 haven't they? Whats break-even on a major office development now? Net $65+/sqft?

Not just approval, they charge for it. Street-side stops are free. Union station usage fees are around $40 per bus but each operator negotiates independently and there are discounts for volume and off-peak use. I'd guess Hunter Street station usage fees are around $20 per bus; trivial on a full...

IIIRC the excavated portions of Finch were expected to be around 40% of the total project capital cost despite their small portion of total length; though that was back when TTC was still in charge of the project.

It would be very hard [expensive] to repair with only weekend outages. They'll hold it until the Ontario Line (and Eglinton) have been open and running well for a year then schedule an 8 to 12 week outage for that section of Yonge.

His 25 year period is being implemented by Metrolinx.

Kinda the same thing. The typical person cannot afford the type of unit they are willing to buy, and builders refuse to go bankrupt (like Cresford) building larger units at a loss. The few $3M+ 1000sqft new build units are only really moving in Yorkville and Rosedale.

Demolition continues

There's a new TV series on National Geographic called Toronto Airport Uncovered which has an abundance of operations details.

They can also approach Union from the West as there's lots of capacity room in the Kitchener corridor. Both the northern CN corridor and the Highway 407 transitway have some room to spare for a couple of tracks. Serve either the new Clark subway station or 407 Highway subway station, Pearson...

I suspect that was a date provided by Metrolinx. Not because it'll take the Presto programming team that long but because 3rd party requests are almost always their lowest priority.

That depends on how it's framed. A 15% cut in per-passenger operating costs might be achieved by lengthening trains while keeping the same number of staff; it depends on whether they can sell the additional seats or not. Faster travel times the longer trains allow would help with costs too. I...

I missed this piece and was only thinking of electrification restrictions. Yes, changing where the trains run would obviously have a significant impact on support requirements.

I presume this is an electrolysis corrosion concern? The added weight seems negligible even for overhead rail.

The irony in that statement is the best selling units right now [couple dozen per month] are the most expensive. Agreed, almost nobody wants 750 sqft for $1.2M but they have a small chance of selling 1500sqft for $5M in a better location.