Recent content by rbt

One of the reasons we can do Deep Lake cooling is the lake gets deep very quickly. The water 5km offshore that part of Japan was only 18m, albeit a lot of soft mud that's still compressing [island is sinking]; 5km offshore downtown Toronto is closer to 230m.

It's amazing how much power Mike had over Bob Rae to force the NDP government [majority government at the time] to announce and begin the transition to photo health cards.

Using Ex grounds would explain the much larger than necessary [for planned Ontario Place buildings] scope of Bill 68.

ICE buses, including those in Toronto, experience mechanical failures and catch fire too. https://www.toronto.com/news/finch-ttc-bus-catches-on-fire-at-station/article_34449f30-3a6f-5c47-b262-68355519d45a.html

Meeting notice.

It looks like it is related to this website, which is a fantasy map. Line 5, 7, 9, X, etc. all line up with it. It is not official in any way. https://www.gtatransit2050.org/the-plan

Line 5 ridership at Aga Khan is up at least 1000% since last week. I say we give it a year to get some official stats.

Hopefully the staircase at ET Seaton park operates with full hours.

Has anyone noticed if the condemned building still has a roof today?

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.