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Again, my impression is that the BIA underestimates the impact of people coming by transit -- because the store owners themselves tend to drive. When the 504 was not running, my commute pattern changed completely and I was on Roncy much less than I would have been otherwise. I'm sure it was the...

My impression of the BIA is that they are too bone-headed to realize that many of their customers come by bike

The ground floor of the building is entirely commercial, essentially a small mall with a Dollarama, CIBC and several other stores. Surely these businesses would benefit from a direct connection to the subway and the GO station.

The Toronto District School Board requires children to be picked up from school (up until grade 5, I think).

I noticed today that the new connection to Perth Avenue is now open (a bit north of Henderson's Brewery). This is part of the new alignment of Sterling and Perth, and it makes the detour around the Bloor Steet closure a lot more comfortable for cyclists Looking west from Perth Ave towards the...

This description doesn't mention Dundas West station though. Randolph Ave is at the Railpath, so this sounds like it is for the tunnel under the new track only (Randolph Ave to Bloor GO) rather than from Bloor GO to Dundas West Subway

Looks like a death trap to me, considering that drivers are likely to speed here. I would not feel safe on that strip and would ride on the sidewalk instead

I'm still angry at Andrea Horwath for opposing it too

My initial point was about the likelihood of Bailão or Saunders managing to get a centre-right coalition to coalesce behind them. That portion of the electorate unquestionably includes some people who are too racist or too sexist to vote for someone who is not a white man (whether they...

Your points demonstrate how normalized and pervasive the erasure of anything non-English is in anglophone North America. Hence it is an obstacle for someone like Bailão to appeal to (centre-)right voters who previously have only ever voted for white men with Anglo-Saxon names

Sorry adma, this wasn't meant as a dig on your spelling, but rather on the spelling on Bailão's own lawn signs -- the fact that she is deliberately misspelling her own name to appear less "foreign" says something about the centre-right electorate

I think a major unacknowledged obstacle to any coalescing of the anti-Chow vote is that neither Saunders nor "Bailao" (hiding the "ã" on her lawn signs) are palatable to those centre-right voters who have never voted for anyone other than a white male native English speaker.

I wonder if they are surprised by the opposition. I certainly am. The proposal seems so eminently reasonable, and they already have the experience of occasional car-free Sundays. The whole thing seems like such a no-brainer that it's hard to understand how anyone could be opposed to it.

Very disappointing. The GreenP parking lot is directly across the street from their business. What more do they want?

I'm kind of surprised that noone has stolen the pavers yet, but someone has been building little Stonehenge arrangements.

As discussed in this Urbanist Agenda podcast episode (NotJustBikes&RMTransit), the overlap is such that some progressives might vote for Bailão to prevent Saunders or Furey from winning. However, if Bailão is truly in second place behind Chow, that motivation disappears.

Stop trolling

or instead of much longer subway rides! (already plenty of people take UP express from Bloor(Dundas West) to Union instead of taking the subway, and the time save would be greater for longer distances (e.g take Barrie GO from Caledonia to Union instead of line 5 to line 1)

I'll be sure to pass by there as often as I can, wearing different hats

If these stations get build, there will be more public pressure for fare integration. Without them, the province might get away with delaying it again. Look at what happened with UP Express: the initial service plan was terrible, but public pressure made them adjust it once the line had been...