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I'd love to see a building of this more "classic" architecture style take a prominent place on our skyline (250 to 300 m). The few examples of classic architecture we do have have long since been obscured by bigger buildings.

Yup, this tweet summarizes everything wrong with our driving culture.

As a driver myself, I’ll say that even I’ve come to prefer driving on single-laned roads. Multi-lane roads are inherently chaotic. They encourage drivers to serve and weave around each other to save seconds off their trip. Even in my car, driving down Parkside doesn’t exactly feel *safe*. The...

I’m, yea. I was gonna say that the TTC wanted a Queen Street transit priority system, similar to what we want on King, and they were looking to implement it at the same time period anyways. Get on with it.

With hundreds of thousands of people living and working downtown, there’s no reason (besides our lack of will) why a very significant portion of downtown trips shouldn’t be completed by bike.

We need to stop treating cycling infrastructure as optional. With the population of Downtown Toronto set to double, and with Downtown’s subway and streetcar network remaining grossly inadequate, the only way we’re going to move that many people efficiently across the core is with huge upticks in...

As this is happening at the same time as YongeTOmorrow, this would be a good time to redesign and reconfigure Queen Street between Yonge and University. There is potential for coordination with the University Avenue redesign as well (if that project is approved)

This is our greatest weapon yet in the War on Cars :cool:

I wish that lighting feature was permanent. It would look really awesome looking down from Front Street too.

Our deficiency isn't in transit expansion (Toronto has the largest transit expansion program in North America), it's in land use planning. Transport planning and land use planning must go hand-in-hand. All the public transit in the world doesn't mean anything if the land use cannot leverage the...

We’re committed to fighting climate change and congestion, yet we continue to build sprawling suburbs that we know damn well will disproportionately induce more sprawl and climate change. I don’t think even the most pro-sprawl people could argue against this. If we were serious about cutting...

I was just exploring some imagery of random rural and suburban towns in England, and I was struck by how dense they are compared to North American suburbs, while still not being overwhelming. The fundamental road layout in these rural and suburban towns aren't any different than what is seen in...

Yeah, I completely agree. This elevated extension would almost be comically inexpensive as well. We’d need elevated stations at Lawrence and York Mills and underground station at Sheppard. Sheppard Station might cost in the ballpark of $400 Million, but I couldn’t imagine the rest of the...

Yup, I’m happy that the OL has elevated segments, if only because it may finally break the “underground-or-nothing” regime we’ve had with higher order transit in this city. I really hope MX aggressively pursues design and planning of the northern extension once planning for the south section is...

Particularly with the Ontario Line at play. There’s zero possibility of the segment between Kennedy and Don Mills exceeding capacity.

Also for trips orginating at Kennedy Station and terminating near an Ontario Line station, the ECLRT + OL will be the fastest route.

Much like the “local traffic only” signs, these regulations seem very difficult to enforce. A cop would have to see the truck enter the street, and then follow it until it leaves to determine if a violation has taken place. I imagine it’s the kind of thing that’s only enforced selectively...

The rapid progress of the FWLRT really oughta dispel any notion that we “can’t” build rapidly. Rather, we choose not to. The previous Liberal government would “fund” a project and then sit on their hands for 5+ years because they didn’t really want to spend the money out of fiscal...

Kids that were in elementary school when the ECLRT was proposed now have graduated from college and maybe even started a family

There doesn’t exist that much travel demand between Rexdale and North York Centre. Trips downtown would require a trip on Line 4 and then on Line 1, which would be significantly slower than a presumptive OL extension to Rexdale. I don’t believe this routing would generate enough usage to be...