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There are two big reasons why I don't see Allen Road being extended south: Ben Nobleman Park, and the Division 13 police station. I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but the City of Toronto bought those little parcels of land specifically to prevent the completion of the...

I had a co-op job not far from here last year. For a major transit area in a town with lots of real estate pressure, it feels rather bleak right now. The kind of services that currently take up this spot would be more appropriate in the industrial area near the 404 than right next to the high...

I have still yet to be convinced that a parkway a la William Halton Parkway in Oakville wouldn't be enough. We don't need to be funnelling local commuters onto here, we really shouldn't be thinking about an eight-lane cross-section or multiple park-and-rides. Maybe use the savings to...

Is that the origin of "Canary"? Huh. TIL. I'm more partial to something like "Foundry Road", myself.

Bradford West Gwillimbury already has plans in motion for the reconstruction of Holland Street to take advantage of traffic being diverted onto the Bypass. The Environmental Study Report for Holland Street was recently released, and there is no plan to reduce speeds along most of the corridor as...

Trucks are already banned between Melbourne and Marshview, except for deliveries.

Still just plans, plans, and more plans. We're a while out from anything shovel-ready. Just as well, too, I think a western extension would be more beneficial while we can still clear space for a TBM launch site near Sheppard West.

Northumberland County launched "Commuter Connect" back in September, a shuttle bus that includes a line between Cobourg and Oshawa GO. It's a fixed route with two morning trips and three afternoon/evening trips. Cobourg has a separate on-demand transit system within the town itself that doesn't...

Bradford has a system like this - taxi rides to meet peak-hour GO trains were only 25 cents a ride pre-pandemic. I'm not sure how this has changed with the BWG Transit subsidy though. A system like that from St. Thomas to London could be useful, but I question if it would tamper momentum for a...

Toronto needs a little more colour. Let's use Stuart Semple's pinkest pink instead. Taken from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artist-only-person-banned-using-worlds-pinkest-pink-180961464/

Of course, the idiotic monster homes are their homes.

I love the idea of intensifying in and around heritage areas to create a vibrant mix of old and new. But not like this. "It's downtown" is not a good enough justification. We need to be encouraging the "missing middle", not smacking towers on top of them.

If it was going to connect with the 400 at all, I would loop it around the western edge of Barrie and across the north shore of Little Lake, and merge it into Highway 11. Such an extension would also pummel Bradford, New Tecumseth, Essa, and western Innisfil with suburban sprawl and logistics...

I would support extending the 427 to Bolton, if it was feasible, but any farther than that is pointless - there will never be enough demand generated beyond there to justify a full 400-series highway. Also, who else would even support a northwards 427 extension outside of Caledon? Part of why...

https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/local-news/reconstruction-of-county-rd-88-bridge-on-the-horizon-5940581 The old two-lane bridge crossing over Highway 400 just west of Bradford is set to be replaced beginning next year. It's one of the last original bridges from when the 400 first opened, and with...

There is a train layover facility planned in Bradford West Gwillimbury to handle overnight train storage, and it's intended to support the additional trains that electrification will allow GO to run on the line. A Metrolinx presentation on the facility from 2016 can be found here.

The Barrie line is also a relatively quick win where electrification would strengthen the case for some infill stations - particularly Caledonia, Highway 7, Mulock, and Innisfil/Alcona. It's also not like Metrolinx can't make headway on multiple corridors at once.

So is that a vehicle-only tunnel? It looks kind of short to me...

I really hope this is a bait and switch. It's ugly and pretentious, and it makes me think of a 1980s bathroom tile pattern. Toronto has a spandrel problem, not a rectangle problem.

The Design Review Panel Presentation says there will be "two or more commercial spaces" on the ground level (which some of the parking will be for), and the landscape plan seems to imply that the parking lot will be used for both phases of the property's development. The parking ratio is going...