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I disagree. I think LRT in Brampton is dead until a council that will approve the Main Street or Main/George loop route is elected. If that takes twenty years then that will take twenty years . . . and by that time Brampton will probably be the only urban municipality in the GTA without a LRT or...

They can't even keep their naming conventions consistent. If Yonge & Eglinton is "Eglinton" because it's an existing subway station then why isn't Allen and Eglinton "Eglinton West"? If anything Yonge & Eglinton should be "Yonge". Either you use the existing subway station name or you use the...

The whole "it's in the wrong place" position is one of the dumbest arguments I've every heard. Building this LRT doesn't prevent you from building other LRT's. The City of Brampton can build LRT's on every major street in the City if they like. Nobody is stopping them. The Province is willing to...

The loop was the preferred option in the original EA. If new information became available that affected the plan they would have had to amend the EA to change the preferred route. Going back to the loop route would require looking at the information that caused them to amend the EA to see if it...

We always hears from the shop owners, but what surprises me is that we don't hear more from all the big landowners in the downtown. There is lots of vacant and under utilized land just behind Main Street that would see a significant increase in development potential and value from an LRT...

Kids will probably call it BCPV. What if they call it Metropolitan Boulevard?

Kitchener used to be called Berlin until 1916. Then there is the story of the former coach of the Argo's, Bob O'Billovich. The story I heard was his background was Russian but the immigration officer was Irish.

I think the situation at the LRT stations (and TTC subway stations) is that there needs a couple of spaces for maintenance vehicles regardless, so if there is no maintenance scheduled for that day there is no reason why the booth operator or another employee can't use the spaces. In an...

Salsa - apparently you've never been on the Tube in London. Many stations are 20m to 30m down (seven to ten storeys). The deepest station is Hampstead at 58m (20 storeys). There are three reasons for this: One, there are hills and railways can only go up certain grades; Two, many lines have to...

I don't think it is a real title. It is the name of the last four Imams of the Nizari Ismailis. It is sort of like George in the British Royal family, or Louis in the French monarchy. It is not an official title bestowed on the Imam by the people, but a name chosen by the family. The next Imam...

The railway right-of-way through Weston is substantially wider than the Lakeshore right-of-way. Historically it was actually two separate right-of-ways, one CNR (Brampton Subdivision) and the other CPR (MacTier Subdivision).

They can google the current Aga Khan's address in France if they need to. Of course the problem they have created for themselves now is they can't easily rescind the Aga Khan name without pissing off the Ismaili community, which has just spend hundred of millions of dollars in the area on the...

Diesel trains run in tunnels all the time. The CPR's Mount Macdonald Tunnel tunnel in BC is almost 15km long. You just need proper ventilation. Putting a station in a tunnel is a bit more challenging. I think the biggest problem with the buried railway line idea is that when you put an existing...

I can live with most of the names but the one that bugs me is Aga Khan. Historically one does not name places after living people (the exception being royalty). You could argue that the station is named after the first Aga Khan I (Hasan Ali Shah c.1818) or II or III, but without the some sort...

You mean you live in a longhouse, hunt with a bow and wear deerskin clothes? Cool. But seriously, the difference between mosaic and melting pot is subtle but significant. It has less to do with the outcome and more to do with the attitude people have towards newcomers. The problem with the...

Two points. First, that ship sailed five years ago when the EA was done. If they switched to an elevated line now they would have to start right from scratch again which would put the project completions date back another four or five years. Second, there is no reason to elevate or bury the...

You would favour a coffee chain over one of the best Churrasco places in the City? The Second Cup, the Hero Burger and the shop north will all be closed. The station entrances aren't just a stair case. They have escalators, elevators, and massive vents. Some have bike parking or power...

The existing ramp that goes all the way to the channel has a radius of about 300m, which is about the same as the ramp from the 401 westbound to the 400 northbound - easy to take at 100kmph. The smallest radius an expressway-to-expressway ramp can typically get is about 150m, which is like the...

To get back to the original question, I think the relationship between the economy and real estate is there, but it is not a direct relationship. Assuming a fluid population - the growth or decline in population of a city is largely dependent on how many jobs it can support compared to other...

First of all I like this idea very much (in fact I proposed a trenching solution a few months back for the section between Yonge and Parliament), but there are two problems with trenching east of Parliament. One, there is no reason to trench this section since the land-uses within 30m of the...