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The moraine is only part of the Greenbelt. The majority of what prevents development is the "Protected Countryside" designation. Where experts and municipalities had previously mapped features the Province used that information to set the boundary. In some cases they used municipal mapping that...

That's true. If the idea is to move cars and trucks as efficiently as possible from Lakeshore and Yonge area to the bottom of the DVP then you wouldn't need any ramps, except for at the end. As for the 'disruption' argument, there is going to be disruption no matter what you do. Even the...

As MisterF pointed out "There are no rules protecting single detached housing per se. The Neighbourhoods designation in the Official Plan requires new development to be in keeping with the built form of the area." But that does NOT mean that the existing built form must be maintained. "In...

Large international games ALWAYS take the name of the major city. If they didn't people from outside the area would be confused. Would you call the 2010 Winter Olympics the "Lower Mainland Games"?

I think if you had four lanes in a cut trench for through-traffic and four lanes covering it on top for local traffic then you could use two additional lanes as ramps between the two levels (essentially another lane that goes up and down - probably in the middle). It's basically the European...

From my experience a lot, if not most people, who work for the government have degrees in things like public administration, policy studies or even MBA's. Where the do have degree in Environmental Sciences or similar its with a specialization in high level policy and they went straight into...

It boils down to money because we live in a capitalist society. The government doesn't build space for the 100,000 people arriving in Ontario every year, the development industry does. If they don't build houses here they will just build them someplace else, perhaps on land that would make more...

The policy I've heard bandied about is "no net loss". If you want land taken out of the Greenbelt you have to find a similar sized piece of land to put into it.

The boundaries are well-defined, but they weren't well-defined by people in the field. They were well-defined by people in a board room looking at aerial photos and guessing where the appropriate location is. The result is a lot of logically developable land can't be developed because it is just...

Traffic should ALWAYS merge like a zipper. The only variable is the speed of traffic. If the speed is relatively high the zipper becomes substantially longer, which makes it seem like you're not merging right at the end, but you are merging as close to the end as it is safe to do so. As traffic...

This is a result of boundaries of the Greenbelt never being properly established in the field. Much like how Africa was divided up the bureaucrats at Queens Park just sat around a table drew lines on a map. That is fine for conceptual level planning, but what would normally happen in this case...

Good lord. Keewatin might end up like Rosedale for god sake, with four storey apartment buildings on every other street. https://goo.gl/maps/TPaXc https://goo.gl/maps/tAlAk https://goo.gl/maps/36Xhf https://goo.gl/maps/2oO5M But really its too late. They arrived 50 years ago...

Since driving is the "preferred" alternative people will drive until the roads get too crowded and it becomes quicker to take transit. Roads always operate near the saturation point at peak periods no matter what changes are made to them. The transit system just has to be robust enough to take...

1. They can build Mt.Dennis to Oakwood right away - you will probably see the start of construction of some of those station boxes this summer. They can't start Eglinton West to Laird until the tunnels are done because they are still sucking dirt through those tunnels and the station...

I don't think anyone is disputing that Toronto needs appropriate transportation solutions. The argument is the existing raised Gardiner may not be the most appropriate transportation solution for the 21st century. So instead of spending hundreds of million of dollars fixing and maintaining it...

Just a heads up. You won't win any arguments using Wikipedia as a source. Wikipedia can be changed by just about anyone and unless someone catches an error and makes a complaint errors are liable to stay incorrect. The source for those numbers leads to a dead link so there is no reason for...

I think a lot of people see the removal of any highway as a "war on the car" and are therefore against the removal in principle even though they never use that piece of road. The fact is most people arriving or leaving the downtown core use Richmond/Adelaide or Spadina/York. The majority of...

Perhaps they could tear down the Gardiner and make Lakeshore into one of those boulevards with underpass intersections like they use in Europe on urban ring roads, so traffic in the throught-lanes on Lakeshore never has to stop for lights. https://goo.gl/maps/bWAzt https://goo.gl/maps/9Mokg

I'm not sure I understand your criticism here. The areas currently being developed in York (and Peel, Halton and Durham) were always planned to be developed. Planning and investments for urban development need to proceed the actual construction by up to twenty years. If you had a car and were...

The main time constraint is that they can't just shut down the whole street completely for three years. They can only close down portions of the street, complete the work and then move to the next portion. Since most of the stations are under the intersections it not only affects Eglinton but...