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There's no displacement.

Yes, it was a bunch of small-c conservatives that were pushing the Spadina Expressway, Scarborough expressway, and the rest of the Toronto expressway plan that would have destroyed this city.

I won't get into the George Jetson stuff, but otherwise this is the point John Lorinc was making in Spacing. But the travel time difference from the traffic studies is what is being used to oppose the remove option. There is no other good reason to support the hybrid. I'm more than happy to...

See post #2311. This is what I'm referring to. What I meant, but perhaps did not state effectively, is that the marginal increase in travel times from the remove option vs. the hybrid option does not change if the new transit is not factored into the forecast. From my perspective, that means...

Street traffic along Richmond/Eastern/Front is not that bad. People take that route because it is faster. If you are going west of downtown, it makes perfect sense to continue along the Gardiner. That would be what most people do. It's just not that many people. The Yonge/Bay/York ramp is busy...

Experts rely on assumptions. As a litigator, I can tell you that the key to most expert reports is in the assumptions. That's how UofT got the answers that its client wanted. The point raised by Matt Elliott that the removal of the Gardiner was nearly irrelevant in scenarios where additional...

Well, it's a good thing that the Gardiner supporters don't use hyperbole.

I'll admit, I have been expecting Mayor John Tory to start digging himself into holes for the past few months, but have been pleasantly surprised. I was commenting on the fact that construction would not be for a few months, which suggests to me that the groundbreaking is not really the...

So, another Monde-like groundbreaking that doesn't actually result in construction so that they can get a bit of press and reel in a few more pre-construction buyers?

It's 5:35 pm and the Eastern Gardiner is smooth sailing in both directions until you hit the Yonge Ramp in the west and the DVP in the East.

I don't hate cars. I own a car. I regularly rent a second car for work because my wife needs our 1 car. I periodically drive into the core for work, but only if I need to drive somewhere else during the day. On the weekend I regularly take the Gardiner/DVP to Scarborough/Markham for Chinese...

The ramifications of closing overutilized sections of highway do not translate into the ramifications of closing underutilized sections of highway.

But it is not backed up to Jarvis. I have never experienced a back up between Yonge Ramp and Jarvis Ramp, and rarely a back up in the left lane Spadina Ramp to Yonge ramp (even though the Yonge/York/Bay ramp itself may be backed up).

There is no logic behind building/maintaining highways into the core to support future traffic demand. The core itself cannot reasonably sustain a significant increase in traffic demand, so why would we want to bring more cars in? The Eastern Gardiner is nothing more than an underutilized 2 km...

I didn't know there were new ones like that. But they re-did all the turnstiles at Dundas West a few weeks ago before the Presto roll-out.

Ok but these are brand new turnstiles that they just installed.

The combination of Presto and the 3 teamways have really reduced the need for the average commuter to actually go into the concourses. So I agree, it will need to make itself a bit of a destination to be busy. A 30k square foot grocery store will not do that.

The Toronto Life article was posted earlier in the thread and the original trigger to the discussion. I hope they are not just looking for one tenant to open a 30,000 square foot fresh market, like some Longos thing. I don't know much about Osmington, but if they are in charge of the retail...

That's not what the Toronto Life article says. It says: "And that’s not all. With 165,000 square feet of new retail space planned at Union, “food and beverage will occupy approximately 65%” of that, according to Lawrence Zucker, President and CEO of Osmington Inc., the company responsible for...

I hope the food market works out. I lived close to Grand Central in NY for a few years and went to the Grand Central market all the time. It was always packed and had excellent vendors. It would draw both on people who lived nearby and on commuters picking something up before catching a train...