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Kitchener is trying pretty hard, though it's obviously got less money sloshing around than Waterloo. There have been a lot of warehouses and old factories that have been converted into offices, including the big Lang Tannery project. They've also got the condos planned for the old Forsyth/Lyric...

I think (fear?) that Ford's recent problems have more to do with competence than with ideology. People elected him with the expectation of significant cuts and attacks on the unions. What they got is a confusing battle over transit in which Ford seemingly wants to spend more money than the left...

Okay, now I understand. You want a subway to serve people along Dundas. I agree that it has redevelopment potential, though there isn't much there now. The question is where the additional stations would be located. The rail line crosses Cawthra at Dundas, so there's no difference there. It's a...

Coruscanti, I'm actually really curious. Since you live there, who are the people that would be taking a local rapid transit route rather than a parallel express rapid transit route? I can't see there being many more stations in Mississauga. The subway extension was planned to follow the rail...

Well, any regional rail line would already have a stop at Dixie and somewhere around the existing Cooksville station. What other people in East Mississauga are you talking about? People would also go out of their way to avoid the slow subway in favour of much faster service on a regional rail...

5 minutes is a conservative headway that's "attainable in Toronto." Lots of double track mainline railways have headways well below five minutes. The key is a consistent speed and no stops. With moving block signalling, trains can be separated at pretty much their stopping distances. If you want...

Sure, why not? If all of the trains are traveling at the same speed without making stops, there's absolutely no reason why they can't have headways well below five minutes. Most high-capacity corridors around the world are four tracks: two for local service and two for express. The ARL is...

Well okay, but who is served by a subway from Kipling that isn't served by a regional rail line from Kipling?

This is ludicrous. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. Vaughan loudly cheerleaded for condos to replace virtually everything in the former warehouse district, and now he's leading the charge to preserve a handful of the remainder? After he specifically blocked Heritage...

The problem is that the bus circles around downtown before it gets to your hotel. I tried to ride it out from a hotel near my apartment but the travel time was an hour.

The buses in the area are already packed. You would be hard pressed to fit any more down Yonge and into Finch station. After the subway is extended, improved service on connecting routes will add even more riders.

You'd have to ask the Americans for that as much as our government. Compare flights from Toronto to Europe with Buffalo to Europe, for example, and you'll find that Pearson is more than competitive. The problem is on flights to the States, where we have to pay both Canadian and American fees at...

Purely from a marketing standpoint, I'm shocked that they don't add the fifty feet or whatever that they need to make it the Tallest Building in Canada. Tallest, not tallest*.

Don't count on the Mid-Pen being truly dead. Dormant is probably the better term. Obviously it's never going to be built while the Liberals are in power, but if the Tories get elected it's a different story. And oh, look at where the Tory leader's riding is located!

If we want to retard sprawl and encourage redevelopment in the historic centres of the 905 towns, it's imperative that we build real regional rail on the GO corridors as soon as possible. Those station sites will only become truly attractive for high-density development if there's frequent...

Development along a subway line is valuable and beneficial, but by far the most important factor in a subway's ridership is the connecting bus routes. That's why the Yonge extension will be so packed.

The original subway line was also profitable. I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Yes, competition with the car has had an impact but Toronto's subway lines are as busy as ever (though the streetcars have lost a lot of riders). Fares, adjusted for inflation, are also a lot higher...

Fantastic news! I hope it really is good, but anything they do will be an improvement on what's there now. The biggest disappointment of the new terminal project was the food options.

I'm sad that the Fung Report plan for getting rid of the Gardiner has fallen by the wayside. It would have been a big improvement to the whole area, though it's probably too late now since all of the new condos have turned their back to the highway corridor.

My guess would be that's because of the decrease in downtown employment.