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Just wait for summer, when passenger volumes go up 30%. The few times I've flown to Europe from Montreal it's seemed very crowded in the evening too, FWIW - the quite narrow structure of the YUL terminal building not helping at all. Though I see they've built a somewhat fatter extension at the...

The PATH really is a significant strategic asset, and I would like to see the city get a bit more aggressive about making sure that new development in the shoulder areas of downtown is properly integrated. Without putting too fine a point on it: now that tech seems to be the main driver of...

The attention to appearances here is pleasantly surprising, given Hydro's usual utter disregard for aesthetic considerations of any kind.

So does Shiner’s ‘hybrid’ proposal really involve widening the sidewalks, and if so by how much relative to the bike lanes on Yonge option? I’d be interested to know if there really could be scope for more generous pedestrian space than with the cycle lanes, as was suggested upthread. One of my...

Waiting for block obsolescence to replace important equipment is a really unfortunate Canadian habit. In a more rational world the TTC would have been continually adding small numbers of new streetcars, from a mix of manufacturers and models, over the 30 years since the CLRVs and ALRVs came into...

Toronto is a *phenomenal* food city. Perhaps not at the super high end, but who cares? Every other category is outstanding. London, which these days gets a huge amount of oohing and ahhhing from the (largely UK-based) food press, has nothing like the overall quality, as I’ve learned to my...

So, um, almost literally the plot of Snowpiercer. What could go wrong?

Yeah, this is a point I’d like to see made more. Those commuters work at businesses too, which are benefiting. But they don’t get a voice.

I am reminded of a possibly apocryphal anecdote about James Turrell’s early work. Some of his installations were supposedly so immersive, and so effective in altering visitors’ perceptions of light and shadow, that people would try to lean on beams of light, thinking they were a wall or...

I would humbly suggest that if you operate a restaurant or shop in the densest neighborhood in Canada, if not all of North America outside of New York, and depend on customers who drive and park within a few meters for your establishment to survive — then it might be time for a new business...

They sell these at the Spacing Store. Great gift.

10 trains per week! It’s amazing anyone used GO in the early days.

Wasn’t the hall depicted in that image *just* replaced by a more-permanent structure? I can’t say first-hand but that looks like the old (circa 2010?) US commuter concourse, which was indeed a pretty grim joint. Upgrading the facilities for those small-city US flights really deserves to be a...

Page 34 includes a commitment that the Greenbelt will not be developed under a PC mandate. Very surprising coming from the party of Harris. Impressive.

Warsaw to London would be treated as an international flight, since the UK while a member of the EU is not a member of the passport-free travel zone. So while for Warsaw airport purposes a flight to Paris would go from the ‘domestic’ gates, a flight to London would be ‘international,’ and gated...

“Transborder” is purely a Canadian concept, pretty much. Airports in other countries don’t have US preclearance (with very, very few exceptions) so there’s no need for the three-way division of passengers that makes Canadian airports relatively complicated to design.

TTC trains really are very, very wide and spacious. Compare them to the rush-hour situation in Paris or on London’s deep-level lines and it’s really night and day. I know we rightly critcize our forebears for not adequately planning for growth in many respects, but this is one they got right.

The phenomenal growth in proposals for mid-scale office buildings east and west of the core really tells you something about the state of the Toronto tech sector.

Well, only six of them. For something billed as controversial, this is a surprisingly lopsided result. Shows that the tired War on the Car arguments aren’t so relevant anymore.

One of the nice things about Foster is that his designs age exceedingly well. I was recently in Hong Kong and marvelled at how futuristic the HSBC tower still feels, at least from the outside and in the publicly-accessible ground floor zone. If you didn’t know, you could believe it was built...