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With all due respect to Alan Shefman, I'm afraid the only mythology here is the idea of York Region caring about TOD when they've gutted core bus service to one step above the stone age. York's motives are as transparent as Allan's hair. They know the hammer is about to fall on them and they...

Cluck all you want about cooperation but they've shown their true colours by going over the heads of QP. Their intentions should be clear as day by now. It's sincerely not Toronto's fault that York has been spending like drunken sailors who now sniff for a bailout from Ottawa to prop up the...

This is the ugly truth. York is desperate for another fix of development fees because the city has been mismanaged for decades. They are literally drowning in massive bath tubs full of debt. That is why they want QP and Ottawa to pay for it all. They need a hero to pay to keep the party going...

They're anti transit because buses for the plebs run every 90 minutes. York has bigger problems to solve first.

Nice try but I'm talking about the issue of building permits. Why are we letting crime pay? Companies that deliberately torch protected buildings for gain should be banned from ever receiving permits to build up on the associated properties and that should extend to any future businesses that...

Why would the city even entertain rewarding arsonists? They're bad for the community.

You expect a bunch of absentee American owners and executives to have any respect for Canadian war dead? Greed is the only monument they know.

Not in its proposed form it wouldn't but at least the planning department is an equal opportunity scrooge. Giving a subway to the politicians at City Hall (who would never be caught dead on the TTC to start) is more important than giving the 5000+ workers at the Globe & Mail a way to get to...

Each time somebody says a word against this project, a new paper is born.

It's called the Toronto Cheapening like they did for the Scarborough subway but I suppose what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Your picture shows how unprofessional the reports churned out by the planning department are when childish criteria (if you can even call it that) are...

The new office complexes are already happening on King St. Potential reliever stations will be on a street no one will actually need to be on if planning gets their way thus making them pointless because no one would use them.

I feel good already. Did Sorbara start working at City Hall when I wasn't looking? Is the strong pedestrian connection to Osgoode the cracked 10 foot wide sidewalk? There's no post secondary institution on Queen... planners are drunk. You have an indoor mall. You have an outdoor mall. You...

Last I checked people don't vote based on one issue but you are eager to distill an entire dubious election down to this one issue. If you insist on making it about this then let's recap! In a *three way race* Mayor Rob Ford won a *clear majority* in the SmartTack heartland. If it was about...

Tory was a DISTANT second in Scarborough/Etobicoke/York in the Smart Track heartland yet the myth of his choo choo train legend won't die. Why do you keep lying? See for yourself. Only the well off areas voted for Tory and there's the proof.

You keep on thinking that. "Smart"Track and that piece do not intersect in any way.

Planning staff wanted a Sumach stop for social justice reasons. The city has moved on from 1910 and so has the Official Plan but it appears the worker bees haven't received the memo. Why would you put it where people actually need to be and have some of the people walk when you can put it where...

It's trolling to point out the folks in planning with Keesemat as its head (the chain of command) are out to lunch because they seem intent on spending as much money as possible on the biggest white elephant ever? It seems like they're the ones trolling the city by conveniently not knowing...

So if I live at Victoria Park and Eglinton I have to pay extra for the privilege of using the subway for one stop to get to my local mall? Tory is finished.

Interestingly Keesemat's choice avoids the area with most of the tall buildings. She has always wanted projects like 260-322 King Street West to fail because the supplicants had the temerity to challenge her authority though it beats me what kind of grudge she has against the Ex. With the...

There's no such thing as "direction" when you're talking about sidewalks or PATH. I don't see any lane markings on the ground. Talking about taking advantage of "capacity in both directions" 100% disingenuous. If that is how the department of planning is thinking then god help us all. Their...