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Really? My American Sycamore starts late too, but it is almost fully leafed out today. This is about a mile from Bay and Bloor. Would sycamores do better than London Planes in that site, Northern Light? Seems like a good compromise if so. Most of us would never know the difference.

I vastly prefer this kind of conspiracy to the usual system of random politicians wildly spending my money to troll for votes in Scarborough.

I don't know the full story. We were supposed to get Jersey barriers along Bayview, insuring a protected path all the way from Brickworks down to Rosedale Valley Rd. Then, they said the offroad path would be rebuilt (and new connections added to it) as part of the Lower Don Trail rethink. But I...

WK, you realize that is the same study you already linked to? At first I thought we were getting a groundswell of these things...

Good points. In brief, they count police and courts but not as far as I can see sewers. And they mention accident costs but don't include (these would of course be quite large). I guess this is right. I for one am surprised that a reputable study finds that road taxes pay for roads. But it's...

Thanks for providing the numbers to back up my "unsubstantiated bunk that is unsupported by the evidence". Tearing down the Gardiner east is no cheaper than maintaining it. As to the rest: great use of graphics I guess, but what is your point? You are not going to will this traffic away by...

Whether it's 3-5 minutes (city estimate) or 5-10 minutes (U of T estimate) delay, that's a lot of extra cars idling and fuel burning at rush hour. I'd like to see an estimate of the health impacts of that. With so many people now living along the central and western Gardiner, that would be...

And how does it look down on Lake Shore? :-) It would not take much congestion at the offramps to fill in that smooth sailing between Yonge and Jarvis. Then the whole thing is congested again.

That $500 million figure is very misleading. Tearing down the Gardiner is NOT ANY CHEAPER than refurbishing it completely right now. The supposed extra cost of the maintain or hybrid options is the higher projected maintenance costs OVER 100 YEARS! First, nobody really knows how much that...

The eastbound Gardiner is already regularly backed up from Jarvis to Park Lawn. So, anything that slows traffic at Jarvis, even a bit, will necessarily affect drivers all the way back to Park Lawn, right? That's just logic.

I think that's right. (Although I think it's a pretty lame name, and it's not likely to survive past the planning documents.) City input into infill stations and vehicle choice is huge, and worth paying city money for. Another big "get" would be sharing the UPE dedicated track with west-side...

Examples? Here's a giant counterexample for you: to expand the Georgetown rail corridor, Metrolinx clearcut all the vegetation along the West Torobnto Railpath parkland, they are installing noise walls that were not part of the plan, and they have effectively cancelled the Phase 2 extension...

^Ontario drivers paying up to 90 per cent of road costs, study reveals Love to see the smart people here debunk this study ...

The Star is reporting that it took a five-hour in camera session for City Council to appoint Peter Wallace to succeed Pennacchetti as City Manager. Does anyone have a guess as to why...

This makes no sense to me. The city certainly did have a plan for the Richview corridor, it was called Phase 2 of the Eglinton LRT. Why Rob Ford was permitted to sell it is a mystery to me, but it is not because of a lack of foresight -- something more nefarious, surely. The notion that the...

You're not alone. In the last 10 years, their passenger miles are down 7% and their real passenger revenue down about 20%. The operating subsidy per PM is up 50%. I don't know if it's Porter, or the delays, but something's clearly not working.

No, airport debt is not backed by the government. That is why the airport authorities were created - so that they could issue their own debt in a way the market was willing to buy. To get back on point. This kind of setup won't work for VIA. The airport authorities and NAV Canada work because...

Yes, I see the point. But I think it's 3000 alighting at Don Mills at peak hour, according to the models. There's got to be that many of more doing the same at Bathurst and Broadview. It's not that bad, imo.

I don't think there are any airport crown corporations left. They are all non-share capital corporations, i.e. a kind of P3. http://www.cacairports.ca/node/95

Maybe I'm reading too much into your post, but it seems we now agree that UPX should be evolved into a true intra-urban RER/SmartTrack/S-Bahn/whatever. OK maybe with a small premium if you choose Airport branch instead of Bramalea branch. But, let's give Metrolinx a little time to catch up to...