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For sure, you have grounds to be skeptical of my argument. In return I would say (as I have several times in the Gardiner thread): do not worry about the estimated cost differences of the different options. They are of such small magnitude they should not affect your thinking. But to recap...

And yet the delta of land is one of the main arguments for tearing down the highway, despite the greater capital costs of this alternative. My point is sort of parallels the argument that greenbelts cause more sprawl as developers jump over the greenbelt to get cheap land. Of course there is a...

I'm amazed about your ability to go on arguing a point, long after you and everybody else has forgotten what the point of the argument is. In this case, due to community objections, a decision was made to run 2 km of a LRT line underground, underneath an existing reserved transit corridor. I...

If he were thinking that, it would be highly irresponsible of him. The delivery delays are extremely costly to Toronto, in that it reduces the capacity of our system causing overcrowding and slower travel, and it means that the investments we are making in maintaining old LRVs, in building the...

Why not closed Soho south of Bulwer St. Use the road allowance and the 6 m strip to create a small square. Together with the Black Bull sidewalk that seems like enough for a sense of place. It's not the Grande Place I admit, but it does already come with patio seating!

So even if the trim is original it wasn't painted black until some time between 1904 and 1921. The lighter shade would be better methinks...

Whenever I criticize parts of the status quo beloved by the Left, I am compared to the Fords. It's the Godwin's Law of Urban Toronto!

Power plant is great, but it's true it gets very little traffic, even when the promenade is busy. It's a mystery to me. It's free, people!

I wasn't clear. I'm just saying, if we tell developers that they have a few hundred more acres to develop between Jarvis and Cherry south of the rail lands, then that's what they'll do first. If we keep that land undevelopable due to the Gardiner, they'll have more incentive to leap over it and...

Well, don't worry, it was quite a while ago. To refresh your memory you could read the 2010 Environmental Project Report, which clearly states that the route to Malvern along the corridor should be underground, and also why. Of course that made the extension far more expensive.

Yes, I see it regularly and have been inside a couple of times. As an exercise in formalism, I think it is trying to do something but ultimately it fails. The decision to mimic the size and shape of the original in a glass box leaves the extension looking inadequate in comparison. It lacks...

Supply and demand, right? No I meant the public space of the Don mouth naturalization. Anything that delays that is costly, in my view.

Salsa, nobody is proposing a bike lane of any kind along the new Gardiner boulevard, are they? So what is the point of your pictures?

Not to how torontonians pronounce Tirana. Fortunately for us

Semantics. As I recall it, the NIMBYs wanted the extension to have a large underground component, which forced costs up sufficient to make cancellation inevitable.

It strikes me that tearing down the Gardiner sets back the Lower Don development plans another ten years, because develop able land in the Portlands won't be worth much if there's a dozen condo buildings going up at the foot of Jarvis and Parliament. I'm sure First Gulf is worried about that...

Is that the route considered for the SRT extension during the Miller years? As I recall it was killed by resident objections. I can't imagine they'd be more favourable to RER trains in their backyards than they were to LRT trains.

How many MEC members are reading this? Can't we pack the AGM and stage a proxy fight, or something?

Percent for art is a boondoggle. It has financed dozens of lowest common denominator pieces, and dozens more afterthoughts thrown down willy nilly around condo buildings. Even our own Kapoor looks to me like a child's paper mache science project, thrown away unceremoniously after the fair...

Totally agree