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It was a bafflingly random response. Unless Amy Rose thinks parkettes are for compact cars...

Nice to see a few acres of land around every Spadina extension station (and Sheppard, and Yonge, and probably Eglinton, and ...) filled up with entrance pavilions large enough to host a royal wedding and enough parkettes around them to permit a few holes of golf. It's fine around Rosedale...

There's already many examples of towers in the park redeveloping their 'parks.' However, 20 down, 980 to go, or whatever the numbers are, still leaves more than enough room for a city program to play a big role.

Spin it as economic growth, environmental cost savings, etc., instead of focusing on the social warm fuzzies stuff, give it a new name...Bam, it becomes a Ford initiative.

Nope.

Uh, hardly anyone lived in the 905 back then, so comparing the 416 of 1970 (almost the entire GTA) with the 416 of today (less than half the GTA) is kind of pointless. Do you really expect a city that's adding millions of people to maintain the same socio-economic residential patterns over time...

Yeah, some 30 storey plain glass boxes are sooo high end and completely indistinguishable from a pair of skyscrapers with faceless gold windows or a thousand vertical feet of white marble.

Is PoMo like disco? Never been dead, but just hibernating? Always lurking and sometimes sneaking into the mainstream? Has the time come when we don't have to duck when we share pro-PoMo sentiments? With all these solid B, B-minus, or C+ towers along The Bremner (the area's new name, by the...

If Council slowly congeals into Fordists and anti-Fordists, and maybe some kind of fluctuating mushy middle, I'll increasingly wonder how different the council would be if ridings and wards had been redistributed before this election. It's been a few years and the councillors no longer...

So, you're saying don't build the Jane LRT. I agree, don't build it. There won't ever be strong ridership at the south end. That's just the way things go. There's nothing down there that anyone would be travelling to or from and so people along most of Jane will naturally gravitate towards...

There is no phase 2 budget. Jane was thrown to the wolves. Infamy isn't why ridership will probably stagnate. Things like the population decline along its entire length and the lack of much of anything along Jane, as well as intervening transit lines, are. Jane ends quite unceremoniously at...

How about The Bremner?

It's perhaps a bit unexpected that they would get approval for the tallest building[s] in Scarborough and then sell it...might a future landowner try to squeeze even more height/density/units out of the site? The fear with precast does have to do with the great likelihood that all 4 buildings...

Why do transit geeks always get so riled up when people don't know the official name of things? Lots of people call it the yellow line or "the subway." Even people who ride it often may only hear "Attention passengers on the ....... currently experiencing a delay at ......." They should...

It's not just the Spadina extension and Finch, it's Eglinton, too. People are either already making short-medium length trips on Jane or are transferring to other routes, and more will do so once these new lines are built. Jane just isn't going to have the same peak crowds that other routes...

Over time, more retail will be built on Finch and Sheppard as they're turned in Avenues/main streets, but it's highly unlikely that any interesting or thriving retail scene will develop on them. Yonge has the desirable pre-war main street retail buildings, and Finch and Sheppard have concrete...

The simple truth is that we can't afford a light rail-based transit system, especially one that ignores growth patterns, travel patterns, and the busiest corridors. We need the DRL, and we need to extend Yonge and run the Danforth line to STC. We need to beef up all the GO lines. We need to...

Jane station itself is not very busy...most of the Jane bus' riders are not going to Jane station. Maybe 1/4? Maybe less. We know that there's massive turnover along Jane and relatively little in the way of peak crowds because people are going every which way, and future transit lines will...

Though Menkes may have had honest plans to build this complex a few years ago but then decided to sell. Assuming Tridel is going to scoop it up, there should be a "no precast" clause. But, there won't be.

One option is optimal. Yes, extending the Danforth line to STC is Scarborough's number one priority. It's pretty much common knowledge to everyone other than a few transit geeks on the internet. Combining Eglinton and the SRT into one line helps hardly anyone and doesn't make any sense...