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I always feel so embarrassed for you when I read your posts. Duh, of course the trips to one mall are going to be less than all total trips to all workplaces in the entire city, or all total students going to all schools. Total shopping trips, though, are far higher than you think they are...

Simon is confusing labour force with employment counts. Ward 18 has 10,000 jobs and a labour force of 25,000. That kind of matters when you're claiming "density" is so important. Every neighbourhood is going to have a certain minimum number of jobs if only due to elementary schools and corner...

Make it literally pay as you drive...a coin slot on the dashboard that flashes whenever your last 25 cents worth of insurance runs out. Car-sharing is only useful when you live near enough other car-sharers that a car-sharing car storage site van be viable in the area. There's many, many...

Yes, malls are great trip generators. Yorkdale has next to no TTC routes feeding it. It doesn't have buses on Lawrence or Wilson dumping like 15,000 people a day into the station. It has the mall. Sherway is not on a subway line and the bus connections are less than ideal. Square One, on...

Thank god Transit City is focused on such undesirable places! Oh, wait, that's a bad thing. Meanwhile, growing neighbourhoods like everything along the Gardiner, or the Sheppard corridor from Downsview to STC, or Yonge north to wherever, are ignored. And downtown had no vacant land? Then...

During the day. At night, it's the reverse - interesting from the outside, as long as the lights inside are sufficiently bright to cast a glow on the street. To the right (east) of the stained glass, the road dips under the GO tracks, so at night it could be a real neighbourhood...

I always read this thread title as "Toronto needs 300m+ more towers." 300 million more towers would be neat.

The SRT corridor and the areas of Scarborough that feed it would benefit more from a connection to downtown. The number of people riding from Scarborough to the airport would be extremely trivial. If the SRT was combined with Eglinton, the Yonge subway would be completely overwhelmed. It's...

Thanks for proving my argument. I know you didn't mean to, though. What do Broadview and Pape have that Chester does not? People coming in on buses, and many from places that aren't that close by like Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Park. Density does not determine station usage unless you...

Yeah, it's not like they're putting bubble skylights into the Dome of the Rock... The new window isn't conspicuous and the large Goldring Centre is going in right next to it. No one would be talking about it if someone didn't post zoomed-in pics of them cutting through the wall. For...

I'd choose neither...DRL, Yonge, and Danforth to STC are all more important. If forced to choose between an 8km extension on Sheppard or 30+km of grade-separated transit on Eglinton, well, that's not even a choice. Obviously, you pick 30+km on Eglinton. Would you rather win $8 million in...

Hardly. Transit City completely ignored current and future growth patterns, including plenty of Avenues, which is why the official plan needs to be altered to fit lines like Sheppard & Morningside into it. Its explicit mission is to bring light rail to as some priority neighbourhoods. Adam...

Maybe. We'll have to see what kind of service standard gets applied. Also, what bus route changes are actually made, how many escalators Eglinton will have (that break down and need fixing), etc., etc. The Sheppard subway only replaced 5km of Sheppard and then triggered enough ridership...

Density of residents *and* jobs...that's the point. It's not residential density alone. Residential density alone is really only relevant to barebones local bus services looping through the suburbs, which tend to require minimum numbers of houses and high school kids within walking distance...

Right, you're the only person who's spoken to people and your anecdotes equal truth. It's true. It's true of any transit, by the way. Of any infrastructure, really. Quickly and quietly is the way to get things built. I'm sure you said two sentences to people about LRT lines being cheap and...

Assuming the deamalgamation sentiment is post-Fordist (and it's been mentioned as such in other threads, if not explicitly in this one), the thing is that in a deamalgamated Toronto the mayor of downtown becomes, well, kind of irrelevant in some ways. Not so much to downtown, but to the GTA...

The last thing light rail lobbyists should be doing is canvassing the public. Most people have no idea what's going on in terms of transit and telling them about is a good way to move them from the blissfully ignorant middle to the opposition. Transfer City's best chance at going forward is to...

Yes, you can try to respond. The same Rob Ford + Transit City argument is going on in 17 different threads so you might as well post that analysis in each of them and give people who may not have seen it a good laugh.

Your friend with density figures is like a mule with a spinning wheel: no one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it. The analysis makes absolutely no sense. It makes gloriously dumb assumptions such as: 1 - zero government support (okay, fine for a thought experiment, but...

It's like you were posting from six weeks in the future... Actually, people were still living on the Celsius site as recently as this past weekend, even though most of the houses are boarded up. ShiuPong wanted to get them demolished this year but that may not happen. Their requests may...