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That would do very little to take 905ers off the Yonge line. It wouldn't be faster, for one thing. It would be a longer trip for most people. Yes, that GO line needs to be improved, but anyone remotely familiar with this city (and not just familiar with maps of this city) will know that in no...

Well, obviously. I was just pointing out that Yorkdale very much relies on its parking spots even though it has a subway station, too. Yorkdale is old enough that a suburban "centre" could have developed around it, but that didn't happen. There's nothing at all problematic with the bus...

For 'proof' that the transit access may not be ideal even with a subway station, compare Yorkdale with Scarborough Town Centre. Both are on the 401, and both are transit hubs. In 2005, Yorkdale had 7179 parking spots, while STC had 5471. Yorkdale was estimated to have 450,000 visitors a week...

Three cheers for the gaping maw of Emerald City! Three cheers for clunky massing and crappy masonry! Follow the yellow brick groan!

Toronto always claims Mississauga...though often as suburban chattel. So what? They don't predate Absolute. Are they even getting built? Absolute isn't just a bunch of plain cylinders jiggling around like a hula hoop. They undulate in 3D, like dress forms or Barbapapas or Marilyn...

How does running Eglinton east of Kennedy not feed the Danforth line? The Morningside line has been shelved for now, so the busiest stretch of Eglinton is being ignored. There's no desperate need for a crosstown line along Eglinton right now - extending the B/D line and Sheppard, as well as...

For the central tunnel, there'd be little difference in the cost of the stations. New yards are being built for the LRT vehicles, which also need to be purchased, so there's no difference there, either. You're making it seem like yards and vehicles for an LRT line are free. It would...

I never said the environment isn't important for socializing. What I said was that little things like more sidewalks and well-situated parks can encourage more interaction, though a lack of sidewalks doesn't prevent interaction, either...actually, a lack of sidewalks when replaced by driveways...

There is no "if." Eglinton can't be affordably converted to a subway line, especially when you remember that a conversion would just create a subway that ended where the tunnel ended unless you spend billions more converting the on-street stretches (on top of the billions it will have cost to...

The work at Davisville is slowing trains north of Eglinton, too, or so said an announcement the other day. Summer on the Yonge line means people left behind on the platform from Lawrence south instead of from York Mills south.

But, again, if half the people in the Beaches move to Cornell, you're going to get a different community than what you'd end up with if the houses were marketed for square footage and value and access to the 407 and Rouge scenery...you might end up with "a community," and not just a bunch of...

It's 7 years. They had a vote a few months ago and Buenos Aires beat Kuala Lumpur for the right to host the IOC assembly in the summer of 2013, where they'll be selecting the 2020 host...2 full years before the PanAm Games (not that hosting them will really do much to help a Toronto Olympic...

NU houses have extremely small backyards, so I'd think a fair number of people already living in generic suburbia who want more room (and lots of people want to garden, or a place for kids/dogs to play, or just 'space' between them and their neighbours) might look to more traditional...

Darrent just sent me this private message: "RE: Well then I may as well have been taking measurements of your family then, right paki?"

And not just any household income data. He cited median income for couple households with children and the presence of "hidden mansions." He might as well have cited the median income and height of midgets in Gujarat.

Since GO expands incrementally, more GO lines and more cities/stations served by GO will also mean more GO buses, for a few decades, at least (more than enough time to make a new terminal worthwhile).

It's amusing how someone can link to multiple pages of statistics yet not be able to actually use a single number on those pages to rebut someone else's simple statements.

The US won with Salt Lake City a year before the '96 games in Atlanta were held. If one country in recent memory can be preparing for 2 Olympics at once for over a year, another country (Canada) may not be that hindered by having hosted almost 3 and a half years earlier. London 2012 will have...

You seem very unfamiliar with this city.

The 'Miller vote' might clean up in wards like 18, but some suburban wards like 23 and 42 have literally twice as many people as ward 18. Turnout in those [and, generally, all large] wards is abysmal, though, so the total vote count is eerily similar across the 416, no matter how large the...