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I think this is something that seems to go right over people's heads; a car is not by definition a vehicle that runs on geologically extracted hydrocarbons. In addition to biofuels research (which may or may not come to anything), electric cars are on the cusp of reality. Volt looks promising...

My, what a disaster of a bill. Producers and distributors 100% rights, consumers 0%.

Indeed, though a lot of European middle class does live in non-descript commie-block style apartments outside the old city, but not quite in the thoroughly crappy outer burbs. I'm not sure how we got to the idea that this is something to emulate. Is a crappy building really better than a bunch...

BINGO! The EU flag is a rough equivalent of flying all the European flags, and it pretty much always flies with the national flag. So many border countries - are they really going to fly them all? No. The question here certainly is one of geographic proximity. I really don't see that...

But those are distinctly a part of an American experience, yes? And still found in the North East. New England states are the richest and most established of the states, and are closest to producing the aristocracy of this continent. And even here, we find racial segregation (Boston) of...

A saying so old but true. Unless US splits into 4 or so separate countries, any sort of a union would be equivalent to annexation. The EU situation is completely inapplicable in the North American context.

I'd be very surprised if there is not a slowdown and steadying of the prices as we enter the recession, but I'm not sure what that means in the long term. However, the house market is definitely more protected than the condo market in any case.

Theoretically, yes, that's a personal choice. For someone like myself, coming from Eastern Europe and being used to a 1 br apartment for 4 people, I see no trouble in a 2 br condo (which too is becoming increasingly out of reach) housing 4 people. But very, very, very few Canadians are going...

Well, nowhere near all choices. For families, there hardly is a choice. We've decided we're fine with that. Realistically, a 2br 800-900 sq ft condo isn't going to attract many 4 person households. There really isn't much 'choice' and few alternate arrangements -- unless you have lots of...

Uh, READ again in entirety! "Yup, a stubway that Lastman managed to pimp out and that cuts Sheppard bus service drastically, that staggers stations over the 2 km area and that has most underwhelming ridership sure qualifies." If you're not near a station, it can be a long walk... And...

It's hilarious but amazing how you misread me: http://stevemunro.ca/?p=51 ----- “An assessment of the financial performance of the 85 Sheppard East bus route, west of Don Mills Station, shows that the route has an unacceptable financial performance during all operating periods.” The...

Yup, a stubway that Lastman managed to pimp out and that cuts Sheppard bus service drastically, that staggers stations over the 2 km area and that has most underwhelming ridership sure qualifies. Anyways, I shall have to stop this here, it's 3:26 AM and I have a 16 hour work day tomorrow. I...

^ there is a high-rise proposal that will be completely out of scale with the rest of St. Lawrence area. Although I'm sure many on this forum will disagree with that assesment.

Where are they warranted? And let's not forget that the subways, far more than any other mode, are a political football match, so where they are warranted and where they will go are two entirely different things. Hence, VCC.

I'd feel quite uneasy about living in that.

^ indeed, lets clamour for subways everywhere in the city for a few more decades. How much km have we built since the Bloor line finished? How many riders has it served? Our subways everywhere chant has gotten transit improvement exactly nowhere. ***** Thinking about it a bit more, however...

It would be nowhere near the theoretical capacity. The inconvenient transfer is going to have to happen some time or the other. Unfortunately, subway construction is going to have to end SOMEWHERE. We can build a kilometer of subway ever leap year, or we can have something relatively...

The figure is nowhere near capacity. One 3 car LRT = more capacity than 2 SRT vehicles. Bad, orphan technology with only an expensive and time-consuming upgrade vs world-wide used technology with off the shelf components.

Where does this idea that Spadina is the model come from? Spadina, for one, uses CLRVs, a vehicle of a very different specification, that you can hardly compare in the same way to an LRT that may have up to 5 cars. Add the all door loading, further station placement, and I'm not sure...

What defies logic is spending a few billion dollars on a route that's doesn't need subway capacity. Sheppard, and the new Spadina extension shows just how incredibly politically motivated subway construction is.