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    Transit City Plan

    I'm not sure why this is so hard to do myself. It's such an obvious choice. LRT is more than enough capacity and it provides a transfer-free experience. I just don't believe that lowering platforms down or raising them (depending on the station) is really so impossible or costly!
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    Photo Of The Day

    Front and the entire St. Lawrence area really is the best advocate of mid-rise architecture in the city. Thankfully, that parking lot is going to change that.
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    Metrolinx: UK Madrid Tour Report

    Yup, you sure convinced me now!
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    Metrolinx: UK Madrid Tour Report

    Nope, he is both. There is no conflict here. You may not like his bias, but the man usually does a better analysis of the TTC issues than anyone else. Sheppard was a mistake, and it should have been LRT from the beginning, with about 700m-1km spacings instead of the crud that we're stuck...
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    69% of people living in Canada's largest cities travel everywhere by car

    The CMA-based result doesn't really tell us all that much.
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    TTC Drivers in Crisis

    This has never, ever, ever happened to me on the TTC in my years of riding it.
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    TTC Drivers in Crisis

    I'm shooting at the mouth quite often these days as well. Not sure if it's a wise idea but I can't help it.
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    Roncesvalles Reconstruction

    I love Roncy so much it's ridiculous. And this is going to make it even better. The bumpouts are a brilliant idea. I'd be surprised if there's no opposition to this, but hopefully there will be none.
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    Toronto Royal Ontario Museum | ?m | ?s | Daniel Libeskind

    ^ nothing in this city is lit up. It irks me. Americans really kick our behind when it comes to showcasing their buildings.
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    Is this infill suitable for Toronto?

    Some of this has been practically happening on King and Queen with setbacked 'lofts' and condos in the mid-rise range. I'd say, properly done, it works very well and is my prefered range. That particular example is hideous, however.
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    TTC Drivers in Crisis

    Collectors, yes (how hard is it to not look like I'm asking you for a FAVOUR when I want ten tokens?). I've generally found drivers courteous, sometimes funny, and sometimes rude for a reason (people, move the fu%$^! back!). Every once in a while though there are those drivers who seem to...
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    Telegraph: Toronto - the city that retains its human scale

    ^ The comment itself is bizarre: The factors that keep me here are things like standard of living, but certainly not the City of Toronto, which is a fine place to live and work in. How can the standard of living - the fact that it's a fine place to LIVE and work in - be abstracted from the...
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    Road safety blitz underway in Don Mills

    Road safety blitz underway in Don Mills Jan 14, 2008 11:47 AM Amy Fuller http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/293816 Police have started targeting pedestrians and drivers who ignore the rules of the road at a busy intersection in the city’s northeast. The blitz began this morning...
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    1 Bloor East, DEAD AND BURIED (Bazis, -2s, Varacalli)

    Haven't been around that area in at least a month... Best corner in the world??? How nauseating.
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    Hayden St. & Haydn, you know, the Composer

    That's perhaps a bit much.
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    Historic subway cars vandalized

    Bingo... This is not going to be a cheap job. And it doesn't make sense. As has already been mentioned, why do something that recalls a inexistent era in the first place??? Vandalism, pure and simple.
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    Heintzman Place (Options for Homes) - Real Estate -

    ^ Options is a non-profit, not synonymous with usual meaning of affordable housing. You can be any income and buy a unit there. The average household income of buyers is comparable to the city average... If anything, since the non-profit developers have pretty clever schemes of discouraging...
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    A Weekened in Montreal's Most Far-Flung Suburb: BOSTON --- Part I of III

    I think you've hit on just about everything I dislike about this city. It is architecturally beautiful -- no doubt -- but it's stuffy and sterile. The food options are limited (although Italian IS truly spectacular), the non-institutional art scene practically non-existent. It's a great...
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    The Star: Condos outsell Houses in the GTA

    Firstly, that's 8000 of all households; condos are not going to be in demand for 4+ or even 3+ households unless the government begins to subsidize costs of larger units--which is very unlikely. And that's to say nothing of the assumption that all of those households will buy or can afford to...

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