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And what is the alternative option(s) gonna be?!

As I said before, I took my Environmental Planning in the US. I never said I was a planner. Maybe later? But I'm not there yet. In the US the very first step is to do an EA. It's the basic step. Then from, depending on what the EA has, things can go on to something big that requires lots of...

*groan* http://www.toronto.ca/involved/projects/sheppard_east_lrt/pdf/2008-06_faq.pdf 22-23 km/h. Downright miserable. Not worth the investment for such a small increase. Bus is just under 20, this is just over 20. No thanks. Lets go for subway and get 33. [quiote]And the exact same...

No? So my environmental planning from the US is redundant? What is required? I think anyone can do one on their own - them accepting it is a different thing.

Any EA is easy. An EA is simple, and it tells what should be done next - in this case an EIS is done next. I had my environmental planning in the US. I think the process is the same in Canada? After a standard EA they can pick a few things... like a FONSI or going on to an EIS if it is...

I don't get the difference between these EAs. Nor do I care. There are particular things that EAs are supposed to have. One just follows the guidelines and writes up 20-50 pages easily. No?

EA's are easy. It is the EIS that is the hard part. Uh, we are talking about fast things. Most of TC is slow stuff. Don't mix my subway criticism with tram support. Well TC is a tram-only plan. The supports have no problem with it. So, I call them tram fanatics, because even those who like...

I don't get your question. We just make our own EA for it. It shouldn't be hard. There are certain things that should be in EA's, it's easy to do. Just analyzing 3 options - the proposed action, no action, and one or two alternatives.

1) Sure. But, Sheppard was started, wasn't it? So there is precedent for it to be finished. We can't start building a little here a little there, some over here, a bit more up there... such planning results in nothing getting done. Sure. But again, as stated in 1). Any metro...

If I were sayings lets tunnel under every cross-street from lawrence to steeles, then yeah, I would agree with your reply. However, that is not the case. On top of that you treat a big subway system as something that will be built within a few years. No. It has become a natural corridor that...

[modern planner] NO IT IS NOT OKAY!!! NO ! NO NO! YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG!! Here, learn a thing or two about our ways . When planning for the future and making projections we take current trends and extrapolate them. If we take these land-use changes and new build stuff then that totally messes...

*snort* Here's mine. Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950 http://www.amazon.com/Unplanned-Suburbs-Torontos-American-Landscape/dp/0801862825/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1293579105&sr=1-1...

We could perhaps do our own EA of the sheppard subway extension? Why not?

Don't worry, papa's building something more advanced than this planning for yesterday tram city approach. We need subways. Just imagine how much faster a subway from STC to Downsview would be compared to the slow tram that has to stop at red lights. At any rate, you should not worry - you...

I'd drink to this. It means that people will be pressured to work together rather than ram their own agendas while stepping on the toes of others. If only PC came back somehow, so that these neocons would not be in power. edit: It's not certain that his party will be the main vote getter...

I'll drink to this. Though if it were me I think I'd prefer to move it up to Centre. The line just seems so long if it were to go so far as highway seven. So long that this very well could be two lines rather than one. I think someone once said that this would pressure them to extend...

It's miserable since the 1980s. We had integrated land use and transit planning prior to that. Things were good. Then it all went to hell in the 1980s with the expansion of the suburbs and growth moving beyond the jurisdiction of the regional government "Metro Toronto". When people recognize...

Ekos poll. November 3–9, 2010 Conservatives - 29.4 Liberals - 28.6 NDP - 19.3 BQ - 9.3 Greens - 10.7 The top two are still under 60. yay.

October 29 – Nov 1, 2010 Conservatives - 33 Liberals - 25 NDP - 21 Green - 10 BP - 10 October 29 – Nov 1, 2010 Lookin' good I must say. The three parties combined get over 40 percent. It's so sweet to see that liberal + conservative combined votes going down bellow 60%...

One again, I point you to wikipedia and what I previously stated, that there are plenty of examples where metro is used in the english language. It is the primary way that the world calls that, and so we should be inline with the world. If I decided to call it tunnelbana then that would be...