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Yeah not sure why people would complain. What's an empty field next to a subway station today is a clutch of condos tomorrow. An empty field isn't paying much property tax. 6 20-30 floor condos are going to be paying a lot of property tax.

The w/d by the front is what I have. Great if you live alone but if someone else lives with you and forgets to close the laundry door while you're out and you return. Bang. You got yourself some chipped paint in the door. The only shower is via the master bedroom. If someone is occupying the...

Goodlife seems to have really jacked up their prices since they snapped up some smaller clubs in the city. I work out at the one at Yonge/Finch. The club has a lot of modern equipment. All the machines have flat panel TVs. But over the last year the TVs have been breaking down, 1 or 2 treadmills...

I too hadn't been to Woodbine in about 10 years. I seem to recall there being some upmarket places like Club Monaco, the Gap, etc. Now there's not even a Starbucks or Second Cup to be found there. Geez. It's a great place if you want to buy a lion lawn statue or elephant tapestry. Any clue...

I noticed an A La Cart cart up at Yonge/Finch. According to the city hall site, there should be no A La Cart cart at Yonge/Finch and certainly not one serving Korean food. After all, this is Korea town and would only make freakin' sense. Also what's being served does not match what the city hall...

Ah crap. I might have enjoyed my ride a lot more if I had been bolder! Doh. Anyone notice Via 1 is always 90% male passengers?

For at least a year the south end of the Finch station (outside of the paid area) has been boarded up. It severely constrains the west side and east side exits. I've never heard any sound of construction. They removed the wood and put up new wood. But that seems to be the only thing they've...

Ah it's comforting to know the Renaissance cars are only a stop gap until the LRC cars are back. The trip I took I couldn't see a service car. There was a far forward of the Via 1 section but it looked like it was only a galley for the crew and you couldn't go beyond the galley. I'm not very...

I just took the Renaissance from Montreal to Toronto (took the old steel "classic") from Toronto Montreal. I have to say I'm really disappointed. Even in Via 1 there's a real lack of leg room. The seats are a lot more narrow. There's only one bathroom in some of the cars (only 1 in Via 1 when I...

400 to Dufferin appears now to be cone free. Bathurst to Yonge seems to be the part they're working on in the western leg of Steeles. With any luck next week should be smooth sailing. The construction has the effect of scaring drivers off of Steeles for a day or two after a bad one. The bus then...

Ah, the turbo. I used to ride it a lot between Montreal and Windsor as a child. It seemed so space age. For a time they had a glass enclosed driver cabin and you could go right up to the locomotive and watch the driver. That ended when I guess when they put a bar car between the locomotive and...

I've got a couple options. As you note, Finch West. Adds a short bus wait but better than the 2.5 hour commute I had monday. Geez. It was actually quicker to get off the bus at Keele and walk to Bathurst and simply hop on the bus at the head of the wall of unmoving busses. See photo. I fear...

I noticed the Queen Street market is closed... possibly undergoing reno. They might have kicked out all the cheap fast food places that came to take over what the city promised back in the last 1980s/early 1990s as a real market... akin to St Lawrence market. But it seemed to quickly fill up...

Eeeeeiiiii! I take the bus from the Finch station to Jane/Steeles and it adds about 30 minutes to my trip. Anyone else experiencing this joy? It's support to run until the end of August. A summer of commuting hell? They do seem to be working on it in parts and it might not be for the whole...

I used to hate the wall seats but in Seoul they're all wall seats and you're glad just to get a seat. So these days I don't much mind a TTC wall seat. If you take one right next to the door, you can plonk your head against the glass partition and snooze some.

It's nice to see Toronto has caught up to the Seoul system circa 2000. Oh well. If the Seoul system is any indication, the ability to walk between cars means: 1) you can quickly access hundreds of captured riders 2) those riders can then be preached to or have crap peddled to I dunno. Watch...

I liked the Transit City plans, myself. If we could just build something OTHER than putting something, yet again, on Sheppard East...

Who lives there anymore? Retirees? Two bedrooms run $2500 a month but if you check a floor plan: http://www.princessmgmt.com/PDF/Old%20Mill%202%20BR%20%2B%20Den%20A.pdf Not an ensuite washer/dryer to be found. It's nice to have the subway right out your door but I think I'd rather spend...