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But London City Airport isn't in the heart of the city, like YTZ is. It's like around 10-15km from Westminster & the City and 5km from Canary Wharf. It's the equivalent of Downsview airport.

If Toronto was really a "metropolis" in transit planning for the last 50 years, we wouldn't be in today's predicament. Until Toronto takes politics out of transit planning, it will never be a "metropolis" in terms of transit.

I think your fears are well-founded, and at the end of the day, we will need Scarborough politicians to discard their petty populism, and really champion the best causes that'll benefit Scarborough. It's a travesty that Scarborough is stuck with the 6dad and Karygiannis, instead of a Pam...

This area will primarily benefit from investments in GO RER, so I don't see why this area shouldn't see complementary investments that'll help facilitate growth. Condo applications are already creeping up at Vic Park/Pharmacy & Sheppard, and there's Tridel's Metrogate just down the street...

Agincourt right now is still pretty underdeveloped, though it's slightly better than the Golden Mile. The whole Sheppard strip from Vic Park to McCowan has plenty of upzoning opportunities, plenty of disposable strip malls to bulldoze. The surrounding neighbourhoods could eventually be upzoned...

This also brings up a good point.. is STC even the right location to become Scarborough's city centre? It always felt a desolate area that's psychologically isolated from the rest of Scarborough. The road network is awful and the mall is a hindrance to grand schemes or an attractive public...

Biking on the tail end of a highway off ramp is a recipe for disaster.

That's where I feel Scarborough residents are getting duped - the economic impact of the DRL will likely be far greater than the Sheppard Subway, if we're forced to pick one line over the other. From a regional perspective, one of the primary reasons Scarborough's growth has been depressed, is...

The costing for SSE is working out to $500+mil per km (and still escalating), and that's only for one station. How could the total cost savings of building at grade be only a couple hundred million?

It's unfortunate the Sheppard stubway conversion is not championed by anyone. It is the only feasible way to make Sheppard work, even it it's a temporary annoyance for those currently living on the line.

Given how wide Sheppard is from Vic Park to McCowan, I find it hard to comprehend why a surface route isn't feasible, even if it takes a little property expropriation. The issue with tunnelling isn't even the cost of the tunnel itself. It's the extravagant costs of the station envelopes...

The strangest part to all this is that most proponents want the Scarborough subway underground. There doesn't seem to be any serious conversation about having the subway at street level or above ground to save money or make it economically feasible. Sheppard still looks the same as when I...

It's unfortunate the made the MGT so narrow. They should had took a page from Vancouver's seawall and make it wide enough for multi-users.

Having grown up in "6dad Norm's" riding, and with family still living there, I can say the terrible marketing is due in large part to the absolutely awful local councilors Scarborough keeps electing.. washed up has-beens like Karygiannis are only interested in riling up the electorate with wedge...

The BnBers in our condo have been quite a nuisance, at the expense of any resident who actually has to live in the building, as opposed to the absentee landlords who profit mightily on AirBNB. The absentee landlords do not live in our building -so they're not concerned about the guests'...

Urban canyon on a gorgeous summer day..

http://metronews.ca/voices/ford-for-toronto/19143/scarborough-mpps-transit/

I don't think it's Ontarians not wanting change, but rather they were rejecting the flavour of change proposed. Ontarians never have a penchant for extremism. This election was always a referendum on Hudak, and Wynne just happened to be the benefactor from all this political drama.

Not necessarily. There was the Big Blue Machine, that lasted over 40 years. The PCs managed to re-invent themselves, and Ontario prospered. I think today's results demonstrate Ontario's preference for change in moderation. After all Harper did secure his majority in Ontario. He gave Ontario...

Emporer Trudeau, the great Helmsman;)