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I know all about the Love Canal. The construction of the LaSalle Expressway (part of a never-completed outer ring road) and the Blizzard of ‘77 only made the catastrophe occur as bad as it did, when it did.

FWS? Buffalo was never dependent on a single industry like Detroit, but it had the huge Lackawanna steel mill just south of the city limits (steel companies liked to set up their own towns), the elevators (largely made redundant by the completion of St. Lawrence Seaway), Larkin Soap...

I like collecting transit smart cards when I travel (my collection includes the only smart card usable on two continents: IETT’s Istanbulkart), and was disappointed that most cities I visited in Central Europe didn’t have them. Vienna had an excellent app though.

I would certainly agree for wines and spirits. Beer, cider, cooler, and seltzer cans can be kept self-serve as they are much less costly and are mix-and-match, unlike the bottles of wines and liquors. Encourage customers to pre-order with a (better) app as well.

I am well aware. But they aren’t used as highway shields, but as supplemental signage.

It appears this site will be a residence for Algoma’s Brampton Campus. https://algomau.ca/news/algoma-university-to-build-500-plus-bed-student-residence-in-brampton/

I wrote at length about the TCH numbering system (or lack of) elsewhere. The TCH was a 1950s project to complete a high-quality paved route across all ten provinces, with federal funding allocated to completing these links. In Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces, there was already a...

It’s also the first route outside the City of Toronto and it parallels historical Highway 10 (as much as it drives @Transportfan bananas). It’s fine! And it’s a lot easier to say and type than Doug’s crony. (If Hamilton’s LRT gets numbered, it should be Line 11, for CHCH.)

There are a few places where better highway-to-station accesses would go a long way. Having only a partial interchange at Bramalea Road causes pain for lot of bus passengers at what should be a prime intermodal hub. The 407 charges a fortune to GO for using the highway though, so I wonder if...

Yeah, I'd want to divert as much traffic from Barrie as possible, meaning that a Highway 26 diversion should join the 400 somewhere between Innisfil Beach Road and Mapleview.

Because Gore Road doesn’t go towards Bolton. Highway 50 does. The 50 Gore Road bus has very good ridership where the 41 runs very infrequently. That should change once BT gets more buses and operators, but the geography and service patterns don’t match.

If they left it at that, sure. But not also the library, the UTM library, the college campus, the walkway between city hall and Square One, the school, the transit line, the since-repealed legislation… Even Mel Lastman just got one thing named for him.

You have, by far, the best photo tag/copyright telltale I've ever seen.

There's another 10 more things to name for Hazel first.

How can we trust this government to start constructing Highway 413 next year when it can't even get Highway 7 New going between Kitchener and Guelph? Oh, wait, none of Ford's York Region "friends" have land assemblies along the Highway 7 corridor.

With the announcement of the new electric vehicle and battery plants in Alliston, I’m wondering if there’s any plans for expansion of highway capacity out that way. I know Honda ships out completed vehicles by CP (and the property had access to a remnant of CN’s Beeton Sub when it first opened)...

Ok, I am reopening this thread. But if @micheal_can derails this (or any other) thread again, he can take another all-expenses paid vacation from Urban Toronto.

Seriously? It's not as if there are a lot of condos going up in the area too. I'm a little surprised it's not getting the Hyatt branding anymore. I can't say the Toor name does anything for me.

Looks like this thread is derailed again. Closing it down for 24 hours.

No, Sarnia does not need a university. Lambton College has so much trouble attracting students in the area that they’re one of the most dependent on international students with Toronto private college partnerships. Anyway, Chatham is more aligned with Windsor and London than it is with Sarnia.