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I agree to be clear - just discussing the logistics of Ford's harebrained scheme. If Ford wanted to refute the City's claim of it costing $48 million to rip out the lanes, he just needs to convert only the sections which are "painted" in. That would cost like a million bucks at most.

the painted lanes sections can and likely will be ripped up fairly cheaply. Bloor Street has only been fully reconstructed for bike lanes between Bathurst and Avenue Road though. the rest of it is all 'just paint' and can be converted quickly and cheaply back to 4 lanes. The reconstructed...

Good to finally have a proper supermarket in MCC other than Walmart in Square One.

There we go - I'm not infallible - that means that the City hasn't updated it's OP consolidation yet to account for it, but the site is legally designated mixed-use.

Unfortunately the City cannot compel Blanchard to build anything beyond maintain the property in a basic state of cleanliness. It's emblematic of an inept landowner, who unfortunately owns a decent chunk of downtown.

Another note - the City is absolutely *terrible* about maintaining a properly consolidated version of the Official Plan online. What is posted on their website is not always accurate to what the actual in-force policies are. It's a bit of a mess, to be honest.

OPA 571 is under appeal to the OLT from my understanding, but it does appear the City is intent on redesignating this to mixed-use areas. This application is likely anticipating this.

It will absolutely be 1. It's what Blanchard has done to his other demolished properties around downtown, including the gravel lot immediately next door on James St. This one will be no different.

MTO is completing the EA for the last stretch between Cambridge and Milton, yes. I expect actual widening opening day to be at least a decade away still though.

you say this as an absolute truth - but we know it's not. it's a gradient. For example - say we took a lane off of rural Highway 10 between Brampton and Orangeville and replaced it with bike lanes. Do you think it's impact would be negligible and would overall improve economic output...

I imagine the majority of congestion hours is actually on local streets, not expressways. Waiting one extra light cycle adds 1-2 minutes to a drive - to need an extra 1-2 minutes of time on a freeway, you need to travel 1.6 kilometres at 50km/h instead of 100km/h. That said - bike lanes are...

Yup. Like it or not, in a world of limited resources, there is a "Value" of a life. It's a terrible truth, but one we need to acknowledge. There is always options to spend more money to save more lives. But we live in a world of finite resources and need to unfortunately prioritize. And the...

I mean don't the railroads in NA have far larger market shares already anyway than European freight railroads? It's Europe catching up to North America in this sense, not the other way around.

What is interesting is that Eastern Avenue doesn't have a central support as well despite no streetcar tracks.

As I said, it was likely already built as such but not picked up by UT as you don't need to amend your zoning to do so.

it would have already been built. It is a bit odd - but you don't need a zoning or OPA change to build more parking, generally speaking. Just file your permit and amend your SPA application.

No additional lanes other than an eastbound auxiliary lane between Mississauga Road and Hurontario are being added by the project itself, but it is designed to accommodate a future HOV lane extension.

That doesn't inherently prevent mixed-use development - just likely... short mixed-use development. It does depend on the noise contours from the airport though, as at a certain level they don't really support residential uses. I'm not sure what that looks like here.

yeaaa north facing units here are going to kind of suck. And south facing units are going to look over the rail corridor.. so not much better.

King-Liberty has preliminary works underway right now as well. Moving signal towers, installing noise walls, etc.