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All of the buildings in this development village have interesting details, but I dislike the repetitive colours and the generic shapes of the towers. You see so many boring 1960s slab towers in North York while travelling along the 401, and this project feels the 21st-century equivalent of that...

There are no known structural or Building Code issues with Mount Dennis or Caledonia stations that would prevent them from being used as GO stations. Even if the LRT can't be used, they could still get occupancy approved for the station buildings if they wanted to (so that they could be used as...

I'm hoping that they've come to their senses and realized that there are a lot of things that can be opened even if the LRT line isn't open yet. Here's to hoping they realize they can open the Mount Dennis GO and UP Express platform for people to use today, even if the LRT line isn't open. They...

So we should encourage everyone to drive to work by subsidizing their parking? There’s an excellent bus route that passes by this school. A spot for everyone is regressive planning and a waste of money.

Almost no surface parking is impressive. But are 60 below-grade spaces really necessary for a neighbourhood elementary school?

Nothing says "sandstone" like a pile of concrete, metal, and glass.

I long for when the No Frills gets redeveloped, so long as the No Frills remains on the ground floor.

A lot of these additions seem rather cheap and nondescript. Good supply and density, but little of anything else.

A more ambitious city would have expropriated a foot or two of those properties on the east side and built the dividers. The overhead wires would have been gone as well. Slimmer street poles with buried utilities would have reduced the amount of expropriation needed to get the extra space (or...

Even with HSR in the future, the 401 should have 3 lanes in each direction from end to end.

This cladding looks awfully cheap, like with many laneway houses. I wonder if it'll also heat up on hot days and make its surroundings even hotter and less comfortable.

Building a continuous grade-separated cycling trail in a dense part of the city without ravines is going to be expensive. It's no different from building a subway downtown or the Gardiner Expressway in this regard, though the costs are still far lower than those associated with a subway or...

Or is it better to come up with the most palatable number to the public and keep the additional costs buried in some obscure report? They're expanding a badly needed car-free way of getting around the city. Drivers get their Gardiner Expressway and DVP at an incredible cost to taxpayers...

There are dozens, if not hundreds of American cities that could use them. Regional rail is that badly developed in the US. Take Atlanta, for example. It needs regional rail and would benefit from the cost savings of buying used coaches to open multiple lines at a time. Then, you have the cities...

I was hoping that they would be doing something more ambitious here. This building feels rather generic yet has a location befitting a landmark like the Board of Trade building that once stood in its place. The best two things about it are that it was designed to fit into the downtown vista...

It seems ludicrously bad from a business standpoint to oppose a direct connection.

Oh no! I guess we'll be forced to build another line or two!

The public realm looks so cheap and austere that I hope it isn't the final product.

If you don't have a subway in neighbourhoods with the projected density and the destinations of the East Bayfront and the Port Lands, you have traffic jams and a lot of car accidents. The days when it could be justified to take an hour to travel from Parkdale to the East Bayfront are long gone...

With all the density coming to the East Bayfront and Port Lands, I’m surprised a subway line wasn’t proposed. There are so many destinations and a lot of density near the lake from the Beaches to Humber Bay. But it can be inefficient to take transit from, say, Parkdale to South Core or the...