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I'd be partial to a 3 independent routes myself. Castle Frank to the QQE loop planned at Small St, Broadview Station to the Portlands and then a King streetcar from Roncesvalles to perhaps Sumach station on the DRL? Or maybe East Harbour or Carlaw. I feel like a simpler solution to some of the...

Honestly though, I hate to be a party pooper but I'm fine with regular cement. After visiting Boston in the winter a couple times, the thought of icy bricks makes me cringe. They're damn near impossible to walk on when shoveled properly, let alone when half-assed.

I'd say the main problem is that housing in Canada (and the liberal capitalist world more generally these days) is governed by twin forces that cannot be rationally accommodated without much stricter zoning than we currently have - emotion and investment. Investment is self-evident but by...

Wait, so it's virtue signalling to buy a condo in a building with social housing attached but it's not virtue signalling to brag on the internet about volunteering at a shelter to try and prove you don't dislike poor people when you associate them automatically with being drunks and criminals...

Ah, a reference to virtue-signalling. The moment you realize you're debating someone who can't imagine actually caring about others and believes that everyone else just fakes it to look good. Also, to address your point, why do alcoholics deserve to be on the streets? As ADRM said, plenty of...

Well that line of comments sure showed that the "more condos means more options!" crowd are full of it. If poor people don't buy condos, they're idiots and don't respect the market. If they do, the people buying condos start screeching about poor people driving down their property values. If...

Had to do a little digging but I found this post from a few months back. Basically you get one of two responses. This, below - Or the alternative, which is that some developers have taken criticisms from UT and addressed them. Tridel comes to mind in particular. Not that they've done enough to...

^ We have haunted houses and other places where people acknowledge, if not sell the idea, that murders and other grisly things occurred. Should we demolish those too? In any case, I'm not saying it should be turned into some macabre, tourist attraction, just that the site has significance as a...

I'd also argue the murder at this building justifies going above and beyond to preserve it as it has real merit as a location of a historical event. Maybe not a major one or one people want to "commemorate" but I think it's another factor in at least advocating for its retention. One that a lot...

Hey, if the shoe fits... The examples I gave were the ones that mimicked KWT's position as a councillor in a development-heavy ward (all 6) or as a member of the council left (Perks, Layton and Cressy). KWT has been the source of multiple brawls in this thread, as well as in other threads...

It's always interesting seeing how much hatred and vitriol KWT manages to whip up in people compared to any other councillor in this city. I don't think I ever see the same kind of obsessive, vicious attacks on Justin Di Ciano or Mark Grimes, despite the very sketchy real estate deals and poor...

Now that is how you pay homage to historic style in a way that isn't kitschy as hell.

^ The Scientologists coming to Guelph has been doubly bad - that drop-in was a major element of the downtown anti-poverty scene, providing an important community centre for homeless and at-risk youth in the city. In particular, the founder is a bit of an old-school hippy and leftist and, as a...

If anything, that's the norm. Only other place I've lived where I had to pay for a student fare was Montreal and it was heavily subsidized still. At the time, it was $88 for an adult monthly pass and $44 for a student, if I remember right. Just checking now it's still just under $50 a month for...

Meanwhile that doesn't negate jje1000's point :rolleyes:

I can agree with that more or less but I still think there are possibilities for easy upgrades to the system as well. Reinstating a form of Church and Parliament streetcar service - even as a supplement to existing bus services - would be as simple as turning streetcars at Carleton and King...

In terms of Bay and Church, I see both streets as potential relief for the Yonge Line south of Bloor. The DRL will take a fair amount of riders off the Yonge Line (especially a DRL Long running from Don Mills or Steeles) but the DRL will address demand from the suburban east end more than it...

I feel like it would be a good idea to have a place to discuss the streetcar network outside of the Flexity deliveries. I'm starting this thread off with fantasy proposals but more realistic discussion would fit in well here. Mods, delete/lock this thread if you disagree. In terms of the...

Also AirBnB drives up rents by reducing rental/condo inventory in an area. So even if you don't live in the area you shouldn't like AirBnB as it drives up your rent by virtue of its existence.