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I can't say for certain (though I'm sure others here could) but aren't a lot of these marshaling yards way overbuilt for the needs of freight companies today? I feel like that's what I've read in the past. So maybe CP would be cool with being able to sell this land and build a modern and smaller...

Holy shit that first picture... Just insanely good

Yeah, that's the issue with this one and Jade as well. The balcony designs are only visible up close really.

My issue with Big Daddy is his obsessive blaming of KWT for everything that ever goes "wrong" with her ward (which includes actual problems and problems he makes up, such as buildings being too short to please him). Otherwise fair enough, I just get tired of listening to him spout off his...

This is a much politer way to describe what Big Daddy wrote. I'd be inclined to just call it the word used to describe the feces of a certain male farm animal myself. But this is nicer :)

Yeah, I'd say there's two people who get annoying or rude when defending aA and, when considering the constant whinging about "bland glass boxes" etc. etc., I can see why it would get tiring for them. Especially when the quality of material and design is so clearly better with aA. The designs...

^ Sounds about right to me. I studied at York for two years and much of the rail line seems to be hidden behind embankments and trenches etc. There's also the 407 corridor paralleling much of the railway so there's added space there too. This strikes me as NIMBYism as well. That said, if the...

Architecture isn't my really my thing (I'm here for the urban issues first, building design second) but look at the U Condos development and @Benito's recent posts showing the continuation of the black band motif from the balconies to the ground. There's no need for that and I imagine continuing...

And that's my issue in general with historicist buildings. They're perpetually disappointing, even when they aren't bad. It seems like that ribbed motif would have been a simple detail that could've been done without breaking the bank but it wasn't even considered. Modernist buildings might be...

@nfitz - Huh, I thought they would've split the orders, if only because the TTC order required specialized cars and the Metrolinx models would be largely standardized. @W. K. Lis - Is that all though? And I'm guessing the $34 million is on top of the already negotiated contractual penalties the...

I wonder how the damages the TTC is seeking payment for will be calculated (assuming the TTC wins more than the bare minimum as negotiated in the contract). Would lost revenues (from overcapacity and retired streetcars precluding ridership growth) be something the TTC could win compensation for...

Man what a disaster this is becoming... These delays are moving beyond annoying to actually serious. At this rate, you gotta wonder if the TTC will be able to run the streetcar network at all. We've already seen one route cancelled and effectively cancelled service on two more (508 entirely, 502...

Why does a person have to have a financial interest in this building to disapprove of the number of units? What a stupid response... As for the building itself, I appreciate it'll be a student residence but that still sounds like a tight fit. Students aren't sardines, even if living conditions...

Well, in an ideal world I would simply place a moratorium on demolition permits being issued to buildings older than 1945 without a heritage assessment first being made (and a building inspection if a developer claims the building is on the verge of collapse). To prevent people leaving buildings...

I appreciate that this site is focused primarily on redevelopment but I think Toronto could stand to see a slowdown in new builds in the old city so as to make buildings like this one viable and worth more than just the land they are on. Much of old Canadian cities (especially Toronto and...

^Same. There's something about older brick buildings in Toronto that I can't get enough of and that makes their apparent worthlessness in this city all the harder to understand. Maybe it's just the simple but elegant brickwork that you never see anymore (minus 620 King West, which looks...

That's my intention re. ksun. I've let him piss me off too many times and I should know better by now. As for all you said, I can't really answer all of it (more because you said a lot than I don't have something to say lol) but I think my issue with what you're saying is it doesn't match...

I don't necessarily dispute all you're saying (though I disagree with the concept that poor people living together is inherently a bad thing - it can have its benefits, as well as its problems) but you don't really give a satisfying solution here. Housing is the first need for everyone, along...

If that occurs I'd actually probably be a lot less pissy about new construction. That said, I'm wary of both Regent Park type programs (last I checked there was no new social housing units, right? Just rebuilds) which are basically government-sponsored gentrification that ignores the backlog in...

Right? If anything, intensification will only make the problem worse. The Downtown East is one of the only parts of the old city that is still broadly affordable (the only other places I can remember seeing such low rents that weren't geared only to students were Parkdale between King and Queen...