I think any airport runway extension should be contingent on the creation of a North-South pedestrian link from the terminal to Hanlan's Point, which would probably take the form of a set of pathways and bridges hugging the east side of the airport. I get that some waterfront residents don't...

I also wonder if this might intersect/conflict with the Billy Bishop expansion that Doug is touting?

I increasingly think half of the issue is maintenance or thereby lack of, or the lackidaisical attitude towards design standards and overriding of all design concerns by maintenance priorities (maintenance is kingmaker at the TTC as well). It's one thing for design to be bland but neat and...

Ironically I think many of their ancient exhibits were much better than their newer post-00s ones- for one thing I miss the OSC's old transportation section with the carved out steam train and minatures. And the old Science Arcade was very much a nostalgic time capsule of 70s exhibit design...

Yeah, I think in general it's not so much of a play towards redeveloping the old OSC (which largely sits on undevelopable land anyways and whose parking lots are far more valuable), but rather a tail wagging the dog situation where the OSC relocation is a relocation of a provincial institution...

I mean policy shouldn't be partisan- is it not a bad thing that Carney at least recognizes how much of a colossal mess-up immigration was in the Trudeau era? Indian demands for worker mobility are a red flag for me as the Modi government is clear on its use of immigration as a treaty agreement...

Maybe this calls for a low-floor metro rolling stock solution lol

The ironic part is that the Engineering building sat on this part of the Med Sci building that they are looking to demolish, not under the part they are looking to keep. Otherwise, my immediate opinion of the MVRDV design is that it is too tall (covering up the remaining Med Sci block and yet...

The issue (as beaten to death endlessly) is also because LRT speeds in Toronto are too slow, and the transit mode is also conflated with the streetcar system in Toronto, which also requires its own reform. As it stands at the moment, Ford's assertion that Streetcar-LRTs = slow has been...

Upper Canada was effectively created as a militant Loyalist refounding of British North America, but with stronger cultural connections to the UK* and conservative monarchist values against the American project- so the Orange Order emerged less as an immigrant import, but as a Protestant...

I echo what others have been saying- the podium completion is a generational opportunity, but the towers are pretty much duds, and need to embrace the neo-deco mentality rather than trying to reinterpret it.

IMO the REM was achieved within a narrow window of stacked advantages (Deux-Montagnes infrastucture/ROWs, Quebec Liberal-CDPQ collaboration, lack of NIMBY immune response), so kudos to those who saw the potential and seized it. It's very much like Waterloo's LRT, that the initial conditions that...

Would love this but isn't there already an older masterplan that still needs to be finished regarding the park itself? I think something like this is very much a pie-in-the-sky scheme, and would probably need a big benefactor. Love the idea though, and I think they should even restore the lost...

Remember when I posted about the issue of Indian gangs doing drive-by shoot-ups of Indian movie theatres in Brampton? Sounds like symptoms of yet another metastasized problem that Carney has to clean up from Trudeau- and now honest South Asian communities are being terrorized by this...

Ontario Power Generation has submitted an Initial Project Description (IPD) for the Wesleyville generating station to start the Impact Assessment proceds: Main Takeaways: - This formally starts the Federal impact assessment of the project under the IAAC and CNSC, allowing regulators to...