I suspect that the costs would mostly be associated with servicing (do they have power where they need it, and if not, would they need to dig up the park to get it there?) plus the masts that the heart would be suspended between (installation would mean digging holes and pouring concrete for the...

Budget. Lots of cool stuff got value engineered out. Still a fine park though.

From the Star's story, Ford and Tory owe this poor guy an apology at the very least:

Side note, but it's really nice to see the applicant spell out the reasoning behind this change in such clear and thoughtful way, with just enough planning jargon to get the point across.

Paton Road became Atlantic Avenue for a night.

Amazing that these houses are still standing! I lived a few doors down from here in 2011, and even then, they were abandoned and derelict.

Looks like work on this hasn't totally stopped.

Hard at work on this one today.

That's a lot of bike posts. You love to see it!

I can't find the drawings at the moment, but I don't think it's either of those. They had proposed these perforated metal panels up and down the building in strips, IIRC. It was just a cool/unique detail that I was looking forward to seeing. I think most of the original design remains intact...

From the HPA letter: 😞

This feels like a great, on-topic discussion for the GO fleet/equipment thread, just saying! https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/go-transit-fleet-equipment-and-other.25269/

I'll admit that I may be an outlier here, but as someone with the immense privilege of owning an SFH in a PMTSA, I would be more than happy to see a few 6- to 8-storey apartments plopped up and down my street.

I hate to link to BlogTO, but this is so ridiculous I couldn't let it go: https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/03/toronto-neighbourhood-fighting-plan-turn-parking-lot-park/ "Save our parking / preserve our community" 🤢 A friend who sent this to me pointed out that they're doing a reverse Big...

The intention is to keep it 2-way for bikes while reducing cut-through car traffic. Traffic volume is especially bad westbound on Wallace during the evening rush hour, so the intention of the eastbound one-way section was to cut down on that. Agreed on the need for better infrastructure on...