All else being equal, without corporate sponsorship? Ticket prices will be even higher. It's fine to complain about corporate sponsorship, but keeping a facility sponsor free essentially means the public or someone else is paying to keep that space sponsor free.

There is a Scotiabank logo on top of the Toronto arena as well. I'm sure it's negotiated and paid for. I'd rather they get revenue from a logo on the roof than revenue from fans buying tickets. Some will say it all goes to billionaires, but the Flames are about 19th in revenue/income, so it's...

Apparently it's only 40% vacant. I don't think a conversion needs to be the full tower, but maybe conversion to a mixed use office/hotel would make sense. There's also a good amount of food options from Concorde in the building. https://www.avisonyoung.ca/properties/stephen-avenue-place

I meant more like the Canmore example. Is bike lane speed limit really followed? If the street is not well used, cyclists go faster. If it's busy with pedestrians, bikes go slower. Maybe I'm not serious enough of a cyclists, but I'd rather be on the pedestrian side with trees/boulevard between...

Right, I misread your comment as talking about current housing, but you mean once the rezoning is fully repealed. I agree there's not many R-CG and I'd think all in-progress DP will be grandfathered with zoning when they applied. It's going to be pretty complicated to revert, taking into account...

"The offers that were ultimately selected were both made by Armco Capital Inc. through Armco Hotels LP." Not sure if there's any significance of this or just corporate holding structure, but this could be a viable hotel site.

Something similar in size to the West Hillhurst FreshCo should be possible. And that one has a Safeway in Kensington and North Hill nearby before they opened. Smaller format stores should be cheaper to operate because they carry only the high turnover items and doesn't require as may staff.

The direction and route has to be very consistent though. And if they mis-time it by a few minutes it's running half empty all the way to the suburbs. Often times these rush hour traffic, 10-15 minutes the platform crowding can be quite different.

Maybe I'm misreading the comment but isn't that every property that a resident is just living in and not being actively re-developed? Which is most of the housing stock in the city. If they do that it's just bureaucracy run amuck. Judge cities on their results. We hit the target a year in...

There's more barrier between the pedestrians and bikes than the bike with vehicles. Wider multi-use pathways, with a dedicated painted bike lane would be better imo.

Not sure if they do this now, but are there any spots near the downtown portion that they can park trains? So if they see wait times significantly higher on a particular route, they can send an extra train to boost capacity. Often times the difference between a crowded platform and good...

There's no published information on how many they have in service and how many new trains are expected? We made the capital investment to extend the stations, and then not having the trains to actually run it.

Glad to see we are only an observer and not throwing money at this. The 6th Gen programs are still early and many of these cross country programs fall apart, especially if there isn't a "lead" country. The German-French FCAS is hanging on by a thread, and every single 5th gen program that has...

visiting Toronto for work, and for all the former Torontonians…. Was going to get dinner at Yonge and Eg and take the new line 5 back to my hotel by the airport. Waited 25 mins to see 2 trains pass by for a “security incident” before I gave up and walked to Davisville to take another route. In...

2 meters seems like a lot. Is 14th ave currently lower than other streets? Or is it going to have a ramp between 14th Ave and Stampede Trail/5A?