Or, by the same token, why not just launch both pairs once each. For instance, instead of launching at Sheppard West and going north to Finch West, then disassembling everything, taking it back down to Sheappard West, and re-launching it all - why not just start at Finch West and go straight...

I'm still worried about the length of these things. As a fretful left-leaning city councillor pointed out to me some time ago, these have the potential to truly turn the non-riding public against streetcars. When I'm not riding the King car in the winter months, I'm busy trying to get past them...

ahmad.m.atiya trolls on the subject of heritage preservation. He's best ignored.

Interesting question. One impact is visual - but real. Shadow impacts can affect gardens and parks. Tall towers can also take away privacy: tower units can peer into back-yards and windows. Visually, from street level, where there was once sky, there will now be a large object, looming like a...

...and they *just* renovated that McDonalds too. What were the franchisees thinking? (Also, remind me again what the relationship is between McDonalds and this site? Because there is one, if I'm not mistaken.)

Yo mama's 70% sold. I carped about this years ago, but you don't really hear anyone saying a building is 60% sold, or 55% sold. Or even 90% sold, do you? There's something about that 70% figure that seems to factor into the well-worn condo-sales routine. I just can't figure out what.

They do kind of look like distorted nuclear cooling towers, or vast industrial smokestacks run through a photoshop filter, don't they? Great photos, thanks!

Mike: Thanks, that was pretty illuminating. I'd wondered, but never totally understood why the system is set up the way it is. (With zoning being almost universally below what the city is "really" willing to accept. I'd assumed it was a mechanism to keep growth graduated & in check.) Why hasn't...

Anyways, you don't need to look to Columbia or anywhere in South America to see the problem with BRT's and buses - just look to Ottawa, where OC Transpo has commuters considering garotting themselves rather than try to cross town while dangling from a strap on a sardine-packed, lurching...

^ ...and as such was the chief promoter of it's downtown, which he wanted to rival Toronto's downtown. That desire was the genesis of the Sheppard subway, in fact.

Good news, everyone! He's talked to someone else, and now we're going to renovate the Rogers Centre instead. Or something. -------------- Councillor Ford talks football again, gets hate mail http://www.thestar.com/news/article/987073--councillor-ford-talks-football-again-gets-hate-mail?bn=1...

Ooh. That's nice! I'll buy two!

^ I was just thinking that. Also, the fact that the Junction has always been half-industrial, half-rough-and-tumble makes its outlandishness fit in. As mega-projects go, this is a pretty decent mega-project. I do with they'd given a bit of thought and money to the rail-side, though.

So can we now refer to this as the Birther Tower? Also, I wonder how its purchasers feel about having their real estate tied to the reputation of a man who's gone from entertaining showman to entirely disreputable sell-out in a hurry?

Like throwing myself into the Keating Channel?

How do they feel about monorails?

And as for you, my friend, you're not discussing this; you're trolling. Please stop.

This is an interesting question and a good one. I think I used to think the same way. But: 1) Just because you've never been in that building doesn't mean you never would be in that building. What if that space was renovated into gorgeous offices that housed a company that one day hired you...

What... the... eff! Was that family all riding one linked bicycle-train? It looks like it!

I'm not 100% sure that never having been into a landmark bookstore is worth boasting about. It's not the novelty it used to be 15 years ago, when bookstores were mostly runty little Coles-type mall outlets, but it's still head and shoulders above Indigo and Chapt- no, wait, those are gone too...