I didn't say you can't plant anything - obviously shrubs and hedges can be planted in planter boxes, etc. You are practically constrained to smallish trees - you will never be able to grow trees large enough to be really shade producing for example. The High Line in NYC is a different beast -...

Trees can definitely grow on Canadian Shield rock with not much topsoil. However, you would *never* want to do that on concrete because the roots would damage the structure. (I'm also not sure if the pH of concrete would present difficulties)

What else do you think grows on a concrete slab? Your choices are flower boxes, turf, or street scape mini trees that typically need to be replanted every 5 years or so.

It would be revolutionary, and it would be awesome, I don't dispute that. But if the stated goal is to provide useful green space for the massive amount of new condo-dwellers that will be flooding the downtown over the next 25 years, IMO I don't think a single central space is the best way to do...

My assumption there - admittedly, I could be wrong - is that it would be significantly cheaper to procure land to develop many smaller green spaces then it would be to "engineer" new land overtop of the railways. I also don't see the particular value of a single contiguous piece of parkland here...

I find this whole thing a little silly - Jen Keesmaat's no compromise attitude is not helpful here. Why do we specifically need no less than 21 acres of new "parkland" downtown? Why is one large "faux park" better then lots of small to medium sized green spaces diffused throughout downtown...

You would think by now it would be agreed on that the total sum of whatever the TCHC management salaries and bonus are is a drop in the bucket of their overall funding, but somehow comments like these continue to proliferate. Besides that, a salary of $275K for CEO of over $500M operating budget...

So that's the way to solve these problems - just tell people to follow the law, and throw your hands up in the air when they don't?

Quite a straw man you have constructed there. I don't think anyone suggested anything of the sort. But you can't paper over the number of car/pedestrian deaths by pointing to cyclists and saying "look, they are bad drivers too!"

You could do that, but you would end up with an answer that everyone knows already - that Cars are more lethal than Bikes. Lethality is proportionate to speed and mass, and cars have more of both. Also, the fact of the matter is that *today* there are more cars on the road than bikes, and it's...

Not that recently - I'm referring to the townhouses on the NW and NE corners. The overflow lot could certainly turn in an extension of that development. "Forestry" is a strong word - there is a Woodlot/parkette on the SW corner (Warden Woods)

St. Clair and Warden has experienced a significant amount of residential growth recently, and I'm certain a developer would snap up the northern overflow lot. In fact, the whole Warden corridor between St. Clair and Eglinton seems ripe for development with the Crosstown coming in. The caliber of...

I seriously doubt the impact is only 6 minutes, either considering change in headway or length of trip during rush hour. You didn't answer the question though - why don't we shut down the downtown line to do much needed backlog of work (i.e. Not regular maintenance)? I expect shuttle busses...

To anyone who thinks shutting down the RT for 3 years is acceptable short-term pain, let me ask this: Would it also be acceptable "short-term" pain to shut down the lower loop of YUS for some extended period of time to get all the signal and track improvements done? I bet it would save a ton of...

There may still be LRT configurations that can keep the SRT running in the meantime, I'm not sure. If so, if the price was dramatically less expensive I would be in favor of that.

As a South Scarborough resident who has no reason to ever take the SSE extension, I do specifically reject any plan that will involve replacing the SRT with bus shuttle service for multiple years. This would be a political and logistical nightmare. If the only plan on the table that avoids this...

Agreed. There's zero evidence that the number of 905->416 riders is equivalent to the number of 416->905 riders. There's also zero evidence that whatever change occurs would be revenue neutral - every government is looking for a way to increase revenues.

Exactly - the first issue is being used as cover to modify the second. Zoning the 416 can have only three outcomes: 1) The current pricing establishes a maximum price, and inner zones become cheaper - yeah right, like that will happen 2) pricing is modified up and down with the net result...

While I can't speak for "all major systems in the world with comparable size", I can say neither NYC, Chicago, nor Montreal are fare by distance. In fact, the only subway I have been on with any kind of zoning is London. Toronto has a possibly unique political circumstance - any attempt to...

As much as I loathe DMW, the *idea* of removable bike lanes does have some appeal to me. If it were cost effective and robust, I don't have a problem with building out a robust bike lane network that is only available for 8-10 months of the year. I realize that some people do bike in the winter...