I haven't looked at the plans, but I'd assume there's at least two levels of underground parking, so they'll still need to keep digging.

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That's interesting, my Dad's side (Scottish) settled in Frontenac county just north of Kingston in the 1840's. I'd assumed it was mostly Scot's in the area - some of the family in further generations did move down to Kingston and other towns in the area. So, ya, much stronger connection with...

Awesome, that place will make a mint between the Dome and the Aquarium.

As long as they don't bastardize the roundhouse. I'm assuming (hoping) the render in the article is from another location?

My point was there is no manned lifeguard stations there (they're not official city beaches) - although it seems some installations this year don't even involve the lifeguard chairs. As for the trail down to Doris McCarthy, I believe it is to be redone as part of the Meadowcliff project...

But there's no beaches there? The last city beach eastward is bluffers park. There's no lifeguard stations to doll up east of there, unless you count the unfinished parts of the waterfront trail east of morningside to port union - which they're planning to connect, but there'd still be no...

Bluffers Park is fairly busy during the winter (weekends). There's usually 5 -15 cars in the eastern parking lot throughout the day, it varies dependant on weather (obviously). I'd say it's 80-90% dog walkers and the rest are families/nature lovers. This is also the first year in the last ten...

Although I do agree with you that rich people don't need the help. That article you posted had a pretty good point about that. Bigger rebates for buying leafs, or other e-vehicles at the low end, means you're replacing a corolla (or other small gas car with very good mileage) with an e-vehicle...

Thanks for this. Curious - does the car have software to show the history of your charging? I'm thinking in the context of resale value when buying a used car - obviously as you noted, a 5 yr old car could last another 2-10 years on it's batteries, but unless you know how the owner...

What about battery replacement? I've heard that after 8-10 years, you need to replace the batteries and it costs 8-10 thousand to do this? < Not sure if this is true though?

It's all a combination of factors. Cities and urbanity in general are growing, bringing more people closer to transit that makes it a more sensible choice for them. I see this argument/debate closer to the same one on people choosing the suburbs vs downtown, they go hand in hand. Same with their...

Your just imposing your beliefs on the manufacturer. It's the new millennium version of liking Ford over GM, or vice versa. There really is nothing different between any of them (reliability is relatively the same for all of them). BBD;b just makes 'nicer' looking vehicles. Who cares? It's...

This was their first mistake (one sole order for all of 200 cars) Yes, if they split it up, it would cost us more. But what would motivate BBD.b more? Us b!itching and crying, or their competitor providing their cars at the quoted rate vs. BBD.b's pathetic output? Sure, the other company may...

I was wondering about this. I knew Ottawa was with a different supplier, and also Calgary is with Siemens. So CanCon rules should be able to be covered by at least one, if not two other bidders. Yes, Toronto is a different ballgame for the size of it's order, but with either supplier above, and...

That's gonna cost someone a lot of money and time.

I would think (hope) pigeons won't be as much of an issue once the moat's covered. They stay around the moat now for crumbs. Once they can't get in, they should just be attracted to the sidewalk - which still means they may hang out on that parapet but, I'd hope there'd be relatively less of...