That's falling back on stereotypes. I hope they do suffer economically and in terms of tourism. Remember, this was a referendum. That means 57% of the country agrees with these racist laws.

Well, there's a long way between the 'fart-can' muffler that so called 'tuners' put on their Hondas and a car without a muffler (like a racecar). The muffler does its job, just, since it is a smaller one than a regular car muffler, not as much. That Bubb Rubb guy always cracks me up.

Yes, but for a state to come out and put this into a law is nothing short of absurd in this day and age. I hope Switzerland suffers for this.

It's a city, noise is part of the character. Don't get me wrong, I live on a major street and from time to time hear noisy cars and cars playing loud music. That said, they make an almost completely insignificant contribution to the daily amount of noise I hear. The real noise culprits are...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/29/switzerland.minaret.referendum/index.html Essentially Switzerland has voted ban Minaret construction in a referendum. The far right has exploited the fears of the current Muslim surge in Europe. This is a breach of basic human rights, to the freedom...

From what gleaned from the past few decades, high profile tech industry corporations and successful tech start ups do like building in older industrial buildings. Look at videogames company Ubisoft in Montreal for an example.

And your point is that there are lots of results on google? You get 371,000 results for "metro sucks paris," and 177,000 results for "bart sucks san fran." It all depends what you type. In fact, "london subway sucks" gives you 288,000 results. Do you know if all of those results are...

I think everyone here has been, to a certain degree, correct. There is no such thing as a fully-fledged Jewish vote any more, as Jews have become less and less religious and more and more splintered/integrated into Canadian society since the Postwar Era. Neither Thornhill or affluent Forest Hill...

Even searching both of those websites, I only see the short-lists for both projects. I'll have to take your word for it. I'm really excited to see a preliminary design. On the first page, the architects listed under the GG proposal are Moshe Safdie and Quadrangle. Is this still true?

I'm having doubts about your critical reading skills. The only reason I brought it up is because removing any station from the line would be a stupid idea. If you want to complain that Rosedale slows down your trips south, I can complain about York Mills slowing down my trips north. Removing...

I would take it that if there is a virtually un-landscaped field on the property of another development, it's going to be developed in the near future. The way Pier 27 meets the water is pretty much the high point of any waterfront development on the Great Lakes this side of Chicago.

I'm really kind of confused about what you're talking about. I stated last night that if you don't count the bus routes for both stations (because, hypothetically the Rosedale buses can be diverted to Bloor and the York Mills buses can be diverted to any station on the Sheppard line), the total...

Exactly. A little known fact, Jaboro, is that stations like York Mills only have high ridership due to the number of buses (GO and otherwise) they bring in. Rosedale manages to have 8000 daily riders (1/3rd of York Mills) with only two relatively minor bus routes. If a station like York Mills...

True, but given the consensus that this design has pretty much been pre-cheapened - especially for HP - it probably could be feasibly built to the current form.

It still would make sense to sell the land directly adjacent to Yonge Street and have something built directly upon the current entrance, maybe 10 or 15 years down the road. Sure, we'd lose some magnificent post war architecture, but that plot is probably fairly valuable in the scheme of things.

-Out of towners who didn't do their research. -Stalkers

I would really like to see Cityzen or Great Gulf win this, given both of those firms' sterling track record. For the scale and significance of the project, we can't have nothing less.

It gets a daily ridership of about 7000-8000 (according to wikipedia). There are many more underused lines in the system. We shouldn't be thinking of cutting service. A 6 minute walk, really? Do you think anyone who uses the station currently would use the line when there are an additional 6...

I like the diamond-texture facade (shades of Shangri-La). Just about as formal and futuristic as this area needs.

He got a second chance. He was ousted in the '80s. This is awful. I hope Toronto Animal Services can fill the slack.