While the 412 does run through some greenbelt lands, it looks like the majority of the surrounding area will be going to development. It's been a highly contentious process but the overall plan is to put a further 26,000 people in the new West Whitby area (which includes 4,000 jobs). Here's...

/pours out small Orange Drink

See this article for this quote from Del Duca back in March: << But that’s a non-starter for Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca, who represents the riding of Vaughan and has long championed the line. “We made a contribution of $900 million to the Move Ontario Trust and that was a...

Correct, it's exactly that simple. You need to stay at the speed of traffic in the passing lanes, or move aside. If you are not comfortable with the idea of speeding, that's fine - that's what the right-hand lane is for. It's not as black and white as "middle lanes have to speed" - you go at the...

Any further information on this morning's massive CN computer signaling failure? Those platforms full of stranded LSE people looked pretty intense.

Having driven back and forth from the eastern GTA into Toronto using the 401, both in HOV (legally) and alone, the only problems I've seen are the middle-lane-only drivers in the 401 Express who don't understand that their lane has become the passing lane between Warden and Westney, and are...

Definitely shouldn't all be considered an "overrun". The City is trying (trying!) to coordinate infrastructure rehab / replacement to all happen simultaneously wherever possible - so this particular one aligned with goals of sewer / WM replacement as well as other works. With luck, it will be...

PATH connection from York moat to 123 Front St W open as of yesterday. Very new smelling and bright, but not well-used currently. That probably will change when the next few buildings west along Front (ex- East Side Mario's) start to get redeveloped.

Bumped into an interesting UP byproduct a week ago: My wife and I took a cab from a work function down to Union to catch a GO train back to our home in the burbs about 1045 at night. Upon paying for the cab, a customer service volunteer tried to get the cab to take 2 new tourists arrivals for...

We do realize it, believe me. But Toronto Hydro is one of those arm's-length agencies (like TTC) that does not play nicely with others.

I remember reading something about how the biggest reason wayfinding was so difficult (and maps so hard to find) was that competing landlords didn't want the users knowing that much about other buildings in the network - e.g., if you knew the next building over had a bigger or better food court...

You're correct. While tragic and awful, it wasn't actually the biggest reason for the delay; it was really about the massive contract dispute the TTC and two conglomerates mired themselves in: National Post article from 18 months ago...