I'd think that they could use the entire underground structure. Use the tunnel from Don Mills, then use the ascending LRT track to go above-grade and build right over the LRT ROW. You could probably save tonnes of money doing that, though taking parts of the LRT offline for a while. But if...

And that's great. But instead of just leaving it to expand further in the future, it's cut off from expansion with an asinine choice of putting LRT across. And then we also have Sheppard being truncated by the award winningly stupid Sheppard LRT. For my only two beefs with the plan, those are...

It's only a great concept if you assume that subway's some kind of mythic being reserved for other cities. And yet we were given enough money to get huge lengths of subway even at the ridiculously inflated price of $350 million/km, and we get lines prioritized in no logical way whatsoever, that...

^ I agree, but that could still be achieved by having 200 m max skyscrapers. If you build up more urban centres, then the effect could be pretty cool, and you'd still be able to get seas of mid-rise buildings and mid-rise avenues.

Do wonders for the skyline? So we should be building our city based on what looks pretty on a postcard? What about being able to stick several times as many 100 m tall buildings far out from downtown instead? It really makes absolutely no difference once you get above 100 m; they're just...

Sure there's a difference. But not a hugely impacting one, and definitely not one enough that we should sacrifice the opportunity to have downtown-like density for kilometres outside the core just so we can have the gigantic enough buildings to have a North American downtown feel. EDIT: And...

I totally agree. Basically all we get from having huge buildings is a sexier skyline. But more mid-rise buildings gets the same feel of density across a much wider area.

That looks kind of unfortunate. At least looking at the rendering, it goes terribly with the other buildings on the street. The style's interesting, but I think it goes on for much too long without interruption.

Could I not suggest "take public transit" ?

But is there really a problem with needing too many connections? If you're saying our major transportation corridors should just be between downtown, North York, STC, and MCC, how will that serve a spread out population of 6 million, let alone a possible future population of say 10 million...

^^ I agree. It just needs some trimming, not all out war.

Maybe not in Toronto, but I'd say in many other places, vigilantism should in fact be applauded. However, this is just stupid. The idea opposing vigilantism is that the police are far better equipped to deal with criminals than regular people. But Chen called the police 20 minutes before, and...

Basically. But I'd say that a decentralized city with a transit focus would be much better than a centralized one. That also means that the decentralized model is still salvageable. Basically all you have to do is increase density at employment centres and string them together with transit...

You seem to be confusing Socialism for Communism. Socialism is basically asking for a socially managed economy and a freer flow of wealth within society. As such, the NDP is mainly out to better manage the economy and create a stronger social security network.

This would be terrible, imo. Toronto's spread out density gives opportunity for "urban" services, like good transit or businesses within walking distances, far away from downtown. And for the future, this gives us a good framework to get the entire urban area into the kind of lifestyle that...

^^ If done correctly though, the decentralized model could provide a much better high density region than with a centralized downtown around Toronto. If you have jobs and people going everywhere, it gives opportunity to put transit everywhere, rather than just funnelling it all downtown. It...

Exactly. Mid-rise redevelopment can certainly occur without tearing down strips of houses. Not that I think that tearing down houses is a particularly bad idea, especially some of the more boring suburban neighbourhoods (in moderation, of course.) But there are tonnes of roads and areas...

I don't believe in elaborate thousand man conspiracies for the sake of being evil. If the US made huge sums of money or used the patriot act to invade China or something, then maybe there's a possibility it was all some grand plan. So the government's going to pay off hundreds of experts? And...

Unfortunately, I read that textbook a while ago. But, if you'd like some surveys, a quick peek on wikipedia will find a number of survey results. Now that I read those, 97% may have been the correct number I was looking for, but either way it still shows an undeniable and overwhelming majority...

Science textbook? That's why I said basically. There are some who have merit, but not many. 1. You were noting how the time before the little ice age was far warmer than the end of it. I was noting that this is because the medieval warm period basically merged into the little ice age. And...