About time. Can't wait to see it poured.

Some variation in built form isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks for sharing the pics. Great to hear you've found another donor!

Presumably using temporary risers you could both raise and widen the stage for events. But why, when the stage could have been built to those specs to begin with? I agree it's disappointing that it wasn't build a little taller, but it's still possible we'll change our minds when we see it used...

It's a Wallman alright. Certainly nothing to sneeze at, but imo Lumiere does the same kinds of things better.

Hmmmm . . . the Brothers Ford and their antipathy towards all things LRT?

Best post of March 2012.

Thank goodness for clarity: Council has decided, and Council is supreme. Scarborough finally has rapid transit coming. Time to turn the page and look to starting the DRL sometime around 2015.

Agreed -- integrate it better, perhaps by channeling s.37 funds or requiring developers to beautify the underside in exchange for some additional density. If the city is willing to be creative and flexible about funding it, it could certainly be done. The Gardiner and the railway tracks have...

Wrong: Rob Ford is a baby. If he can't get the toys he wants, he throws tantrums and won't let anyone else play in the sandbox.

in all honesty, I think it would come down to whoever is sitting in the Premier's chair -- and how motivated they were to spend or save $8.4 billion on transit projects for 416. Remember that killing the Eglinton subway was an act of important political symbolism for the last bunch of blues.

Ford and Co. can't cancel the project: the province is in charge. Only a change in governing parties at Queen's Park can do it -- just like how Harris, Hudak et al. cancelled the Eglinton subway in 1995. As for the point of no return, good question. If history is any lesson, presumably not...

Gorgeous shots -- thanks for sharing!

Lol pic or it didn't happen!

Oh dear ntitz, you clearly don't know what a straw man argument is, now do you? Perhaps you should start researching things a little more often. At least before you start crying "shame" and clamouring for apologies in high dudgeon.

Well call me prophetic! And lo and behold.....

If only. Sanity demands taking a dispassionate view and cogently reaching evidence-based decisions. But doing such a thing tends to have Cogniscent Crustacean raging about "LRTistas" and spewing conspiracy theories about the city bureaucracy. There's a certain number of folk in these threads...

Neat shot, thanks for sharing.

Yep, and overground rail too. If Hard-Right Hudak and Rube Fraud are so enamoured with rapid transit, why aren't they leveraging our existing rail corridors? Why instead do they insist on wastefully building a gravy train?

Not true: Raccoon City could fall at any time!