People who complain about people complaining about the Gardiner seem to forget people who complain about the Gardiner are those that bike, run or walk under the Gardiner, and therefore ARE WELL AWARE THERE ARE TRAIN TRACKS BESIDE THE GARDINER. Sheesh - do you think we're so stunned we've missed...

I'll bite. How much bigger does a convention centre have to be than MTCC or DEC?

From what I remember, the trees were supposed to be replaced by ones of a similar size. Did that not happen?

Isn't the whole point of Hotel X to add accommodation and conference space at the Ex?

Re: the pirate ship playhouse -- the other thing that doesn't smell right is the price. It's big and ugly, sure, but dude's a contractor. Are you telling me he hired himself, used only high-quality material, and electrified the place? Because otherwise, $30k's a HUGE amount of scrap lumber and...

+1. I was going to post much the same -- the playgrounds or added structures I've seen at Withrow, Corktown Common, and the new park at Rivertowne all look great and lots of kids are using them. My wife LOVES the Corktown Common water feature. The little kids playing in the spray always brings...

That's a ridiculous comment, not banal. Talk about taking an issue and twisting it to match your own agenda.

The 'plan' is a green arrow vaguely south of Eastern. So, yeah.

So, this is the Cinespace lot on Boulton at Lake Shore? I like the idea of their Maven project. I belong to Enterprise CarShare (the old AutoShare) and it's worked pretty well so far.

Yeah, lots of changes since May 2005. Like, they built the bike ramp up to the Eastern flyover that was not in your .pdf, for example. I expect that they did that rather than a completely separate bike bridge to nowhere. A nowhere that'll someday be a somewhere, but not any time soon.

No, I am not kidding you. I walked that route this week, with my wife and a couple walking a French bulldog puppy to Balzac's for a coffee. It's no more terrifying than walking across the Viaduct. No one is driving at 80 km/h as they make that turn -- it's way too tight. And any pedestrian has...

If you go through the tunnel and south to Lake Shore, there's a 2nd bridge and bike path. I'm not sure a 3rd crossing at relatively high cost is necessary.

Yes, that's not cutting edge, is it? I was objecting to the 'zero cycling infrastructure' hyperbole. What ADRM was actually saying was that there was the opportunity to have separate bike lanes on the rebuilt Cherry and new streets (basically Mill and Front, I guess) and instead they went with...

I'd say that, overall, if you don't like street noise, you might not want to have an apartment facing out onto Queen Street East. But that's just me.

Hahahaha... that's awesome! You're being sarcastic, right? Uhhh... right?

We will have to agree to disagree. Much like when I got in trouble with people complaining about QQ before it was finished, I'm arguing with someone who is complaining about an unfinished product. To make your contention that there are 'literally zero cycle infrastructure' in this neighbourhood...

http://blog.waterfrontoronto.ca WT has a good blog piece on the woonerfs and how they'll be primarily pedestrian and cycle friendly. The bike paths along the rail tracks are cycle only. The fact that Front has no separate bike lane is on purpose. There's no bike rings installed, but no parking...

Wait, what? How did you come to this conclusion with respect to a community where they tunnelled a bike path under the railway line to link up with the most extensive bike trails in the city?

Council funded WT once. It can do it again. And, I'm sorry, but the World's Fair planning is being spearheaded by a first term councillor, no? That someone is more competent than Doug Ford is a very low hurdle, and leaves lots of room for white elephants and misspent dollars. And I'm one of the...

Folks who want to see for themselves can take advantage of the Jane's Walk in a couple of weeks: http://janeswalk.org/canada/toronto/new-public-art-collection-toronto/ We did a self-guided tour, following this route. Came west over the flyover and down the bike path to Underpass and Mirage...