Within the next 5 years, the TTC will roll out new streetcars that are about 30 metres long, far longer than even the articulated streetcars in use now. They will basically be small trains. I predict numerous collisions until people realize these things cannot be passed on a one-lane street...

Whether you like the bumpouts are not, it is simply not true that the bumpouts intrude into the main traffic lane, and I wish people would stop saying that the street has been "narrowed," as if Roncesvalles didn't function as a two-lane street before, with one lane in each direction. The...

Here's unlikely pro-car advocate Gord Perks defending the decision (unpopular among all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything) not to include dedicated bike lanes as part of the Roncesvalles reconstruction (which would have cut on-street parking in half): Also, here's the...

The problem is probably not the contractor, but the contract. Apparently, there is no firm deadline in the Roncesvalles contract, according to the BIA. If the system allows for flexible deadlines, then we should expect all rational contractors to bid on jobs with the expectation of dividing...

The 504 King bus did indeed roll down Roncy yesterday, which is what the TTC meant by "southbound service." The 504 King streetcar has been scheduled to resume on December 19. ... which is not to say the construction has proceeded on schedule. But that's not the fault of the TTC (which...

The claim was mentioned by a senior TTC staffer at a public meeting, but I agree he probably meant the busiest in mixed traffic, as gweed123 suggests. It is undoubtedly Toronto's busiest. It moves more people than either the Sheppard subway or the Scarborough RT. The point is, the 504 King is...

Yikes! A lot of fun posts since the last time I checked in here. In case anyone still cares, the City staff reports said that traffic flow would not be significantly affected by the Roncesvalles bumpouts. And why would it, since Roncesvalles is basically a two-lane road anyway thanks to...

Unless I am reading this wrong, the Queen Heritage district study says that a five-floor building is permissible. An earlier post mentions local NIMBYs opposing eight floors at Dundas/Manning. Who has opposed it? Wasn't this application submitted maybe two weeks ago?

856 Dundas West is indeed the lumber yard. Too bad they're not building over the McDonald's drive-thru/parking lot down the road. How come I can only count seven stories in the picture? Does the main floor count as two?

By the way, Smitherman's communications director Stefan Baranski and his campaign spokesperson Erika Mozes both supported Sean McCormick, the anti-TC, fiscally-conservative Rob Ford-esque candidate in Ward 19. This speaks volumes about the political confusion of Smitherman's shitty shitty campaign.

John Sewell, Haroon Siddiqui and Royson James and many others have explained the appeal of Rob Ford, and it has nothing to do with left vs. right. It is about head inside-ass vs. outside. Exasperation best describes my feelings as I watched say, putative progressives like Giambrone bungle...

The Parkdale-Liberty Villager endorsed Sun. Why is McCormick a lock in Liberty Village? Also, McCormick opposes electrification of the airport rail link, which runs right alongside Liberty Village. He also opposes the Downtown Relief Line, and he opposes bike lanes on anything other than...

Karen Sun can learn how to polish her communication skills. But willful ignorance is incurable. Honkydonkey, perhaps you can succeed where others have failed. Please explain to Sean that the Liberty Village pedestrian bridge has already been approved by the City and is moving ahead through...

Wow, the commenters are really piling on Layton

NOW Magazine's weak endorsement for Mike Layton in Ward 19 generates a strong response from its readers.

I was riding my bike through Gord Perks' Ward 14 (Parkdale-High Park). Most prominent election sign? Rob Ford for Mayor. The election signs also suggest Mike Yen is nearly tied with Adam Vaughan in Ward 20 (Trinity-Spadina).

Name recognition is important, but I suspect Sean McCormick's name is not highly-recognized among the non-English speaking older immigrant crowd you mention. And in the media and online, I would say Karen Sun appears very prominently and favorably (just compare her media mentions to Mike's or...

By the way, in case anyone is seriously worried about vote-splitting in Ward 19, just think back to the 2006 election. Next door in Ward 20, Adam Vaughan and Helen Kennedy did not split the progressive vote, claiming over 85% of the vote between them. Two wards over in Ward 14, Gord Perks ran...

My neighbours report that Mike Layton's people are warning Ward 19 voters not to vote for Karen Sun or else risk splitting the progressive vote ... in a ward where 80% of the population votes progressive. And this is happening literally at the same time as Mike Layton is speaking at a press...

MetroMan, I give you props for sitting through any of the Goldhawk debates. What a terrible format: no audience, the candidates stare out front, don't interact, and don't even really interact with Goldhawk. And Goldhawk himself seemed to be performing a traffic cop role, not acting in the place...