Strangely enough, projects with valet parking in the City are not exempt from providing accessible parking. I'm not sure what's more accessible than getting out at your front door and handing your keys to someone, but what do I know...

The City is now requiring accessible parking be provided in condo buildings. Not only that, they're requiring a ton of accessible parking (more than current demand). The issue (outside of the fact that they cost more to build) is that people can end up owning a space they do not have a legal...

If you measure just a city (i.e. the City of Toronto) you're creating a boundary based on an arbitrary political line. If you measure a region, the excercise becomes too easy to manipulate. Measuring density is extremely easy to manipulate by adding or subtracting area. By the by...

Do cyclists realize how much they sound like born-again christians with their holier than thou bullshit? "You are a testament to a new world, a world with better air, a world safer for people, both health-wise and environment-wise, and a world where we share the roads, we don’t hog the...

The ramp is to the existing college park loading area (the parking ramps are separate from the site and aren't impacted by construction). It will replace the current (temporary) ramp that is at grade to the east of the new ramp. It looks designed so the dirt can be excavated from underneath it...

Here's my logic for keeping it further north than King: When coming south on the Yonge line in the morning there is an outflow of passengers at College, Dundas, Queen, and King. I worry that if the line is too far south then the passengers travlling to the north stops may not divert to the...

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I'm wondering why this wasn't done as part of a more comprenhesive study regarding the use of CP's rail lines as part of the GO system. It seems like some of the improvements they identify would be useful for other services. For example, the CP line through downtown also runs through the...

That's my recollection, as well.

I'm surprised that the land values in the area don't justify building a simple, 3-4 level parking deck. My my crude math that would save 2.5 acres of space and cost $7.5 million (I'm assuming a 300-space deck). That's $3 million an acre. I know parking math but not land economics, would that...

I like the idea. Without fact-checking, I believe Copenhagen does the same sort of thing (combining lines with medium headways into one line with great headways through downtown). You could always build the line as you've said and reroute the bottom of the 'U' underneath Queen Street at a...

The Front/Simcoe site isn't very wide (around 35 metres, similar to Trump). Without including the buildings to the east it would be tought from a setback and parking issue to build anything really tall.

I think one of the reasons for buiulding a rink here is Toronto's rinks are located mostly north of the 401. There are very few suitable rink complexes that actually serve residents of Toronto, East York, etc. This rink would be much closer to home for a lot of people in the City than where...

I agree with Mike in TO, it seems like a tax on good locations. The idea makes some sense in principal (if a metrolinx project adds $5 million to the value of a property, it's fair that property pay part of that back to metrolinx) but with any tax you need to be careful of what you're taxing...

The Atlanta project is a good example of what some people defend as 'good sprawl'. Based on what I've seen in Toronto of this Duany stuff (Cornell in Markham) we just seem to end up with slightly different looking suburbs where everybody still drives to work and home depot.

They should put out a reward for whoever finds the Denny's placemat that Miller drew the original transit city plan on the back of in purple crayon. Miller: "Here Webster, I've decided our future transit plans. Check this out." Gary Webster: "Umm, this makes no sense on any level. You've...

Notwithstanding his personal life, I think the issue is that selling air rights above stations will not pay for the subway system. If it did, we'd already have a larger subway system. Sarah Thomson's tolling proposal could actually pay for a subway line.

I think one of the by-products of any GTA-wide car-driving tax (i.e. road tolls, gas tax, parking space tax, etc.) would be a heavy bias towards suburb-friendly transit (GO Rail, Viva, etc.) in the near term. Road tolls would be a hard sell for any politician, but it would be even harder to use...

Well, technically this would save farmland by increasing the size of Toronto's core. My crappy math tells me you could hold 160,000 jobs+ people in a filled-in Toronto harbour. That's like taking north Oakville and Seaton together and putting them in a walkable urban area. And the fishing...

I actually think the idea's kind of cool. It'll never happen for thousands of perfectly good reasons, but for a crazy idea it's one of the better ideas I've heard in a while. Plus, it gives me a moral justification for dumping a load of bricks from my driveway into the Keating Channel this...