I'm not sure how it would fit with the naming conventions (disentanglement follies!) but I don't think it would be a 400-series highway since it seems like a municipal project, like the DVP or Lincoln Alexander.

Way to research, Councillor: there is no multi-national operator in Montreal. It's owned and operated by the government. Agreed. I certainly hope this park has more in common with Millennium Park than the mere fact that it's built over a rail corridor. The developer should pay for the decking...

I've always found the OUB Centre to be pretty distinctive.

It was designed by...Moshe Safdie.

Sure. London, Berlin, New York, Montreal. There was all kinds of nightlife in all of the neighbourhoods where I lived in Berlin. Sure, it wasn't the "club district" equivalent, which I guess would be the Warschauer Strasse area, but there were all kinds of night spots open considerably later...

If anything, the problem with Toronto's mainstream tourist image is that it's a little dull--the stopover on the way to Niagara Falls. I very much doubt that this casino will become well-known enough to affect Toronto's image, but if it does it could likely only help in that regard. And of...

That's just it: I'm not deriding other people's lifestyles, including people who enjoy going to casinos (or Entertainment District clubs). The suburban lifestyle has many advantages indeed, but my problem is with the city trying to enforce that lifestyle in the downtown core, which should offer...

Oh, come on. Merely being within a 500 metres of a casino will cause children to spontaneously combust? What possible effect would it have on them? Children are not as fragile as you think, and if people are so desperate for the aseptic suburban lifestyle, then there are plenty of suburbs that...

It's more that building actual buildings over the track would require many columns to be added, which would be highly disruptive to the rail corridor. A park could even be cantilevered over the tracks, as is being done at Hudson Yards. I think some of the casino opponents may have seen that...

Absolutely! This also pushes the centre of gravity of the core even further to the south, making the Front-Railway alignment even more attractive than before when compared to more northern routes. I understand what you're saying, but by that logic we shouldn't be building anything in the...

Hmm...then I'm not sure how good of a job this will do at its claimed role of bridging the tracks. I wonder how tall this podium will be. I assume at least John Street will continue to cross as it does now. Anyway, replacing an open trench with a park is always a nice trade-off. I'm all for...

It is, and Melbourne's downtown is very far from dead. In fact, we have quite a bit to learn from them. I notice that this includes a fairly sizable expansion of the convention centre. This is probably a good thing, given that the MTCC is a bit undersized for major conventions. I'd also add...

Wow! This is truly construction on a stupendous scale. (Signs of impending real estate collapse...?) This is like adding another Eaton Centre (1 million square feet of retail) and BCE Place (2+ million square feet of office space). It's a striking rendering, and those have got to be four massive...

Check the link. The 893 million figure is the cost (dramatically increased from original estimates) of the underground station itself. The remainder of the project is a vast network of underground tunnels criss-crossing the city, a new airport station, and part of a high-speed line. Yes, there...

I'm all for the aesthetic improvements, but the whole new underground concourse is completely unnecessary. They barely use the existing tracks as is, by international standards, and learning to turn trains more quickly would cost a hell of a lot less than a gigantic underground track level and...

I fear Pickering will happen, but I think it would be a huge mistake at this point. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars (if not more) to build a greenfield general aviation airport is crazy. Funding it through the landing fees at Pearson that are already among the highest anywhere is even...

There are lots of long transfer passages on other systems. New york has a bunch and so does London. The most famous might be Ch̢telet РLes Halles, which has a massively long moving walkway transfer corridor. It's not ideal, obviously, but a 300 metre moving walkway at Main Street wouldn't be...

I remember reading the EA for widening the 401 west of Mississauga. It included a collector/distributor system between the two Highway 6s. The funny part was the maps which needed to assume present circumstances outside the scope of the EA, so it showed this massive 12-lane highway complex...

That's an interesting question. I wonder where people would transfer coming from Markham. It would depend on whether the time taken by additional stops on the subway outweighs the time connecting at Main Street. I actually suspect that it would. The problem is that with frequent stop spacing...

The problem is that GO keeps paying up, again and again. They pay for these new tracks, hand them over to CP, and then CP just parks their freights on them like they're sidings. GO needs to come to a real agreement with CP build its own dedicated pair of tracks in that corridor, completely...