https://www.dezeen.com/2024/11/05/daoust-lestage-lizotte-stecker-toronto-eglinton-crosstown-stations/ Dezeen article with a few new interior shots of stations.

Steel construction for a non-commercial build in Canada is very rare. Cool!

Wait until the 50bps cut ripples through the lending environment and sentiment at the developer level changes. Boom time's a-comin'

The city could just go crazy on signing construction services contracts for all lanes that are at 100% design right now. If the province wants to cancel the city can just go on a PR frenzy highlighting how many millions are going to go down the drain.

Beautiful scale for this neighbourhood. Chinatown/Baldwin area needs a blanket rezoning

I want to see Abacus run this polling in Ontario. Though I can already predict support for bike lanes will look exactly like density maps of the GTA.

I have a feeling this is going to play out exactly like Ontario Place We are all going to wake up at some point in February or March to witness sole-sourced contractors from the Province removing curbs and repainting Bloor and Yonge and nobody is going to be notified ahead of time. Just in...

Again, this is such a juicy rumour that I simply cannot believe the media in this city would not be doing their best to at least get dead drops on emails/documents confirming this to be the case. Either a) there is little to no truth to the rumours (I.e. the errors are much more trivial than...

Just to note: store managers for chains in the US regularly clear six figures USD. Or look at manager salaries for gas stations like Bucees. You make more than a graduate software engineer in Toronto. Something is awfully rotten with Canadian business culture. A reluctance to invest in...

I haven’t seen much discussion about just how different the homeless problem is now than it was in the past. Fentanyl is the elephant in the room and until a) the supply can be significantly hampered OR b) we have a fully funded rehabilitation system with mandatory(!) treatment, people will...

"taxiway is too green" is silly There is a lack of heavily planted urban thoroughfares in Toronto. The last thing we need is to be limiting streets to a few saplings. Maybe the runway in future phases can be more of an open space but I don't see any particular value in keeping taxiways bleak...

Any idea how the Province's temper tantrum is going to effect the viability of this project going forward @Northern Light ? Are we looking at this project potentially being stalled once again?

Finally.

Ok this is nice

This is getting Goode

Pinnacle seems to have their CM down to an exact science. They move notably faster than others in the city.

Because its the Toronto thing to do. I hope they really meant this: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/31/toronto-pearson-airport-expansion-construction-plan/ This is what JFK and ORD are doing in the next 10 years: (note the Studio Gang terminal for ORD was pushed back to phase 2, SOM...

Echo is the nicest from purely an on-bridge experience. The way the truss wraps the bike lane and separates car traffic from pedestrians is really nice. Motion is the best looking as a sculptural piece but the on-bridge experience looks terrible.

There are two ways to address this: 1) Install crossing gates 2) Reduce operation speeds at crossings Realistically, only one of those options will be viable for administrators in both Edmonton and Toronto. Transit users will be inconvenienced but costs will be kept down as we collectively...