Not sure there is anything inherently wrong with 6 stories - there are plenty of very livable cities with 3-4-5-6 story buildings..it’s not like Mississauga has not and does not build towers. Railing on about height restrictions can be a bit of a knee jerk reaction at times I believe.

I do not disagree, but to me, that is like opening Crosstown and skipping the Yonge Eglinton station.....and it does not seem like the Metrolinx style.

And as elsewhere, where access to the Islands is being thought about by bridge or tunnel, perhaps its time. I have been a defender of the Island Airport for its services and convenience.......but if you could connect the airport lands via some form of rapid transit (offshoot of the TTC Harbour...

Drove south from the Queensway the other day and it is startling how little change there has been year over year. Mary a track to be seen.

I see VIA is adjusting the schedule of the ‘Ocean’ due to declining state of repair of the tracks - CN owned. That’s the second CN line where maintenance, or lack of it, is now impacting any sort of passenger rail revive.

Perhaps if the developer revises the setbacks, examines the need for a concrete wall facing the park, revises the projected visitor parking area, they might find more acceptance. Why we would ever automatically feel that a developers planning proposal is good planning is beyond me. The area is...

I have used the words ‘augment, adopted, upgraded’ in speaking of some of these sites. I think you would have to inventory what resources you have now, from the Skydome on down, what is needed, and then what exists now that could be adopted for use with investment. Say in the geographic area...

Whitewater in Minden Ontario, Track and Field at the Skydome, unless baseball is an Olympic sport, you have the Etobicoke Olympic pool already, there is a cycling veledrome in Milton, there are a variety of University venues in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, the arena in Hamilton….we have a lot of...

You could build an athletes village in Downsview….or the island airport. I think the Portlands would be built out. You have existing arenas and stadiums that could be used or upgraded. Sailing in Kingston, canoeing and rowing in St Catherine’s , equestrian in Caledon, road races around Queens...

Any thoughts on who is replacing Rick Leary August 30th?

And the heritage building is being kept/ incorporated/moved on site into the development apparently.

That is it. I understood some cars existed, but had never seen . Striking. Perhaps they too were waiting for Metrolynx to let them into the city.

You are right about Smiths Falls, and that one escaped me at the time. I should know better, I had a grandparent who was a section foreman out of Smith Falls for quite some time. I guess I’ll need to assume some former CN ROW into the Ottawa area, or just expropriate. This project would have...

On my way into Toronto, heading westbound on the 401, around 7:30, I happened to notice an unusual CN train. Possibly 6 to 8 passenger cars, including a dome car. The topsides were painted white, the middle area of the cars, centered around the windows, were a maroon(?) colour with the CN logo...

Just to be perfectly clear, in my postings about reestablishing rail service in parts of the Ottawa Vally, I used the words ‘in my fantasy world’. And so it is at this point in time. But the ROW does exist, and in most places outside of Ottawa and parts of Pembroke, unencumbered by encroaching...

Stonecliffe Station….once. I was in Stonecliffe the other day, and although all the rail is gone, the road bed survives. . In my fantasy world, the rail is resurrected to handle hot shot freight bypassing Toronto and heading eastbound or westbound, , my franchised sea to sea ‘Canadian’, and...

Drove through Gravenhurst today (childhood bakery to visit). Nary a sign nor word of the revitalized train service, but did notice that the station is now an overgrown taxi depot, and the passing siding has been cut by roadwork. Much to do I think before the ‘Cottage Express’ becomes a...

This photo was sent to me by a friend from another website, as we both enjoyed the cafe, but in my mind, the photos sum up so much of what we are today (especially in the 905) vs what we could be now (and are in small isolated neighbourhoods) and in the future. I believe the posting was...

The Mayor of Burlington initiated a Mayers Speakers Series recently, and the first speaker was Jennifer Keesmat. I had tickets to go, but life interrupted that plan, and so here are is the presentation in pdf format and (hopefully) the VIMEO link. It is going to take a while and much banging of...

Thinking of farmland as a national resource...so I will add this article that came to me recently (It could also be dropped into Justin Trudeau's Canada, Doug Ford's Ontario etc ). The article does not reference urban sprawl, but the idea of farmland as a national resource. From the Canadian...