CBC - Disrupting Design I only found a small portion of the 10 minute segment to be interesting, but still worth a look.

Was the temporary Railroad Coffee stand, the one on the south side of the concourse, near the GO ticket counter? If so, good riddance. Their prices would make even Starbucks blush.

I wish people would be more open to the beauty of the artwork in Union. This isn't a dig at you in particular, dowlingm... More at the general feeling towards the installation. I love the way it looks and I love that it reflects a bit of the reality we see everyday, but choose to ignore (as is...

Apologies if this has been talked about earlier in the thread, but has there been any mention of how this line is going to tie into the subway? Based on the dim likelihood of any transit being built in Toronto at any given time, it seems unlikely that the design requirements for Finch station...

If the blue is that offensive shade that you see in Christmas lights, I can understand why it reduces crime. It actually hurts a lot of people's eyes, just to look at it. My wife and I really hate them.

Clueless drivers are why I mostly take public transit. When I drove in Italy, last summer, it was amazing. People did their pass and then got out of the passing lane. It was so comically fast that I began to imagine the Italian government employing the army to take out drivers with a bazooka, if...

I'm kind of hesitant to admit it, but I really like the installation... I like the colours and I like the style that the figures were drawn in. I find it thoughtful and introspective. It's unlike anything else on the network and I don't think that's a bad thing.

True enough... I won't speak for 44North, but as far as I'm concerned, it's tough to see the DRL get pushed down the road, while Sorbara and Flaherty do what they do. It's important to question what the experts recommend, but there is a definite arrogance in disregarding them and pushing...

Some people here are making this an unpleasant place to spend time. Can we stop with all the passive aggressiveness (seriously, calling 44North 'Northy' or TJ 'Pootie'?) and ad hom attacks? This forum is a great place because of the knowledgeable people and yes, the debate, but this is going...

To me, this is the most exciting area of opportunity for development along the route for the HMLRT. There's so much potential to do this correctly and I really hope that all of the stakeholders are on the same wavelength. The intersection at John and Hurontario streets would move from a 3-way...

Any educated guesses as to when construction will start? Mississauga's goal was to have this "shovel-ready" and from my understanding, they've completed the EA and the TPAP: http://lrt-mississauga.brampton.ca/EN/Process-and-Timelines/Pages/Welcome.aspx Is it just waiting on the finished...

The columns are directly under the tracks, so it wouldn't be possible to use them in the fashion that you're probably imagining. The columns directly support the tracks and indirectly support the platform level, which then carries the load of the shed. In its current configuration, nothing...

They're limited by the structure underneath the tracks. Each track is essentially a bridge over the underside of union station. They can't move the tracks, without adding/moving the support columns. That cake was baked almost a century ago.

I'm extremely excited about this aspect of the revitalization. I'm temporarily living in Mississauga and I tried riding my road bike downtown a few times, but it was just too unpleasant along the QQ stretch, that I started riding to Oakville/Burlington instead. Looking forward to next spring!

Ahh.... that's it. I hadn't realized it was with Google Earth.

I've never seen the option to get recent updated satellite imagery on the Google maps website, although I do see members here make reference to such an option, when they talk about projects like this. Care to let me in on the 'secret'?

Thanks for the update... I don't make it out to the east end anymore, so it's nice to see the occasional picture. Are there many other bridges going up, other than this one and the Whitby bridge at Ashburn road?

Thanks for the updates, you two, as I rarely get out to Durham these days. I wonder why it's taken them so long to finish this project... They started construction around two and a half years ago, which blows my mind.

Agreed, I think they did a pretty good job with this garage/station, especially relative to a garage like Ajax (which I feel is a horror show). I wonder if GO has any plans to put a garage in at Cooksville... Parking there is truly a nightmare during the week. I'd estimate that at least 5% of...

:D I agree with you, the dig down was really the only section that had new info WRT to construction techniques. The TTC portion in particular, was a complete rehash and not worth watching in my opinion.