If only the (seemingly not in use?) tutoring business on the SW corner of Phipps+St. Nick were replaced by something of value....

If Sankofa is the price we have to pay for the necessary renaming of this important GO-TTC interchange, I guess I can accept that. Roncesvalles seems totally appropriate.

Deepest apologies for taking so long to upload pictures, but here are a few of the newly open and accessible gazebo area in front of Hart House. It looks really great I think, and the entire Front Campus area is seriously coming together. I was walking by with a fellow student today who said "it...

We should keep Dundas because people strongly associate the name with a street and major square in Toronto, and seem to have ~0 interest in the namesake of that street (or any other street if we're being honest). The use of a word in a relatively unknown foreign language will strike people as...

Sankofa square......

Note: Sorry for no pictures, I was biking by quickly in the cold tonight. The fences surrounding Hart House Circle have been taken down, and you can now walk diagonally across it again (i.e. through the new gazebo area). It was dark when I passed by so I'm not sure, but I didn't think the...

No detailed notes today, but here's the updated progress panel posted by a reporter on Twitter (reordered slightly from the one in September):

They aren't announcing the full GO Expansion plans with the consortium until next year, but the currently announced plans are for 15min both ways all-day on Kitchener (with innuendo and social media speculation implying much higher, especially at peak) to Malton (EDIT: Bramalea).

Yes, they should indeed add the termini to that one sign. The other signs in Union already provide "useful guidance". Stations in London and, for example, Seoul are certainly named after streets (not sure about the other two). Your issue seems to be with the urban framework of Toronto rather...

Cardinal directions add value in a city with two subway lines running east-west and north-south. The overwhelming majority of subway trips are taken by riders familiar with the city, for whom cardinal directions are useful given the (approx.) compass-aligned grid of Toronto. For the others, the...

I get that online transit/urbanism influencers always need something new to talk about in what is a naturally extremely slow-moving field, but the idea that Toronto's wayfinding has an appreciable effect on ridership is absurd on its face, and sets the tone for an overall overdramatic video.

The question was "why didn't this happen under Tory", and DF basically responded that they have a good relationship and discussed this deal. I'll remove "take" for clarity, mistyped clearly.

Press conference notes: Ford: Platitudes Funding for shelters/beds, security on TTC, ETC and FWLRT projects 7.6 billion in capital relief by uploading DVP and Gardiner, Ford pledges no tolls on them ever Toronto to meet or exceed housing construction goals, mentions near transit stations in...

Deal struck involving DVP+Gardiner upload and provincial gaining authority over Ontario Place; includes additional funding for transit from province as well: https://globalnews.ca/news/10116918/ontario-toronto-new-deal-doug-ford-olivia-chow/

What a relief to walk down the wide sidewalks in front of IMMIX after years of being squeezed into tiny sidewalks or, worse, being shoved onto the street! Sure wish we could get that downtown Yonge revitalization moving....

No goalposts have moved. Your argument was that the Ontario Line does not amount to much coverage of the "core", in contrast with six other cities in which you can travel "to nearly all sections of their cores" on rapid transit. I proposed that those cities are not comparable to Toronto, and...

Sure, Berlin is the closest, although they're still incomparable given historical factors (also Berlin's city limits include a bunch of empty space mostly untouched by transit). "There's still so little truly rapid transit in the core, and the Ontario line alone won't add much". Just because...

Toronto is not remotely comparable to any of those cities, and neighbourhoods you consider to be part of the "core" in Toronto are more sparsely populated than neighbourhoods on the outskirts of those cities. The OL does a decent job of covering the densest unserved neighbourhoods which actually...

Is there some detailed analysis of the problems on King which have arisen since 2018 (I've seen Steve Munro's overall analysis, but looking for something more granular)? While I'm sure enforcement is relatively lax and there are clearly enough violators for people to snap pictures and post them...

Should be Long Branch Loop and East Avenue, I assume