Recent content by afransen

It boggles the mind that it is this difficult to make this work. It's not like Toronto is inventing the idea of a transit mall.

Their domestic market is already the largest car market in the world.

Seems to me that the main problem with bins in Toronto is that they aren't emptied often enough. The old design is bad, too, but any design won't work well if you let it overflow.

I think the mistake is to think there is one Mississauga identity. It is just an administrative unit. Do you think people in Streetsville or Port Credit give a fig about Malton or whatever? No one swells with pride about Square One or Celebration Square.

Wait, we're saying Brooklyn isn't part of NYC? Mississauga is part of the city known as the GTA. There is lots of commuting within that city (City of Toronto to suburbs and vice versa), and it is one integrated economic unit.

I think Reece and others have made this point, but the Waterfront East LRT should be built sooner rather than later, even if that means foregoing the Union upgrades. It is better for prospective Portlands residents to have to walk from QQ to Union for transfers than to not provide LRT service at...

Hydrogen is not a great way to shift energy on a 24h time frame. Hydrogen production could be a good way of soaking up excess power (in overnight time frames, and increasingly around noon due to solar), with the hydrogen being used in industrial processes such as reducing iron for steelmaking...

Support for independence is no where near where it would need to be to warrant a referendum, recently at 35%. I don't see a flashpoint that would trigger a substantial change in that dynamic...

If we can tolerate overhead wires on King Street and Queen St etc. in Toronto, unremarkable and soon-to-be-knocked-down downtown Brampton should be just fine.

The math for tiny homes doesn't pencil out anywhere land is expensive.

Given that Hurontario seems likely to remain a traffic sewer/road, I think it would be better to have activity focus on parallel access streets. Because these wouldn't be serving a through-movement function, they can be relatively narrow like 24-28m (maybe 3 lanes wide + parking + buffer + bike...

Sometimes I wander through Celebration Square, but I am more often downtown. Both are a trip for me.

I don't think this is a material difference. In both places, people go downtown or stay local in similar proportions. It's not as if a city of 5-7M can fit in Nathan Phillips. At any rate, these things are all pretty superficial. As an economic unit, it's all Toronto.

Mississauga isn't really a distinct city from Toronto, for the most part. You could say the same thing about Scarborough. The distinction between Scarb and Mississauga is mostly administrative. Scarborough Town Centre and MCC are roughly equidistant to downtown.

I find using drive-thru is a shit show most of the time, at most fast food places. TH has long been awful. If I am out in the morning and have no other options for coffee, I will at worst case go to a TH, order a coffee in the app and pick it up from the pickup location. The drive thru, last...