Recent content by rfid

A few observations from the Block Context Plan, which seems to reveal what Scarborough Town Centre will look like in the end: 1. Progress Ave. reconfigured (curve straightened/realigned north towards the Real Canadian Superstore) 2. Walmart isn't in the mall anymore (existing area now corridors)...

According to a recent Retail Insider article, the rumours were a Saks at Fairview and either Simons or Nordstrom at Scarborough Town Centre. Seeing what Oxford did to their other major Toronto properties, I'd be more inclined to believe they have some unrevealed plans, similar to what they've...

Square One has a Walmart and Dollarama, as well as a recently opened luxury wing.

It looks like another renovation is in the works: "Proposed interior demolition to prepare for the relocation of the upper and lower level food court" Source: Toronto Building Permits

While I don't disagree with the analysis of locating the stores in top performing malls, I am skeptical of not locating the stores in a more Asian area of the city, especially with the direction Markville has taken.

With any venture, whether public or private, you cannot continually operate it at a loss. There is no question that public transit in North America is operating at a loss. Measuring profitability of a route is only one measure of performance. It's the same measure that tells us subways in...

Driving around the San Jose area, I find the traffic lights extremely responsive and intelligent. They seem to make better use vehicle detection to allow more vehicles through an intersection/turn if there are cars waiting and cycling to some other phase if not. A lot of intersections have...

But, if we are talking about the "Bay Area" then I would argue much of the Greater Toronto Area is better connected and served. Try getting around the San Jose suburbs on VTA. If we are talking about the city proper, again, Toronto is served by rail, subway, streetcar, and bus. I would argue...

I don't understand how San Francisco ranks higher than Toronto. Neither is the Bay Area well connected nor is the city proper served by much more than buses (where Toronto has much more diversity in modes of transportation).

That's why it's better to announce the next stop when the doors open, so you can confirm you're going on the right train, rather than being trapped on the wrong one! Arriving at announcement is fine; the next stop one is redundant if the doors already closed. I think when Toronto's LRT...

There's a building permit filed for a Disney Store at Scarborough Town Centre

Some features I would have liked to have seen on these trains: - an active LED route map that dynamically updates as the train moves through the route (though I guess our system is simple enough not to necessitate one) - an announcement as soon as the doors OPEN indicating the direction, route...

I wasn't sure if this should have its own thread, but I have a general question about design considerations of surface transit right-of-ways that run in the median of existing roads. Please merge with another thread if more appropriate. I usually hear that these ROWs do not remove lanes of...

I think a big problem in Toronto is we are still stuck believing that line = route. I think we need to eliminate that gridlock mentality to come up with more creative solutions to our transportation problems. Roads are infrastructure. So is rail. Buses run on roads. Rail vehicles run on rail...

You save a lot more if there's more than 1 person in the car