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The main purpose for the build is to expand office spaces for the astronomy department and related units. Currently, astronomy people are spread between floors 12-14 of MacLennan Labs, the 50 St George building with spill-over going to Earth Sciences across the street. The new building will put...

Logical location opposite of MaRS to house the Vector Institute and student start-up space

Why are all so many of the towers in the area proposed/built at 157m ?

It can't be a real corridor like the Sillicon Valley because the greenbelt is in the way. Why not rezone the strip of land ~2 km on either side of the 401 between Pearson and Kitchener to be commercial / industrial office park use, the cheap land costs coupled with HSR and easy access to...

I don't understand why you got so severely triggered by the mere suggestion that the B-D subway be extended deeper into Scarborough.

Ideally I'd like to see Bloor Subway extended into Sheppard / Markham, and LRT on Victoria Park, Kennedy, McCowan and Eglinton East up to UTSC...

Jeez, so many cranes... The entire skyline is under construction!

They have 45 km of Subway under construction.

Lee Kuan Yew

Wait, 2 additional highways going downtown AND a bunch of new subway/LRT lines? I'd actually be quite pleased with that. The Spadina expressway didn't happen because it required the complete destruction of mature neighborhoods. But replace 'mature neighborhoods' with 'rows of derelict mud-brick...

Sure, they are modern, prosperous cities with unsustainable resource- and speculation- based economies and occasional instances of right-wing paternalistic/traditionalist persecution of women and minorities. But you agree that this is mostly an economic and political issue, not an issue about...

I'm no apologist for Chinese state, but I've been nothing but impressed by their infrastructure development, especially in mass transit. I find it more than slightly annoying when everything the Chinese does is judged and dismissed through the perspective of them having no democracy and human...

China builds infrastructure much faster due to a confluence of factors. Entire subway, high way and rail systems are centrally planned years in advance, and there is continuity in policy such that any change in leadership would not derail the execution of these plans. It is also much easier to...

City boundary definitions are different in the states, like Toronto pre-amalgamation. All the US cities you've listed have over 1 million people in their metropolitan areas.

I don't mind the LRT if the whole line is converted to LRT. I sure don't want a Sheppard East LRT as long as that subway exists. The transfer at Don Mills makes no sense. It might make more sense if there was a line down Don Mills, but that sounds like an equally distant prospect. As long as the...