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The problem is that there is no need for an LRT running north-south through Riverdale, even if there is development happening along Eastern Avenue or the Unilever site in the long term... and if there were redevelopment along a DRL running through Riverdale, this would also increase car and...

Expert? I don't have the money to hire expensive transportation consulting firms, do you? I have proposed this to the TTC, but there is institutional inertia or internal consensus... or call it something else, but they are not willing to study this and won't change the terms of an EA. Lots of...

This should answer that... the current platorms are under the bus terminal - there is space under Bloor Street itself, and space for a loop under the grass in front of the Danforth School for the Arts.. The tricky part is ensuring that if this is ever extended north, that the LRT can go...

So, the TTC/Metrolinx are looking at a Broadview route as one of their options - presumably it would use "subway" heavy rail (in blue) but could be LRT type vehicles, depending on a variety of factors, but TTC is not looking at the red alignment from Castle Frank, in RED, which really cannot be...

Other than the current subway stops on the BD or YUS line, the number of stops is not determined. In theory, a line underground from Castle frank to Queen and Yonge could have no stops and be purely an express route - but look how far apart the stops are on the buried part of the Eglinton...

Extending "West" - the idea is that is does go west from this bridge only to Parliament, where it turns south... there is no point in go west of Parlimanet along Bloor as of course it then goes to Sherbourne station. "Expanding the Subway network" - well, do you consider the buried portions of...

Here are photos of the 2 bridges - and you can see how the one older bridge is a duplicate of the Bloor Street Viaduct/Prince Edward Viaduct. It has the same ability to accept a lower deck for public transit. The bridge couldn't be used for a subway in the 1960s, and generally the TTC has...

Bussin is also running, and I won't get into that discussing the local race here... how is the travel time any shorter on the proposed DRL if it goes under, say Pape of Coxwell? A trip from Victoria Park station to Yonge and Queen will be phyiscal as long if it is a combination or pure...

See http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5006.shtml This is a city that put a convention centre under a roundhouse and park... these are trivial problems and depending on the costs, there is always the option of where the route could go.

I came up with this a long time ago and only decided to run in July. It was mentioned on Munro's site in January, the powerpoint done in April

Well, I am the author of the website www.briangraff.com and actually posted it on Steve Munro's site as well... and one more thing, I am runing for Council in ward 32 let me explain the genesis and reasoning here... from several viewpoints. 1. a subway has capacity of something like between...

I know full well that property rights are not unlimited - even prior to single use zoning that came into effect early in the 20th century. Yes, there are some Avenues, like maybe O'Connor, that have poorer transit service than Queen East of Woodbine - but they also do not have the congestion...

Planners are saints without any self-interest or biases, I guess. Ever hear of "Urban Design" guidelines or panels? Site Plan Control? Minimum height, minimum setback"build to" lines or other rules that discourage the "big box store and massive parking lot in front" model? The Beach has a...

yes, that is me. Is this a "scientific" opinion? So, the mere presence of a streetcar line justifies 6 storeys? The community was built around the streetcar - a "stretcar suburb", from a time when it was in the country and cars were a novelty for the rich. From this logic, all major streets...

And creationism is scientific too, I guess? Evidence? Where is the evidence in the avenues policies for 45 degree angular planes, that the ideal street proportion is 1:1, of, but then somehow it isn't because we apply a front angular plane at 805 of the streetwall... If 5 different planners...

Evidence based? It is opinion based - and the opinion of one person sworn in as an 'expert" saying "black is white" counts before the board, while the opinion of 1,000 people who are not sworn in as "experts" counts for zero. If an expert lies or distorts the truth, there is no enforcement...

I wrote the letter.... The OMB treats planners as "experts" who swear to be non-partisan, but are anything but. I have seen this for myself, particularly in the case of planners working for developers. The same goes for architects too, despite being licensed. Anyone can call themselves a...

No, there is a huge difference starting about 150 years ago with structural steel, elevators, mass transit, the car, etc. combined with rapid social changes and changes in architectural theory and planning... in effect changes in scale. european cities, or even the walkups of brookyn, meant...

Just to make a point here -look at the 2010 the Avenues/Midrise study - you have an existing contect in the top photo. The idea on some strets will be to get to the bottom photo - assuming that the infrastructure can handle it, it isn't a heritage area (or likely to be one) or character area...

regarding parking - parking problems are worst in evenings and weekends - when the condo owners will be here instead of working elsewhere. they will have visotrs, plus they can get parking permits to park on the street. weekdays 9-5, particularly in winter, parking isn't such a problem...