Recent content by adHominem

The press release explicitly says the LRT stations will open "along with the rest of the line at a later date", so no, the LRT opening on the 16 seems very, very unlikely.

I don't think I could ever fully relax in a spa that looks like a place John Wick is about to have a gunfight in.

Well, here's hoping the scotiabank arena collapses on thursday evening then

Unless I mistake your meaning, there is a signalized crossing at Davenport Rd and Caledonia Park Rd, so it's part of the way there at least.

I assume it's Neom, the horrible Saudi Arabian vaporware planned city.

I've definitely seen lineups out the door for the TD Centre in past years, as well as huge waits for other marquee sites like RC Harris or the Don Jail. It's not new, though attendance probably took a dip after the pandemic started; perhaps it's just catching up to 2019 levels now.

Dear diary: today I learned there's a "Mike Meyers Drive"

It's incoherent and deeply ugly and each choice of materials is worse than the last. I think the only thing I really like about it is the choice of typeface for "bloor ci". What a missed opportunity.

If memory serves the path went in when they eliminated the Dufferin jog and extended the rail bridge; the park space on either side went in as part of the adjacent developments. I don't know if it was ever formally "opened" or if the fences just fell down while we wait forever for Metrolinx to...

Cladding:

"iconic"

Shoring continues and there was a crane base in place when I walked by this morning.

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Ooh, i would love to see the Tim Hortons plaza go, if only to cut down on the number of times I narrowly miss getting hit by a car when walking by. (Though I don't know where the juggalos will get their sodas, if that happens. The S Market has a weirdly vast selection of Faygo)

It's overall pretty sharp (especially for Marlin Spring), but it also really falls down on the east side. This is the view from Dora Ave; i realize a crash wall is required facing the railway tracks, but this blank white treatment is pretty grim. Even just continuing the brick panels would have...