Recent content by BejewelledCarp

I don't really understand the issue... Queen street is super busy these days. It's not an indoor mall. Same thing on College, Bloor, etc.

You are reading it wrong. That is about the University bike lanes, not College. The 3710 is the average daily cycling volume on University Ave between College and Gerrard in August 2024. It seems that in that stretch, in Aug 2024, there was an average of 2.6 cyclists per minute. That seems...

Not the left turning car... Is that not super obvious?

I'll be disappointed if the Zeidler one is chosen. It looks neat, but it will also be a pain to walk across -- it makes the path much longer to cross the water. It falls victim to the same crappy pedestrian design that's so common here, in that designers think that people only walk/bicycle for...

Totally. Weird to think that if completed today, this would be the 14th tallest building in Canada.

This is a guess, but it could be the result of the way the regulations are drafted. Laneway houses need to be in certain proximity to a fire hydrant and have sufficient space for access between houses for emergency services. The units closest to the entry/exit to the laneway are probably more...

Everyone was saying this from the start, but it's very apparent now that if this were 70+m taller it would have been an iconic Toronto building.

I'd love to see something more aggressive -- close the South side curb lane to cars, make it a two-way cycle track, limit the north side curb lane to stopping and deliveries only. No left-turns off College. Just spitballing...

Shortlist here. Hines Canada Management II ULC: Hines Canada with Tridel Builders Inc. and lead architect Foster + Partners. KMT Quayside Developments Inc.: Kilmer, Mattamy and Tricon and lead architect MVRDV, Cobe. Quayside Impact LP: Dream Unlimited Corp. and Great Gulf with lead...

I disagree - one of the main goals of policy-making is to encourage people to make the choices that benefit society. We do this all the time, encouraging people to wear seat belts, pay taxes, drive on the right side of the road, have children, get a job, etc. Much like these other policy goals...

I'm not sure how final this is, but it blows my mind that they wouldn't just put the bike lane beside the sidewalk, protected from the street by the planting strip.

This isn't really the right thread for this discussion, but this is hardly supported. Talking specifically about the East end, the report commissioned by the city found an average increase in car commute time of 2-3 minutes. Further, only 5,200 cars/hour rely on the Gardiner (from the East) to...

That looks great. I wish they could do that to the rest of College St.

Wait they're tearing these down? These look amazing.

Yea I think those were leftovers from the TD towers.