Recent content by Cambry Ardship

The connection from Marlee to Blossomfield is already planned for in the Near Term Cycling Plan. There's some indistinct dotted yellow lines along Lawrence--staff were clear that they were planning inclusion of better cycling along the broader avenue, to Dufferin and Bathurst at least, rather...

The behaviour of some older residents was awful. @UntitledCyclist isn't exaggerating, it was flat out unacceptable to treat anyone like that. The younger people in the session were not the ones being jerks to staff. I think a lot of people were living out real or perceived slights from the city...

The ones to the north and south of Ridelle (marked in the below image)? The City staff said that these were about reusing of existing assets to better benefit the area, in this case, the (disused?) stub of a hydro corridor. I'm sure there's an element of buffering, but the hydro park is only...

I think the issue of speeds in the tunnels is going to be compounded by the tunnels being large and so well-lit. The TTC can't expect that passengers just don't plain notice that the trains are moving slowly, like happens sometimes in the dark subway tunnels.

To the extent there is a "problem" that still needs to be fixed before opening, it's not so much the safety or infrastructure side of things (that's table stakes), it's the political risk of opening a second line with absurdly slow operating speeds. I presume most people are going to expect the...

I guess the lesson with Finch is that even with so many years of delays, the opening can still be rushed. To paraphrase Dirk Gently, rather than arriving five years late and flustered, it would be better all around if the LRT were to arrive five years and a few extra month late, but triumphantly...

The two roundtables were today. I was at the first one, which was extremely well attended with about 70 people. There were several unfortunate interruptions with attendees yelling at the presenters but once the presentation and Q&A portion was over there was a good breakout session with staff...

I heard that too. I think it's silly given that both the options being developed include both the Beltline Gap Connection being built as well as an improved cycle corridor along Marlee. But I think that's coming down to the desire of Councillor Colle to delay and reduce the scope of any...

The city is planning a transformation of the Marlee-Glencairn area. With the provincial MTSAs setting a minimum density of 200 people and jobs per hectare, the city is planning for the predominantly low-rise neighbourhoods surrounding Glencairn up to Lawrence to transform into midrise...

It's good to see the priority for expansion along Eglinton but I really worry the City has screwed the pooch by delaying the installation of Eglinton TOday, what with Bill 212 and now Bill 60.

The Star wrote about Mike Colle's rally yesterday (http://archive.ph/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/lawrence-plaza-demolition/article_510e8315-5e4a-4f09-896f-50ea99f3a9fc.html). About 100 people showed up. This is a pretty impressive turnout. Colle was quoted as: “I can imagine two or three...

Did they get the height wrong when printing the TTC logo on that signage?

Cuts coming to GRT: From https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/proposed-grt-cuts-are-short-sighted-residents-say/article_1bc5d3c3-d408-5bb1-90c7-02ffd6bd8dc5.html

And now Mike Colle is trying to create a very rose-colored AI slop view of this large and unpleasant parking lot. The website his staff have created, savelawrenceplaza.ca, lists a few reasons, presumably AI generated as well, to preserve a large parking lot: That's one way of trying to...

I mapped this out as best I could on Google Earth following the map, and I got an approximately 125 km route connecting Burlington to Oshawa. I terminated one end at the Aldershot GO and the other at the north end of the Simcoe BRT, following the 407 where not otherwise specified...