Recent content by goodcitywhenfinished

Between SNCF Voyageurs, CDPQ, AtkinsRealis, and Keolis, the number of Anglos involved in the project should be sufficiently minimized to ensure some level of construction activity occurs.

Yes it went very well from a project finance and timeline perspective. Probably the most successful transit procurement in recent Canadian history. The public did not like the inconvenience of roads being torn up for months.

Why? Walking from Central Downsview to Sheppard West is not a small distance, forget South Downsview. I will remind you that Downsview is comparable in land area to the Line 1 catchment south of College. These two stations could be built on a per station budget similar to original Line 4...

Not doing this would be incredibly shortsighted. The city has the potential to cheaply cut and cover and tunnel though the vacant Downsview lands and save billions of dollars. I'd argue just build the tunnels and station caverns preemptively now, then finish construction whenever we do...

The wide rail embankment cutting through neighbourhoods is really reminiscent of London.

Good! 2036 is quite far but EMUs are the way to build world class regional rail, not electric locos.

The whole point of jets at Billy bishop is to expand range to destinations in the southern US, West Coast, Mexico, and Caribbean. Alto doesn’t change much on that front.

If Jane was chosen: I'd rather see a routing through Roncesvalles to Dundas West, then up the rail corridor with 1-2 stations in the junction before turning onto Jane

Moving incredibly slow for a CLT structure. Wonder if they are having fabrication issues or something? Supplier changed midway? Brock commons at UBC (18 stories CLT) topped out in just 10 weeks.

Line 7 needs to be scrapped at all costs

Really surprised more of these factory operations in older parts of Toronto haven't picked up and moved to Vaughn or Milton.

Interesting that the language has changed from maximum speed of 300km/h to “speeds in excess of 300 kilometres an hour” I suspect the consortium is pushing for higher speeds than originally planned by the crown corporation. In my mind 350km/h would be “world class” HSR as of 2026. However, by...

Hard disagree. At least on the housing front, Eric has a deeper understanding of the issues than anyone else rumoured to be running. On inexperience and naivety: see Zohran Mamdani or Justin Trudeau for that matter. Both of which aren’t policy wonks in the way Eric is.

I believe the design contract for stations is split into South (Downtown), East Harbour, North, and Elevated. Each section will have its own treatment but is expected to follow the design concept work that was done by HDR. As far as I can tell, East Harbour will be the worst in terms of design...

Slight improvement from the previous design iteration, still incredibly unserious. I think there is a pretty good chance the building that gets developed on the adjacent plot is tied directly into the station and becomes another entrance, in which case the prominence of this entrance will be...