Recent content by jje1000

Maybe this calls for a low-floor metro rolling stock solution lol

The ironic part is that the Engineering building sat on this part of the Med Sci building that they are looking to demolish, not under the part they are looking to keep. Otherwise, my immediate opinion of the MVRDV design is that it is too tall (covering up the remaining Med Sci block and yet...

The issue (as beaten to death endlessly) is also because LRT speeds in Toronto are too slow, and the transit mode is also conflated with the streetcar system in Toronto, which also requires its own reform. As it stands at the moment, Ford's assertion that Streetcar-LRTs = slow has been...

Upper Canada was effectively created as a militant Loyalist refounding of British North America, but with stronger cultural connections to the UK* and conservative monarchist values against the American project- so the Orange Order emerged less as an immigrant import, but as a Protestant...

I echo what others have been saying- the podium completion is a generational opportunity, but the towers are pretty much duds, and need to embrace the neo-deco mentality rather than trying to reinterpret it.

IMO the REM was achieved within a narrow window of stacked advantages (Deux-Montagnes infrastucture/ROWs, Quebec Liberal-CDPQ collaboration, lack of NIMBY immune response), so kudos to those who saw the potential and seized it. It's very much like Waterloo's LRT, that the initial conditions that...

Would love this but isn't there already an older masterplan that still needs to be finished regarding the park itself? I think something like this is very much a pie-in-the-sky scheme, and would probably need a big benefactor. Love the idea though, and I think they should even restore the lost...

Remember when I posted about the issue of Indian gangs doing drive-by shoot-ups of Indian movie theatres in Brampton? Sounds like symptoms of yet another metastasized problem that Carney has to clean up from Trudeau- and now honest South Asian communities are being terrorized by this...

Ontario Power Generation has submitted an Initial Project Description (IPD) for the Wesleyville generating station to start the Impact Assessment proceds: Main Takeaways: - This formally starts the Federal impact assessment of the project under the IAAC and CNSC, allowing regulators to...

A question- in some of the second level plans, there seem to be provisions for a PATH bridge northwards- how exactly are they going to get the bridge under the Gardiner, since the Jarvis St ramp (Ramp 155) is in the way?

Quick question- for the PATH connection, in the plans you posted above, does that roughed-in path connection connect all the way to the east side of the site to the Church Street Green P parking garage? Trying to make sense of the current path potential going eastwards into St. Lawrence...

Does anyone still have the CIBC Square architectural plans (81 and 141 Bay St)? Since the project is completed it no longer shows up on the Planning Application portal.

Here's one freakish loophole that awaits reform: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/how-claiming-to-be-refugee-became-get-out-of-jail-free-card

I mean you are engaging in an act of reductionism that enforcement = only literal armed guards at every entrance- sounds like a moral panic from you instead that keeping public transport safe requires police everywhere. On the contrary, many transit systems utilize a tiered security approach...

Always interesting to see how aggressively this intervention intersects the geometry of Libeskind's design, which itself unapologetically inserted itself into the older wings of the museum.