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This project feels like a miss with the lack of a contextual relationship with Convocation Hall and the uniquely-clad main part of the Medical Sciences Building. While it'll be an improvement over the dull western part of the Medical Sciences Building along King's College Road, it just feels...

The design language is still too grey and serious in my opinion. Have some fun with the architecture and design like with the Spadina line stations and basically the entire Montreal Metro.

I'll take whatever populism they come up to get high-quality transit built at the right locations, except for communist or fascist-style throwback populism.

The interior looks trashed, but the structural aspects look to be in decent shape in that particular area shown in the photo. It's definitely a building with heritage character worth preserving. No one will ever build these kinds of brick-and-beam industrial buildings in neighbourhoods like this...

The Ontario Place station proposed earlier in this thread is a great idea in my opinion. It's a major regional destination that needs to be well connected to the city via rapid transit. The way I'd do it is to have the line curve south from Exhibition station to Ontario Place. Build the second...

The 512 can be painfully slow west of St. Clair West station during the day when people get on/off at most stops. But it can be only slightly slower than the subway late at night when it's mostly empty. The same could probably be said about most surface routes, though, on major crosstown...

What's odd about this project is that though it's supposed to be stone cladding, it looks like aluminum cladding from a distance. There's something rather unsatisfying about that.

As you can see from Monarch Butterfly's posts, the Ambassador Bridge's owners are very effective lobbyists, and they're only in it for themselves. Everyone else can suffer. The important thing is that their bridge keeps printing money. As such, any leverage over the bridge owner can help the...

I was thinking of buying some shares at that price, but what's the upside with this company? They're apparently going to sell off $500 million in real estate just to pay debt and also issue 40 million new shares, which is going to dilute the value per share and make it harder to get any growth...

The high-ceiling platforms are great, but the "architectural" concrete looks like a joke as you look up towards the ceiling and see the wavy discolouration. If you're not willing to do architectural concrete right, then don't do it.

Perhaps there's a negotiation play that's possible where we pull Canadian investment in the Ambassador Bridge as leverage to get the Americans to open the new bridge? Perhaps just shut the Canadian customs plaza down for some time to stop the flow of American goods into Canada? That could also...

You don’t end up with more sideswipes because nothing gets drivers to drive more attentively than the possibility of damaging their own vehicles.

Given the egregious lack of transparency on a project involving so much tax money and so many problems, I think a public inquiry is definitely warranted.

I'm really looking forward to the lineup this year!

Agreed. That's why Rushden Station is surprisingly beautiful as a complex next to Danforth GO station. They actually made tasteful colour happen.