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It definitely felt like Tatooine at Pape/Danforth last week. Seems a little better today

Amazon is known for stack ranking and trying to have every engineer leave the company after 18 months of employment

I'm pretty sure that the city has long banned street parking on Logan south of the laneway, so the cars you always see there are parked illegally

Trivia: The TTC map showed Queens Quay as a rapid transit line 1990-1993 I do think Finch West is much more of a rapid transit line than Queens Quay and belongs on the map

Aga Khan Station, surely

Neat. I wonder if there's any intention to connect Dickens to Logan or Thackeray to Dundas. The current Dickens connection to Carlaw is pretty awkward

This is not entirely up to date. A lot of the people on suburban TTC buses are commuting to Amazon and similar warehouse jobs. The load distribution on the 416 bus system in 2024 is different from what it was in 2019 As much as the banks are trying to kill WFH to save their office real estate...

The newly fenced off demolition area around Pape station is pretty jarring. Taking out a block on the Danforth, taking out a block on Eaton, taking out a block on Lipton, and also taking out a block on Gertrude. It's going to be a strange void for the next decade-ish. I assume there's some kind...

Recreational cyclists looking to do a chill century on a quiet country road take the Niagara train. Joe job cyclists looking to make minimum wage delivering food take the Kitchener train. Well, both can take both, but in different proportions and at different times

Would that be for a hypothetical Durham Region BRT connection, maybe?

The city and Waterfront Toronto both have a plan to eventually connect Church and Cooper. The city's plan is for a 20m width with no streetcar ROW - https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/our-projects/lower-yonge-precinct-planning - https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2016/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-92511.pdf

You would need to get that tunnel deep enough to pass underneath Union subway station somehow. It's not cheaper than expanding the loop at the current elevation

Pretty sure the Ford government has banned the city from levying any new development charges

I would hope so. Minimum wage is $132.40 for a day's work. $100 is below minimum wage

I think nominal dollars is projecting inflation into the future and what the cost would be after projected future inflation in the year the expense will be incurred