Recent content by Mr_Praline

The same City-owned parcel also contains a sanitary sewer pump station, closer to Cherry St, so this construction could be related to those works as well. The sludge from the SWM facility, as well as the sanitary drainage from East Bayfront, goes via here back north to the Low Level Interceptor...

If I had access to some of those M&S Bramley Apple mini pies at Union, I'd eat 4 of those damn things every train ride and I'd gain 50 lbs in a month. I grew up with the Oshawa Centre's M&S food line being served by my Brit parents at teatime, and even though M&S is long gone from Canada I still...

At first glance from up here, looks like a normal streetcar stuck in traffic... then you realize there are no tracks on a University Ave sidewalk...

Speaking of 401 eastward widening, MTO will be replacing the Henry Street bridge structure over the 401 in Whitby this summer. Tough to nail down exactly what's planned, as one MTO website put this work in 2021-22 but another said this year, but there is certainly mobilization going on with some...

I'm glad to hear this communication is ongoing, and I'm glad to hear that it will only be limited to mild expressions of regret, as you say. Ditto on the wards in question. I think what bothers me is hearing things like and as someone who is a professional in the industry, it's hard not to be...

The EA for the interchange reconfiguration was initiated in 2003 and was completed in 2008. It's taken this long to then design and build the necessary underground infrastructure to accommodate the disentanglement work, and that doesn't yet include the undergrounds for each development block...

This raises an interesting point: how are they actually going to redesign and "free up" land? It's either occupied by the mall, municipal roads and big box stores (and adjacent vacant plots owned by the developer), or it's government land (Civic Centre, library) and utility (Bell office). The...

From the article that TJ O'Pootertoot posted above, And that was from 2012, and that's only in Vaughan. Smart Centres is a substantial landowner and developer in this country. They probably want more brand recognition than just "those guys who helped bring Wal-Mart to Canada", but yeah, it...

The second paragraph on that GO Mt Dennis page is a real whopper: "Mount Pleasant will be the western-most stop on Line 5, which will stretch 19 kilometers to the east of Kennedy, with 23 stops in between. The station will offer bike storage, as well as a pick up and drop off area for...

Yep. And who do you think they submitted it to? And then directed City staff to study it?

It's not often that the elected officials publicly show their true opinions on City staff. I appreciate that a retired planner came up with this proposal, but man, does it ever scare me that one of our elected officials admitted on the record to thinking any of the following, let alone all of...

If I was to guess, the decision to try to stop fixing and instead move the inert train came about halfway through, something like 630 or 700? That was when the tone of announcements changed from "we're trying to fix this" to "we're getting outside help". This was really what we were all chatting...

Believe me, there were plenty of seats. There were two stations out of four left from the express run. I think people wanted to gravitate to where there were others, and I did the same thing. I started out in the westernmost end car, and there were maybe 5 people in the entire top section of my...

I was on the 430 LSE along with CJ (and I sat with her for some of it). The engine died just after leaving Ajax station, and I mean juuuust after... like a couple hundred meters from the platform, tops. At about 5:10ish. The staff kept turning on and off the electrics and air con, finally just...

There is some big, big work involved in that one. Toronto has some large-diameter transmission watermains on Finch West that pretty much follow the FWLRT route (west to Hwy 27 and then south).