Recent content by north-of-anything

Finally peeking out above ground level now. April 17

Today. I'm curious why the crane is still there. Nowhere better to put it?

It seems to be a trend in Simcoe County, as far as I can tell... the vast majority of higher-density builds in Bradford in the past ten years have been retirement residences of various stripes. Younger singles, especially those who grew up in Simcoe towns, are usually either living with their...

Oh please God no.

I have trouble believing that Eglinton east of Kennedy has the population or the development potential to justify a separate light rail line. The ridership converging on the corridor might be high, but I think it would make more sense to do a Mississauga Transitway-style operation in the median...

Now this is an MZO I can get behind. I feel like an intelligent, respectful intensification of the area around the food terminal will never actually be proposed, so it's best to leave it alone.

Today, from Grove Street.

Today The above pictures were taken from within the development on the west side of Mavrinac, facing east. But there are still a few lots in this section that have not been fully built, such as south of the west end of Fish Drive:

Maybe extend it a little bit further west and it can become the Sheppard-Jane line. As long as it hits Jane and Wilson, that's where the ridership from all directions converges to go south...

The homes are not going to be demolished, unless something happens during the tunnel boring that weakens their structural integrity, since it's happening relatively close to the surface directly below those homes. The block at Pape and Sammon is being demolished for constructing an auxiliary...

Can't they just designate the part of Downsview Park Boulevard between Dufferin and Allan to be Dufferin Street?

The Public Notice sign is gone, but the houses on Vespra still look lived in. However, Barrie's city council moved to rezone the property from General Commercial to mixed-use to enable this project to go forward, in early February. It's inching through the pipeline, but I don't expect...

Today. Siding is going up, and they're laying bricks by hand on at least the Veterans Drive frontage!

Love the mixed-use intensification of this site. I would much prefer if the exterior of the new resembled the old more.

I mean, maybe I overstate the value of a UP Express transfer (I'd use it, though), but in a perfect world there would be some sort of direct off-street connection between the two GO stations (since neither subway station is actually between the two GO lines). I also think you might understate...