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ICE buses, including those in Toronto, experience mechanical failures and catch fire too. https://www.toronto.com/news/finch-ttc-bus-catches-on-fire-at-station/article_34449f30-3a6f-5c47-b262-68355519d45a.html

Meeting notice.

It looks like it is related to this website, which is a fantasy map. Line 5, 7, 9, X, etc. all line up with it. It is not official in any way. https://www.gtatransit2050.org/the-plan

Line 5 ridership at Aga Khan is up at least 1000% since last week. I say we give it a year to get some official stats.

Hopefully the staircase at ET Seaton park operates with full hours.

Has anyone noticed if the condemned building still has a roof today?

Kingston can be a pleasant town to walk around in the late spring. Lots of old [for Ontario] limestone buildings. London is decent for a budget golfing holiday but the 20+ courses are outside city limits; so you'd probably be renting a car for that. There are abundant riverside bike trails as...

Given significant increases in construction costs, isn't there a fairly large viability gap? Vacancy is dropping but lease prices have been pretty flat since 2020 haven't they? Whats break-even on a major office development now? Net $65+/sqft?

Not just approval, they charge for it. Street-side stops are free. Union station usage fees are around $40 per bus but each operator negotiates independently and there are discounts for volume and off-peak use. I'd guess Hunter Street station usage fees are around $20 per bus; trivial on a full...

IIIRC the excavated portions of Finch were expected to be around 40% of the total project capital cost despite their small portion of total length; though that was back when TTC was still in charge of the project.

It would be very hard [expensive] to repair with only weekend outages. They'll hold it until the Ontario Line (and Eglinton) have been open and running well for a year then schedule an 8 to 12 week outage for that section of Yonge.

His 25 year period is being implemented by Metrolinx.

Kinda the same thing. The typical person cannot afford the type of unit they are willing to buy, and builders refuse to go bankrupt (like Cresford) building larger units at a loss. The few $3M+ 1000sqft new build units are only really moving in Yorkville and Rosedale.

Demolition continues

There's a new TV series on National Geographic called Toronto Airport Uncovered which has an abundance of operations details.