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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.

They can also approach Union from the West as there's lots of capacity room in the Kitchener corridor. Both the northern CN corridor and the Highway 407 transitway have some room to spare for a couple of tracks. Serve either the new Clark subway station or 407 Highway subway station, Pearson...

I suspect that was a date provided by Metrolinx. Not because it'll take the Presto programming team that long but because 3rd party requests are almost always their lowest priority.

That depends on how it's framed. A 15% cut in per-passenger operating costs might be achieved by lengthening trains while keeping the same number of staff; it depends on whether they can sell the additional seats or not. Faster travel times the longer trains allow would help with costs too. I...

I missed this piece and was only thinking of electrification restrictions. Yes, changing where the trains run would obviously have a significant impact on support requirements.

I presume this is an electrolysis corrosion concern? The added weight seems negligible even for overhead rail.

The irony in that statement is the best selling units right now [couple dozen per month] are the most expensive. Agreed, almost nobody wants 750 sqft for $1.2M but they have a small chance of selling 1500sqft for $5M in a better location.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/POE9807 It was a flight. Could have been any number of reasons the aircraft was at Pearson, from a diversion to aircraft maintenance. AFAIK their Pearson maintenance facility opened in July, mostly for the jets but perhaps they help with backlog on Q400's...

Very soon indeed. @interchange42

Doug has argued [mostly as a city councillor*] that subways, because they're underground, do not disrupt life on the surface during construction. It's possible he actually believes that you could build additional 401 lanes without traffic restrictions on the existing roadway. * The Spadina...

You say City Top Priority like the city has a choice in the matter. The provincial government makes applications to the feds and federal programs need really broad rules so all provinces can take part. Some provinces ask for input from the cities and has the city execute the work BUT if there...

I enjoyed that typo.