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TRBOT also argues that mobility is one of the reasons Toronto waterfront has so many visitors, and expects even noisy mobility improvements like Jets and Hovercraft would increase that number. Keep in mind "Waterfront" for their numbers includes CN Tower, Aquarium, Scotiabank Arena, and Skydome...

Isn't that one of the primary motivations to allow jets? An E195 at full range can reach markets well beyond Ottawa/Montreal like Bogota, Lisbon, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.

Paris Nord Villepinte is a good example of a convention centre, larger than what Ford is considering, near the airport and 30m by RER B to downtown

Metrolinx owns that corridor so they're all GO lights.

I very much doubt is Chow's precedence of rejecting the power will be honoured by future mayors. Either the power shouldn't exist, or it should be used to achieve the goals of the electorate and they will be judged in future elections.

Agreed. Sometimes leadership needs to acknowledge when they made a mistake and promising not to use strong mayor powers when they benefit the city as a whole was a mistake. It's not undemocratic to use them, but it is democracy at a different scale; they mayor is still elected and accountable to...

Fascinating. They have a taxpayer approved 6-mile underground extension to downtown San Jose currently under construction with an opening date of 2036. I expect the added operating funding will be approved but extending a struggling system seems counter-intuitive.

Ironically, allowing Jets at YTZ may constrain capacity for Porter as I expect 80 to 120 slots per day will be taken by business jets that currently go to Pearson [many used Buttonville before that]. That's about half of YTZs current capacity. It'll be interesting to see what other improvements...

The most viable lake infill to me seems like the westward extension of Ontario Place. This area is shallow (13 to 20m) and has already been manipulated for the Pan Am games.

I really hope, for the sake of transportation in Alberta, this isn't a continuation of the TransPod FluxJet proposal. I know that company is waiting with cash-in-hand for government approval (this document) in order to build their 10km test track. Alberta benefits far more from a functional but...

One of the reasons we can do Deep Lake cooling is the lake gets deep very quickly. The water 5km offshore that part of Japan was only 18m, albeit a lot of soft mud that's still compressing [island is sinking]; 5km offshore downtown Toronto is closer to 230m.

It's amazing how much power Mike had over Bob Rae to force the NDP government [majority government at the time] to announce and begin the transition to photo health cards.

Using Ex grounds would explain the much larger than necessary [for planned Ontario Place buildings] scope of Bill 68.

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.