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My apologies. I was trying to convey the vagaries of the notice without assuming too much or too little. Perhaps a better phrasing would be "Metrolinx is burying at least some, and possibly all, of the wires in a section of hydro corridor in Pickering." I did debate not posting about it. But it...

Metrolinx says it will begin construction of a replacement habitat structure for chimney swifts at the future Ritson Road GO station. Chimney swifts are an at-risk bird species which like to nest in large old chimneys. My understanding is that when a chimney is removed, environmental regulations...

*edited for clarity Metrolinx says that next week it will start burying at least some, and possibly all, of the wires in a section of hydro corridor in Pickering. The hydro corridor crosses the Lakeshore East line and the 401 just east of Pickering GO. Here is a screenshot from Google of the...

Here is the tender for design work for the third garage.

Work on the Barrie line Sheppard Avenue bridge is scheduled for next month.

Here is the construction notice for that.

Mississauga city council yesterday approved a $13.6 million garage expansion for MiWay. They also approved the purchase of 3.9 acres of vacant land for MiWay, adjacent to the existing Central Parkway garage. The details of the staff report are not being made public, but the motion approving the...

Steve Munro has an old blog post from 2008 with this diagram from a TTC presentation.

Also, as @urbancog noted yesterday, even with unidirectional streetcars, there's a lot of room for an underground loop. It just means more excavation.

I replied in the Parliament Streetcar thread, since everyone else was posting there.

No, not the bus loop. The deck we're talking about is the lower level of the road bridge over Rosedale Valley. It was built in 1918 with a lower deck for future streetcar or subway use. The bridge location: As for platforms, what @reaperexpress is suggesting is that rather than use the...

There actually is an existing UT thread for this. To summarize, there were a lot of complaints that a Castle Frank loop was impractical. @reaperexpress presented his excellent plan in that thread as well, but I think most people overlooked his post and/or didn't know about the lower deck on the...

The city has recently decided to pull out of the T. L. Kennedy re-development (see project thread). The community centre is to be located somewhere else now, possibly at 69 John St (project thread), which the city just acquired for park purposes. But my point was that incorporating a few...

While staff imply that they expect a Minister's Zoning Order to take the decision out of the city's hands, there are some interesting notes in those reports. The city staff list 6 areas where they have concerns. The height is higher than the city had planned for these parcels, and the city says...

Mississauga city staff are recommending that the city relax its angular plane policy, and also reduce the amenity space requirements for apartment buildings. Mississauga city council are set to consider the staff's report on February 23rd. Here is a diagram from the report on the changes to...