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The Riverdale mega-ramp slowly advances…

Anyway, I've also been thinking of what to call the other stations that might be renamed. Let's brainstorm. Remember Quality Meat Packing on Tecumseh? King/Bathurst could be Hogtown, or Abattoir! Or Wheat Sheaf for the bar on the corner, operating continuously since 1849. But we'll probably...

The issues with Corktown are probably (a) relatively low name-recognition, (b) the station isn't really in Corktown, and (c) there are sensible and more-recognizable options such as Parliament (the station is basically at the first parliament building for Upper Canada) and Distillery (District)...

"Metrolinx’s $27B GO Expansion delayed and scaled back: confidential report" https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=c99e6a18-388e-40b5-be49-aeba610f6acc

Among other things, apparently the consultation process is getting a lot of engagement: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/alto-s-ceo-answers-questions-about-the-high-speed-rail-project-9.7141845

It's like when they renamed Oshawa station to "Durham College" because the college bought the naming rights. Some people disembarked at the station reasonably expecting to be at Durham College. But, of course, they weren't anywhere near Durham College. Eventually the station was renamed...

Excuse me while I jump on a soapbox, grab a loudspeaker, and announce to nobody in particular: Metrolinx really needs to rename "West Harbour" and "East Harbour" stations to "Hamilton - West Harbour" and "Toronto - East Harbour" BEFORE the new station at Broadview and Eastern Ave opens. So much...

The option south of the tracks is to cross the river on the new Lakeshore bridge and use the new Broadview to get to the station. The option immediately north of the tracks is to take River to the ramp up the Eastern Ave flyover and cross the river on the south side of Eastern to Broadview...

Assuming the plan is to reactivate the old crossing near the old Cherry Street bridge, sure hope they demolish all the weird concrete islands and poles on the south side that made this crossing dangerous and inconvenient for cyclists and pedestrians. This infrastructure is unnecessary (no need...

It might interest you to know that wheelchair users have generated the Google Streetview content for the Lower Don trail, as well as other trails around Toronto like the Highland Creek trail in Scarborough. Just navigate to the trail on Google Streetview and rotate the viewer downward to see...

I guess we'll see how long the lower level will be. The renderings make it look like the lower level of the ramp comes almost all the way back to the green bridge, and in any event, south of the crow's-nest-balcony-thing that is part of the upper level. As for the incline, the ramp is...

Sorry folks but there’s a switchback that hasn’t been built yet. https://dtah.com/news/2018-07-20-lower-don-trail-accessible-ramp https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/construction-new-facilities/improvements-expansion-redevelopment/lower-don-trail/

Nice picture. Hate to break it to you, but the visible part of the ramp is only half of it. The other half will go from the switchback at the lefthand side back towards the green pedestrian bridge, in order to get down to the trail at ground level. So, opening around 2028 might be a wee bit...

Flood protection landforms, necessary to develop lands south of Eastern (like the Broadview extension and the Unilever site): https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/our-projects/broadview-and-eastern-flood-protection...

You know, I had also thought of the building as new, but apparently it was a renovation of a former admin building from the soap factory (source). Below is the Lever Brothers Technical Centre from the mid-1960s, which was transformed into the BMW dealership around 2004 (source). So maybe the...