Recent content by Vaucluse

Does anyone recall the underground parking at Rexdale Plaza? It's under the north building that used to be Towers/Zellers. I just rode my bike there and did a roll through the parking, only the first level is accessible, I believe that there's three levels. I remember as a child my parents...

The road was built about the same time as Mississauga City Hall. The road was named after Andrew, and was unveiled when he and his new wife Sarah Ferguson came for a royal visit. They opened city hall, if I recall correctly.

Seeing that this thread has become a typical Ontario cars vs people blame game I thought I 'd post this link about what Vision Zero is. I hope it works. This is a short vidoes about the principles of Zero Vision, although it is directed towards americans I think we could learn a lot about...

Heartland? More like wasteland.

This discussion was had twenty years ago when the base was closed. At that time the downtown councillors thought that Downsview would replace Toronto Island airport and so the island airport could be closed, North York councillors thought much like yourself that charters could be flown out of...

Adding passenger services to an industrial airfield is an expansion. When I was stationed at Downsview in the early '90s there were no passenger facilities, and our squadron was responsible for transient flights. Since then, the hanger has been converted to indoor sports fields so there is even...

Bombardier owns Downsview and has owned it since the mid-90s, as well, it sits directly under the flight path for 24L & 24R. There will be no expansion of that airport.

I'm not sure why this route still exists but I do know that it's still used by some to/from Malton. Miway's 7 is only a duplication to the terminals and then goes to Sq1 while TTC 52 goes the other way to Lawrence West. Miway's 11 is has its terminus at Islington. Perhaps this route is kept as...

I think I got to the bottom of this little mystery hole in the wall. The building was a storage warehouse owned by the CNR that had a basement. When CNR and the city pulled their money together to build an underpass CNR just added an extra bit to the job to put in the access to the basement. I...

Yes it's the same location but I don't think it's the same building but the "before before" photo does give me an idea. The utility poles on the right I believe are telephone, these poles are now missing from the 1932 photo, so perhaps the mystery entrance is one to a sub-exchange vault? Or...

I agree that the street in the Depression era looks in much better shape than now. I don't live near the area but what I always find striking about older buildings is the level of decoration that went into even the industrial building seen in the photos, window frames and cornices for example...

The work on the bridge was to allow access for construction equipment to the Enbridge natural gas pipeline project. Enbridge had put a bailey bridge over the old bridge for the heavy equipment. I haven't been around there recently but I thought that the bailey bridge would be removed, the area...

I found this photo during a google search, the interesting thing is the building built into the bridge abutment. Does anyone know anything about this building? The after photo shows that it's till there and looking pretty much intact.

The road signs and red light cameras won't have any effect. Many drivers don't respect the current speed limit so the speed reductions won't do anything either. The curb extensions, curb radius reductions and sidewalk widening will slow cars down, this will help. I'm not sure what is meant by...

1- The different signals also give no excuse for motorists to proceed on the tram lights thinking they are for vehicles. 3- The grass was planted as part (small part) of France's efforts to offset their CO2 emissions. Our emergency services here think that they need to drive on the tramways...