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They have a fairly strong growth curve within the BEV market in Europe, particularly Spain and France. The bigger question is will BEVs replace ICE. https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/how-europe-can-use-tariffs-as-part-of-an-industrial-strategy

Common in Taiwan as you don't put garbage on the curb in advance. Truck stops regularly and you deposit your trash into it directly.

Land in Toronto, due to how MPAC assesses land, is usually taxed at its highest potential value (excluding yet-to-be-built structure value) regardless of what it is currently zoned for. It's why Yonge has been transforming so quickly through downtown: all those 2 floor shops were paying...

:) It's approved as a condo. @Undead was being silly. That said, this project is much larger than anything the developer has built before at a time when sales are unusually low so it may be a while, perhaps years, before construction begins. There will be an interim use of the land in some...

Generally I would agree that increasing capacity of the roadway by strongly encouraging higher density vehicles would be the way to go. However, with the expected near-future rail service to that specific location I think we might be better off encouraging transfers to GO services in places like...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/port-colborne-electric-vehicle-battery-plant-1.7204175

The Canada-wide construction inflation rate is nearly triple the CPI, closer to 6%. GTA is on the higher side of that rate. So a $42M 1985 project would cost somewhere between $365M and $550M today. The irony is this is a very strong argument against overbuilding, rather than building extra...

The operator probably prefers 80kph max. They can run ~2 to 3 fewer vehicles/drivers and maintain the same overall line capacity.

Should be some pretty significant efficiency gains from regenerative braking on these vehicles too: high weight and frequent stops.

I certainly can't speak for all of them, but in 2000 those King West buildings near Dufferin were littered with tech startups looking for a database contractors because they couldn't afford it as full time staff. I guess I presumed that was typical; I had little interest in real-estate at the time.

Agreed. The millions of sqft of 90's/00's warehouse/industrial to office conversions are struggling with very high vacancy rates. These buildings tended to target underfunded tech startups, and tech startups needing low cost space are now going wholly remote. Nearly all of these could be...

Yep. May 21, 2024 through July 2024 for track work. No alternative service; they're simply not selling tickets for the northern stations on those dates...

I'm not certain this will survive as a zoning retraction but an approved minor variance would need to restart the clock. Variable development fees, however, seem like fair game since by definition they're to pay for required new city infrastructure to service the development. Move first (before...

Yes. The zoning change is permanent with the property until replaced by another zoning change. There is a cost to making the application, but they can make as many as they want. Approval is not guaranteed, even if the change is minor. As a bonus, you don't need to be the landowner to make a...

Agreed entirely, and I say that as someone who happily, some days enthusiastically, walks 10k to run a basic errand.

If QConnexiON manages to win the ViaFast tender, making Deutsche Bahn the operator, its likely that ETCS will be deployed in that corridor as well. If Cadence wins then they wouldn't bother as no company in that group has experience with it.

The below image is from the 2019 report. GOs new platform is where the south tracks are in this image. I can see a few challenges: The curve to that south track space would be really tight. The arena office building foundation probably gets in the way. Black squares are railway support...

It's on Metrolinx's capital project pipeline (bottom of page 2) but with "Upcoming" status and doesn't have any dates. https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/Documents/Metrolinx/CPG-Procurement-Opportunities-Pipeline-January-2024.pdf Looking at the list, Ontario Line took nearly all staff...

There have been 7 condos sold over $5M, out of 37 listed, across the GTA in the last 180 days. Every single unit Mizrahi had in the top 20 floors fit into this category. Even if every single buyer went with a unit in The One it could take several years to clear their inventory. They may well use...

Some might argue that spending that amount of time/money chasing after permits for few dozen additional $5M units while sales were slow and construction costs were escalating is an example of why they lost control of the building. They're not the only company to gamble that post-pandemic things...