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I think part of the problem with winter/rain cycling is that North America has a silly obsession with mountain and road bikes that go fast, and forego practical measures like fenders, chain guards, bike racks, paniers, etc. Riding in inclement weather conditions requires being a bit better...

I think we typically create a new thread, no?

The trouble is that we are driving development onto all the potential car priority roads. So Toronto's plan is to have zero car priority roads (leaving aside highways), or to force tens of thousands of people to live in condos on busy car priority roads. It's kind of insane, to my mind.

Road capacity is a function of intersections not travel lanes. Going from 4 to 2 is absolutely not cutting capacity in half. This has been demonstrated time and again.

Ancient post, but I am amazed that a seasonal park in Toronto that isn't really an international destination had ~20-25% the attendance of Magic Kingdom.

Not sure that removing 'external military presence' is going to be all that appealing to Europe when their biggest rivals are Russia and China.

Seems like a miscalculation to me. Even if he succeeds in pushing Trudeau out, the Liberals are cooked in the next election. I don't see why he would want to become leader just to go down with the ship, unless he wants to be in the books as a PM for a few months along with the likes of Campbell.

The carbon tax isn't really the whole problem. If you eliminated the carbon tax tomorrow, it would do near enough to nothing for affordability as to be irrelevant. Incumbents are getting ousted across the developed world.

I think that's known as an LGBT sandwich.

Couldn't a pushbox, like that used for HuLRT at Lakeshore Line be used to get a cut and cover line under the Stouffville line? Seems like launching a TBM would be considerably more complex.

Can't really get too excited by how the buildings look at this point, this is just an artistic interpretation of the massing.

The thing is, those businesses aren't picking up the tab. In the real world, we have limited resources and have to make decisions about where to allocate them.

It's very likely not the same. Cut and cover in most cases is cheaper than deep stations, as the cost of stations is proportional to the underground volume.

This is probably more complicated than it appears on the face. Do we allow people to add the cost of improvements to the adjusted cost base? Otherwise, if a property rises in value due to improvements, are we not then taxing that investment as income. Are you suggesting that all capital gains...

Not sure this can be taken for granted, based on Crosstown. Shallow stations built using cut and cover might be easier to complete quickly so the road can be reopened. It's also possible that the cut and cover can be on the side of the ROW, as some parts have quite wide ROW.

Paul Wells suggests that Trudeau should (and likely will) stay to go down with the ship, as it is becoming clear that nothing is likely to change the expected defeat of the Liberals in the next election. No sense in burning a future leader in the next election.

I think they use exterior moving elevators, not cranes. At the end of the day, there are reasons why midrise development, particularly the smaller scale, more livable kind (not double loaded corridors and block long buildings) barely exists here. The choices of lowrise (fully inaccessible...

Is the claim, though, that the rest of the world can't evacuate people from tall buildings on stretchers, or are there different solutions? This seems like a chicken and the egg problem. Legalize smaller elevators, and the moving services would become available. We're not talking 3-storey...

It seems that Bike Share should really consider something like the Montreal bixi points system for getting users to rebalance bikes. I could see even offering free rides for non-members if they move a bike from a full station to an empty station. If people are going that way anyway, might as...

It is certainly possible for people who have greater accessibility needs to live in highrise apartments with large elevators. I'm not sure making small-scale, livable midrise building impossible through overly onerous elevator requirements is a win. How do you stretcher someone from the third...