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There is a general description here, but I would love to see the procurement document with the full description of what is being bid on. Same for the fibre optic network they also want to build throughout the subway -- strangely it does not sound like they will pull it through to the surface...

Festival of the Americas Veering gently on-topic, I would really like to see the Pan Am Organizing Committee reach out to other Toronto events, communities and so on to try and turn the Pan Am summer into a summer of Americas themed events. Caribana is already one of the largest carnivals...

The problem is that there's no streetwall along the way -- it's a boring, windswept walk. That said, these condos are part of the solution, not part of the problem. This is one of the denser suburban areas, and it's a start. It's far from perfect, but it's certainly a step in the right...

That sounds right to me. I very rarely take YRT. Instead I get a lift to Steeles or Finch or, if necessary, park at a plaza or pay for parking somewhere near the subway. It's not worth an extra $3.25 to ride the kilometre to Steeles ($6.50 round trip), and parking is between $8 and zero a day...

Then isn't the way to address the "bottleneck" to make good use of it by investing in that part of the city as a destination? That assumes that the purpose of taking the Allen is to continue on well south of Eglinton. I would have thought good urban design would look to make better use of...

Unless you have had long conversations with the general managers of each of those hotels about what they think about public transit, and discovered that those who have spent much of their lives commuting by public transit are so blinded by their hotel experience that they are unable to apply any...

Your assumption that a guy who works in the hotel business is unable to recognize what's transferable to public transit and what isn't doesn't seem very grounded. What do you base it on?

Really? The TTC and its counterparts operate in different places. The TTC and GO operate in the same places. (Ditto for the TTC's counterparts and GO, of course.) Merger does away with the issue of agencies that just won't cooperate. The TTC will always be the most important local agency...

Yes please!

This is a bizarre way to try and "prove" the blanket statement that "unlike other municipalities, Toronto actually provides services", but for those curious about community housing wait times, see "spreadsheet" link here.

An Ode to Bathurst and Steeles:

I lost track of this discussion long ago, but if there were a bridge, it seems to me it would have been nice to run some sort of transit from the airport across it and on to Union Station.

But RIM doesn't build networks. They sell devices. Carriers like Bell and TELUS and WIND build networks. Why would they build a network for just one device?

Parking usage at Finch certainly declined massively. (I am not saying that's a bad thing.)

Strong sanctions against outmarriage are so typical of so many ethnic communities that, at times, it's almost hard to believe that that taboo is absent, much less frowned on, anywhere outside the inheritors of the Christian European Enlightenment -- that is, modern Western culture.

No, Washington DC gets less than a third as much snow as Toronto on average.

I don't understand. You are saying that employers should regulate where their employees live, so that they can transport them home when they are done working? That makes no sense. As Asterix says, if someone spends all their time commuting, or golfing, or reading, or whatever, and leaves...

I must admit, I too am faintly stunned by the line taken by fiendishlibrarian, who really ought to know better. The TTC should be free to hire the best employees possible. The TTC has a responsibility in cultivating excellent customer service among employees who have a passion for what they do...

Is this a scale from densest to sparsest? Hippest to derisivist? Favouritist to yuckiest? (I had to ask!)

Sigh. Off your high horse, please. Although I am liking the switch from Catholic dogma to playground antics, I will drop the sarcasm and state it even more clearly to help us get there. You keep telling me I'm greedy. You don't see that as calling anyone names, which is a mindset you're free...