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What happens when you get a bunch of middle-class 20-30 something professional singles and couples, and put them all together? Chaos! Violence! Horror! Destruction! The universe is about to implode upon itself, a rift in space-time is forming along the Fort York Blvd extension, one day...

Resources are, however, an extremely local phenomenon. Yes, Yellowknife and Fort Mac both have exceedingly high house prices, but that is due to lack of supply and remoteness as much as anything else. They're also very hit and miss, Calgary and Edmonton both peaked 3 years ago and are down...

I suspect both sides are being hard-headed about LRT. It's almost as if the Eglinton-fully-underground was a bluff to demonstrate how you basically kill off Finch and Sheppard to get not a lot more in return. Metrolinx did spend a fair bit of money and effort bringing Finch and Sheppard to...

Actuallly, the width difference is quite a bit more than a foot. Shuttle buses and the night bus don't use the St Clair RoW, and even the buses that do run on the RoW for a distance, mostly the inbound Vaughan and Christie buses, barely fit (outbound ones use the ramp under the Loblaws and avoid...

You have to take just about anything about real estate that's coming out of Vancouver with a grain of salt. And by grain i mean that these stories are somewhere between propoganda and bold faced lies. Vancouver's a speculative, hysterical disaster waiting to happen. That said, the relative...

The belt line isn't plowed and at this time of year when it's thawing is nearly impassable. That hill is very large, about 75 feet vertical straight up then down again, and crests one of the highest points in the City of Toronto. There is much local demand at that point, and the buses on Spadina...

They have to sit on various committees, it's in the rules. Ford was on Licensing and Standards and TRCA boards even though I doubt either Miller or Ford himself wanted him on them. It's part of the job. I doubt Ford went to many of the meetings of either board which probably suited everyone...

Re: Chaplin station: There is also the high school (Forest Hill CI) and the library basically right there. Those are huge trip generators. It also has a number of apartment buildings east of the top of the hill and marks the resumption of commercial strip. \ It is one of those instances...

I think a citywide BRT network would make a lot of people happy, and be far more useful to Toronto than pretty much any subway extension save Eglinton....

I'm kind of hoping Mr Gunn's involvment will put an end to this nonsense.

If the weather's bad enough to shut down surface transit then the whole city in general will be shut. Buses and cars are even worse off. Even in regular snow the Bathurst bus has trouble getting up the Iroquois shoreline.

Dumping money into stocks is very, very common among government agencies. It's rare for portfolios to lose money over the sorts of medium time frames money is parked there, eg a couple years. THe markets are again trading at pre-recession levels; a portfolio might have "lost money" in 2008 but...

THe US isn't the big free-for-all.. Most cities have zoning laws and some have official plans. NIMBYs actually have more tools in their toolbox down there; if they don't like the way an area is developing they simply vote to incorporate themselves into a new municipality and elect themselves a...

If it carries 100,000 passengers per day, it might take 20,000 cars per day off the 401. That's probably optimistic because the number of people riding Downsview to STC are a small subset, most would go south at Yonge or Downsview. These people are by and large already riding the TTC to work...

Why would tearing down a house and building a lowrise 4-plex in its place "destroy the neighbourhood" ? It's not a tower, it's not shadowing anything, and the people that live there would probably be the exact same sort of middle class types that had lived in the house before. It does not affect...

This system does work - it has been tried in other cities - but it's something best left for very long term thinking, like 20-30 years down the road. They do this in Alberta. However, the planning system in Ontario does not typically operate with that sort of time frame in mind, so it's not...

Iif oil prices rise by so much that the TTC can't afford diesel in 4 years time, you won't have a job to ride the bus to anyways, nor obviously any money to take the bus shopping either.

Not expropriate. Rezone it and let capitalism take care of the rest. You don't think all those new condos up along the Sheppard corridor were expropriated, do you? They were rezoned according to the "Avenues" study, their values more or less doubled overnight, and those homeowners sold to...

I don't think it would piss off Rob Ford. He would happily spout off some rhetoric about "private sector" or whatever and go on his merry way. After the HIV grant vote the other day, he could pass it off as merely another way of "respecting the taxpayer" anyways. However, the one thing the...

A large proportion of people that don't have cars, don't have them because they can't afford them. So yes, the car owner is typically richer - ie, have a higher net income - than the carless. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, and simple observations like that are obscured by the...