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Yea, for a few student's or something this would probably work. I think most people will find students and families don't always have the same tastes, though. It's not a suburban mindset, it's just practicality. What, exactly, are you going to take your seven year old to do on a daily basis in...

Jesus tap dancing Christ if our planners actually think like that we are doomed. Spending 1b up front to save 5m/year down the road is idiotic no matter what kind of jurisdictional voodoo you implement. One way or another some government will pay for it, and 20 years from now when the province...

^ Sell off highways. We're siting on billions of dollars of infrastructure that could be sold to fund any number of other capital expenditures, or pay off debt but the result is pretty similar one way or another.

Our infrastructure problems aren't so awful. There are a few countries like Japan which really make a point of investing heavily in infrastructure as an economic strategy but it's been pretty widely seen as a failure compared to investment in social welfare through higher personal transfers and...

For some reason it reminds me of one of those old pioneer wagons.

A more appropriate analogy would be when an airline cancels a flight. Even if it is for totally understandable reasons (like weather), passengers almost always demand some kind of refund and sometimes even compensation for being delayed in addition. Same for Greyhound & VIA. Even with Pizza...

They gave me compensation because of the stoppage. I had bought a day pass, but the earlier suicide at College basically screwed up my itinerary, so I didn't need the daypass. I went up to Davisville and they gave me an unmarked daypass and one of those green "get on the subway" free cards. They...

It's not just travel times, it's cost, it's environmental, it's capacity. Travel times are a key component though, and all things being equal a transit project which does nothing for travel times but costs billions of dollars is idiotic. "Development" effects are frankly nothing but voodoo...

That unit in the Globe article reinforces my belief that "family units" are really just 2B+D units with the den converted to a nominal bedroom. I'll give dev credit for cramming a fair bit into a small package, but I will just about guarantee that no family will move into this thing. It's not...

Yea, it confuses the hell out of me. Whenever you bring it up you are treated to a Sarah Palin-esque denunciation of "elitist" behavior like expecting transit projects to be judged along technical and financial lines as opposed to intentionally unmeasurable concepts like street level redevelopment.

University of Maryland & whoever deal with road safety in Maryland have an neat website on unconventional arterial intersection design with some helpful animations and brief overviews of the benefits of various designs, examples of where they exist and "lessons learned." With respect to...

When we hosted the G7 in the '80s where was it?

^ Those are sort of what I was thinking of, but I didn't know they were simply called "dvd rooms." I'm a bit nervous about the hygiene of renting a dark room to a small group of teenagers though, the likelihood of unwarranted fluids seems inescapable.Maybe get some kind of waiter to travel...

So, in your open mindedness you are intentionally blacklisting entire regions because you don't like the way they like guns? You do see the oxymoronic qualities to this, yes?

I like the idea of making Yonge a busway during these kinds of outages, but would it be possible to implement? Drivers wouldn't know if the subway is FUBAR, and would have no way to tell weather or not Yonge was open to them without some kind of massive signaling system. I guess you could deploy...

I'd just say Las Vegas isn't that bad. It's a casino town, so if you don't like casinos you wont like Las Vegas. But as far as casino towns go, LV is surprisingly habitable. Compare LV to Atlantic City or pretty much any other casino heavy region on Earth. They've done a lot to broaden the...

Maybe I just wasn't used to it, but when I went to Edmonton roundabouts confused the hell out of me at first. After a day though I guess I got used to it. I think a big problem with them though is disabled people. Given that a lot of roundabouts don't have light phases, you can't have those bird...

Huh? Assimilationist policies are not in and of themselves an affront to human rights. On a case by case basis, some policies promoted in the name of assimilation (like Quebec's language laws, or French prohibitions on burqas) are quite tangibly an affront to personal freedoms. Other policies...

Is that what happened? That's even worse. Sure, every now and then "shit happens", but it's hardly like the subway's location is kept top secret. If things went properly, whoever approves roadwork would have made clear to the road-crew they were operating above a subway and whoever is in charge...

I somehow got screwed by both of these today. I can't really blame the TTC for a jumper, but what happened between Bloor-Eglinton? It wasn't a jumper, and I saw a bunch of workers lining the tracks which made me think maintenance error. That definitely is the TTC's fault, and I sure as hell...