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many Toronto signals have SCOOT: http://www.scoot-utc.com/ Probably not the most advanced in the world, but we do have something in place.

My three reasons why this might never happen (not that I don't want it to): - The City's new tower guidelines requrie residential towers to be very skinny. Skinny and tall doesn't work (too many elevators, tough to do structurally) - 1000 ft office buildings are huge, and people aren't...

Agreed. Madrid is doing the same kind of project now too. I guess we only admire Madrid when it builds subways.

I think our City (and its children) will survive not having the world's only quadruple-stacked glass-walled hockey arena.

Does anyone else see this new design as an overreaction? I honestly don't see how a well designed building couldn't accomodate rinks (and even some parking) at grade without ruining the portlands.

Sorry, I should've been more clear. The Y/E plan shows the Canada Square towers more or less intact but with the podium blown away to form a new pedestrian connection to Yonge. This won't happen without the redevelopment of Canada Square. Canadian Tire won't find a contigious office space...

The City has already done a secondary plan for the redevelopment of the Canada Square site (along with the old bus yard and some other crap). http://www.toronto.ca/planning/yonge_eglin.htm Vultures. If Canadian Tire moves it could be one of the few leases big enough to trigger a large...

Good transit tends to follow good land-use planning. Areas of Toronto (and likely any City) that can support high levels of transit (because of good land use) tend to provide high levels of transit. Areas with crappy land use distribution tend to have poor transit because it's not worth it to...

I would use $25-30k for above ground in a dedicated garage and maybe double that for underground. Mall operators aren't big fans of underground parking because it's tough to convince customers to use them due to security issues and the fact that there's no direct connection to the mall. For...

True. I think RBC actually has two separate elevator cores, one for the tower and one for the west podium. BA is pretty much just straight up.

Wow. Are you always on?

BA's parking and loading was already largely built for the stump. RBC had to build new parking and loading facilities. That alone could be $50 million. It also depends how you measure things. My guess is these costs are comparing apples with apples.

No, it would be building a better public realm. You're referring to the failed attempt to remove lanes and build a moving-sidewalk.

Agreed. The landscaped median with off-peak on-street parking would've made Jarvis into a great street. Instead it will remain a wide, ugly piece of crap. The things we do for Toronto's most powerful 1%.

It is the permenant ramp to the existing loading dock.

Thomson all the way. Not for her subway plan, but for having the guts to propose a way to pay for it. Smitherman's funding plan was patronizing and pathetic. It shouldn't be a matter of which plan is the best, a true leader would admit they're not an expert and that Toronto has a terrible...

I agree 100%. I've done a lot of P3 work and I'm convinced it's a bad way to build things. Plus, it's essentially borrowing money so it's no better than saying that we will issue bonds to pay for the expanion. My dream candidate would say the following: 1. I will toll Toronto's...

An unbelievably weak funding strategy: "George Smitherman will contract with the private sector to partner on the construction of additional transit capacity in a design, build and finance model. This model is similar to the mortgage model used by many of us to achieve home ownership before...

I like the planners who did this official plan (USI), but what I saw from this is more sprawl (55% of growth) plus two clusters of buildings around subway stations. Some day I'd like to see an official plan that calls for the long-term transition of poorly designed cul-de-sac...

If he didn't agree with the arena as a land use he should not have joined a team bidding to design it.