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What you say is quite true; nevertheless, placing all the blame for pedestrian mishaps on drivers is just as silly as placing it all on pedestrians. As a culture (at least in the English-Speaking world) we seem given to throwing ourselves into orthodoxies. Before, the car was king; now...

Albert-St. glass arcade all the way through to Yonge St: YES!

Queen's Park has no businesses on its periphery and yet it's a green and treed oasis in the middle of the city that is well used. The first several blocks of the Champs-Élysée has treed walking paths on either side and institutions further back. It's beautiful.

I think the frustration many of us have with such "Debby-Downer" comments is that, while they may be rooted in history, they have the psychological effect of suggesting that Toronto sucks and nothing can ever change, which, of course, is nonsense. Say what you will about this town, it certainly...

Hudson's Bay launches new real estate division to redevelop its stores https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hbc-properties-and-investments-streetworks-development

I expect a lot of us UrbanToronto followers are just impatient. I think many of us at some point in our lives have left home, seen the world, and despaired at how much exciting and beautiful stuff is out that we don't have at home. However, cliché though it may be, Rome was not built in a day...

Yes, he did in 2016. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-mayor-john-tory-to-call-for-road-tolls-on-dvp-gardiner-expressway/article33012398/

By nonsense you mean a dedicated bus lane from the UTS to Kennedy Station?

When did any Toronto mayor ever have a funding plan for transit ever? Begging higher levels of government for money has always been part of the process.

My grandma (born in 1909) always called Highway 10 Centre Road. Roads parallel to it were all 1st Line, 2nd Line, etc.

It’s symptomatic of psychological self defence. Many people, through social conditioning, equate enthusiasm with naivety, being unguarded, and thus weakness. They associate pessimism with worldliness and optimism with being a chump. Deep down they long for a positive outcomes as do the rest of...

This is exactly my observation. Well put! I do observe an evolution in this city towards an appreciation of nicer things, but you're quite right, it takes time.

The first sign yesterday that things were different was when Google maps showed a solid green line from Scarborough to the airport midday on Saturday! We went through T3. It was very quiet, but everything was still operational. Staff were all wearing rubber gloves.

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2020/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-145257.pdf

I’m impressed this building made it this long with its cornice intact!

I think the Globe‘s point was that the only reason we’re tearing down 10-storey buildings is because our restrictive land-use policies are pushing developers towards tearing down mid rises and buildings energy-intensive concrete tall ones when we could be tearing down hundreds of km2 of one and...

My people!!! I told my wife about the demise of this parking lot but she just didn’t get it.

I was really struck by the most recent population projections published by the province: https://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/demographics/projections/table4.html Ontario’s midline population estimate for the City of Toronto is 4,270,000 by 2046. That would make Toronto’s population density...

I agree! My dad, born in Brampton in 1941, wouldn’t buy a top-end Oldsmobile after receiving an inheritance in 1989 because he thought it was too pretentious. Now he drives a Lexus. I definitely grew up with that austere Methodist mentality and I can also see that it’s definitely fading.