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They keep claiming it will be a 30min ride... but it's ~45km journey point to point. How is that even possible? wouldn't that require at least an average speed around 90km/h and that's without even accounting for any arrival/departure speed limitations. Are they lying? or just dumb? Also, a 180...

This might be related to the adjacent City of Toronto Snow maintenance yard. Years ago (8+) , I heard that the city planned to vacate and sell it off in the long term. They needed like ~10years of use on the site, then it could be put up for sale. I wonder if the developer bought this land and...

Lost a bunch of beautiful mature trees yesterday ☹️. They cut all trees south of stokes street, west side of shaw.

Fencing and hording went up this week. Construction on both the The Secure Care and Recovery Building and The Research & Discovery Centre starts March 2024. https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/our-final-phase-of-redevelopment-discovery-and-recovery

Also confirms that they did shift the bridge position west by about 100m. Very disappointing. Original alignment was going to make this a pretty direct pedestrian crossover point between Queen (via Abell) and King (Joe Shuster). The new positioning has both access points on two dead-end...

Another rendering? Not sure where it's originating from... https://www.zillow.com/b/1154-queen-street-west-toronto-on-BMchWz

Every single venue in Toronto has open calendar dates, nothing is 100% booked. Top venues might have weekends fully booked a year out but so many venues are idle during weekdays. There is absolutely no reason that esports needs a dedicated venue, it's 100% a gimmick, esport events can be hosted...

Ya, i hope this dies. This was a trojan horse project, using esports as a gimmick to push through a terrible hotel on exhibition lands. The city needs to smarten up, especially after Hotel X next door, complete disaster.

The cost to the tax payer is $400-500million parking garage and $150-200million in servicing infrastructure (utilities, water, sewer, etc...). If the Ontario government is so eager to pour over half a billion into Ontario Place lands to support a private business, then they could take a fraction...

Anybody have links to the revised designs that were released today? "Ontario Place spa developer releases updated designs following public criticism" https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-place-spa-developer-releases-updated-designs-following-public-criticism-1.6528809

We have a potential east-west belt line just north of dupont. I think Metrolinx has referenced it several times over the years in their long term plans, ie. in 2050s

RE: inaccessible: Just 500m/9min walk north of ontario place is basically going to be a transit superhub. Exhibition GO (All day electrified 15min service) , Ontario Line (subway), three streetcar lines (Bathurst, Harbourfront and King via new dufferin extension), Dufferin bus (including...

This makes me believe you've never been down there before. The entire waterfront area around there- trillium park, ontario place, martin goodman trail, etc... are all buzzing with people every single day. Even during the winter on sunny days, there are masses of people down at trillium...

If you took that $600million and spent it on restoring the ontario place pods, clearing out old structures and landscaping the islands into a park space... you'd probably still have $500million leftover.

I don't understand why they would push the west overpass even more west. The original plan had it functioning as a pedestrian overpass with a direct path between Queen West and King West via Abell to the north and Joe Shuster south. The revised position is now roughly 100meters offset from any...

Looks like this station is being rapidly value engineered and delayed due to rising costs.... https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2023/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-234904.pdf

It might never get fixed. There are hints that they may be moving the Science Centre down to Ontario Place. You can see 'Science Programming' marked off on the redevelopment plans. Check this post...

Interesting info coming from the Ontario Auditor General Report... https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2022/11/30/doctors-paid-5-times-more-than-nurses-to-give-covid-19-injections-auditor-general-says.html It's just so sad to read. Politics trumps logic and expertise.

Just noticing that Therme is spending £250millionGBPs (~$398m CAD) on their Manchester spa, which is set to be built in an industrial park outside of Manchester. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-51767474 But Therme is only spending $350million CAD on their Toronto location, where...