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Jesus, for all I know adma made that. Give the stalker-esque nature of this all I'm pretty much looking out my balcony.

Ohh yea, adma got me. I'm actually a pedophile too. Not only a pedophile mind you, a pedophile that reads The Sun. Tremble before adma, Nancy Drew of the intrawebs. ...get a life. You're only making yourself look like a paranoid fool at this point. And all for defending the Hyatt of all...

Is it really that important to be a "global city"? All things being equal I'm of the opinion that bigger is better, but I don't really see what Toronto ever gets out of these totally arbitrary categorization of cities. I'm more interested in comparing for things like quantity and quality of...

I must have missed the Adam Vaughan editorial about creating "those who earn 3-4x the median household income while both parents employed in the nearby environs friendly condos." He said "family friendly," not "friendly to 1% of the population friendly." It's implied that he is advocating...

Really? Can you link to these? My screen name an onomatopoeia of a sneeze (whoo-ahh-shoo), so I'd be curious to actually learn of someone called it. In any case, you must be either a real looser or incredibly petty to run background checks because someone who disagrees with on, ultimately an...

The hollow lines that are named "ML (light metro)" are LRT, but even without them it is quite impressive.

If you work downtown, commuting is quite easy along the subway network. Travel times from, say, NYCC to King Station are competitive and the cost is very low. Even if you do live in the 905, you can locate fairly close to a GO Station and be downtown without too much trouble. Sure, it's not as...

Yea, the Broadcaster ad is far, far more annoying than the stop the "TV Tax" ads. As far as ads go, the "TV Tax" ad isn't that bad. It's not too long, it's to the point and the main actor is believable as "pissed off Canadian media consumer." The Broadcaster ad made me feel like clawing my eyes...

Yea, that's sort of my point. That even if you want to raise the family in an "urban setting" it doesn't make any particular load of sense to locate right in the CBD or Clubland. That's why I don't get why Adam Vauhan et al find it so unbelievable that families with kids don't want to move into...

Yes, it is bland and forgettable. As is 180 Bloor and the retail shops to the West. They're almost the definition of Toronto bland. If you weren't the type of person that finds week old tofu culturally significant that would be obvious. You can't separate the two. As it is, the Church/Condo...

I get the feeling this is less a list of 10 ugliest buildings on Earth than "here are 10 buildings which aren't my favorite." Everyone knows the ugliest buildings on Earth are the ones nobody knows about, while these are all relatively famous. The description for the ROM didn't even sound like...

Government owners would have just as many incentives to manipulate prices as a private owner. On the one hand they are clearly likely to undercharge, which they currently do, to appease public opinions. On the other hand if they start using tolls as a revenue source to fund other projects they...

I think most people understand that having the province spend a billion dollars to let the TTC save a few million p.a. is stupid in so many ways. I'm just having a tough time figuring out if you are actually saying it's a good idea or being argumentative. In any case, all residents of...

No, I wouldn't. It subsidizes heavy industry at the expense of poorer Quebecers, it subsidizes rural middle-class at the expense of Quebec's youth and it leads to rampant environmental destruction and over consumption. It's social justice ass backwards. EDIT: And if that wasn't enough, now they...

There's not much wrong with using tolls to fund other projects, but GraphicMatt made the point that a private companies desire for a "healthy profit margin" would make private roads inherently unaccountable to their customers. There is no difference though between a private company making a...

I didn't mean for this to get into a debate over how useful electrification is. My point was, and remains, that the benefits of these infrastructure megaprojects is often far less than they would seem. The most obvious example is Japan. Their road, rail and air transportation networks are pretty...

Really? I must have missed the MBA class where they tell you to spend 100 dollars in one department to save 5 in another and call it a win. Nothing wrong with doing a full cost accounting, but arguing that capital expenses are "free" because of jurisdictional issues is asinine.

Ohh yea, there's no evidence of that whatsoever. In any case, that's not what I said. I said that it wouldn't be politically or ethically feasible for Ontario to simply introduce tolls on the highways and use the proceeds to fund other things. If we privatized the roads, Ontario can realize...

Obviously the financial rational behind privatization has many components. Anything said at this point is just guesswork, but I would bet quite heavily that the return on the highway network is lower than what we could get elsewhere. Right now we loose money on the highways, so it's quite...

Just because Yugoslavia does something doesn't make it a great idea... Electrification doesn't really make sense for what North Americans use trains for. Long-haul, practically transcontinental, freight shipping doesn't really benefit from electrification. Most of the trackage avoids cities, so...