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The bulk of our electric vehicle sales are driven by BC with most provinces still well under 1%. I hope we get there on the same trajectory as Norway, but it feels like wishful thinking. Still not going to help with traffic as an electric car takes up the same amount of space as a gas one. It...

This is classic chicken or the egg. If we keep building sprawl and highways thats the built form we'll get. It's hard to predict what the next 30-50 years will look like, but it is a choose your own adventure story. We have agency over the way our cities are built and we are not passive...

The infrastructure we build dictates the available options people have to travel, as well as how housing is built around it. The 413 will induce sprawl and become congested. No argument from me there. If there was a correlation between population and amount of highway then the biggest cities...

Either they appear corrupt or they are corrupt. Sometimes parties receive donations because they hold a particular view, and sometimes they scratch the backs of those who gave them money. Both are true at different times, but it can be hard to know which is which. This, at the very least, has...

I think the argument would be that people are less likely to buy houses when they aren't in a place accessible to jobs. I think the 413 will be a traffic disaster, so in many ways it doesn't make sense to me, but the internal logic makes sense. There is no correlation between the need for...

There are 6 units being displaced. As far as I know the rule applies to the number of units and not the number of tenants. The developer is arguing that it is 2 sets of 3 units being displaced. It's just gymnastics with the intent of the rules. The linkage is needed and generally desired within...

Something I like the idea of, is forcing developers to post renderings of the building from various street level positions. Most importantly, a rendering of what it is like to look at the building from the sidewalk 6 ft away from the wall. Most renderings show buildings from a location in which...

Definitely strange. The tower is really great. The ground kinda stinks. Why not extend the middle section to the ground? It has never made sense to me. Love the rest of this building though.

In all fairness, wouldn't you expect announcements, or lack there of, to come as part of an upcoming election platform? I don't endorse any political parties, but no one has released a platform yet. Looking at the last election platforms there is a lot to be desired across the board. The only...

It would seem far fetched to me that all the experts who oppose this are playing politics and misinformed. Even the guy at the end of the article that has a more favourable 413 opinion believes when all factors are considered it it still a bad idea. At some point they can't all be shrugged off...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/11/24/doug-fords-government-says-building-highway-413-will-get-us-out-of-gridlock-its-own-research-suggests-that-isnt-true.html There is a quote from the government two thirds of the way down when asked directly about induced demand. Traffic will be...

I mean, by that logic, every highway ever was supported by traffic engineers so every highway is justified and good. We know this to be false, so I think criticism is fair. Some highways are critical pieces of infrastructure, and some have disastrous impacts. Traffic engineering is also a...

Do you think the PC's numbers are apolitical? Government reports always have to be taken with a grain of salt. The PC's have already admitted to the fact that they did not include projections for induced demand and have predicted that traffic will be diverted away from arterials to the new...

Do you mean studies in direct reference to the 413? As in the information released by this government and the previous one? Like the 2018 viability study that deems the 413 unnecessary? Or are you are asking for academic studies on highways in general, then there is literally decades of...

I don't think that quite represents the argument. The non environmental argument (I can't speak for everyone) is that the 413 will compound traffic issues. It will add cars to the arterials rather than take them away, it will induce sprawl, and it is a misallocation of resources that could be...

In my very rough calculation the km of freeway per capita is pretty similar between Toronto and Brampton. Although I have no way of adjusting for the impossible number of lanes on the 401. All of that is beside the point though. I think most people that are against this highway feel that it...

For one, there is a huge difference between building "more homes" and "more sprawl." Most people here argue vehemently for more homes through the end of single family zoning and a more dense, sustainable, built form. Sprawl is a very specific type of development that many people here are against...

From what I hear, the major studios in Toronto are fully booked for, something like, the next 3 or 4 years. It's quite common these days for productions to be turned away and for them to film in different cities due to the lack of available space. That being said, tax credits are available...

Corruption may have been too strong of a word, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence for whats known as "soft corruption." Something that is technically legal, but in no way ethical. When they push forward on a project that is unpopular, (at least with all of the relevant municipalities)...

I mean, they should, and have. The Ontario line has some odd twists and turns that benefit specific people. Construction contracts are a dirty business. The 413 is absolutely a story of corruption. I don't know that it's even a controversial opinion at this point.