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Frankly, we need better access to Sunnyside and the Humber river area. If drivers get to keep the Gardiner, the least we could do is get the waterfront west line moving pronto, and give better access to all of that parkland.

For all the crap that FedEx generally is; they’re doing awesome stuff with bikes and micro vehicles.

Just on Friday, I watched a Purolator truck park in the eastbound Bloor bike lanes at the corner of Ted Rogers Way while I sat outside of Starbucks. The driver was inside the manulife offices for well over 20 minutes and he already had a ticket on his windshield (I think they keep them there to...

We really should have income-geared fines here and corporate-specific charges as well. $50 is still little more than daily parking in some lots in the city, and $200 for blocking a bike path is a small amount for delivery companies like UPS and especially Purolator who regularly park in the...

Oh man. That's an image that could get construction shut down completely for an investigation. Lack of hardhat and smoking in the workplace. ;)

Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are very often completely bespoke, and always set to a certain tunnel width. Some single machines now simultaneouslylay tunnel walls while digging. It’s important to have the structural support follow the creation of the tunnel as soon as possible, when not digging...

Squab I’ve had a couple of times (and didn’t much care for it—I prefer fowl that’s less lean), but those were farmed and properly cared for. Who knows what manner of disease your common winged petri dish carries. I mean geez, I’ve seen one nibbling away a cigarette butt.

I don't have a balcony, but would love one if only to grow a few herbs and space for a table and chairs to eat dinner in the fresh air. But then again, pigeons.

Not sure what this has to do with the Mayor specifically.

Hubris, ignorance and lack of paid sick days are unfortunately still a thing.

Or the big, tall metal one at Grange Park, which had the ability to get children up to warp speed near instantaneously. So much so my daughter feared it. I believe it's since been altered, but that slide was dangerous. Shallow sides and high speeds made for problems. I personally witnessed...

Funny that were in a place where one could presume historical studies are more fact than interpretation.

Complaining about one singular aspect of "taxpayer spending" is virtue signalling, that is when it's flat out not pure dog whistle. Every square of toilet paper in a government facility is "taxpayer's money"; shared resources is kind of the point of the social compact and having cities. I'm...

Levies on property taxes on affected properties–collected by the city and distributed to the BIA. Joe Smith out in Scarborough isn't paying into the Downtown Yonge BIA outside of shopping there. My point being that it's disingenuous to use "taxpayers" like it's any average Torontonian. Unless...

paywall-free: No community input into renaming square The headline posted here was misleading. And the preceding sentence was "We later learned that interventions were made by Mayor Olivia Chow and Coun. Chris Moise, who met with the cochairs and city staff. When the committee finally met...

Perhaps in the late 70s, early 80s it was “stabby” but most of Downtown Yonge was pretty sketchy in those days. At least so I’m to understand from Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice; I’m not old enough for personal experience.

How? Is there another corner with that moniker in this city?

So? Why does it bother you so much?

The original Yonge line (Union to Eglinton) was barely 7km in length and did just fine. It had no interchanges. Sure. But enough to justify the added cost of making it 3x the length? Not likely. Great swaths of Sheppard in the late 90s when the line was being planned was nothing but SFH. Even...

Perhaps you missed the period in 2008 where we nearly closed the Sheppard line completely because we massively overbuilt capacity without the ridership to justify it? We built based on wishes and projections (and votes) and it ended up being a huge money sink, and still is some 22 years later...