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“Investors” don’t care about the layout or square footage. And that seems to be who most developers expect to be buying.

It does look half-assed. It’s also got terrible positioning. It works okay looking south, but is nearly completely obscured by the staircase, entering (ironically) from Queen.

That’s how Metrolinx was created to be. It was always intended to be arms length. If you’re saying he controls it, then he gets to own ALL its failures, delays and general f***ery for the past 6 years. Sorry, but he’s had zero problem ripping up or ignoring contracts and legislation during his...

So is Metrolinx an arms-length corporation or not? Doug Ford says he has no control over Metrolinx, as it was created to be. In which case, he gets zero credit for anything they’ve done. Or is Ford controlling the company? In that case the buck stops with him on Metrolinx’s failures and...

Has Burloak returned?

No, I intentionally wrote the inverse. As the TTC/City will often throw small amounts of money at something without much thought, but balk at big costs that would make things so much better. Like getting groceries at Dollarama instead of Costco. So they end up spending more money in the long run...

I'd like to point out that Wheel Trans exists almost exclusively because the TTC has been cash strapped for decades and has been forced to be pound wise, penny foolish and make short-term decisions that cost vastly more in the long run. Wheel Trans is a highly expensive stopgap that makes/made...

Poe's law here, as it's satire... But yeah.

It's a great idea, but I don't see the province under ford ever going for it, or allowing the city to do it. Have you seen the size of the urban assault vehicles that Douggie and fam like to drive?

Not surprised at that one; I've seen the owner several times berating staff. Aside from that, their selection was always terrible. Not a great game store, not a great hobby store, not a great toy store, just some mediocre Venn diagram overlap of the three. I always wondered, with the store front...

I love renders for their ridiculousness: a) they shove trees into the render that don’t exist along Yonge. b) 1BE has weird scaling issues going on, besides just not looking like that. Why represent it like that? c) the sidewalk is conspicuously wayyyy too wide d) everyone’s very obviously...

Despite access to confidential info, this family member wasn’t able to tell me when the line would be up and running. Not because they couldn't say, but because they didn’t even know. They said that there’s a whole lot of Metrolinx that doesn’t know. They did say that there were several FOIs...

Saw a family member who works for Metrolinx. I found my discussion with them about the Crosstown so disheartening. I had assumed that the line was around 80%, with more or less testing and finishing to go. They showed me the project readiness status. 44%

I doubt there will be enforcement. Hell, the city doesn't enforce dog leash laws to any meaningful extent—let alone stuff without overt signs, like the swaths of delivery a$$hats driving their 300lb scooters 30kms/hr on the sidewalk. Because you're dealing with kids who can't legally "sign a...

Well, some of the weapons being used against Palestinians were bought from Canada. But I digress...

Visegrad here is using footage from Caryma S’ad, who’s recently been promoting neo-nazi organization Diagolon and doxxing protestors for anti-SOGI/LGBTQ organizations. They’res a reason she’s earned the nickname “Caryma Ngo”.

How about we return to the marginal tax rates of the middle of the 20th century, when the feds and province could sustainably pay a fair share for municipalities and the growth of the middle class just exploded? Oh yeah, because rich folks won't get as rich as fast.

2020 was the original goal as of 2003 and 2008. In 2014: "…This is fewer stations than had been projected in the TTC’s 2008 Accessible Transit Services Plan, which anticipated that accessibility upgrades would be complete at all subway/RT stations by 2020"...

I'm surprised in restoring the facade, they didn't replace the red brick "fixes" from the past.

I'm ashamed to say the scales only started to fall from my eyes on accessibility a decade ago when my daughter was in a stroller. I remember always being annoyed with waiting for kneeling buses. Or never put thought to how few places had any accessibility aids whatsoever. And then I needed them...