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I bet most of the people who signed the petition A) own homes, and B) don't live in the area and just don't want to give up cheap parking.

You'd think they could have at least put one at Yorkdale if Oxford was going to be difficult. Instead they made it difficult for anyone in Toronto to shop there. Ugh. Simons is the single thing I miss the most about living in Ottawa.

Maybe since nothing will happen here until the OL is at least mostly built we can get something less bland and mediocre here. Like I am a full believer in having a large open-lawn space, but there needs to be more than that in a park this size. Bring back the swimming pool tbh.

While I think Metrolinx made a mistake with not including high-speed elevators in the design of the downtown stations, I don't know what else people expected them to build here. The RL stations were also planned to be very deep, so it's not like this is new. It's a corridor where you have to...

The back half of the tower is fine, but what on earth is going on with the front half? Fussy and overdone. Also, way too large of a residentially lobby entrance on Yonge. Why kill our main street with grandiose condo lobbies?

I think we're getting to the point where CentreCourt could have built an entire building faster than Pemberton can get a building to grade.

Social looks a little less terrible than usual in these pictures! Just a little.

I think maybe just the dog park inside the driveway loop opened, since I remember that being delayed for ages from the park itself opening. Otherwise not much has changed, they tried painting the City-standard garbage cans, but half the paint has flaked off sadly. It was a cute idea but just...

Now that it's finally fully open, wouldn't mind seeing your thoughts on Dr Lillian McGregor Park, if possible! So far I find it a nice space to walk through, but not anywhere I'd go to spend any actual amount of time, but not sure if that's just me.

Oh yeah, totally agree, the original plan was also stupid, and was the root cause of that mess. Ideally they should have planned to relocate the Carlaw trunk sewer from Day 1, and then run the subway up Carlaw without all the complications of the sewer line being present. But nope. Instead we...

Not for the OL, but for the previous RL plan, the City/TTC moved the tunnel south of Gerrard from Pape to Carlaw because locals on Pape complained during the consultation process. This stupidly meant they now had to build the subway directly below a major sewage artery, (which was already being...

The city is implementing a new complaints process where 311 would act as the single point of contact for all divisions (311 then escalates to the relevant people), but that's still being implemented, so while contacting them might work, it might be a bit longer before that's the best option. But...

Where do you suggest they relocate all the sports fields? A city can't just be endless vertical suburbs, there need to be spaces for things like sports fields (which are a thing we already are lacking in many parts of Toronto). While we do need more places for affordable housing, there has to be...

I would hope so, given the GTA is over twice the size of Metro Vancouver (6.4M vs 2.7M), and the City of Toronto is over 4 times the size of the City of Vancouver (2.9M vs 675K). That said, I do think the level of our current expansion projects are a thing Vancouver could aspire to (East...

Oh that explains why the Skybridge was closed last time I was in the Eaton Centre (at about 7:15pm). Also, kind of a shame HBC closing early shuts the entire skybridge over Queen since its a really nice view, especially as the days get longer. (And also for us transit nerds, it has the best...

Somehow the "bicycle parking" sign above the doorway is killing me. It's like they're trying to be like "please don't hate the ugliest part of this render" 😆

Oh yay, another pedestrian-unfriendly wall of glass at street level. Is there something about Toronto where every architect (except maybe the ones at HPA) hates designing decent pedestrian realms? The whole "box of brick/precast floating on top of glass" doesn't even look good! Just bring the...

It could be better (more defined fine grain retail a la Mirvish Village) but it could be worse (thank god the retail isn't just endless curtain wall, like most recent projects). Overall, it's fine. At least MX/IO are planning to put housing above transit stations unlike on Eglinton. As an...

Obviously not the fault of this project at all, but like, it really would be nice if we could do better than poured concrete for the sidewalks on one of the busiest streets for pedestrians in the country. Maybe someday.

Still hope for the tower, nothing is saving that ground level though...