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So I know we have elevations and site plans of the stations for this extension - why no renders?

My one ask on this project is that they get rid of this homesense-esque kitsch on the podium

What is the most ambitious/flashy proposal in the city that has a good chance of actually being built?

If I am reading the amendment right - the province is no longer mentioning University bike lanes but now Avenue Rd instead? Or have they simply added the Avenue bike lanes to be removed as well? Perhaps the permanent infrastructure and contracts being signed on University scared them off?

Would it kill them to shell out for a few pavers instead of poured concrete for the landscaping? Seriously what is with this city and the lack of diversity in landscaping materials?

Crazy that our multiplex bylaw caps out right below the CMHC threshold. Why don’t we just update the bylaw to 5+ units city wide to align with CMHC incentives? The hard part of introducing the bylaw is arguably done. Updating the bylaw for more units should encounter much less public resistance.

Another sovereigntist swing is brewing in Quebec and the conservatives will have to adapt to the political realities that a PQ majority is going to present. Carrots will be on the table. Simply put: I don't think it will be as easy as many here are speculating for the cons to shelve this...

Koolhaus is way out of the picture now. Jason Long runs most of the projects in North America, and this being a condo project I imagine there are not any senior partners involved at all. This is revenue generating filler for the firm as were their recent condos in Miami.

I am amazed how on-brand that letter is. Its like someone asked ChatGPT to come up with the most stereotypical NIMBY objection letter possible.

So what is the hold-up here? Why doesn't the Mayor just play realpolitik with Doug on this? "We agree to take out the bike lanes but you have to make a commitment on WELRT and EELRT"

https://www.dezeen.com/2024/11/05/daoust-lestage-lizotte-stecker-toronto-eglinton-crosstown-stations/ Dezeen article with a few new interior shots of stations.

The city could just go crazy on signing construction services contracts for all lanes that are at 100% design right now. If the province wants to cancel the city can just go on a PR frenzy highlighting how many millions are going to go down the drain.

Beautiful scale for this neighbourhood. Chinatown/Baldwin area needs a blanket rezoning

I want to see Abacus run this polling in Ontario. Though I can already predict support for bike lanes will look exactly like density maps of the GTA.

I have a feeling this is going to play out exactly like Ontario Place We are all going to wake up at some point in February or March to witness sole-sourced contractors from the Province removing curbs and repainting Bloor and Yonge and nobody is going to be notified ahead of time. Just in...

Again, this is such a juicy rumour that I simply cannot believe the media in this city would not be doing their best to at least get dead drops on emails/documents confirming this to be the case. Either a) there is little to no truth to the rumours (I.e. the errors are much more trivial than...

Just to note: store managers for chains in the US regularly clear six figures USD. Or look at manager salaries for gas stations like Bucees. You make more than a graduate software engineer in Toronto. Something is awfully rotten with Canadian business culture. A reluctance to invest in...

I haven’t seen much discussion about just how different the homeless problem is now than it was in the past. Fentanyl is the elephant in the room and until a) the supply can be significantly hampered OR b) we have a fully funded rehabilitation system with mandatory(!) treatment, people will...

"taxiway is too green" is silly There is a lack of heavily planted urban thoroughfares in Toronto. The last thing we need is to be limiting streets to a few saplings. Maybe the runway in future phases can be more of an open space but I don't see any particular value in keeping taxiways bleak...