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    Toronto Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    It will not be like any other place that exist in the city today. They aren't building High Park or Brickworks, but this is a massive amount of space that will have many activities. It will not be City Place or Liberty Village because there is design review oversight for the whole area.
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    Toronto GO Transit: Davenport Diamond Grade Separation | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    I would question the city finances if they were paying for dog playgrounds when all they need is a squirrel, a shoe, and another dogs...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    I think the walkway provides extra capacity but duplicates the function of the tunnel. The bigger question is does the tunnel fail with the outage of a single elevator or were they smart enough to put in two elevators.
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    Bradford Bypass (MTO, Hwy 400 - Hwy 404)

    I would prefer something that far north as a bypass to Toronto since it wouldn't induce sprawl in the same way 413 would. Something Guelph, Orangeville, Bradford, Lindsay, Peterborough that would allow traffic that has nothing to do with Toronto to stay out of Toronto. Not something that...
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    Danforth Line 2 Scarborough Subway Extension

    Great pictures. Unfortunately they show a site which suggests the boring machine is not active. That is a nice soil sitting facility though. On previous projects they just found a place to dump the whole thing but this looks like something that would put the soil back into other construction...
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    Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    I find these to close to a match and not easily described. Till now if someone said the purple line I would have assumed line 4. Call me crazy but if colour is going to be part of the way finding shouldn't we be able to describe what we are seeing using a well understood simple description...
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    Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    A phased approach that was planned from the beginning would have worked, but a phased opening planned late in the game doesn't work when you are not the general contractor. The old delivery method would have had TTC as the general contractor paying for all the little pieces of work contracted...
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    Toronto Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport | ?m | ?s | Ports Toronto | Arup

    I wonder how much energy would be lost in the supply chain. The whole path from sourcing the energy, to delivery of the energy, to the use of the energy needs to be clean and efficient. If you used diesel generators to charge batteries, shipped batteries across the country, and then had those...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Hopefully if there ever is it would be found west of the station near Port Union road and not anywhere approaching the River and valley.
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    Toronto Crosstown LRT: Caledonia Station | 11.72m | 2s | Metrolinx | McCallum Sather

    Yes but don't waste our time trying to get pictures of the Caledonia GO station construction. The same results can be found from the comfort of your desk by going to Metrolinx - Barrie Line - What are we building and clicking Caledonia station. It isn't to be missed as it really gives you a...
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    I don't understand what speed and dwell time has to do with floor height and vehicle weight. A subway is heavier, and a maglev is lighter. So we need to make the Eglinton vehicles heavier so they what? VIA Rail has heavy rail with long dwell, and the much lighter REM has a shorter dwell, so...
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    Zoning Reform Ideas

    The reason you zone something as farming is for it to be used for farming. I agree that farm land should be used for farming. All of Toronto was farm land or wilderness before it was a city. Current farm land should be zoned as farm land. There should be no profit in zoning farmland for...
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    I thought the operating speed of the Eglinton LRT was 80km/h in the tunnel as compared to 75km/h for the subway.
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    Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    The 906 route to the airport makes sense. The 901 route that directly competes with the UP Express... why?? If the 901 route can be self-sufficient with no funding, then maybe, otherwise get on the phone with Metrolinx to work out a fare agreement
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    Toronto 1891 Eglinton East | 167.08m | 52s | Mattamy | Arch. Unfolded + Urban Agency

    We have a constant pipeline of people through university into tech. They key would be to make it advantageous to do the same in trades. A Baccalaureate of Construction Delivery program where people graduate with the skills to run their own construction business complete with 3-4 trades...
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    Toronto 1891 Eglinton East | 167.08m | 52s | Mattamy | Arch. Unfolded + Urban Agency

    There are two issues which overlap because of investors. One is the negative effects of low interest rates in terms of inflation, and the other is the rate of population growth as compared to housing development rate. Low interest rates took money from the future to put it in the economy now...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    I haven't seen any post Line 3, post Line 2 Scarborough extension renderings of the station. One would hope that there is a tear down of the existing building and SRT tracks with the build of a nicer bus facility, allowing the new Eglinton LRT entrances to be the main entrances, and a lot of...
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    Toronto 1891 Eglinton East | 167.08m | 52s | Mattamy | Arch. Unfolded + Urban Agency

    Ok, correction... this is a symptom of why there is a housing shortage. The reality is though, is that there are a lot of threads similar to this one where the project never starts. To solve the housing shortage properties like this one need to be looked at to understand why after 10 years...
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    GTHA Transit Fare Integration

    Yes. This isn't fare integration. This is leaving all the stupidity of the current fare model in place, and hiding it from the consumer. You get on the bus to go just over 4km from Sheppard to Steeles on the TTC = $3.30 from customer, $3.30 to TTC (transfer stupidly at Finch to a different...
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    Toronto 1891 Eglinton East | 167.08m | 52s | Mattamy | Arch. Unfolded + Urban Agency

    No wonder there is a housing shortage, look at the date on the first page of this thread and look at so many other threads and see the same thing. Toronto and its developers... Experts in the delivery of development study. More housing delivered on paper than any other place in Canada. If...

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