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No, but people value their time and money spent on gas and thus make choices based on those trade offs. Maybe just read the first paragraph of the transportation planning article on Wikipedia and get back to us.

to be fair, we didn't let anybody build the housing to "let them come" on Sheppard for the first 15 years of the lines existence. The last time Toronto built a transit line and performed broad up zonings along the corridor (line 2) it was a massive success

I agree, but I think even a modest BRT- Lite could reduce travel times enough to get people onto the much higher capacity GO line instead of the already very capacity constrained Line 2. The 80 from Sherway to Parklawn takes roughly around 30 min during peak times, with dedicated lanes and stop...

The subway should have been extended in the mid 80's but considering the disastrously slow timelines of RT expansion I think the city needs to take the lead and build some kind of BRT on the Queensway from Sherway to Parklawn GO. The TTC already seems to be interested in having the 80...

Yep very much a "the market is not a solution except for me when I'm making a $750k profit on a house I bought 20 years ago" progressive. On an interpersonal level he's a nice guy though, his resoluteness at the Parkside cycle lanes public consultation was quite admirable.

Is there no bus shelter directly on Dufferin anymore?

ewwwwwwwwwwwww

Perks talks the talk, but follows essentially none of it up. You would think that with this supposed super progressive cycling advocate in office for 18 years in the west end there would be bike lanes of any significant length on Queen, Dundas West or any other street* in his ward that was not a...

I may have been being a bit dramatic, this is good project, but also a continuation of our unfortunate habit of putting lots of housing on very polluted and amenity-less arterials.

The article headline got me all excited, thinking at last Queen East would be getting some serious height, but alas it is on this sad excuse of a street.

I understand such levels of density at what has long been the western edge of the core as seeming odd, but the transportation capacity of the area is rapidly changing. With the Kitchener Line being brought up to 15 minute frequeinces all day + bi-directional fingers crossed in the next few...

That's disappointing, already so much pavement but none of it the 'right' pavement to prevent building in more mistakes.

Once again, why are we building in curb cuts and garage entrances onto our avenues for another 50 years? I don't think I have to belabor the negatives of vehicle access directly off Eglinton, but it does seem a viable alternative is present. The Library and apartment complex to the west seem...

Speaking of MTSA's........ what for the love of god is the hold up? It's kinda bizarre that for two+ years now a set of laws that are not actually law yet have been used to argue cases at the city and provincial level.

Why do you expect a developer to go out of their way to try and 'discover' a heritage feature that will only make their job harder and less profitable?

I can only imagine there had to of been some pretty insane crashes, wonder what the insurance on the house on the corner looks like lol. The old alignment seems to have been calmed at some point pre 2005. Maybe was apart of the slow removal of slip lanes in the old city? What would you say is...

This rendering initially threw me off with what looks like a freeway median. I thought, surely this was a mistake? But nope, very real. Guess I need to spend more time on Eg West. But seriously, this is a very odd site in the city. Does anyone have the background on what happened here that...

As Northern Light pointed out there are numerous formal avenues to oppose this project. However hiring professionals to contest this is a good way to waste thousands of you and your neighbors dollars to fight an outcome that was concluded a long time ago. There's not a spot in the neighborhood...

Recently saw a video on Tokyo that featured the small fire trucks and garbage trucks that are able to navigate the city's narrow streets. We should really start figuring them out sooner than latter, as the streets aren't getting any wider. Would also be a boon for all road users safety as we...

That's good to hear, I thought it was something like that but am still quite bad at reading architectural docs. And yes I've seen a few people talk about the turn around requirements, the results have been really nasty on streets that have seen lots of recent redev. Big chunks of Yonge between...