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Very cool. Thanks for linking to that article. I also think the Holland like building is super.

One of of Queen West's biggest parking lots might disappear. A two storey building at Soho and Queen is being proposed with, 20,240 square feet per floor. This should really change the feeling of the strip just east of Spadina. Very glad to see the lot go, and also happy this lot is not...

Looks like the Junction is getting its own brew, "local option." I think this is a fun addition to the hood. http://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2011/04/junction_the_latest_neighbourhood_to_get_its_own_beer/

Graffiti does not = ghetto. Just means there are kids around. Welcome to life in a big city where we don't supervise space 24 hours a day, thank goodness. And imagine the place with TCHC residents! A mixed-income neighbourhood where people who provide essential services and jobs in the...

The $30 billion number is way to high. Its taken from the big dig project, a project way more complex then what Rossi is proposing. That project included a tunneled expressway, a tunnel under a river, a new bridge and tearing down an old elevated expressway. But in the end it doesn't matter...

The only tunnels we should be building in toronto are the DRL and the Eglinton Crosstown. Insanity

I'm a little confused about how this changes things. Does this mean that the next mayor could be opposed to transit city want to pull out and Metrolinx could keep on building LRTs? How much of the funding of Transit City is coming from Metrolinx and how much from the City?

I like what new york has been doing with bus rapid transit. Could learn a lot from there. A rendering below shows what a proper BRT could look like. http://blog.tstc.org/2009/05/18/city-seeking-input-on-next-phase-of-bus-rapid-transit-program/

I'm not arguing for the punishment commuters or that improving the street will necessarily attract more pedestrians. Rather I'm arguing that we need to stop punishing pedestrians. While improving the public realm does not necessarily attract more pedestrians it makes it a safer and more pleasant...

Just counting people who walk to commute is a flawed approach. When you think about it measuring commuters is measuring the labour force, which is only about 60% of Toronto's population. You don't count all the seniors who walk to the drugstore or all the students to school. Plus drivers get out...

I would find it hard pressed to say that Toronto is in decline. Downtowns population has grown by 65 percent since the 1970s, nearly 10 percent, or 70,000 people this decade alone. The city has seen 300,000,000 invested in cultural institutions, we have seen the city mature into a significant...

A real issue is finance. Rob Ford claims that the City is full of “spendaholics” running city hall and he says there is enough fat and inefficiency to slash costs. Yet, Moody's states "The debt ratio has been stable for five years, including during the recent recession, she said." and "This...

Would you want to vote for someone who gets this kind of play from around the country to represent our city. Some international coverage he got in 2007: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/09/toronto_councillor_d.html

I think the biggest problem with the plan is that non of the LRT lines actually connect, or act like a real network. Just means that the TTC will have to build 3 maintenance yards for each line, which is a huge waste and won't be able to easily move the streetcars around. Because of this I...

Also feel likes its an oppressively wide, looks more like a 70s slab then a modern condo tower.

BRT on Cote-des-Neiges and Parc? Obviously you have no idea what a BRTs is. Reserving lanes for buses and taxis during rush hour is not BRT (http://tinyurl.com/27tsltc). It is also something that is done across Toronto, notably along Eglinton (Eglinton: http://tinyurl.com/2362rh7). Furthermore...

Um... Montreal does not have any operating BRT. They experiment with a BRT system but it ended following a tragic accident in 2002 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_bus_rapid_transit) and it still hasn't reopened. And while the inner city transit is great it is less frequent then in...

The Toronto Official Plan pg. 4-9

Yes, sorry my mistake.

The two cities could not be more different so its not really fair to compare them. In addition, the list of similarities could be written about any cities at any time ever. Transit will always require investment and maintenance, infrastructure will always get old and break, cities will never...