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Today, from the east: I live a two minute drive from the Home2 Suites proposal here in Barrie, yet I got a picture of this one first. Go figure.

Took a trip to Toronto yesterday and visited the St Lawrence Market. It was almost mesmerizing to see this building in person for the first time, but that thought was quickly replaced with "shouldn't it be open by now?"

Today And a quick shot of the "context" across the street:

Bloomington draws from Aurora, Oak Ridges, and everywhere along the 404. Bloomington also allows trains to enter revenue service earlier instead of reversing north of the Gormley Depot and then dead-heading to Gormley GO. The only thing wrong with that station is its sprawling layout. Every car...

What vanity projects are we talking about here? Hamilton already has hourly service less than two kilometers away, and redoing the Hunter Street tunnel would not only disrupt GO operations but also CPKC operations, with a net gain of little to no new service. Meanwhile much of the Barrie and...

It looks very nice, and it's exactly the kind of development that central Davis Drive needs. Tear down the Tim's while you're at it.

That makes me wonder if we'll have another Downsview Park GO situation at East Harbour - the mass transit infrastructure is in place before any sort of nearby development, so the station only serves as a TTC-GO transfer point for most users.

That is indeed the plan. Take the Barrie line for example. We are definitely getting a new Caledonia station within Toronto, and likely Spadina/Front and Lansdowne/Bloor as well. Outside Toronto, the most likely infill station is Innisfil at 6th Line (as the town currently has no train...

I don't see a way that this will be up and running any time before iON buses connect the proposed station to downtown Preston (via Eagle St North) and Galt (via Hespeler Rd), but I do agree that there should be consideration for a Hespeler station at Guelph Avenue. That alone would also create a...

August 6, 2024 Two steps forward, one step back.

There is a key advantage in "suburban style sprawl" lines in that with higher order transportation that does not require street operation, you can detour around bottlenecks and hit nodes on different corridors. Imagine if the Line 1 Vaughan extension continued along Dufferin - it's potentially...

Better developed transit, less traffic, and/or other parallel expressways that weren't jammed to the gills. The last one is often the case in other cities - Detroit's I-375 is less than 2 km away from the M-10, and Syracuse, New York's I-81 can easily be rerouted since a large amount of its...

Maybe people should just not commute daily between London and Toronto because that is an absurd distance for any commuter without a private jet? It's an equal distance to commute to Detroit every day. The reason it's so difficult to take the train from London to Toronto and back every day is...

Locals may get too attached to the parking lot. "It's so convenient when we have guests over!" It's a no-win scenario, but one can hope this becomes a paid lot so it can at least generate some revenue for Waterfront in the meantime?

I think that they already plan to concentrate development on Line 1. I'm talking when they start to get into the finer grain details, making the Line 1-4 interchange station as the primary hub compared to Downsview Park and Wilson makes sense. As someone who has used the Barrie GO line...

As someone who has never really been on Sheppard east of Fairview Mall, I have no real insight as to whether 2A or 2B is better, but I agree that it definitely is superior to 1 and 3 for the development potential west of Yonge. Glad to see the West extension is being considered, and hopefully...

I think this thread was a lost cause from the jump. The title alone betrays the agenda: it's not about Via service outside of the corridor, it's about a "lack of meaningful" service. Who exactly defines what meaningful service is? And why are so many of the discussions around connecting one...

Not to mention Mönchengladbach also has the population of Sudbury and Thunder Bay combined.

I love that the dumb staircase terraces are gone from the north wing of the building. Took out a lot of usable space for little reason.

Barrie needs a university campus if you ask me. Something that will bring more life to the city than sleazy nightclubs and chain restaurants. It would also have a more populous catchment area than Sarnia, with the explosive growth in Simcoe County and northern York Region. Would it support a...