ssiguy's post got me thinking.
People haven't even moved in to many of the new buildings yet. All those picture updates of buildings on here are still mostly sitting empty. And we have projects like Eau de Soleil rising.
The next year will be interesting to say the least, as people begin moving in to all these buildings.
The buildings are not mostly empty, most are lived-in, but there are lots of people coming as a pile of new units will open next year with more in the future. I've been saying for ages now that people just don't understand how big Humber Bay Shores is going to be. Nothing going up now has not already been on the books for years…
Meanwhile you have the brain trust that is the Metrolinx planning department NOT advancing the Park Lawn GO station into the 10 year plan. I joked when that came out this summer "Good, that means it can go into the 5 year plan." Well, there isn't a 5 year plan of course, the obvious point being that something is very, very wrong at Metrolinx. Does their omission of a station here show them to be incompetent? Well, I don't agree with everything else that Metrolinx does (the huge garages at suburban GO stations being rather problematic, compounded by a lack of multi-use planning for the stations, many of which should become the centre of their respective neighbourhoods), so while they may not be as progressive as they could be with advancing a brighter, smaller-carbon-footprint future for the GTHA, I don't see flagrant incompetence in most of what they do…
…which makes me wonder, if Park Lawn GO's omission is not as a result of incompetence (it's pretty easy to see that there's a huge population coming to this area, they cannot have missed that), then what is it the result of? Is there some kind of willful malevolence in play here, something political at the Metrolinx office that's preventing them from doing to obvious, correct thing here? Are they trying to punish people here? Sounds rather crazy to ask that, but they have never provided a convincing answer as to why the station was not advanced. If Metrolinx could be truthful about this, is would be helpful.
/rant. Trying my best to be patient for a transportation solution for Humber Bay as each new crane rises into the area skyline.
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