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  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
ZEBuilder Wrote: (04-17-2024, 11:10 PM) -- If GRR wanted a permanent place they could have found a location and purchased it, or they could have negotiated a long term lease. Instead GRR negotiated f...
   plam Urban Areas 76 5,386 10 hours ago
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
taylortbb Wrote: (04-16-2024, 08:19 PM) -- Is this actually a service reduction for the Bloor/Weston Union trips? Yes, there's fewer UPX trains stopping there, but there's a bunch of new GO trains m...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,565 04-17-2024, 07:06 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Acitta Wrote: (04-16-2024, 10:13 PM) -- Updated: Kitchener council approves multi-tower Victoria Street development (https://www.therecord.com/news/council/updated-kitchener-council-approves-multi-to...
   plam Urban Areas 76 5,386 04-17-2024, 07:05 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (04-15-2024, 02:17 PM) -- UP Express is crowded? That's at least good news, given how slow the start was for this service. -- Turns out fares matter. The initial pricing was like $30...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,565 04-16-2024, 05:51 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 05:47 PM) -- I guess the question is: when they have to leave this place, are they going to seek out the cheapest, run down old building they can find just because it's avail...
   plam Urban Areas 76 5,386 04-10-2024, 11:48 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 06:14 PM) -- Oh wow, I didn't even know they ran buses that late here. It would be a great idea (or have the LRT operate longer) but I don't think that would happen again for...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 4,323 3,226,713 04-10-2024, 11:45 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
I'm going to again say, why are we building housing? It's super important that people have things that they can do in the places they live. Preferably without having to drive out to the suburbs. Havin...
   plam Urban Areas 76 5,386 04-09-2024, 05:01 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
tomh009 Wrote: (04-08-2024, 12:58 PM) -- SF22 Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:10 AM) -- Okay, but WHAT IF instead of widening Victoria to make space for the LRT where there's only two lanes, we tunnel the LR...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,222,946 04-09-2024, 05:46 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I wonder if having 4 lanes now makes a future LRT on Victoria easier. Probably not. Anyway I do appreciate the segregated cycle lanes on both sides of Victoria that are in the designs.
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,222,946 04-06-2024, 12:51 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
nms Wrote: (04-05-2024, 02:33 PM) -- On a related note, Grand River Rocks has a location on Lodge St in Waterloo. -- Yes, it's bouldering and not roped climbed, so a pretty different style of climb...
   plam Urban Areas 76 5,386 04-05-2024, 11:06 PM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
tomh009 Wrote: (03-23-2024, 09:29 AM) -- plam Wrote: (03-23-2024, 04:28 AM) -- Incidentally, Wellington (NZ) just approved a new zoning plan which permits more much density. The interesting thing wa...
   plam Urban Issues 177 25,193 03-24-2024, 02:47 AM
  Thread: General media thread for architecture, urban planning and design
Post: RE: General media thread for architecture, urban p...
ac3r Wrote: (03-21-2024, 04:07 PM) -- Last week's The Economist newsmagazine had an article on how NIMBYs - despite their pro-environmentalist rhetoric - actually increase environmental devastation w...
   plam Urban Design 44 9,747 03-23-2024, 05:08 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Incidentally, Wellington (NZ) just approved a new zoning plan which permits more much density. The interesting thing was that there was an independent panel which was super NIMBY and it got shot down ...
   plam Urban Issues 177 25,193 03-23-2024, 04:28 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (03-21-2024, 08:59 AM) -- A lot of the abandoned rail lines in the country were actually not very good rail lines. It’s far from clear that a route laid down over a century ago and ab...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,565 03-23-2024, 03:14 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
nms Wrote: (03-19-2024, 10:22 PM) -- These capstone competitions plant seeds in the minds of young engineers who become tomorrow's professional engineers either in consulting firms or in government. ...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 698,528 03-21-2024, 03:54 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
One of the NZ substacks I read was talking about how nice it would be to bring back the Ministry of Works. Western governments just got rid of this ability in the 80s or earlier I guess.
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 698,528 03-06-2024, 01:14 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
westwardloo Wrote: (02-26-2024, 09:37 AM) -- jeffster Wrote: (02-23-2024, 07:08 PM) -- Just realized that the city of Kitchener does a poor job at advocating for itself. -- The Region in general d...
   plam Urban Areas 402 86,777 02-26-2024, 05:29 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (02-23-2024, 12:16 PM) -- What we really should be doing is making all superhighways be toll roads, completely funded out of the tolls and with congestion managed by congestion charge...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,565 02-24-2024, 04:31 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Rainrider22 Wrote: (02-22-2024, 12:46 PM) -- For me it isn't a rollercoaster.  It is an ok idea. What I dont like is that it is a way for Air Canada not to service our airport with actual aircraft......
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,551 02-22-2024, 05:53 PM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
dtkvictim Wrote: (02-22-2024, 04:02 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (02-22-2024, 03:44 AM) -- The causation is explicit, like, companies exist to make money, moving towards higher margin vehicles isn't...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,169,139 02-22-2024, 05:44 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
re: management of airlines: NZ just got the guy who used to run an airline (Air NZ) "running" the country. Not an upgrade. nms Wrote: (02-21-2024, 09:35 PM) -- Are there other direct bus/transit c...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,551 02-21-2024, 10:51 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
tomh009 Wrote: (02-21-2024, 03:17 PM) -- Rainrider22 Wrote: (02-21-2024, 03:10 PM) -- Awesome, so the airport is now a bus station !!!  Leave it to Air Canada....  Just land a plane and create some ...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,551 02-21-2024, 05:51 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
ac3r Wrote: (02-18-2024, 01:33 PM) -- bravado Wrote: (02-17-2024, 07:14 PM) -- I'd rather have private industry build an arena in a desirable area instead of the public paying for an arena to try an...
   plam Urban Areas 402 86,777 02-18-2024, 05:50 PM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
bravado Wrote: (02-17-2024, 11:38 AM) -- https://x.com/wrpstoday/status/1758836538794774932?s=46&t=rDVs03CoIgMyNKLTCpUIuA An innocent woman has died after being hit on Pinebush, the same stretch o...
   plam Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,169,139 02-18-2024, 05:52 AM
  Thread: 81-85 Bridgeport Road East | 16-27 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 81-85 Bridgeport Road East | 16-22 fl | Propos...
ac3r Wrote: (02-14-2024, 02:17 PM) -- It's funny because Dorothy McCabe was campaigning on wanting to totally transform Waterloo into modern, progressive city that would evolve with the times. And pe...
   plam Urban Areas 65 12,761 02-14-2024, 05:55 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
cherrypark Wrote: (02-14-2024, 11:30 AM) -- Given the time that GRR has been in the community, it really seems like the correct lesson from all of this for them is finding a partner with some capital...
   plam Urban Areas 76 5,386 02-14-2024, 05:55 PM

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