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  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Yeah Weston UPX is my hack for getting to downtown when there is no good transit at the time I need to be heading through. Park and ride from Weston skips a lot of the downtown gridlock. Just wish the...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,177 Yesterday, 09:36 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-16-2024, 01:28 AM) -- I mean, 6.8% unemployment is within the normal range, and even low for the past 30 years or so. But certainly it is trending upwards. But that is for O...
   cherrypark Politics 133 2,798 04-16-2024, 02:00 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Unemployment data a short search away... (https://www.ontario.ca/page/labour-market-report-january-2024#:~:text=data%2C%20chart%204-,Unemployment%20rate%20decreased%20to%206.2%25,January%20from%205.8%...
   cherrypark Politics 133 2,798 04-15-2024, 10:58 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I think the instinct for the countryside line protection is fine but really if this is about another TMMC scale plant coming to the region and the secondary jobs that would create as well, the product...
   cherrypark Politics 133 2,798 04-12-2024, 11:58 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-10-2024, 02:30 PM) -- Honest question, how difficult would it be to modify the existing bridge to improve the pedestrian and cycling experience? If we just focused on the...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 173 30,914 04-10-2024, 09:38 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
Don't let your memories remain in the past. Your reality is one hole saw and a cordless drill away.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 148 30,858 04-10-2024, 09:31 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Boring design and completely agnostic to its context. I will never reconcile the thinking of doing this kind of look on a street filled with the KW vernacular style. Doesn't have to be a revival but w...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,237 985,341 04-10-2024, 09:30 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (02-21-2024, 11:39 AM) -- Why are talentless architects addicted to putting random blotches of colour on their buildings? It makes no sense. -- If the choice is this or the monochrome p...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,237 985,341 04-10-2024, 09:05 AM
  Thread: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 168 King St S | 8 fl | U/C
Went past on the ION over the weekend. Fits the area well and more of these would be welcome.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 71 35,625 04-10-2024, 09:01 AM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/...
Painfully bad podium and an enormous lost opportunity to animate an area that the city is pushing to be more walkable and activated on the street. Probably also falls in the realm of architectural com...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 780 428,398 04-10-2024, 09:00 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Such are the perils of operating a business that has these kinds of expensive and complex leasehold improvements while not owning the property. I am a bit surprised GRR being evicted from one location...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 68 5,154 04-10-2024, 08:49 AM
  Thread: UW Innovation Arena
Post: RE: UW Innovation Arena
I would bet the cladding is final, though the upper area of the front facade likely still has the angular pieces to go on if the last renders are to be matched.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 49 13,061 04-05-2024, 11:50 AM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
tomh009 Wrote: (03-24-2024, 03:00 PM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (03-23-2024, 06:15 PM) -- That's about the most recent coverage you can have on Gaukel since the demolition and closure of Gaukel were close...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 2,700 1,589,623 03-25-2024, 02:33 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
Safe to say local culture and motivated residents are the actual ingredients of there being community or not, aside the road network. Cul-de-sacs can still be reasonably well interconnected or not, th...
   cherrypark Townships 170 158,561 03-20-2024, 10:06 AM
  Thread: 490 Huron Rd | 12, 12, 20, 24 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 490 Huron Rd | 12, 12, 20, 24 fl | Proposed
Here's hoping even 50% of those rendered trees actually get planted. That section of Huron is wide open field and could desperately use some natural cover and wind breaks.
   cherrypark Suburbs 14 3,763 03-19-2024, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Lebronj23 Wrote: (02-17-2024, 08:19 PM) -- This is going to be the 3rd tallest tower in Kitchener after TEK tops out, and after DTK. This is 115m tall -- Plus I assume around 6-10m of topographic a...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,672 979,393 03-14-2024, 09:34 AM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Spoken like someone who has never needed to get N-S in Kitchener on anything other than a car or train... While I personally think making Westmount and Homer Watson highway crossings better was availa...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 78 37,651 03-08-2024, 01:29 PM
  Thread: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl...
ijmorlan Wrote: (03-06-2024, 06:37 PM) -- cherrypark Wrote: (03-06-2024, 08:15 AM) -- Trivial issue but folks can we please cool it with the bike shape bike racks. -- Maybe we should have Hummer-s...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 224 118,890 03-07-2024, 12:21 AM
  Thread: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl...
Trivial issue but folks can we please cool it with the bike shape bike racks.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 224 118,890 03-06-2024, 08:15 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Fun exercise: do a business case for vehicle users paying the full value per kilometer of their road use and expansion. Imagine the furor if Doug said the 413 was doing to be tolled to pay for upk...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,177 02-23-2024, 11:43 AM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region
ac3r Wrote: (02-22-2024, 07:27 PM) -- Consumers will want what they want and the market reacts. It's not advertisers calling the shots, it's us. The best thing auto manufacturers can do now is pivot ...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,168,870 02-23-2024, 11:30 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Yes, and more lines linking across the web coming from Union can't hurt either. It still leaves me confused how there are so few North-South busses across train lines out this way. It shouldn't be tha...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,177 02-22-2024, 12:10 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
KevinL Wrote: (02-21-2024, 05:22 PM) -- The Milton line issue is, I understand, mostly intransigence from CP. Which is capable of being overcome, but I can see how this is considered an easier approa...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,177 02-22-2024, 11:13 AM
  Thread: Childcare in the region
Post: RE: Childcare in the region
Better yet, would love to hear a follow up on how many of those 350-750 spots materialized or if we're just in a deficit of -200 spots still (aside any efforts by those centres already existing findin...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 3 342 02-20-2024, 11:08 AM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Yes exactly - that partner could well be any of the multitude of condo developers in town that could incorporate that climbing gym space in as a special amenity without the issue of how to maintain an...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 68 5,154 02-14-2024, 02:01 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
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 to buy and own the land they are on. That, o...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 68 5,154 02-14-2024, 11:30 AM

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