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  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
In a piece of news that likely surprises no one, "Ontario has over a million homes in the pipeline, but needs developers to put shovels in the ground: report (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/on...
   nms Urban Issues 512 227,009 03-15-2023, 10:03 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
The section of the LRT tracks where this fatality occurred is about 1 km of track intersected by three pedestrian crossings (the RT Station, Quiet Place and Old Albert) plus two roads (Bearinger Rd an...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,960 03-15-2023, 09:37 PM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
If you're largely selling tiny boxes to investors from out of town who are renting anyways, (or maybe just hoping for a quick flip long after you're gone as builder), do you really care what the ameni...
   nms Urban Areas 494 84,840 03-07-2023, 10:47 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Cambridge has also had to spend 50 years cobbling together a municipal identity. Waterloo didn't have to change much as it grew because the communities that it absorbed were pretty small. Kitchener ...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 892 513,465 03-07-2023, 10:41 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (03-06-2023, 02:49 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (03-06-2023, 01:28 PM) -- 305 King St W definitely started its life as Waterloo Trust Tower, but was that name still used when 55 King St W...
   nms Urban Areas 5,184 3,311,342 03-07-2023, 10:32 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-04-2023, 09:04 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (03-04-2023, 01:02 PM) -- The video makes it sound like some kind of mystical Shangri-la. -- Just checked out their website and they describe ev...
   nms Urban Areas 1,171 841,307 03-04-2023, 11:09 PM
  Thread: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
Post: RE: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitche...
ac3r Wrote: (03-04-2023, 09:07 PM) -- High speed rail is back on the menu, which will surely get 86'd as it always does: https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/tr/news/waterloo-region/2023/03/04/the-high-...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 431 351,631 03-04-2023, 11:05 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
I think it was Canada Trust by the time that building was built. And then TD built their fancy building at King and Francis. And then they got together.
   nms Urban Areas 5,184 3,311,342 03-04-2023, 07:36 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Out of curiosity, how do Toronto's equivalent LRVs fare during this kind of weather? If their performance is better in the winter, what are they doing differently?
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,960 03-03-2023, 09:14 PM
  Thread: Cambridge Mill Hotel | 38 & 24 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Cambridge Mill Hotel | 38 & 24 fl | Proposed
Probably for the same reason anyone else is given when they try to book a construction or renovation job these days: labour shortage, supply chain & inflation. It's also possible the further site i...
   nms Urban Areas 83 36,464 03-03-2023, 09:03 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
kalis0490 Wrote: (03-01-2023, 07:16 PM) -- I found this nice image of the old transit mall in the 60s (courtesy of Michael Druker). Notice the trolleybuses and the nice greenery. Here's a Modern stre...
   nms Urban Areas 5,184 3,311,342 03-03-2023, 08:58 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
Interesting. It seems to simply be a matter of swapping the use of their respective fields. The driving range shoots into the field designated for farming and owned by the farmer, while the farmer u...
   nms Townships 135 123,016 03-03-2023, 07:10 PM
  Thread: 900 King St W | 25 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 900 King St W | 25 fl | Proposed
Spokes Wrote: (03-01-2023, 07:35 AM) -- Is this a public private partnership? Why are public officials there? -- Maybe they wanted to tout the benefit of the ION for developers even if the final s...
   nms Urban Areas 123 18,733 03-03-2023, 07:04 PM
  Thread: 900 King St W | 25 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 900 King St W | 25 fl | Proposed
Wasn't this the building that was going to provide some suites for families who needed to be near their relatives at Grand River Hospital?
   nms Urban Areas 123 18,733 02-28-2023, 09:21 PM
  Thread: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
ac3r Wrote: (02-27-2023, 08:52 PM) -- Ahh I understand what you mean. It would really depend on how the city decided to implement a design review panel. Theoretically they could add a new rule for ne...
   nms University Area 26 1,870 02-28-2023, 09:19 PM
  Thread: General Business Updates and News
Post: RE: General Business Updates and News
Municipalities have been on the receiving end of federal and provincial cutbacks for the last 30+ years. In many cases, the federal or provincial government downloaded a service to the municipality w...
   nms Waterloo Region Economy 562 516,721 02-28-2023, 09:17 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Today's storm notwithstanding, I shudder to think how snow plow contractors (public or private) would have managed if there had been any more snow this winter. Clearing has definitely been hit or mis...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 3,980 2,851,680 02-27-2023, 05:21 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
I believe Polocorp has suggested that a few of their upcoming projects have a room for tower that would past 50 floors. Let them go as high as they want as long as there is a guaranteed one-for-one ad...
   nms Urban Areas 5,184 3,311,342 02-24-2023, 09:33 PM
  Thread: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Thanks for the links. A couple of those remind me of the different residences that the University of Waterloo (and the church colleges) built in their early days. Haven't we more or less established...
   nms University Area 26 1,870 02-24-2023, 09:24 PM
  Thread: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Where was George-Eugène Haussmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne_Haussmann) when you needed him?  If you were able to wave a magic wand over the Northdale neighbourhood, which a...
   nms University Area 26 1,870 02-23-2023, 06:40 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
Speaking of stacked townhouses, Steeves & Rozema is advertising their recently renovated stacked townhouses within their Waterloo Heights community (https://www.srcommunities.ca/properties/waterloo-he...
   nms Urban Issues 512 227,009 02-21-2023, 06:49 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
With another freezing rain event scheduled tomorrow evening, should we start a pool for how long the system persists before it quits again?
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,960 02-21-2023, 06:40 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (02-11-2023, 04:23 AM) -- KevinL Wrote: (02-10-2023, 10:12 PM) -- Their main use in Kitchener is on route 27, which now directly serves Freeport Health Centre; the driveway the...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 3,980 2,851,680 02-21-2023, 06:37 PM
  Thread: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 308 King St N | 25 fl | U/C
Fun fact about the word "ghetto" from Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto) (once an English & History major, always an English & History Major): Quote: -- The et...
   nms University Area 26 1,870 02-21-2023, 06:22 PM
  Thread: Victoria Park
Post: RE: Victoria Park
I believe they used to have solid removable bollards at some point in the past (eg 20-30 years ago). I guess the new standard is these flexible ones, but they may not have stood up to abuse.
   nms Sports and Recreation 81 47,733 02-21-2023, 06:16 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (02-17-2023, 06:54 PM) -- Bob_McBob Wrote: (02-17-2023, 01:14 AM) -- Sample radio chatter, I think you get the idea what a clusterfuck this all is: 23:02 506 stuck nearby, operator wi...
   nms Transportation and Infrastructure 17,158 9,253,960 02-17-2023, 11:05 PM

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