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  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
panamaniac Wrote: (07-21-2023, 06:10 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (07-21-2023, 04:18 PM) -- An Indian restaurant opens up nearly every week somewhere in the city hah. Feels like there's one on every block no ...
   Bytor Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,247 1,885,154 09-03-2023, 04:47 PM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
nms Wrote: (09-01-2023, 04:14 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (08-31-2023, 03:45 PM) -- Or just think about it this way: when is the last time you've seen hundreds of people camping in tents in public parks or w...
   Bytor Urban Issues 102 13,740 09-03-2023, 04:39 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
taylortbb Wrote: (08-25-2023, 07:02 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (08-25-2023, 03:07 PM) -- It is more than just a GMail only. Hotmail/Outlook Live support it, MS Exchange supports it, my email domain hoster ...
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,458 3,627,113 08-28-2023, 05:10 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-23-2023, 01:56 AM) -- Bytor Wrote: (08-22-2023, 05:56 PM) -- Just use the +tag functionality of SMTP email. If you are person@example.com, just sign up with person+condo...
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,458 3,627,113 08-25-2023, 03:07 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-22-2023, 12:20 PM) -- SF22 Wrote: (08-22-2023, 09:29 AM) -- Do any of you register to see floorplans for new builds, if they don't post them directly on the website? And if...
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,458 3,627,113 08-22-2023, 05:56 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
KevinL Wrote: (08-08-2023, 12:04 PM) -- A vehicle collision this morning, but only to adjacent infrastructure - a car came off the road at Block Line and Courtland and struck the Ion signal box. Than...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 17,255 9,781,662 08-10-2023, 12:16 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
The Boathouse has construction fencing up around it.
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,458 3,627,113 08-01-2023, 02:31 PM
  Thread: When online forums go bad
Post: RE: When online forums go bad
plam Wrote: (02-02-2023, 09:36 PM) -- Thanks Spokes! https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109798007902048311 TL;dr: a bunch of online forums got bought by this evil private equity company VerticalSc...
   Bytor General and Off-Topic Discussion 12 2,239 07-29-2023, 02:34 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
ZEBuilder Wrote: (07-19-2023, 04:09 PM) -- mind you the region still seems to show the LRT going into Breslau -- Where are you getting that from? The map for hypothetical stage 3 from 2018 only sho...
   Bytor Townships 148 137,875 07-19-2023, 07:46 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
ZEBuilder Wrote: (07-13-2023, 10:11 PM) -- While we're at it how about we send the LRT down to Maple Grove then, stops for Toyota and all that industrial area, -- Industrial areas like that rarel...
   Bytor Townships 148 137,875 07-19-2023, 03:31 PM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
The reason the Aud doesn't have much capacity because it wasn't built for balconies like Scotiabank Arena, so all the renovations did was make it wider to continue the same slope of seating. But a Hyp...
   Bytor Urban Issues 117 20,748 07-19-2023, 03:07 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
nms Wrote: (07-10-2023, 06:42 AM) -- So was part of the LRT sales pitch a bait-and-switch and road construction wasn't going to slow down at all? Or did Waterloo Region's growth accelerate? Or was th...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,855 1,059,580 07-13-2023, 01:33 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
panamaniac Wrote: (07-12-2023, 07:28 PM) -- Given that estimated costs for public projects more often than not seem to be exceeded, it's not hard to understand the reaction. -- Based on my professi...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,074 599,676 07-13-2023, 01:20 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Everybody seems to think that $4.5B is the final, absolute, no other answer possible, cost. I keep pointing out that the number is from a study report that only need to be -25% to 50% accurate but ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,074 599,676 07-12-2023, 03:17 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
plam Wrote: (07-03-2023, 05:07 PM) -- I do think it feels a bit like a factory to have xx,xxx people in a high school. -- Where in Canada do we have tens of thousands of people in the same high sch...
   Bytor Suburbs 1,134 866,975 07-10-2023, 05:47 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-10-2023, 01:53 PM) -- Politicians don't care much about stuff beyond ribbon cuttings. And Redman is nothing if not a politician. She wants it built because it will giv...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,074 599,676 07-10-2023, 05:43 PM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
Rainrider22 Wrote: (07-05-2023, 12:23 PM) -- I did it.  I emphasized public transit.  I noted that they expect the process to be complete by March 2024.  Seems aggressive. -- Picking the location se...
   Bytor Urban Issues 117 20,748 07-08-2023, 12:34 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-06-2023, 08:42 AM) -- I am surprised though that they don't seem to look at intercity transit at all (which did make it easier to know where to post this lol), given that it...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,137 3,020,012 07-06-2023, 11:46 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
dtkvictim Wrote: (06-23-2023, 01:59 AM) -- There is also (to use a stereotype as an example) the "SUV driving, anti-vax, alternative medicine, essential oil, suburban mom"-types of people who are als...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,664 2,706,026 06-24-2023, 12:58 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (06-19-2023, 11:15 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (06-19-2023, 10:13 PM) -- I dunno about you all, but I spend a decent amount of time on my balcony. Eating meals, tending my container garden...
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,458 3,627,113 06-21-2023, 10:57 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
I dunno about you all, but I spend a decent amount of time on my balcony. Eating meals, tending my container gardening, reading.
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,458 3,627,113 06-19-2023, 10:13 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (06-15-2023, 07:34 PM) -- It's also extremely small. You can walk from one end of Amsterdam to the other in just over an hour. -- Do you always just pull stuff out of your butt like tha...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,137 3,020,012 06-19-2023, 12:28 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
jeffster Wrote: (06-15-2023, 11:48 PM) -- Should also be noted, the Netherlands are roughly 200km by 200km in size (41,000 km2). That's it. And yet you still have 588 cars per 100k. For comparison, S...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,137 3,020,012 06-19-2023, 12:13 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (06-12-2023, 02:26 PM) -- 65+ year old women aren't going to be cycling or scootering around the city like a child, they want a bus and that's what needs the most drastic improvement. -- ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,137 3,020,012 06-13-2023, 09:57 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
jeffster Wrote: (06-12-2023, 11:35 AM) -- Recently, my car broke down (long story short, the last oil change I had, dealership put too much oil in, being this car is a Plug-In Hybrid, I hadn't used t...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,137 3,020,012 06-12-2023, 08:33 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
jeffster Wrote: (06-12-2023, 07:14 PM) -- $4.5B for this project through Cambridge isn't doable. Something like this would add at least $50/month to your property tax bill (assuming we pay it over 30...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,074 599,676 06-12-2023, 08:05 PM

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