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  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
ac3r Wrote: (09-28-2023, 05:54 PM) -- It'd lets us keep Victoria/Highway 7 as an efficient and important road in and out of the region (and as a very good link to Guelph). The awful streetscape could...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 907 776,151 09-28-2023, 06:34 PM
  Thread: KW Chamber Orchestra & KW Symphony
Post: RE: KW Chamber Orchestra & KW Symphony
Just got this in the mail. Can't wait to go! https://i.imgur.com/4EgB3SL.jpg
   dtkvictim Arts and Culture 23 4,146 09-21-2023, 12:18 AM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
ac3r Wrote: (09-19-2023, 12:26 PM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (09-19-2023, 12:34 AM) -- Continue your parallel though, and you suggest that architects ought to be focused producing for the elite and wealth...
   dtkvictim Urban Areas 1,646 899,462 09-19-2023, 02:32 PM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
ac3r Wrote: (09-18-2023, 03:22 PM) -- Heh, I guess I just have a different view of architecture that gets lost on this forum. This is "good architecture" the way mass produced wall art sold at Home S...
   dtkvictim Urban Areas 1,646 899,462 09-19-2023, 12:34 AM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
KevinL Wrote: (09-14-2023, 12:20 PM) -- Have to love that the photo shows both a pedestrian in the crossride and a cyclist in the crosswalk. -- Yeah no kidding. I have a second photo where the cycl...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 2,667 1,478,480 09-14-2023, 02:00 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Does anyone have insight on the design of the first ~400m of the Albert St bike lanes, coming from Weber St? I hadn't biked this end of Albert before and it's kind of wtf. Despite the rest of the stre...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 4,668 2,728,393 09-13-2023, 09:26 PM
  Thread: UW Indigenous Residence
Post: RE: UW Indigenous Residence
For anyone who doesn't read both threads, I shared a photo of the new crossing in the Trails thread (trying to not make this one too off topic): https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?...
   dtkvictim University Area 15 1,248 09-13-2023, 09:12 PM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
I never know if I should be posting in the Trails or Cycling thread, since I cycle on the trails... But here we are. It looks like construction of the Park & John St IHT connector thing (https://ww...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 2,667 1,478,480 09-13-2023, 09:11 PM
  Thread: Amalgamation
Post: RE: Amalgamation
jordan2423 Wrote: (09-13-2023, 07:31 PM) -- we need to amalgamate KW and make it a one tier government. We are in a major crisis that needs quick action and efficiency. -- I must have missed the qu...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 417 192,881 09-13-2023, 08:40 PM
  Thread: UW Indigenous Residence
Post: RE: UW Indigenous Residence
ijmorlan Wrote: (09-08-2023, 12:44 AM) -- The recent widening is a significant improvement, and does indeed include a crossride. Somehow they didn’t realize that the paths need to widen as they appro...
   dtkvictim University Area 15 1,248 09-08-2023, 01:47 AM
  Thread: UW Indigenous Residence
Post: RE: UW Indigenous Residence
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-07-2023, 08:13 AM) -- I'm not really sure whether the bridge could be fixed. Certainly if it was connected to CMH and the new residence, there would be a small number of peo...
   dtkvictim University Area 15 1,248 09-07-2023, 02:07 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-05-2023, 05:42 AM) -- I will say the "end" signs here were confusing for me when I first arrived here, I didn't immediately understand what it meant when there was a grey si...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 540 133,719 09-05-2023, 02:28 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Curbs at crossings on the Weber St MUT (Water St to Spur Line) have been replaced and widened, and crossrides (or whatever they are called) have been painted. It is now much easier (and legal) to cycl...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 4,668 2,728,393 09-05-2023, 02:40 AM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Sorry, I forgot to get around to responding to this. danbrotherston Wrote: (08-09-2023, 03:32 PM) -- So I think you're thinking about it conceptually wrong. When you enter a "40km/h area"...it is si...
   dtkvictim Transportation and Infrastructure 540 133,719 09-05-2023, 02:30 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
tomh009 Wrote: (09-01-2023, 07:59 PM) -- I'm not super familiar with the Conestoga program, but my expectations are pretty low when it's a  one-year "post-graduate diploma" in mobile development. Inc...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 102 14,088 09-02-2023, 04:43 PM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
ac3r Wrote: (08-31-2023, 03:45 PM) -- If that's a non-sequitur you...um...what, even? Lol. -- I agree with the premise you brought up, but yes, I think it was a bit of a non-sequitur. I think the v...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 102 14,088 09-01-2023, 07:38 PM
  Thread: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
tomh009 Wrote: (09-01-2023, 09:29 AM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (09-01-2023, 12:44 AM) -- I get that, but that's your (and my) values. The number of people looking for that is definitely growing rapidly, ...
   dtkvictim Suburbs 35 5,637 09-01-2023, 02:00 PM
  Thread: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
tomh009 Wrote: (08-31-2023, 09:39 PM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (08-31-2023, 04:38 PM) -- In a city the size of KW, does location really affect the price of rental apartments that much? -- Much easier t...
   dtkvictim Suburbs 35 5,637 09-01-2023, 12:44 AM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-31-2023, 05:53 PM) -- People will use the app where the restaurants are. It’s why some of the sleazier apps lie about which restaurants they service. And getting restaura...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 141 12,553 08-31-2023, 07:11 PM
  Thread: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 595 Strasburg Rd | 9 fl | U/C
tomh009 Wrote: (08-31-2023, 04:10 PM) -- $2000/month for 1BR ... on Strasburg Rd? It seems to be the going rate downtown now, but surely this far away should be less expensive. -- In a city the siz...
   dtkvictim Suburbs 35 5,637 08-31-2023, 04:38 PM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?
tomh009 Wrote: (08-30-2023, 10:57 PM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (08-30-2023, 05:15 PM) -- There a very few non-restaurant businesses on King St -- From memory, and between Queen and Victoria (excluding ...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 141 12,553 08-31-2023, 02:55 PM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-31-2023, 02:49 AM) -- Yeah, I mean, it's remarkable how much damage has been done by delivery companies masquerading as delivery companies. -- danbrotherston Wrote: (08-31-...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 141 12,553 08-31-2023, 02:45 PM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
tomh009 Wrote: (08-31-2023, 02:04 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (08-31-2023, 01:35 PM) -- This video is making rounds. It's taken outside of St. Louis Adult Learning Centre downtown...hundreds of Indian studen...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 102 14,088 08-31-2023, 02:23 PM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?
ijmorlan Wrote: (08-30-2023, 02:56 PM) -- King St. already has very little parking and not much motor-vehicle-moving capacity. Shifting those few parking spaces into the always-available parking gara...
   dtkvictim Urban Issues 141 12,553 08-30-2023, 05:15 PM
  Thread: The Georgie (16-20 George St N) | 5 fl | proposed
Post: RE: The Georgie (16-20 George St N) | 5 fl | propo...
Without meaning to defend the building (it is a bit kitsch): I'm surprised to see the amount of hate for the architecture, while the same level of disdain isn't shared for the 99% percent of other bui...
   dtkvictim Urban Areas 13 749 08-28-2023, 04:47 PM
  Thread: 93-99 Benton St & 39 -43 St George St | 12 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 93-99 Benton St & 39 -43 St George St | 12 fl ...
nms Wrote: (08-21-2023, 09:37 PM) -- What are the chances that Kitchener (and Waterloo and Cambridge too), might follow Toronto's lead and require that lost units be replaced on site at the same rent...
   dtkvictim Urban Areas 32 2,578 08-21-2023, 10:19 PM

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