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  Thread: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Downtown Kitchener Fire Station | 19 fl | Prop...
Gubs Wrote: (06-08-2026, 01:47 PM) -- What are the odds that with 285 units, noooobody will have a car?  I’m guessing that there will be at least 50. With ZERO parking, that means that those cars wil...
   bravado Urban Areas 29 4,262 06-08-2026, 10:26 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Kodra24 Wrote: (06-02-2026, 09:46 AM) -- Rules for thee not for me -- Well yeah, speed cameras were just ripped out this year. I thought we didn’t need to follow laws anymore… or is it only cyclists...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 661 294,752 06-03-2026, 12:48 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Kodra24 Wrote: (06-01-2026, 01:19 PM) -- Wish there was a way cyclists can get fines for running red lights, unfortunately it's only for cars -- It’s true, emergency rooms would be much less swampe...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 661 294,752 06-02-2026, 09:00 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Which is why the fact that people across the world want to come here is an economic superpower that Anglosphere politicians and voters seem to refuse to acknowledge and benefit from... Now that the...
   bravado Urban Areas 6,010 5,022,776 05-31-2026, 09:04 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
What if we just made a shitload of at-grade crossings to “keep traffic moving” and then blamed individuals for the obvious outcome of endless predictable crashes? It’s so much easier from an engineeri...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 17,674 13,213,335 05-26-2026, 04:43 PM
  Thread: Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Eureka (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | U/...
westwardloo Wrote: (05-26-2026, 08:18 AM) -- panamaniac Wrote: (05-25-2026, 08:40 PM) -- Having been in Kitchener this week, I must say that this one could be placed high on a short list of the ugli...
   bravado Urban Areas 216 85,706 05-26-2026, 12:26 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (05-15-2026, 03:49 PM) -- I welcome it. It's not like our local politicians are great at their job. Redman in particular sucks. And judging by the comments most people agree. But blue ...
   bravado Politics 650 307,334 05-15-2026, 09:21 PM
  Thread: 210-226 King St E (Cambridge) | 40 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 210-226 King St E | 40 fl | Proposed
Do you get the impression this is not a real project, just a way to get the property approved for change to go and resell to another developer?
   bravado Urban Areas 6 625 04-21-2026, 04:06 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
As a kid growing up in Stratford who regularly hopped on the VIA (unsupervised) to go to Toronto for a day, it's wild that the service has become both awful and expensive in the decades since. Hopeful...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 2,220 1,550,690 04-18-2026, 07:05 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
creative Wrote: (04-04-2026, 12:48 PM) -- “All my problems are the fault of women and immigrants” -- Everything was amazing until right after I was born, and after that exact point all change has be...
   bravado Urban Issues 604 365,237 04-04-2026, 02:19 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
What did I just read? Canada very specifically is not a nation-state. It's a post-colonial settler state and it's fundamentally weird and very suspicious to talk about the things you just did. In no ...
   bravado Urban Issues 604 365,237 04-02-2026, 06:39 PM
  Thread: Cambridge urban cores
Post: RE: Cambridge urban cores
I'm happy to announce that the vote for creating a large "Heritage Core District" in Galt has been voted down 6-3. https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/cambridge-council-rejects-expanded-herita...
   bravado Waterloo Region Heritage 15 22,154 03-26-2026, 07:53 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: (03-26-2026, 01:14 PM) -- Population decline isn't bad in most cases. Populations rise and fall almost cyclicly(when it is natural causes). When it declines, there are more resour...
   bravado Urban Issues 604 365,237 03-26-2026, 07:46 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
When will we see the decline in population, and therefore housing starts, start to hit city finances when development charge money slows to a trickle?
   bravado Urban Issues 604 365,237 03-21-2026, 11:35 AM
  Thread: 4611 King St E | 30 & 25 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 4611 King St E | 30 & 25 fl | Proposed
Bjays93 Wrote: (03-08-2026, 12:56 PM) -- I ultimately think it's a good thing that this proposal didn't go forward. This site is ripe for redevelopment, but what was submitted wasn't suitable for the...
   bravado Suburbs 52 18,994 03-08-2026, 05:24 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Don't really know where to share this news, but it looks like the Region has a new CAO (shared by the reliable experts at TriTAG) (https://bsky.app/profile/tritag.ca/post/3mg6hgrpjys2x) who seems to h...
   bravado Politics 650 307,334 03-03-2026, 07:41 PM
  Thread: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
People want to live in cities where all the opportunities are - it won’t be zero, unless we stop building housing…
   bravado Suburbs 25 7,342 02-20-2026, 07:03 PM
  Thread: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 535 Quiet Pl | 8 fl | Proposed
westwardloo Wrote: (02-18-2026, 04:24 PM) -- hahaha Why can't we have nice things? -- Because they are specifically outlawed in the planning and zoning codes…  :(
   bravado Suburbs 25 7,342 02-18-2026, 04:35 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Kodra24 Wrote: (01-22-2026, 12:59 AM) -- bravado Wrote: (01-21-2026, 11:55 PM) -- It’s wild to me that people walk among us who think that homelessness and drugs are only widespread because they jus...
   bravado Urban Areas 6,010 5,022,776 01-22-2026, 05:27 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
prisecaru0 Wrote: (01-21-2026, 11:16 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (01-19-2026, 09:54 AM) -- (Moving this conversation to a more appropriate thread.) Do you have a realistic solution for either homelessn...
   bravado Urban Areas 6,010 5,022,776 01-21-2026, 11:55 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
KingandWeber Wrote: (01-20-2026, 12:25 AM) -- nms Wrote: (01-19-2026, 06:08 PM) -- This project now has a name: Amber & Oak (https://www.amberandoak.ca/). 45 Rental suites at 70 Short St, Waterloo. ...
   bravado Urban Areas 1,356 1,295,723 01-20-2026, 12:35 AM
  Thread: Water capacity
Post: RE: Water capacity
I have to assume that the legal framework doesn’t exist (and won’t, due to Ford being in charge) to give incentives to water-saving infill and “punish” water-wasting sprawl? It doesn’t sound like anyo...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 16 2,559 01-09-2026, 03:34 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I'm looking forward to the next winter holiday sidewalk plowing service brought to you by Domino's or something
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 4,072,396 01-04-2026, 03:29 PM
  Thread: World politics
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
1. Of all the major pillars of growing corruption in the world, the fact that you chose to mention Zelensky is revealing to your own personality. It's shameful to inject it into an unrelated discussio...
   bravado Politics 12 2,278 12-29-2025, 11:46 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/...
ac3r Wrote: (12-25-2025, 12:33 PM) -- This will be finished in 3759. -- Can we give pre-heritage designations?
   bravado Urban Areas 911 607,937 12-25-2025, 12:44 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I think that if we want nice, reliable public services, they have to be financially sustainable. You should have to pay ~something~ to use a nice and reliable service, or else it won't be that way for...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 4,072,396 12-22-2025, 10:45 AM

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