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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
dtkvictim Wrote: (Yesterday, 03:56 PM) -- timio Wrote: (Yesterday, 03:45 PM) -- I could have used that last week after I discovered stored value expires from EasyGo cards after 2 years of inactivity...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,515 Yesterday, 04:39 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
tomh009 Wrote: (09-13-2024, 09:20 PM) -- I do expect that people WILL notice NOT getting the rebate, though--although, by then, it'll be too late. -- True enough. Similarly, people will definitely ...
   ijmorlan Politics 146 29,949 09-15-2024, 08:43 AM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
nms Wrote: (09-13-2024, 05:51 PM) -- As a thought exercise, if some of the wealth that is currently parked in the 1% were sent to the public purse in some way, how much of the infrastructure and prog...
   ijmorlan Politics 146 29,949 09-13-2024, 09:00 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
plam Wrote: (09-04-2024, 07:14 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (09-03-2024, 11:04 PM) -- If it pays for something worthwhile, obviously, and so do enough others that we keep electing governments that provide...
   ijmorlan Politics 146 29,949 09-12-2024, 05:32 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (09-08-2024, 02:07 PM) -- Was it actually planned? I thought that the lands were zoned for commercial, and private developers decided what to build there--which is how most cities in N...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,247,506 09-08-2024, 11:41 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
tomh009 Wrote: (09-04-2024, 10:06 AM) -- plam Wrote: (09-04-2024, 07:11 AM) -- I'm going to push back against the suggestion that all politicians are equally corrupt. Some are empirically more corru...
   ijmorlan Politics 466 191,691 09-04-2024, 05:44 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
ludo643 Wrote: (08-27-2024, 04:22 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (08-01-2024, 12:59 PM) --  Also I’d like to see the occasional discussion of “we’d like to do this for all of us, but we have to pay for it s...
   ijmorlan Politics 146 29,949 09-03-2024, 11:04 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-28-2024, 12:27 PM) -- :( https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/cyclist-dies-after-collision-in-north-dumfries-1.7015586 This is a new level of passive voice here, at no point i...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 609 213,454 08-28-2024, 08:12 PM
  Thread: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
creative Wrote: (08-14-2024, 04:35 PM) -- The city owns and is responsible for the water pipes up to where they enter your building including the water meter. Beyond the meter is the buildings respon...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 519 236,106 08-15-2024, 09:38 AM
  Thread: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
The utility would be fine with having many individual pipes metered more or less at the property line (or maybe where the many pipes enter the building). But as pointed out, that’s a lot of extra pipi...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 519 236,106 08-14-2024, 03:19 PM
  Thread: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Garment Street Condos | 25 & 6 fl | U/C
jeffster Wrote: (08-13-2024, 09:39 PM) -- You would think that there could be a way to make owners pay for all of their own utilities. -- Yes, absolutely utilities are best charged to each unit. Th...
   ijmorlan Urban Areas 519 236,106 08-14-2024, 08:56 AM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
panamaniac Wrote: (08-07-2024, 06:00 PM) -- Has there been much/any pushback wrt to the site chosen?  I've not seen anything, a bit to my surprise. -- I’m OK with the location. My objection is to t...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 315 62,741 08-07-2024, 09:49 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (08-07-2024, 11:00 AM) -- Certainly I cannot be the only one who thinks it is insane that we are considering a train where we currently refuse to run a bus? -- I think there s...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,247,506 08-07-2024, 11:45 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
dtkvictim Wrote: (08-07-2024, 02:29 AM) -- If I understand correctly, this is parallel/within the Kitchener Line rail right of way. So it effectively needs all of the same grade separations that the ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 3,201 2,349,342 08-07-2024, 11:43 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
timc Wrote: (08-02-2024, 12:35 PM) -- I thought the region said this land wasn't usable as farmland. Or does that just mean that feed corn doesn't count? -- Well it’s not usable now. Whaduyagotta s...
   ijmorlan Politics 226 18,110 08-02-2024, 01:22 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
I remember during the Chretien/Martin years they got heat from the opposition for budgeting with a reserve, so the final results tended to be slightly better than originally budgeted. I suppose I unde...
   ijmorlan Politics 146 29,949 08-01-2024, 12:59 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-28-2024, 12:44 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (07-28-2024, 12:26 PM) -- CBD? -- Central business district I assume...or Australian for "Downtown"... Also...it's so weird that N...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,162,161 07-28-2024, 07:36 PM
  Thread: Affordable housing (as implemented in Boston)
Post: RE: Affordable housing (as implemented in Boston)
I’d say expecting one of our dominant political parties to do something is far more reasonable than expecting thousands of private employers to just suddenly decide to increase their employees’ wages ...
   ijmorlan Outside Waterloo Region 5 3,142 07-27-2024, 12:57 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (07-25-2024, 04:11 PM) -- This system is supposed to protect municipalities because if the project goes over-budget, then the contractor is on the hook for the extra cost. I'...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,162,161 07-25-2024, 10:55 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Rainrider22 Wrote: (07-23-2024, 10:09 AM) -- Oh boy, I didn't realize they have to replace the bridge.  That should be some good times when it is taken out of commission.  Hopefully they can do it in...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,515 07-23-2024, 06:00 PM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
SF22 Wrote: (07-23-2024, 09:24 AM) -- Rainrider22 Wrote: (07-23-2024, 06:52 AM) -- ST Mary's hospital currently has one of the highest survival rates in Canada if you suffer a cardiac event.  There ...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 315 62,741 07-23-2024, 05:58 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
panamaniac Wrote: (07-22-2024, 06:53 PM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (07-22-2024, 02:35 PM) -- If we could get an announcement about the Provinces commitment to HWY 7 and the Breslau GO this could easily ...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,515 07-22-2024, 10:11 PM
  Thread: Hospitals in KW
Post: RE: Hospitals in KW
westwardloo Wrote: (07-22-2024, 02:51 PM) -- I think it would be a critical piece of infrastructure for the new hospital and should be completed before the hospital is built.  The more ways to get in...
   ijmorlan Urban Issues 315 62,741 07-22-2024, 03:03 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (07-20-2024, 10:04 AM) -- Good video on why light rail systems which run through urban cores absolutely should be tunneled underground. -- The perfect is the enemy of the good. In the W...
   ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,162,161 07-21-2024, 10:48 PM
  Thread: The Inclusive on Courtland | 38, 34, 30 & 29 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: The Inclusive on Courtland | 38, 34, 30 & 29 f...
tomh009 Wrote: (07-20-2024, 01:05 AM) -- Yeah. Because we so need more 1BR condos and less affordable housing. -- Actually, given that they keep selling for high prices, it seems we do need more 1 ...
   ijmorlan Suburbs 315 213,477 07-20-2024, 09:41 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
tomh009 Wrote: (07-14-2024, 02:43 PM) -- panamaniac Wrote: (07-14-2024, 09:11 AM) -- Irony in today's e-Record.  Nimby's complaining about a proposal to put fruit processing and farm worker resident...
   ijmorlan Politics 226 18,110 07-14-2024, 05:35 PM

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