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  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
bravado Wrote: (09-07-2025, 12:59 PM) -- cherrypark Wrote: (09-05-2025, 02:20 PM) -- At this point just do the BRT for less, hope that GO to Cambridge gets approved, and live to fight for whatever P...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,609 09-11-2025, 01:49 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (05-10-2025, 10:53 AM) -- Momo26 Wrote: (05-10-2025, 09:04 AM) -- https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/region-of-waterloo-considering-alternative-to-lrt-in-cambridge/ “A...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 17,633 12,359,609 09-05-2025, 02:20 PM
  Thread: Fischer-Hallman & Bleams development
Post: RE: Fischer-Hallman & Bleams development
Nearing complete on 2 stories above grade on the corner building now.
   cherrypark Suburbs 25 26,337 08-28-2025, 09:17 AM
  Thread: Bramm Yards Master Plan
Post: RE: Bramm Yards Master Plan
No idea what is going on but given that the buildings there were in use by the condo developers and Google is no longer using the parking, perhaps they are starting to do some demolition instead of ma...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 54 11,402 08-15-2025, 09:06 PM
  Thread: Dundee Secondary Plan (City of Kitchener)
Post: RE: Dundee Secondary Plan (City of Kitchener)
Momo26 Wrote: (08-12-2025, 09:53 AM) -- We are obsessed with building up. Condo market has spoken and people dont want shoe boxes. (Up to 3/4 story in a tasteful manner is okay as there is still inte...
   cherrypark Urban Design 6 1,657 08-13-2025, 11:33 AM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
KevinL Wrote: (07-24-2025, 10:28 AM) -- KevinL Wrote: (11-27-2024, 06:02 PM) -- Oddly they missed a section [of multi-use path] - between the two driveways behind Zehrs it's still sidewalk! -- Thi...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 164 75,936 08-06-2025, 06:59 AM
  Thread: 170 & 180 Columbia St W | 41 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 170 & 180 Columbia St W | 41 fl | Proposed
AAA Architects truly have a hall of infamy portfolio of the worst condos in the Region: https://www.aaa-architects.ca/mixed-use Probably helps they are located in Toronto so they'll never have t...
   cherrypark University Area 8 2,433 08-05-2025, 02:57 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
The bridge is now open for riding. Looks like still some landscaping work ongoing.
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 164 75,936 05-05-2025, 01:44 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
bravado Wrote: (04-29-2025, 08:17 AM) -- It was surprisingly close in Cambridge, and Kitchener South Hespeler is just a disaster, but I'm genuinely surprised by Kitchener Centre. The vote splitting i...
   cherrypark Politics 643 262,833 04-29-2025, 10:11 AM
  Thread: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Post: RE: Duke Tower Kitchener | 39 fl | completed
Current Aud, just the main building, is the size of Market Square minus the parking garage. Its not a ton of area if parking were to be on that site.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,425 743,160 04-24-2025, 03:37 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Yeah, fair point. Probably want to get that done before they do a ribbon cut.
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 164 75,936 04-23-2025, 12:19 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
neonjoe Wrote: (04-22-2025, 08:31 AM) -- This roundabout will definitely be a test ... There are a lot of pedestrians in the area as Chandler Mowat is quite dense and the Laurentian Hills Shopping Ce...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 3,297 2,599,079 04-22-2025, 01:13 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Thanks for the pictures, Gary. Shaking my fist towards the Regional offices every day I still have to take Homer Watson/Ottawa from Sterling to Strasburg.
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 164 75,936 04-22-2025, 01:10 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Chalked up the lack of opening in the winter to skipping a year of winter maintenance when it would be less in use, but let's get on with it...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 164 75,936 04-17-2025, 10:37 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
This is what I will never understand about the region/cities taking an all or nothing approach. I don't care if someone in South Huron complains they are paying for snow clearing downtown but their su...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,228 611,266 02-17-2025, 05:39 PM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
I have long thought that council (and some city/region planners) should have a vocational requirement to use the services they dictate. Snow clearing (or lack thereof) brings it to mind annually.
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,228 611,266 01-25-2025, 01:26 AM
  Thread: Waterloo Region Housing: Mooregate (15-105 Mooregate Crescent) | 9 & 16 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Waterloo Region Housing: Mooregate (15-105 Moo...
Would be nice if developers in the region could scratch a few more pennies together for some diversity in architects... looks pretty good in comparison to a number of developments in the region for a ...
   cherrypark Suburbs 7 1,792 01-25-2025, 01:24 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (01-12-2025, 03:34 PM) -- Fiscal conservative policies may indeed help in some ways, considering how bad people are struggling financially (not just people, but governments). -- Meanwhi...
   cherrypark Politics 643 262,833 01-12-2025, 04:02 PM
  Thread: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours
From the council led by Jan "fine and imprison the homeless" Liggett, no surprise over here.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 387 415,185 01-12-2025, 03:55 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Sure taxi for multiple people brings the price down. Was speaking to usual business travel for me which is solo nearly always. And a fair point on it not being really all that much better than just...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,450 1,297,204 01-07-2025, 11:04 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
plam Wrote: (01-03-2025, 11:46 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (02-22-2024, 03:19 PM) -- I tested pricing with a flight to London (UK) on a random date in June. The cost from YKF was exactly the same as from ...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,450 1,297,204 01-06-2025, 11:34 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
Perpetual debate of "fairness" in KW about snow clear responsibilities that seems to always land on "its too expensive and a pared back program supporting clearing on arterial and high pedestrian area...
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 1,228 611,266 12-11-2024, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C
bravado Wrote: (12-10-2024, 08:13 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (12-10-2024, 05:25 PM) -- The real solution is to simply encourage developers to care about the architecture of their buildings. Most architects ...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,854 1,244,098 12-11-2024, 11:14 AM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Whether or not a new arena/event centre/convention centre is worth the enormous price tag is certainly worth a debate but the premise that it wouldn't contribute to more people coming to and patronizi...
   cherrypark Urban Areas 547 146,297 12-11-2024, 11:11 AM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 43, 50 fl | U/C
VanMar sure knows now to put them up at pace.
   cherrypark Urban Areas 1,854 1,244,098 12-04-2024, 11:54 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Because they aren't allowed to kill people in cars with bollards or lack of clear way around the roads, because the only road users that matter are drivers and their occasional passengers.
   cherrypark Transportation and Infrastructure 3,297 2,599,079 12-02-2024, 01:23 PM

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