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  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

tomh009 Wrote: (02-13-2025, 08:35 PM) -- Countless governments (including ours) have tried to bribe families with various types of child tax credits (or maybe this is demonizing, too?) to have larger...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 5,749 4,339,774 02-14-2025, 09:59 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-12-2025, 10:20 AM) -- MidTowner Wrote: (02-12-2025, 09:03 AM) -- Canadians generally have the mentality that children don't belong in the centre of cities. As a result, the...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 5,749 4,339,774 02-12-2025, 12:25 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-11-2025, 10:31 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (02-10-2025, 10:45 PM) -- You can give people that flexibility even if you are in the office or hybrid, too. Our company never had a pr...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 5,749 4,339,774 02-12-2025, 09:03 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

danbrotherston Wrote: (01-22-2025, 09:16 AM) -- Again, part of why I gave up and left. Admittedly, if you just want to fix the sidewalk problem, you don't have to go nearly as far as you think. Londo...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-27-2025, 11:57 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

danbrotherston Wrote: (01-21-2025, 03:09 PM) -- I am laughing and crying. Because I asked basically the same question 13 years or so ago. Spent 10 years of that learning, evolving, advocating, then I...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-22-2025, 09:05 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

Does anyone have any real sense if the municipalities are enforcing their snow clearing bylaws? I think Waterloo may be, but it seems like Kitchener isn't. They say "yes," but that the volume of compl...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-21-2025, 08:59 AM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

clasher Wrote: (12-11-2024, 09:14 AM) -- Ottawa is trying again with the Le Breton Flats thing to get the Senators downtown... not too familiar with Ottawa but I was there this summer and the downtow...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 547 121,815 12-11-2024, 12:54 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

danbrotherston Wrote: (12-10-2024, 10:59 AM) -- panamaniac Wrote: (12-09-2024, 10:30 PM) -- Most Canadian convention centres are mostly/entirely public projects, are they not?  As for the rink, you ...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 547 121,815 12-10-2024, 12:35 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

Kodra24 Wrote: (12-10-2024, 11:30 AM) -- Interesting, a lot of posters on this forum hate the suburbanites but want their money, go figure Downtown is not safe, it's still very much a work in prog...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 547 121,815 12-10-2024, 12:28 PM
  Thread: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
Post: RE: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | propos...

ac3r Wrote: (11-15-2024, 09:42 PM) -- Thinking that private developers should be responsible for providing public recreation space is lol...??? Public parks should be a public responsibility. -- Pr...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 61 7,692 11-18-2024, 09:47 AM
  Thread: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
Post: RE: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | propos...

I am glad someone brought this up. Image how great midtown could be if we removed Mount Hope cemetery and made it into a central park.  Or the east end if we removed first mennonite/ st. peters cemete...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 61 7,692 11-18-2024, 09:40 AM
  Thread: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | proposed
Post: RE: 864-872 King St W | 55, 44, 38, 16 fl | propos...

Nextasy Wrote: (11-15-2024, 01:07 PM) -- creative Wrote: (11-15-2024, 12:02 PM) -- Is that not parkland directly behind this property? Walter St. Park is an 8 minute walk according to Google maps. -...
  MidTowner Urban Areas 61 7,692 11-15-2024, 03:15 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

ijmorlan Wrote: (11-13-2024, 06:13 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (11-13-2024, 03:00 PM) -- Framing it as "wealthy teens getting cheap rides" is a value framing. I would argue that getting young peopl...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,827 11-14-2024, 08:12 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

taylortbb Wrote: (11-13-2024, 12:05 PM) -- MidTowner Wrote: (11-13-2024, 10:05 AM) -- A significantly lower fare would increase ridership and affordability both significantly. But it's not realistic...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,827 11-13-2024, 02:04 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

tomh009 Wrote: (11-12-2024, 09:52 PM) -- A significantly lower price point ($2?) might be the thing to do to address affordability and improve ridership, without going all the way to zero. On the oth...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,827 11-13-2024, 10:05 AM
  Thread: The Shanley (née Electrohome, 152 Shanley St) | 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Electrohome Factory

The 8-storey apartment building has been approved: https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/02/15/8-storey-apartment-building-set-for-former-electrohome-site-in-kitchener.html (https://www....
  MidTowner Urban Areas 167 17,752 02-16-2022, 07:57 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-04-2022, 09:33 AM) -- I'm not sure if anyone is saying that. I carried my daughter to/from daycare for months on my 10 year old Walmart bike with a bike seat I got for fr...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 02-04-2022, 10:45 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

No doubt even an extremely expensive bike is going to be way cheaper to operate than an expensive bike. To me, posting a picture of an expensive bike along with a sarcastic comment about it being "imp...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 02-04-2022, 09:08 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

Bytor Wrote: (01-31-2022, 02:43 PM) -- Using bikes in winter or taking your kids somewhere with them is impossible, don'tcha know. https://twitter.com/bmdoucet/status/1488211901242916872 https:...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 02-02-2022, 11:16 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

[/quote] I think it's pretty straight forward. Councils which raise taxes get replaced. This is the belief (rightly, or wrong, and I think mostly rightly) that councillors have. Therefore, only whe...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 02-02-2022, 11:13 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

danbrotherston Wrote: (01-28-2022, 01:15 PM) -- My anger notwithstanding, I suspect that there'd have been a much better chance of this passing if it hadn't been in the middle of the pandemic when it...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-31-2022, 07:43 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

danbrotherston Wrote: (01-26-2022, 10:40 AM) -- If you are tired of calling to complain to bylaw (which I understand), call your councillor instead. They need to start hearing this more. Only they ca...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-28-2022, 10:53 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

" Literally no control over the snow"? They're moving the snow. I understand what you mean, it has to go somewhere. That's not snow from the street. An operator can't believe that he is clearing th...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-25-2022, 07:47 PM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

Acitta Wrote: (01-25-2022, 05:02 PM) -- I was going to ask you if you reported it using the Pingstreet app, but I looked at mine, and it no longer lists the City of Kitchener, though Waterloo, Cambri...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-25-2022, 06:56 PM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling

More than five days after the only real snowfall we have had this winter, and sidewalks generally are pretty terrible this afternoon. Granted, it was a lot of snow, but every street is bare. Wherea...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,225 557,623 01-22-2022, 03:25 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

There's still an impact even if it's very few. But it is sort of circular logic to say we need to remove the child discount (which we now have in Waterloo) to save money, but it's okay because only a ...
  MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,827 12-06-2021, 04:16 PM

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