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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-05-2024, 03:40 PM) -- Actually, car free rush hour would be an immense improvement in rush hour--I can personally attest. But leaving that aside, I was illustrating the doub...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,554 09-05-2024, 05:16 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-05-2024, 01:44 PM) -- Lets frame this around roads. Your local residential street is empty a lot of the time, on Sunday's it's probably almost never used, so are would you t...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,554 09-05-2024, 03:10 PM
  Thread: 169 Victoria St S | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 169 Victoria St S | 8 fl | Proposed
You're definitely right that it exceeds current demand for commercial space, but I'm thinking about Victoria's long term future. Especially if it gets a light rail line in 20 years.
   taylortbb Urban Areas 11 661 08-23-2024, 01:05 PM
  Thread: 169 Victoria St S | 8 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 169 Victoria St S | 8 fl | Proposed
ZEBuilder Wrote: (08-22-2024, 10:55 PM) -- The development does not propose any commercial spaces so the ground floor contains the lobby, move in room etc, as well as residential units (fronting Vict...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 11 661 08-23-2024, 12:23 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Every transit system reduces service at times when ridership is lower, I don't get why this is controversial. Overnight, rush hour, summer, midday, Christmas holidays, etc, are all just different time...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,554 08-18-2024, 08:03 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (07-27-2024, 07:15 AM) -- at the time of the RFP they were unwilling to commit to any of that--and thus did not respond to the RFP. -- Regardless of featureset they weren't going to ...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,554 07-27-2024, 10:12 AM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
panamaniac Wrote: (07-26-2024, 04:39 PM) -- taylortbb Wrote: (07-26-2024, 02:21 PM) -- Based on what I've heard from someone who owns a unit there, that's dead on. -- What is tension in a window? ...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 686 170,515 07-27-2024, 01:28 AM
  Thread: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
Post: RE: TEK Tower (30 Francis) | 45 fl | U/C
CuilTard Wrote: (07-26-2024, 08:04 AM) -- How long til we see if it has the DTK/IN8 problems? https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/s/m6tjJst3o6 -- One of the comments there says Quote: -- look...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 686 170,515 07-26-2024, 02:21 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Bytor Wrote: (07-24-2024, 06:24 PM) -- jamincan Wrote: (07-22-2024, 02:57 PM) -- Metrolinx gets closer to 2-way, all-day GO service by expropriating land in Halton Hills (https://www.cbc.ca/news/can...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,247,531 07-25-2024, 05:09 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Bytor Wrote: (07-24-2024, 07:08 PM) -- Governments in most cases cannot engage a vendor without RFQ/RFP for large contracts. Doing so would be to establish a sole source/single source contract, which...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,554 07-25-2024, 05:03 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (07-22-2024, 07:16 PM) -- It was going to get built anyway -- This is the key point. As someone that was deeply involved in the project's approval, all I can tell you is I disagree with...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,162,941 07-22-2024, 09:25 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
dtkvictim Wrote: (07-19-2024, 01:14 AM) -- taylortbb Wrote: (07-18-2024, 11:29 PM) -- Grand Trunk is also now open in their new King St space. They now have a wood pizza oven, and a good selection o...
   taylortbb Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,372 2,136,631 07-19-2024, 06:10 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Grand Trunk is also now open in their new King St space. They now have a wood pizza oven, and a good selection of pizzas on the menu (which I can confirm was delicious!). The new space is much larg...
   taylortbb Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,372 2,136,631 07-18-2024, 11:29 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ac3r Wrote: (07-18-2024, 11:41 AM) -- It's just the region choosing to do things their own way to stroke their ego. It's like the recycling system. It's 2024 and the region is still using the tiny bl...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 4,406 3,407,554 07-18-2024, 11:25 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Acitta Wrote: (07-15-2024, 07:54 PM) -- BT is opening Wednesday. I went by today, and some woman had just asked someone inside and told me. -- Can confirm it's now open. Was quite busy when I went ...
   taylortbb Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,372 2,136,631 07-17-2024, 04:17 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
creative Wrote: (07-14-2024, 05:48 PM) -- creative Wrote: (07-14-2024, 04:30 PM) -- https://torontorealtyblog.com/blog/commercialretail-condo-space/ -- This explains it all. No speculation required...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 5,656 4,197,501 07-14-2024, 08:07 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-14-2024, 01:04 PM) -- If the condo corporation owned the unit, the projected income of the unit would count as income for the condo corporation. It would directly impact the...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 5,656 4,197,501 07-14-2024, 04:48 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-14-2024, 01:56 AM) -- taylortbb Wrote: (07-13-2024, 09:14 AM) -- The units are listed for lease, so the developer isn't sitting on unsold commercial condo units. But I'm ce...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 5,656 4,197,501 07-14-2024, 12:03 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (07-11-2024, 10:12 PM) -- bravado Wrote: (07-11-2024, 01:51 PM) -- I still don’t understand how commercial landlords can stay in business doing things like that. There is a relatively...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 5,656 4,197,501 07-13-2024, 09:14 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
bravado Wrote: (07-11-2024, 01:51 PM) -- I still don’t understand how commercial landlords can stay in business doing things like that. There is a relatively fixed amount of entrepreneurial people an...
   taylortbb Urban Areas 5,656 4,197,501 07-11-2024, 04:32 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (07-02-2024, 07:18 AM) -- It wouldn’t deliver the benefits if nobody rode it. -- I suspect most condo/apartment developers in KW that are choosing to build near the LRT are doing so...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 1,161 762,403 07-04-2024, 02:02 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (06-27-2024, 04:50 PM) -- The stuff you want to get done, all of which I agree with BTW, will at best only shorten how long you are wasting money if you put an LRT in too early. -- And...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 1,161 762,403 07-02-2024, 01:46 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Yes, they are cameras, feed into a computer vision system for automated counts. The emergence of cheap high quality computer vision systems has resulted in a lot of sensors now being implemented as a ...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 3,201 2,349,365 06-26-2024, 01:26 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Bytor Wrote: (06-25-2024, 05:25 PM) -- The people think that 7 years before Stage construction starts is too long, could you please tell me what you know about what the ridership on the 302 and the 2...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 1,161 762,403 06-26-2024, 01:20 AM
  Thread: Driving vs transit
Post: RE: Urban parks
Kodra24 Wrote: (06-25-2024, 02:26 PM) -- Although downtown residents don't want to admit it they need the suburbanites coming down to help their business succeed - and if it isn't easy/convenient/acc...
   taylortbb Transportation and Infrastructure 17 919 06-25-2024, 02:48 PM
  Thread: 2980 King Street East | 32 & 12 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 2980 King Street East | 32 fl | Proposed
Acitta Wrote: (06-08-2024, 11:34 AM) -- The reviews on Tripadvisor are mostly positive. It is labelled a 3-star hotel on Google Maps. -- A "3-star hotel" just means the hotel has certain specific a...
   taylortbb Suburbs 11 2,998 06-08-2024, 03:27 PM

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