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  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 534 117,930 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 534 117,930 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 534 117,930 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 7,078 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 7,078 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 7,078 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 4,458 3,491,104 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 4,458 3,491,104 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 4,458 3,491,104 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 16,783 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 1,207 550,848 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 4,458 3,491,104 12-06-2021, 04:16 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Free transit rides for kids in Guelph means better access to services, mayor says (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-city-council-free-bid-fare-1.6274449) Quote: -- "I...
   MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 4,458 3,491,104 12-06-2021, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Victoria and Park | 25, 36, 38 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Victoria and Park | 25, 36, 38 fl | Proposed
I think it's wrong to say that Victoria Park is busy in a general sense. First few nice days in Spring, maybe, and a really nice summer Saturday specific amenities- the playground and the splash pad c...
   MidTowner Urban Areas 302 62,766 12-02-2021, 09:04 AM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Another example of the area losing commercial amenities (in this case, a convenience store and a shawarma take-out restaurant), not to be replaced. This won't be much of an issue soon, with other m...
   MidTowner Urban Areas 5,689 4,300,388 11-09-2021, 08:56 AM
  Thread: 900 King St W | 25 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 900 King St W | 25 fl | Proposed
Joedelay Highhoe Wrote: (10-22-2021, 11:20 AM) -- Looks like the one neighbor with the solar roof is going to lose a few hours of direct sunlight. -- With respect to that solar array, its primary p...
   MidTowner Urban Areas 185 52,238 10-24-2021, 08:51 AM
  Thread: Winter Walking and Cycling
Post: RE: Winter Walking and Cycling
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-15-2020, 08:48 AM) -- ... In any case, the core of the issue is this. I am a taxpayer, and I am very angry that you are going to waste an excessive amount of money on pro-a...
   MidTowner Transportation and Infrastructure 1,207 550,848 09-15-2020, 10:09 AM
  Thread: Les Armstrong's racist FB post
Post: RE: Les Armstrong's racist FB post
panamaniac Wrote: (06-26-2020, 09:28 PM) -- And especially not on the issue of systemic racism ... By the way, I see in this evening’s news that the First Ministers we’re unable to reach unanimo...
   MidTowner Politics 35 9,794 06-27-2020, 08:57 AM

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