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  Thread: Finacialization of the rental market
Post: RE: Finacialization of the rental market
plam Wrote: (09-12-2024, 11:36 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (09-12-2024, 05:01 PM) -- "May be"? Sheesh. Journalists with no daring. I've been pointing out the "financialization" of housing for years becau...
   Bytor Urban Issues 7 703 10-02-2024, 12:27 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class
nms Wrote: (09-13-2024, 05:51 PM) -- Once challenge for the Polievre Conservatives will be how to replace the lost revenue if they follow through on their promise to remove the carbon tax. After 40+ ...
   Bytor Politics 152 32,995 10-02-2024, 11:59 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
dtkvictim Wrote: (09-20-2024, 10:11 PM) -- I wonder if this means any improvements to Benton/Frederick, Victoria & King, and I'm sure some other projects are dead? Are the Lancaster changes removing ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 3,233 2,360,585 10-02-2024, 11:54 AM
  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...
   Bytor Politics 152 32,995 09-12-2024, 05:24 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Momo26 Wrote: (09-04-2024, 10:46 PM) -- Question for you architects and arm chair quarter back architects... Would you prefer a building like this to anything that has popped up in DTK (or Waterlo...
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,662 4,216,187 09-12-2024, 05:03 PM
  Thread: Finacialization of the rental market
Post: RE: Finacialization of the rental market
"May be"? Sheesh. Journalists with no daring. I've been pointing out the "financialization" of housing for years because of the low interest rates, though I never used that term. I usually called i...
   Bytor Urban Issues 7 703 09-12-2024, 05:01 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
ludo643 Wrote: (08-23-2024, 02:16 PM) -- Totally agree! Adjusting service levels based on ridership makes sense. -- Ridership depends in large part of service level, though. If you reduce ridership...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 09-11-2024, 04:11 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Momo26 Wrote: (09-09-2024, 07:52 PM) -- Man we can certainly dream.  I need to bust out a huge map on a wall and start planning out ideal routes. Wasn't the now-scrapped like 1 or 2 a day LO...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,255,698 09-11-2024, 04:01 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
neonjoe Wrote: (09-06-2024, 09:13 AM) -- Move the bus terminal off of Glasgow and there would be a well integrated connection. -- What bus terminal on Glasgow do you mean?
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,255,698 09-11-2024, 03:54 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Momo26 Wrote: (09-05-2024, 03:44 PM) -- Re that Breslau station...that would be new last stop correct? Or come before Kitchener? -- No. It will be a new intermediate stop. Why would they make it th...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,255,698 09-11-2024, 03:47 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
tomh009 Wrote: (08-13-2024, 10:55 AM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (08-13-2024, 10:03 AM) -- The depth of the freezing is clearly different but we do get frost on the ground some days. But I’d never ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,764 3,176,971 08-19-2024, 04:06 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
dtkvictim Wrote: (08-17-2024, 01:51 AM) -- Bytor Wrote: (08-16-2024, 07:30 PM) -- It's not a zero-sum game. That's a bankrupt mentality, giving into the "no new taxes" of neoliberalism. Every dollar...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 08-17-2024, 05:36 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (08-16-2024, 08:53 AM) -- As you said, it's always a choice of how to spend a given budget. Will more buses in the summer gain more ridership than adding frequency on, say, route 7? Or...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 08-16-2024, 07:43 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (08-15-2024, 07:11 PM) -- It's ultimately a zero-sum game, though. I you decide to run more buses when utilization is low, you'll need to run fewer buses somewhere else. -- It's not ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 08-16-2024, 07:30 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Kevin161617 Wrote: (08-13-2024, 12:56 PM) -- I'm so happy to see all these service increases and new routes! But does anyone know why frequencies are being reduced on route 9 and 30 from every 15 ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 08-16-2024, 03:23 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
tomh009 Wrote: (08-12-2024, 10:53 AM) -- Oh Bombay is opening a location at 29 King E in DTK, offering Hakka (Indian/Chinese fusion) dishes. Spice n Scoop has a sign up and a URL, but no info yet ...
   Bytor Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,372 2,148,783 08-12-2024, 07:25 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Greater capacity doesn't solve that who bit about not stopping at the intermediate stops. Or are you gonna tell a person to ring the bell to get the tram to stop at 1897 so they can get off to visit t...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,255,698 08-12-2024, 07:20 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
dtkvictim Wrote: (08-12-2024, 05:32 PM) -- Some of these pictures are bit old, but the only thing that changed is the paint was added. The block between Francis and Water hasn't had the top coat adde...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,764 3,176,971 08-12-2024, 06:03 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
coriander Wrote: (07-28-2024, 04:02 PM) -- You can buy paper PRESTO tickets at every TTC subway station. Pay at the TVM, it prints out a ticket for you. You can get 1-trip or 2-trip tickets, where on...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 08-09-2024, 05:27 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-27-2024, 01:49 AM) -- @Bytor, it’s clear you hate presto. But comparing TTCs rollout with ours is disingenuous. TTC is the biggest and most complex transit system in Canada....
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 08-09-2024, 05:26 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Why not both? In the same way that we have the 7 and the ION LRT. The 7 hits more stops than the tram, and a GO bus would hit more stops than this hypothetical train.
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,059 1,255,698 08-09-2024, 05:15 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
People are either ignorant or forgetful of all the hassle that Presto implementations have been over the years, and how the problems were always much, much larger than any we've had with EasyGO. Fr...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 07-26-2024, 06:23 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (07-25-2024, 01:36 AM) -- Bytor Wrote: (07-24-2024, 07:08 PM) -- This archived PDF of P&W meeting from 2013 has a lot of good in-depth explanations (https://web.archive.org/web...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 07-26-2024, 06:02 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ac3r Wrote: (07-24-2024, 10:08 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (07-24-2024, 06:18 PM) -- At this point, I feel about "ION should have been tunnelled through Downtown" the same way I feel about the suggestions t...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,211,873 07-26-2024, 04:42 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
dunkalunk Wrote: (07-24-2024, 11:34 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (07-24-2024, 06:18 PM) -- At this point, I feel about "ION should have been tunnelled through Downtown" the same way I feel about the suggesti...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 17,485 11,211,873 07-26-2024, 04:41 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...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,415 3,422,231 07-24-2024, 07:52 PM

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