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  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
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 downtown was dead during the weekday I was there,...
   clasher Urban Areas 547 157,158 12-11-2024, 09:14 AM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
I don't think I have a defeatist attitude for thinking that there's probably better uses of large amounts of public money than building a convention centre. It'd probably be half a billion dollars by ...
   clasher Urban Areas 547 157,158 12-10-2024, 10:33 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Convention centres and arenas are also pretty expensive to build, and I'm skeptical that it would be a wise use of public money. We'd face tough competition from London, Hamilton, and Toronto. I'd gue...
   clasher Urban Areas 547 157,158 12-10-2024, 02:09 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
If there was a business case for a convention centre surely there would be some private businesses looking to build a place. I'm also skeptical that a downtown rink would do much if people are scared ...
   clasher Urban Areas 547 157,158 12-09-2024, 09:45 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...
Graves get relocated for highways abd subdivisions often enough, it's not without precedent.
   clasher Urban Areas 92 20,538 11-19-2024, 09:11 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
I love a nice a tandem lift.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 164 79,101 08-25-2024, 11:09 AM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Goodbye to another heritage building I guess.
   clasher Urban Areas 1,348 1,234,681 08-08-2024, 07:26 AM
  Thread: The Georgie (16-20 George St N) | 5 fl | proposed
Post: RE: The Georgie (16-20 George St N) | 5 fl | propo...
Nice rooftop amenities... a couple bushes and a home depot pergola. Matches the vibe, if nothing else.
   clasher Urban Areas 19 4,588 08-05-2024, 12:06 PM
  Thread: Vic Station | 23 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Vic Station | 23 fl | Proposed
I'm sick of places being called "station" when there's no station in the building.
   clasher Suburbs 8 2,106 07-07-2024, 02:10 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Why would someone drive to sportsworld to get dropped off instead of just getting dropped off at the airport?
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,884,617 05-12-2024, 02:35 PM
  Thread: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing
Post: RE: Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Cross...
Structural steel is galvanized individually before it's erected, so this won't be galvanized. White could be the final colour, a lot of structural steel is primed with grey or red oxide. They'll proba...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 164 79,101 05-11-2024, 10:28 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
There's an incinerator in Durham, near Darlington nuke and Bowmanville cement plant. Need steady stream of waste to keep it running full bore. There's still some emissions, and the ashes that need to ...
   clasher Politics 239 38,919 04-04-2024, 12:59 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
Can we move all the off topic posts out of this thread?
   clasher Politics 239 38,919 04-02-2024, 06:09 AM
  Thread: Racism in the Region
Post: RE: Racism in the Region
I check the local reddits sometimes and keep seeing a lot of repeat comments and similar threads, it almost seems like bots or some kind of coordinated postings.
   clasher General and Off-Topic Discussion 32 6,458 10-03-2023, 09:14 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Probably built with union construction too...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 1,234 911,575 09-13-2023, 06:00 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Acitta Wrote: (08-30-2023, 08:01 PM) -- clasher Wrote: (08-30-2023, 06:50 PM) -- They could at least have the ticket machines working so schmucks like me can buy a bus ticket after midnight. -- Wh...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,884,617 08-31-2023, 09:16 AM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
They could at least have the ticket machines working so schmucks like me can buy a bus ticket after midnight.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,884,617 08-30-2023, 06:50 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I'd had a few pops so I was a bit pissed so I ended up with a 18$ cab ride. I'd normally just do a drunken walk home but my partner was in heels. I could understand a bit less service along school...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,884,617 08-29-2023, 12:29 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
It's not just LRT that is getting ridiculous, there was nr s that a section of the planned 413 is gonna have one km section cost 444$ million for the bridge over the Humber.
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 1,234 911,575 08-28-2023, 03:09 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
GRT summer schedule sucks. Last LRT left uptown at 2348, like wtf. The fare machine stopped working too so I couldn't buy a ticket for the bus and didn't have any cash. It certainly seemed like it was...
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 4,542 3,884,617 08-28-2023, 09:56 AM
  Thread: General Retail News
Post: RE: General Retail News
I went to Towne bowl in the spring on a Saturday and all the lanes were full, but it definitely feels like a bit of a timewarp going in there, hasn't seemed to change since the first time I was there ...
   clasher Retail 1,031 1,087,913 08-11-2023, 06:10 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
If the box didn't want to get hit it should have been wearing a helmet and neon vest
   clasher Transportation and Infrastructure 17,649 12,658,622 08-08-2023, 03:06 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (08-01-2023, 05:20 PM) -- clasher Wrote: (08-01-2023, 03:50 PM) -- I'm gonna miss that little public path between the pond and the patio. I hope they have some good luck with th...
   clasher Urban Areas 5,976 4,779,289 08-01-2023, 07:32 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Bytor Wrote: (08-01-2023, 02:31 PM) -- The Boathouse has construction fencing up around it. -- I'm gonna miss that little public path between the pond and the patio. I hope they have some good l...
   clasher Urban Areas 5,976 4,779,289 08-01-2023, 03:50 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
There's great cross country skiing there in the winter. Also great for summer walking, just don't bring your dog.
   clasher Suburbs 1,258 1,239,436 08-01-2023, 02:06 PM
  Thread: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Vertikal (471-481 King St E) | 23 & 19 fl | U/...
Jobs sites today look and are way different than they were in the 1980s. Mobile elevated work platforms and telescoping forklifts have completely changed the look of a modern site. Battery powered too...
   clasher Urban Areas 895 570,311 07-31-2023, 03:17 PM

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