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  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero

ac3r Wrote: (Today, 02:01 PM) -- Absolutely nobody thinks this is okay or that it's "radical" to state as such. -- Lots of people think it’s fine to keep building roads the way we do, and to de-fun...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 583 182,019 6 hours ago
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours

SF22 Wrote: (03-15-2024, 10:18 AM) -- Region wants to buy farms off Nafziger Road in Wilmot "The Region of Waterloo wants to buy about 700 acres of land northeast of the intersection of Nafziger a...
  ijmorlan Townships 170 154,070 03-15-2024, 01:36 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours

ac3r Wrote: (03-14-2024, 03:41 PM) -- Why don't you try reading the entire thing next time? You'll see in the very next sentences I acknowledge that grids predate the automobile. As I pointed out, th...
  ijmorlan Townships 170 154,070 03-15-2024, 12:49 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours

bravado Wrote: (03-13-2024, 04:12 PM) -- https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/habitat-gets-all-clear-for-shantz-hill-towns-as-land-tribunal-dismisses-appeal-8433724 I am pleased to announce th...
  ijmorlan Suburbs 1,191 934,380 03-13-2024, 09:46 PM
  Thread: General Township Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours

ac3r Wrote: (03-13-2024, 04:44 PM) -- …. Grid layouts are an entirely modern North American system designed around the automobile. … Detroit, New York City, Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago etc are all ...
  ijmorlan Townships 170 154,070 03-13-2024, 09:43 PM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?

Kodra24 Wrote: (03-11-2024, 03:01 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (03-11-2024, 12:34 PM) -- This is only useful if you intend to lock people up forever. For serious crimes like premediated murder, this...
  ijmorlan Urban Issues 176 20,819 03-11-2024, 04:08 PM
  Thread: Amalgamation
Post: RE: Amalgamation

Kodra24 Wrote: (03-11-2024, 02:57 PM) -- But again, it is a CHOICE to use it! We, the people, have the power to stop FB or any other social media empire by simply ditching it or switching to another ...
  ijmorlan Urban Issues 443 215,038 03-11-2024, 04:03 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

KevinT Wrote: (03-10-2024, 09:43 PM) -- This is my favourite explanation of security theatre: I Cringely, To a Man With a Hammer (https://www.cringely.com/2021/09/10/bobs-9-11-post-from-20-years-a...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 03-11-2024, 09:22 AM
  Thread: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl | U/C
Post: RE: 387-397 King St E and 6 Madison Ave | 2 & 8 fl...

cherrypark Wrote: (03-06-2024, 08:15 AM) -- Trivial issue but folks can we please cool it with the bike shape bike racks. -- Maybe we should have Hummer-shaped bike racks!
  ijmorlan Urban Areas 220 117,235 03-06-2024, 06:37 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

westwardloo Wrote: (03-06-2024, 04:48 PM) -- bravado Wrote: (03-06-2024, 03:59 PM) -- Why does Cambridge city council matter at all? It’s not their jurisdiction. Yet again why is governance so needl...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,125 688,481 03-06-2024, 06:37 PM
  Thread: Drewlo Waterloo (née Waterloo Motor Inn) | 8x 16-28 fl | proposed
Post: RE: Drewlo Waterloo (née Waterloo Motor Inn) | 8x ...

taylortbb Wrote: (03-04-2024, 05:28 PM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (03-04-2024, 02:14 PM) -- They have just allowed developers to plan competing poorly thought-out sites that will be disconnected from th...
  ijmorlan Suburbs 69 35,955 03-04-2024, 06:57 PM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region

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  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,163,834 02-29-2024, 10:42 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-28-2024, 10:31 AM) -- I kinda figured this would be the timeframe...honestly...but I'm a cynic. I think a separated line doesn't make much sense. Cambridge just by itself...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,125 688,481 02-28-2024, 11:33 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-23-2024, 01:16 PM) -- And there are also multiple links in the security chain here...lets say the bus driver is paid off to stop and pickup someone who hasn't gone through s...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 02-23-2024, 08:34 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

SammyOES Wrote: (02-23-2024, 03:14 PM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (02-23-2024, 12:44 PM) -- That being said, it’s not hard to come up with a scenario: the bus driver could be compromised. Now of course anyb...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 02-23-2024, 08:20 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-23-2024, 02:41 AM) -- I'm very much confused as to what you think "could happen" that the bus operator wouldn't notice. I think they'd notice if someone boarded the bus, and...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 02-23-2024, 12:44 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

cherrypark Wrote: (02-23-2024, 11:43 AM) -- Fun exercise: do a business case for vehicle users paying the full value per kilometer of their road use and expansion. Imagine the furor if Doug said ...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,968 1,154,895 02-23-2024, 12:16 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-22-2024, 03:52 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (02-22-2024, 12:45 AM) -- The idea of having the bus be pre-cleared is absolutely insane. But then again, since airplane security is m...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 02-22-2024, 10:10 PM
  Thread: General University Area Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours

danbrotherston Wrote: (02-22-2024, 04:04 AM) -- I know folks at the city have candidly told me how problematic they found the University as a partner...certainly the bus station situation confirms th...
  ijmorlan University Area 400 444,568 02-22-2024, 09:57 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

SammyOES Wrote: (02-21-2024, 11:35 PM) -- I think the only real reason to have the bus start at YKF is if the goal really is to get permission to do security here and skip it at Pearson.  That could ...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 02-22-2024, 12:45 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF

KevinL Wrote: (02-21-2024, 01:37 PM) -- Air Canada is making connections to both YKF and Hamilton from Pearson, by way of 'luxury motor coach' routes. https://www.waterlooairport.ca/Modules/News/inde...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,101,154 02-21-2024, 02:05 PM
  Thread: Walking in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Walking in Waterloo Region

KevinL Wrote: (02-20-2024, 03:05 PM) -- Yes, many things defineable as 'family cars' have specific regulations around them (which adds expense to design and manufacturing). By making vehicles not des...
  ijmorlan Transportation and Infrastructure 1,401 1,163,834 02-20-2024, 11:33 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

creative Wrote: (02-20-2024, 06:32 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (02-20-2024, 06:08 PM) -- The gardener expressway east project. -- I thought that the province took over responsibility for the Gard...
  ijmorlan Urban Areas 402 84,934 02-20-2024, 06:51 PM
  Thread: Conestoga College
Post: RE: Conestoga College

ac3r Wrote: (02-20-2024, 05:46 PM) -- It's insane that he just throw around comments like this and not get immediately fired. … -- I have to admit, I laughed when I saw that it was you that wrote t...
  ijmorlan Waterloo Region Economy 7 586 02-20-2024, 06:50 PM
  Thread: What does DTK need?
Post: RE: What does DTK need?

Bytor Wrote: (02-17-2024, 06:46 PM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (02-17-2024, 06:23 PM) -- I think well-off people who have the ability to run a business will think carefully about the penalties, and are like...
  ijmorlan Urban Issues 176 20,819 02-17-2024, 09:32 PM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C

CP42 Wrote: (02-17-2024, 01:18 PM) -- Square Wrote: (02-17-2024, 07:48 AM) -- Wonder why they are building the forms already?  Don't they have like 2 or 3 floors to go for the parking podium? -- A...
  ijmorlan Urban Areas 1,667 968,789 02-17-2024, 06:33 PM

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