(06-07-2020, 08:41 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Just walked past in Ion station, and heard the message that the train service is suspended between Grand River hospital and fairway mall, seems like a very large disruption, anyone know what's going on.

(06-07-2020, 09:01 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Very strange, the message is still playing, and we see replacement buses running, but southbound trains are still going past

(06-07-2020, 09:51 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:

(06-07-2020, 09:01 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Very strange, the message is still playing, and we see replacement buses running, but southbound trains are still going past

At Grand River Hospital? If so, they could be reversing at KCI.

(06-07-2020, 10:26 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: No, they were running through DTK.

Now the message has changed, to "minor delays" but I've hardly seen any LRVs.

Very strange, it seems related to the shooting last night, but there is no apparent reason that should be causing delays or detours like this. Buses have been detoured (apparently there was a GO bus trying to navigate Eby and Church Sts.) but the tracks are not blocked.

(06-07-2020, 01:42 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:

(06-07-2020, 10:26 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: No, they were running through DTK.

Now the message has changed, to "minor delays" but I've hardly seen any LRVs.

Very strange, it seems related to the shooting last night, but there is no apparent reason that should be causing delays or detours like this. Buses have been detoured (apparently there was a GO bus trying to navigate Eby and Church Sts.) but the tracks are not blocked.

Sounds like maybe you caught the end of the disruption. Do you know if the regular traffic lanes of Charles St. were closed? Just speculating, but I can imagine that after shooting they might scan for evidence and wouldn’t want traffic of any kind going through the area where they are looking. If it’s just the LRT then I’m stumped.

(06-11-2020, 03:21 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Is there a list of low-cost housing that has been lost due to LRT-related development?  I don't think WRC has a gentrification thread.   In Kitchener, the losses seem to me to be fairly limited so far, but I haven't been paying a lot of attention.  There have been a few renovations in DTK, which I suppose would be in the category of "gentrification" (perhaps more than I realized?).  There is also the move of One Roof Youth Services, I suppose.  On the other side, I'm not aware of any proposals for new public housing, new co-ops, or rent-geared-to-income projects in the Downtown area.

Thinking about it, I guess the renovation of the Windemere Apartments at 48 Weber St W would be DTK's biggest example of a gentrification project to date.

(06-11-2020, 04:37 PM)If tomh009 Wrote:

(06-11-2020, 03:21 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Is there a list of low-cost housing that has been lost due to LRT-related development?  I don't think WRC has a gentrification thread.   In Kitchener, the losses seem to me to be fairly limited so far, but I haven't been paying a lot of attention.  There have been a few renovations in DTK, which I suppose would be in the category of "gentrification" (perhaps more than I realized?).  There is also the move of One Roof Youth Services, I suppose.  On the other side, I'm not aware of any proposals for new public housing, new co-ops, or rent-geared-to-income projects in the Downtown area.

Thinking about it, I guess the renovation of the Windemere Apartments at 48 Weber St W would be DTK's biggest example of a gentrification project to date.

270 Spadina and the Cedar St apartments have also both been renovated. Does that automatically make them gentrified?

As for ROOF, they indicated that their preference was to relocate a little bit away from the downtown core (but still transit-accessible).

(06-11-2020, 05:07 PM)panamaniac Wrote:

(06-11-2020, 04:37 PM)If tomh009 Wrote: 270 Spadina and the Cedar St apartments have also both been renovated. Does that automatically make them gentrified?

As for ROOF, they indicated that their preference was to relocate a little bit away from the downtown core (but still transit-accessible).

Yes, I thought that One Roof’s move was probably a good move.   270 Spadina certainly seemed like an upgrade, but not related to LRT, istm.  I suppose that, any time somebody buys and renovates a home in the core, it could be considered “gentrification”, especially if it had previously been a more modest rental.  I guess all the new towers in DTK are examples of gentrification, even when nobody is diplaced by the project.