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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
Politicians don’t treat transit seriously -> costs get inflated because of no serious oversight -> transit gets treated even less seriously -> repeat If the LRT to Cambridge actually costs $4B then...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,311 3,224,071 1 hour ago
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
timc Wrote: (Today, 10:24 AM) -- The longer things are delayed, the higher that number will go. -- Is it delayed or just making glacial progress, as planned?
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,311 3,224,071 4 hours ago
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
We're still taking the $4B number as the gospel around here?
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 4,311 3,224,071 Yesterday, 09:50 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I will add: until they tell us what the fuck this is actually for, it's an underhanded and shady thing that we shouldn't support. The contempt for the voter is apparent.
   bravado Politics 129 2,450 04-13-2024, 02:59 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
A new 700 acre housing development would be a financial liability and incur massive future costs on the city, all for short-term benefit in fees. A 700 acre industrial site (with actual projects atta...
   bravado Politics 129 2,450 04-13-2024, 01:58 PM
  Thread: Micromobility (bikeshare, scootershare)
Post: RE: Micromobility 2021+ (bikeshare, scootershare)
ac3r Wrote: (04-12-2024, 04:25 PM) -- Looks like they've started to get the Neuron scooters and bikes out. -- Yeah, somebody said this was the planned rollout week during the Bicycle Conference in ...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 67 12,425 04-12-2024, 05:03 PM
  Thread: Amalgamation
Post: RE: Amalgamation
I love the idea of “reducing municipal duplication” by maintaining 3 governments instead of 4.  How about 1?!?
   bravado Urban Issues 446 217,910 04-12-2024, 03:41 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I get it - if the current reality means governments giving out incentives to big companies to come here, then that’s a sad state of affairs. But it still actually is the current state and we better...
   bravado Politics 129 2,450 04-12-2024, 11:40 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
I have to disagree - there is harm in breaking the local government trust in protecting countryside, but the very large majority of voters will always pick a huge investment project that provides jobs...
   bravado Politics 129 2,450 04-11-2024, 10:33 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (04-10-2024, 02:30 PM) -- Honest question, how difficult would it be to modify the existing bridge to improve the pedestrian and cycling experience? If we just focused on the...
   bravado Urban Areas 173 30,889 04-10-2024, 02:39 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Either way, there’s no world in which city councillors are mediators or arbitrators for commercial leases. True incompetence and lack of leadership focus.
   bravado Urban Areas 65 4,833 04-10-2024, 10:36 AM
  Thread: 61-69 Ainslie Street South | 20+15fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 61-69 Ainslie Street South | 20+15fl | Propose...
https://i.imgur.com/waa7NZA.jpeg 800 years later progress continues to be glacial, possibly not perceptible by mere humans
   bravado Urban Areas 14 3,732 04-07-2024, 05:11 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-07-2024, 12:36 PM) -- FWIW...I emailed the staff and regional council on this issue. I got replies from two councillors, (Mayor McCabe and Councillor Williams). Not surpr...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,221,046 04-07-2024, 02:33 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Cambridge has 2 that I can remember quickly, separated by veg and non-veg: https://dakshin.ca
   bravado Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,302 2,023,319 03-31-2024, 03:44 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
If only there were municipal zoning tools to help small local retail thrive and not die all the time in wasteful plazas…
   bravado Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,302 2,023,319 03-30-2024, 12:17 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
danbrotherston Wrote: (03-27-2024, 02:59 PM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (03-27-2024, 01:44 PM) -- I think the main reason expropriation is going to take place here is due to the tight timeline. Honda or ...
   bravado Politics 129 2,450 03-27-2024, 03:17 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
I’m happy to hear it but my cynicism is dialled up to a million on this. Lowest hopes imaginable.
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 296 188,880 03-27-2024, 03:01 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
https://www.wrps.on.ca/en/news/waterloo-regional-police-investigating-a-serious-collision-involving-a-pedestrian-in-kitchener.aspx Another seriously injured pedestrian on a regional road. Vision Ze...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 601 187,876 03-27-2024, 07:25 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Schneider Family Lands donation to rare charit...
Pretty torn on this one - I work in manufacturing and I know a bit about the constraints, yet I also know that we are stuck in a race to the bottom for providing incentives to big companies vs other c...
   bravado Politics 129 2,450 03-26-2024, 01:19 PM
  Thread: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
Post: RE: Road design, safety and Vision Zero
https://www.wrps.on.ca/en/news/wrps-traffic-services-unit-investigating-serious-collision-involving-child-in-waterloo.aspx 9 year old boy hit by a driver in front of a Waterloo school and airlifted...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 601 187,876 03-26-2024, 01:01 PM
  Thread: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Springs Hotel) | 26, 24 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Spri...
Councillor Hamilton comments' have been summarized and I suspect they will reflect the arguments used in the OLT in a few months about this project: Quote: -- “The details of the revised motio...
   bravado Urban Areas 53 6,718 03-23-2024, 10:57 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
I really think the BC government seems to have taken the Ford government’s housing task force report and is enacting almost all of it. Their housing starts are up - but I don’t think the constant doom...
   bravado Urban Issues 177 25,155 03-21-2024, 10:28 AM
  Thread: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Post: RE: Housing shortfall, costs and affordability
Doug Ford finally says it out loud: he thinks that homeowners losing value is worse than people dying in tents and young people leaving the province. Also, it’s odd how the “fiscal conservatives” c...
   bravado Urban Issues 177 25,155 03-21-2024, 10:16 AM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Cynical answer: All these students will love it when they stop thinking creatively and learn to submit to the holy design manual in order to avoid any liability that comes from being creative and solv...
   bravado Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 697,606 03-21-2024, 09:25 AM
  Thread: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Springs Hotel) | 26, 24 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Spri...
It does sound like a lot of fun... get elected with no intention of ever winning re-election and see what "damage" you can do in that short time.
   bravado Urban Areas 53 6,718 03-20-2024, 01:29 PM
  Thread: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Springs Hotel) | 26, 24 & 22 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 102 Fountain Street South (former Preston Spri...
I'm looking forward to the OLT continuing their winning streak against the assholes on city council (except for Scott Hamilton, who is the only man with a conscience on council).
   bravado Urban Areas 53 6,718 03-20-2024, 10:22 AM

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