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  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
westwardloo Wrote: (04-16-2024, 09:31 AM) -- Looks like this one has been approved.  I still have my doubts this will ever come to fruition, but here's hoping.  I do think that victoria street has...
   SF22 Urban Areas 79 5,571 04-16-2024, 11:15 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-16-2024, 01:13 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (04-15-2024, 02:17 PM) -- UP Express is crowded? That's at least good news, given how slow the start was for this service. -- My cowor...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,867 04-16-2024, 09:05 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
Ontario announcement for GO train expansion: https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004441/ontario-expanding-go-train-service-across-the-greater-toronto-area -starts on April 28 -adding more than 300 tr...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,867 04-15-2024, 01:35 PM
  Thread: Amalgamation
Post: RE: Amalgamation
neonjoe Wrote: (04-12-2024, 12:00 PM) -- A small tidbit in the April 10 Cutting Red Tape news release that may have been overlooked. The province will be removing all planning powers from the upper ...
   SF22 Urban Issues 446 218,493 04-12-2024, 02:18 PM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
I've definitely seen an older man going in/out of 570 Frederick before, and there's often a car parked on that lot too, so I assumed that someone was potentially living there. Either way, good to h...
   SF22 Suburbs 1,207 942,942 04-12-2024, 09:22 AM
  Thread: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Suburban Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (04-11-2024, 01:48 PM) -- A small mixed use project is proposed for 570 Frederick Street (Frederick and Bruce intersection, just near the highway exits). It'll be 3 floors containing comm...
   SF22 Suburbs 1,207 942,942 04-11-2024, 02:03 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
ijmorlan Wrote: (04-11-2024, 12:24 PM) -- ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 10:23 PM) -- Then I remember we just closed schools because we think children are too stupid to not look at the sun and we call any...
   SF22 Urban Areas 148 30,896 04-11-2024, 12:46 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
tomh009 Wrote: (04-10-2024, 01:37 PM) -- SF22 Wrote: (04-09-2024, 04:10 PM) -- Looking through the 2024 Preliminary Budget document, and there is a line item for 'Rolling Stock LRT Future Vehicles" ...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,798 04-10-2024, 02:10 PM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
I've walked across the Northfield bridge a few times, and good lord is it bleak. I can't imagine having to walk it twice a day to catch the train. I definitely wouldn't bike this stretch; I think all ...
   SF22 Urban Areas 173 30,932 04-10-2024, 11:05 AM
  Thread: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3-35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Kraus Development (525-565 Conestogo Road) | 3...
"Pedestrian bridge proposed over the Waterloo expressway dies before its time" https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/pedestrian-bridge-proposed-over-the-waterloo-expressway-dies-before-its-t...
   SF22 Urban Areas 173 30,932 04-10-2024, 10:06 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Looking through the 2024 Preliminary Budget document, and there is a line item for 'Rolling Stock LRT Future Vehicles" with $70,000,000 earmarked for 2029-2033, so we can reasonably expect additional ...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,510,798 04-09-2024, 04:10 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/...
These just look like every other Drewlo building in the area. They're nothing special to look at, but as someone who lived in the Drewlo towers on Wilson Ave for 3 years, they have spacious units and ...
   SF22 Urban Areas 780 428,630 04-09-2024, 09:33 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-08-2024, 01:36 PM) -- SF22 Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:10 AM) -- Okay, but WHAT IF instead of widening Victoria to make space for the LRT where there's only two lanes, we tunnel...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,491 04-09-2024, 09:27 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
ZEBuilder Wrote: (04-08-2024, 11:51 AM) -- SF22 Wrote: (04-08-2024, 11:04 AM) -- Oh, here's something from Engage WR with a map of 'proposed regional intensification corridors' https://www.engagewr....
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,491 04-08-2024, 11:58 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Oh, here's something from Engage WR with a map of 'proposed regional intensification corridors' https://www.engagewr.ca/regional-official-plan/maps/proposed-regional-intensification-corridors EDIT: A...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,491 04-08-2024, 11:04 AM
  Thread: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
Post: RE: Station Park | 18, 28, 36, 40, 50 fl | U/C
It would be nice if a pedestrian/cycle tunnel got built under the tracks to connect Station Park/the Walter St neighbourhood with the cycle lanes on Joseph, and then downtown/Victoria Park area a litt...
   SF22 Urban Areas 1,672 979,785 04-08-2024, 09:31 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:12 AM) -- It would be nice, but I doubt they'd be willing to spend the money to do that. But isn't Ottawa the preferred street to use for a third line anyways? -- I b...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,491 04-08-2024, 09:16 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-06-2024, 02:15 AM) -- plam Wrote: (04-06-2024, 12:51 AM) -- I wonder if having 4 lanes now makes a future LRT on Victoria easier. Probably not. Anyway I do appreciate the s...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,491 04-08-2024, 09:10 AM
  Thread: Frederick (197 Frederick St) | 10 fl | proposed
Post: RE: Frederick (197 Frederick St) | 10 fl | propose...
Rumour for this site is that progress has slowed because sales have slowed (I've been seeing a ton of ads for it on IG lately, so that tracks), and they're still working towards final site approval wi...
   SF22 Urban Areas 48 10,555 04-05-2024, 10:42 AM
  Thread: Trails
Post: RE: Trails
Definitely some gaps in that trail, at the moment! Seems like this might be a decent bit of trail when it's done, especially since it'll be off busy Victoria St, with the opportunity to do a bit of tr...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 2,700 1,590,922 04-05-2024, 10:40 AM
  Thread: 300 King St W | 50, 55 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 300 King St W | 50, 55 fl | Proposed
I was under the impression that Tony diBattista still owned most of this block. Maybe this is his project? Honestly he owns like half of King St between Water and Ontario. If this pans out, it migh...
   SF22 Urban Areas 25 1,183 03-28-2024, 12:07 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
The only way I can support new road connections is with the explicit goal to improve direct through-lines for transit. For example, reconnecting River Rd with Riverbend Dr with a two-lane street inste...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 4,325 3,227,615 03-28-2024, 11:59 AM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
ac3r Wrote: (03-27-2024, 01:16 PM) -- 2030? So, more realistically 2050. -- I mean, one of the groups putting together a proposal is the same team that built Montreal's REM, and look how fast they ...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 296 189,617 03-27-2024, 01:41 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail
Mid-2030s is WAY sooner than I would have expected! It seems like we're finally taking HFR/HSR seriously in this country for once. I would visit Montreal for long weekend trips several times a year, i...
   SF22 Transportation and Infrastructure 296 189,617 03-27-2024, 01:07 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
ZEBuilder Wrote: (03-26-2024, 09:55 PM) -- Lebronj23 Wrote: (03-26-2024, 09:34 PM) -- Wowzers! ZE where did you find this? ^ -- I've been digging through all the public comment documents for Growi...
   SF22 Urban Areas 5,575 3,947,165 03-27-2024, 11:42 AM
  Thread: Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Charles Place | 25, 32, 34, 36, 40, 46, and 46...
Where did you find this one? It's wild how much high-rise development is earmarked for that stretch of King/Weber between Stirling and Montgomery.
   SF22 Urban Areas 12 520 03-27-2024, 11:39 AM

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