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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
I wonder if it would make more sense to have it go from Fairway Station to YKF? That feels more convenient to more people.
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,262,163 05-11-2024, 08:17 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
taylortbb Wrote: (04-27-2024, 04:01 PM) -- Many investors own multiple units -- And therein lies the rub. If somebody was that well off to be able to buy multiple condos or single-family houses,...
   Bytor Politics 111 20,997 04-30-2024, 03:03 PM
  Thread: Homer Watson Business Park. (Formerly JDP Business & Technology Park)
Post: RE: Homer Watson Business Park. (Formerly JDP Busi...
Depends on how big the tree gets. There's plenty of smaller trees that require minimal pruning to stay low.
   Bytor Suburbs 28 9,221 04-30-2024, 02:58 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
cherrypark Wrote: (04-29-2024, 09:43 AM) -- Bytor Wrote: (04-27-2024, 06:13 PM) -- If not, then there was no reason to do it this way, as there is plenty of already designated greenfield north of Ma...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-30-2024, 02:55 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
ac3r Wrote: (04-27-2024, 02:04 PM) -- No idea, but that doesn't imply that it was to hand over to a single large company. -- If not, then there was no reason to do it this way, as there is plenty o...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-27-2024, 06:13 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
panamaniac Wrote: (04-22-2024, 09:37 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (04-22-2024, 07:51 PM) -- Don't forget the history of the NDP and their origins. United Farmers helped spawn the Cooperative Commonwealth Fed...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-27-2024, 06:01 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
westwardloo Wrote: (04-22-2024, 08:11 AM) -- Interesting that a party that was once considered the Labour Party of canada is backing rural farmers (Typically Conservative Voters) instead of the thous...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-22-2024, 07:51 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
ac3r Wrote: (04-20-2024, 07:59 AM) -- Commies sure hate jobs huh? -- When you can't make a reasonable argument based on facts and logic, just start throwing insults, strawmen, and other logical fal...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-21-2024, 04:41 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
ac3r Wrote: (04-13-2024, 01:34 PM) -- For everyone saying we shouldn't help out companies coming to our region, would you say the same for tech? We provided many incentives for the plethora of tech c...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-13-2024, 02:37 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
ZEBuilder Wrote: (04-13-2024, 10:28 AM) -- Sure it is sprawl but the truth is there is no where to build something that large within the existing countryside line which would natural mean more sprawl...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-13-2024, 02:35 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
There are other areas near there, though, that are not being built already, which is kinda my point. We do not know if due diligence was done.
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-12-2024, 01:35 PM
  Thread: Amalgamation
Post: RE: Amalgamation
Great. More Sprawl. Context: Doug for only wants single-detached, not the missing middle. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-fourplexes-infrastructure-funding-1.7162251
   Bytor Urban Issues 446 221,961 04-12-2024, 01:31 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
panamaniac Wrote: (04-11-2024, 08:13 AM) -- I'm surprised that there would be much opposition to potentially thousands of well-paid manufacturing jobs.  Not the Kitchener I grew up in. -- Such that...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 04-12-2024, 01:26 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
SF22 Wrote: (04-09-2024, 09:27 AM) -- Only half-joking. You'd think that people in the residential areas would prefer a tunnelled LRT instead of an elevated one with all the noise and visual clutter ...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 3,137 2,248,184 04-10-2024, 01:28 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
SF22 Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:16 AM) -- 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...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 3,137 2,248,184 04-10-2024, 01:25 PM
  Thread: Conestoga College
Post: RE: Conestoga College
tomh009 Wrote: (03-29-2024, 03:21 PM) -- The cut turns out to be a bit more than my projection: over 50% rather than 35%. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/conestoga-student-visa-accept...
   Bytor Waterloo Region Economy 16 1,960 04-02-2024, 05:02 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
panamaniac Wrote: (03-29-2024, 09:33 AM) -- Again, expropriation for industrial land is not uncommon.  Nobody's breaking new ground here (so to speak). -- Just because it's not new does not make it...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 03-29-2024, 03:15 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Same old Waterloo Region planning — lip-service to pedestrian & cyclist safety but not where they actually interact with vehicles the most, because that would slow down the cars.
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 3,137 2,248,184 03-29-2024, 02:11 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
How many Vive proposals actually go through? (Serious question.)
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,589 3,999,874 03-29-2024, 01:42 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
westwardloo Wrote: (03-27-2024, 01:44 PM) -- Does is suck that a large multinational corporation can hold this much power? Yes ... but I understand that a lot of people prefer things to never change....
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 03-27-2024, 06:20 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
This article https://uwimprint.ca/article/hey-grt-where-are-the-bendy-buses/ claims that procurement was put off until 2027. Somebody cited it to me on reddit today, but this is the first I've heard o...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,339 3,262,163 03-26-2024, 06:59 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: General Township Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-26-2024, 02:56 PM) -- The community reaction - however misinformed and shortsighted it may be -- Why are you assuming that it is misinformed? A big part of the problem is that we...
   Bytor Politics 196 7,655 03-26-2024, 06:51 PM
  Thread: General Sports and Recreation News
Post: RE: General Sports and Recreation News
Seems kinda inaccessible by transit, all the way down there.
   Bytor Sports and Recreation 278 311,882 03-22-2024, 06:14 PM
  Thread: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
Civil engineering is kind of bizarre in that way, compared to other engineering fields. To get your P.Eng. you have to commit to essentially continuing education for your entire career, which you thin...
   Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,133 708,591 03-22-2024, 06:04 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (03-19-2024, 05:01 PM) -- Acitta Wrote: (03-19-2024, 02:55 PM) -- Today I learned after more than 22 years in Kitchener that "Huether" is properly pronounced "Heater" rather than "Hugh-t...
   Bytor Urban Areas 5,589 3,999,874 03-21-2024, 01:50 PM
  Thread: Growing Together (City of Kitchener)
Post: RE: Growing Together (City of Kitchener)
I still think this is wimping out by only applying it to MTSAs. Everything currently RES-x/R-x should be changed to SGA-1 at minimum. Intersections between local streets and major community coll...
   Bytor Urban Design 21 4,506 03-19-2024, 08:59 PM

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