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  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:58 PM) -- timc Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:35 PM) -- I don't know if replacing the Freeport bridge is desirable. It is a heritage bridge, "widely recognized as the ...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 4,321 3,225,506 5 hours ago
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (Yesterday, 06:19 PM) -- I’m not questioning the numbers. But questioning why. all other cohorts are stable or rising and only that one is shrinking. I found that odd.  And y...
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 5 hours ago
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:48 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (04-16-2024, 02:45 PM) -- Which part of the population data do you think is weird? For sure, the population is aging, so the 60+ age gro...
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 Yesterday, 11:33 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-16-2024, 01:33 AM) -- That's some weird population data...but the more interesting is the increase in labour participation for older people. That's not a good thing, but it ...
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 04-16-2024, 02:45 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
creative Wrote: (04-15-2024, 12:32 PM) -- I often wonder what the real unemployment rate might be. To my knowledge, we don’t count individuals who have exhausted their unemployment and don’t find wor...
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 04-15-2024, 02:27 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
UP Express is crowded? That's at least good news, given how slow the start was for this service.
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,058 04-15-2024, 02:17 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
About 500K permanent residents per year. Non-permanent ones generally leave once their work permits expire so you can't really count all of those.
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 04-14-2024, 02:54 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Variedad Latina appears to be closed--due to non-payment of rent, based on the signage at the door.
   tomh009 Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,302 2,024,267 04-13-2024, 01:06 PM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-11-2024, 11:01 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (04-11-2024, 10:49 AM) -- Immense cultural destruction? Seriously? -- Immense environmental destruction...yes...absolutely serious. ...
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 04-11-2024, 01:47 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 08:51 PM) -- I missed this bit of Peak Conservatism so I had to share it in case anyone else also missed this: https://twitter.com/OntarioPCParty/status/1777396449044496486 -...
   tomh009 Politics 462 174,635 04-11-2024, 10:50 AM
  Thread: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
Post: RE: Farmland conversion and landfill sites
danbrotherston Wrote: (04-11-2024, 09:15 AM) -- It isn't "jobs" that are being opposed here, it's the immense environmental and cultural destruction that you are willing to suffer in order to bring t...
   tomh009 Politics 133 2,770 04-11-2024, 10:49 AM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
cherrypark Wrote: (04-10-2024, 09:31 PM) -- Don't let your memories remain in the past. Your reality is one hole saw and a cordless drill away. -- Easier yet: hold a phone over the top of the fence...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 148 30,851 04-10-2024, 10:13 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Looks like it'll be a white box. :) But I'm actually more interested in knowing whether it's a SFH or a something-plex.
   tomh009 Urban Areas 1,237 985,275 04-10-2024, 10:11 PM
  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...
BT is officially moving in. Maybe next month or June? The coolers have already been delivered.
  tomh009 Urban Areas 224 118,880 04-10-2024, 07:35 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
And this one is on Union St E as well, although I can't remember the number, nor can I find it in Waterloo's building permit database. Design and development by NEO.
  tomh009 Urban Areas 1,237 985,275 04-10-2024, 07:32 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
24 Union St E. A nice mid-rise infill building. Is it the red "brick" panels that makes it look nicer?
  tomh009 Urban Areas 1,237 985,275 04-10-2024, 07:31 PM
  Thread: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 15 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: Lower Kitchener (534 Charles St E) | 32, 27, 1...
This is construction fencing, not just for demolition, so I have to believe that they will start this as soon as demolition is done.
  tomh009 Urban Areas 148 30,851 04-10-2024, 07:27 PM
  Thread: The Junction | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: The Junction | 37 & 33 fl | Proposed
Going, going, gone!
  tomh009 Urban Areas 133 37,428 04-10-2024, 07:25 PM
  Thread: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 236 Victoria St N | 40 & 35 fl | Proposed
Maybe they were offered a very attractive rate for five years, which made it worthwhile (and made the payback period shorter).
   tomh009 Urban Areas 68 5,109 04-10-2024, 06:29 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
ac3r Wrote: (04-10-2024, 05:55 PM) -- And why is there soooo much blank wall? Just use bigger windows! If you're going to paint the entire thing grey, at least give the residents bigger windows for m...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 1,237 985,275 04-10-2024, 06:27 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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" with $70,000,000 earmarked for 2029-2033, ...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,497,932 04-10-2024, 01:37 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/...
Barbaric! 😮
   tomh009 Urban Areas 780 428,339 04-08-2024, 05:53 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
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 the LRT for that section between Walnut and Lawr...
   tomh009 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,222,062 04-08-2024, 12:58 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/...
ac3r Wrote: (04-08-2024, 09:10 AM) -- My god it's ugly. -- I really don't think it's any worse than DTK.
   tomh009 Urban Areas 780 428,339 04-08-2024, 12:56 PM
  Thread: 45 Courtland St E | 6 fl | Proposed
Post: RE: 45 Courtland St E | 6 fl | Proposed
Square Wrote: (04-08-2024, 01:38 AM) -- KingandWeber Wrote: (04-07-2024, 10:30 PM) -- Bummer. Doesn’t that zoning only allow them to build two more storeys? I find it weird that that would justify s...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 28 7,826 04-08-2024, 12:54 PM
  Thread: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Waterloo Updates and Rumours
tomh009 Wrote: (08-01-2022, 04:14 PM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (05-21-2022, 02:37 PM) -- A nice expansion of an existing three-storey apartment at 144 Lucan Ave, at the intersection of the Spur Line Trail ...
   tomh009 Urban Areas 1,237 985,275 04-05-2024, 10:31 PM

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