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• City plan at crossroads [ National Post ]
• Proposal for prime site spurs controversy [ Toronto Star ]
• Post-fire fence shuts park-lovers out [ Toronto Star ]
• MP Pushes For High-Speed Rail Link [ National Post ]
• TTC removing illegal billboard [ Toronto Star ]
• Minto towers still cast shadow over area [ National Post ]
• Be friendly or be fined [ Metro ]
• Not all sidewalks created equal [ Toronto Star ]

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  3. The abandoned TTC bus platforms at Yonge/Eglinton would make a perfect site for a midtown indoor food market like St. Lawrence Market.

  4. For the record, I think that a “sign promoting transit” is the kind of thing that should be distracting 401 drivers. IllegalSigns.ca did not file a complaint against the Transit City sign on the illegal billboard on Bridgeland Avenue; we filed a complaint against the billboard itself; the Transit City copy was brought to our attention by The Star.

    Giambrone’s office deserves credit for acting quickly. His office and the MTO should investigate legal ways to promote public transit to 410 drivers, much like it is promoted on the Allan Expressway, a City road. I think we need to see more Transit City billboards not less.

  5. Interesting news day. As someone who grew up near Y+E, whose parents still live nearby and whose brother just moved to the area, I’m very interested in that intersection. What was once a bleak 70s mess of concrete has improved nicely in recent years, and I rather liked peering up at Minto last month while walking on residential streets to the SE. The only problem with Minto is that it is too squat — the architecture should have been much taller, as originally intended.

    Walker has some sort of mental block when it comes to tall buildings. Fixating on height is not the way to ensure good development — in fact, if you just end up with a line of squat 40 storey towers you’ve made it much worse. (See Queens Quay around Harbor Square). And if you can’t build big on one of the city’s most vital transit intersections, why bother with transit at all? The man needs to be thrown out of office.

    Meanwhile, the high speed rail blurb is depressing. When Japan started high speed rail service, there was talk of Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal high speed rail service. When France started high speed rail service, there was talk of T-O-M. When Germany started high speed rail service, there was talk of T-O-M. When Britain started high speed rail, there was talk of T-O-M. And now that Italy started high speed rail service on Milan to Rome this week, of course there is again talk of T-O-M. I’m sick of talk. Sick!

  8. And most importantly, when the U.S starts high-speed rail service, Usky, our pols will be still talking about T-O-M.