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05-15-2013, 12:25 PM
I would have to believe it's being done largely in response to the popularity of other messenger products, like KIK and WhatsApp.* BBM is arguably...
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05-09-2013, 12:34 PM
The green portion appears to be City Centre, I believe. Charles Street terminal on the right, and Kitchener City Hall in the bottom left.
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04-24-2013, 09:35 PM
Confirmation bias.
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04-19-2013, 02:38 PM
The point isn't that the location doesn't hold value, or that it wouldn't be an appealing place to live for some, but that the typologies of the...
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04-15-2013, 09:55 PM
I like the idea of crowdfunding. It would probably take an organization popping up, registering as a charity, getting serious donations, then giving...
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03-23-2013, 12:54 PM
I am not making this up: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/11/13/tor-glass-walled-condos.html
For a response to cbc's story:...
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03-11-2013, 10:56 PM
Whether or not this development has what you think it should depends on what you consider is "Every day necessities". The real problem here is the...
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03-09-2013, 10:38 AM
I also am glad there is no glass curtain to this building. Heat loss and transfer leads to the failing of glass curtains, which also means they're...
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03-09-2013, 10:30 AM
You are correct. One of the biggest supporters of the Church is a large developer. I also believe this developer/church built the large apartment...
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02-24-2013, 10:16 PM
And many others. The entire building, less a retail space or two, is pretty-well full.
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02-22-2013, 09:54 AM
To provide some supporting context, downtown King Street supports heavy traffic volume throughout the day, and crush volume at rush hours. However,...
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02-03-2013, 09:57 AM
Cost, vandalism, perceived risk of assault leading to reduced pedestrian access or (now even more) unsafe at-grade crossings, real risk of assault...
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01-29-2013, 09:39 AM
What would be the particular difficulty in matching an addition to the original structure? Why would creating a successful contrasting structure be...
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01-26-2013, 11:24 PM
The current incarnations of the King Centre and Market Square are far more active than either ever were as shopping malls. If I'm choosing between...
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01-24-2013, 02:46 PM
Here's a video walk-through of the building, which also spends some time highlighting this space as a site for potential activity and community...
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01-24-2013, 10:15 AM
You're basically describing King Street. The renovations to the street shouldn't be thought of as a static project or as being complete. The...
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01-22-2013, 10:30 PM
LRT will run along its own dedicated right of way, and cross intersections at-grade in mixed traffic, where it will be given signal priority.
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01-22-2013, 03:08 PM
If I'm reading the situation correctly, most aren't saying that transit funding is sacred. Rather, a good deal of the disbelief and outrage stemming...
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01-20-2013, 12:53 PM
Looking at Buffalo's light rail line strictly as a piece of transportation infrastructure, it actually performs very well. I believe it's daily...
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01-17-2013, 03:59 PM
Outlet malls in Halton may be a bit beyond the scope of Wonderful Waterloo. As mentioned above, this discussion might be better had over at Urban...
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01-11-2013, 11:05 AM
This is a pretty comprehensive list, broken into categories, that should be of some use: http://www.wonderfulwaterloo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
If...
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01-10-2013, 02:50 PM
You could just as easily call it the Charles Line or Hespler Line, and it would be equally as accurate.
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01-08-2013, 10:20 AM
I do. Always.
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01-08-2013, 10:17 AM
A majority of residents are in favour of some form of rapid transit, as opposed to the alternative of just an improved standard bus network (the...
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01-07-2013, 08:33 PM
The iXpress brand has problems worth fixing before it's extended. For instance:
- the unconventional spelling means that the brand is diminished...
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01-07-2013, 08:12 PM
This is actually part of my point: it's difficult to even begin to evaluate the quality of the branding of any individual line without first...
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01-07-2013, 05:25 PM
In the past, I've promoted a The Rapid/The Local binary branding strategy that I'd like to bump here again, while it's especially relevant.
The...
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01-07-2013, 04:21 PM
I ate at a Famoso during a trip through Edmonton this summer, and the food was fine. Nothing as special as Bread Heads, but perfectly passable. The...
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01-06-2013, 09:44 PM
This isn't appropriate, or productive. There are plenty of places on the internet to insult people, and goad them into fights. This isn't one of them.
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01-05-2013, 02:05 PM
Most already call it the LRT. This has the added bonus of letting people know that it's an LRT, and gets away from the completely counterproductive...
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01-04-2013, 11:11 PM
Toronto Raptors...
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01-04-2013, 10:28 PM
The individual names aside, I think it says a great deal that under "What Are We Branding?," there's no mention of the GRT network. It's unsurprising...
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12-30-2012, 01:03 PM
Promote away. Unofficially (for now, and I would wager officially within the next couple of years), the reconstruction of King Street is designed to...
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12-30-2012, 11:15 AM
A small detail: The Region owns and controls King Street. :RpS_ohmy:, which means speeds are controlled by the Region. I'm not sure the details of...
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12-09-2012, 07:12 PM
Linear districts are also incredibly easy to service with transit, something that becomes a great deal more difficult in your ideal tic-tac-toe...
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12-09-2012, 06:07 PM
Why is that? What about places like Arlington, in Washington, DC? It's one of the most successful urban places in that entire region, and it's also...
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11-30-2012, 09:04 PM
I believe 50% sold out on first weekend.
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11-27-2012, 08:59 PM
Galt needs more skyscrapers so they can be looked at from the tops of other skyscrapers? I think Galt really needs more people; they generally tend...
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11-27-2012, 08:24 PM
A grocery store looks to currently be permitted in the "C4-25" zone applied to the University shops plaza (both sides of Philip St), and the "C6-25"...
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11-24-2012, 08:00 PM
You're right about fixer-uppers. That is the main challenge with older homes. We have put about $20 k into our house to update it. We could put...
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11-24-2012, 07:26 PM
Its my perspective that local condos, at $350 or 430/ft2 as "Jay" recounted above, don't compete well with older homes in stable neighbourhoods...
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11-24-2012, 08:35 AM
I dont get the condo market here. In the GTA, homes are more expensive such that there is not such a large spread between homes and condos. Here, you...
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11-24-2012, 08:21 AM
We need a time machine to see this site play out! This could be a game-changer for downtown Kitchener! I would assume the site will take more than 10...
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11-24-2012, 08:12 AM
Me too. Unfortunately, I have a hard time seeing something beyond a very marginal use (though at $1.2 Million, no marginal use will be moving in),...
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