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In the case of KWC and the LRT trains, I think we're going to be the tester track for Metrolinx, is what I was reading.

Three of the Zellers here in Brampton are being converted to Target. I don't think it'll be expansion. The power centre store and one of the mall stores all have huge chunks of their parking lots...

75 k so some people have work...

Third year of rapid transit project will see region considering names

Needles Hall isn't slated for an expansion, considering they're mulling over a new student centre-like complex on the east side of campus that will lift some of the things out of Needles Hall, like...

Hypothetical.

MPD618, point taken.

If GRT truly wishes to simplify the local system, shouldn't an Erb West bus stay on Erb Street completely, at least in one direction?

Run westbound to the roundabout, south to the Boardwalk, and...

Most likely, this will be crap housing.

The Uptown rental market has it's audience, and that is students and other renters who don't want crap (myself included).

It's...it's like a reverse tower-in-the-park (xD). Wish we could get some retail or something facing Philip St.

My favourite part of this whole debacle with Shortreed is they're asking ONE retired professor of UW. Why hasn't T4ST asked current and other UW profs, in civil, architecture, and planning, about...

QNC is never going to be finished. @UWaterloo's Twitter account gave me an update recently. Apparently it's going to be open by September 2012 now.

I'm sorry, but this is a shit show. They're off...

I think my favourite "bloop" is in the top render. The other mistakes are "fine."

But how does the station in the top render have an LRT on the fourth floor? :P

I might as well dump some of my LRT pictures from my trip to San Jose/San Francisco last year.

San Jose/VTA (Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority) uses these bulky high-floor LRVs:...

Can anyone tell me where the GO Bus leaves from at the Kitchener Rail station?

Toronto, and everywhere in this province for that matter, is only behind because public figures (read: mayors) can go in and scrap any plans without really anything. Planners can go in, do all the...

Depends on the enforcement level. When they opened the HOV lanes on the 403 in Mississauga, they heavily enforced it for a long period. They barely do it now, but the lane isn't congested really....

The Pearson train is also currently meant to be a downtown linker and expensive. xD

Keep in mind with the "Student plans" coming out of UW, we tend to get told information about future developments ahead of the curb. I wouldn't be surprised if they were told it was ending that...

I concur with New City, though, there's still a language barrier in the sense of the products offered. But everytime I walk into New City, it has the same sort of selection of stuff (and more) as a...

At UW, unless you live at St. Jerome's or Grebel, which are a few hundred combined, you can't anymore unless it's Spring Term. They're actually at capacity for residence for first years for Fall and...

I live behind the Waterloo Memorial Rec Centre. Really? Do they actually need that many lights on at night?

I've been on the Brampton-Kitchener part of the VIA route and I can sort of understand why it takes that long. There are part of the route that need to be regraded and/or rerouted. There's one...

As I promised...

A new vision for Northdale
Divyesh Mistry | Imprint | 11 Oct 2011 | LINK

Did anyone actually go to the Northdale meeting last night? I went, but will save the details for my article coming out tomorrow in Imprint. :P

There are 4 "official" stakeholders other than the...

Err, didn't Knox rebuilding their church because of RISINg attendance? Please take your biases away from this specific topic when it's the opposite.

I'm still waiting to see what GRT's university ad for campus newspapers is like, because they'll shed light on things further. We either haven't gotten them in, or since our ad manager is on...

I found these due to CPTDB, but GRT now has Fall schedules up on their site.

Interests: The 200 iXpress has the Victoria stop added! http://www.grt.ca/en/routesSchedules/resources/RT200.pdf
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Pardon my ignorance, but "alternate lifestyle friendly?" What's that supposed to mean? I thought we were past archaic silliness like that the region.

I've been four times since it opened. I used to be a regular at the one in Brampton and I only went once a week! Definitely becoming a regular at this one!

Does anybody know what the road construction near the Cambridge SmartCentres is for? I've passed it a couple of times due to the GO Bus (the last GO bus driver I had was intelligent and avoided the...

As somebody who is in the planning program at UW, I think I can suggest a reason why the PDF is so huge.

It's the PDF the groups gave to the printers to print out and make their huge poster...

According to the UW Twitter account:

The official grand opening of MC3, according to the person on the uWaterloo Twitter account is October 21st, but it's open for use before then.

The official grand opening of E6, according to the person on the uWaterloo Twitter account is October 26th, but it's open for use before then.

It's supposed to be open for Fall classes. It's says so if you look at the schedule of classes for UW.

The official grand opening of ENV3, according to the person on the uwaterloo Twitter account...

The room with the drop down power plugs is the new planning studio. It's so bright and airy and large. Can't wait to use it. :D

Yes, but I'm not sure why the university hasn't attempted to build higher. It makes them look silly when they build nothing by 4-5 storey boxes and then complain about space when they could...

KW simply does not have the infrastructure to deal with an event like PrideTO. As a marcher for the past two years, we wouldn't even be capable of hosting the parade based on what Yonge and Bloor...

David's Tea is honestly my favourite store on this planet.
The selection is way better than Teopia.

4 of those HUGE canvas bags. Walking from Kitchener Market. Taking the 7 back up to Waterloo.

The Pink Tie is usually kept up for two reasons: Convocation (which just passed) and Orientation Week.

We don't want it flying off like it did just before O-Week last year. xD

MC3 needs more pink. xD

Horrible Transit Ideas

In the same vein as the Megaproject thread, this one is more intended to be funny and let off some steam about what would be a horrible ideas for transit for the region.
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A blip from today's UW Daily Bulletin
http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2011/jun/22we.html

Except I do recall a planning professor suggest that most North America standards for road width are being built to California fire truck standards, which is lazy and ridiculous, considering not all...

Yeah, but only if WART was expanded to Guelph, Hamilton, and London. ;D

(BART is a REGIONAL subway system, with one line going through SF, the others stretching to Berkley and soon to San Jose).

Not saying it's bad, but that sounds exactly how Mississauga rebranded MT, except with the silly Mi in front of Local and Express.

I like Grand River Express. We could even have a different branding and put the Express Bus routes in the same category and branding as the LRT (since they'll both be express/rapid services). GREx...

Also soon to be the intersection of two BRT lines and the northern nexus of a future LRT line.

A paragraph of interest....

Feds VP Admin and Finance June 2011 Report: http://lists.feds.ca/pipermail/council/attachments/20110612/01e44e20/attachment.pdf


Two part fee increase? Oh dear.