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Decadence? Cultural/moral decline? In the early 20'th century buildings were seen as symbols of a company's power and influence...

Yes, it does have a tinge of that. Using Union Station as an example - does "greatness" meant building something like the old...

Yes, we did build great things in the past, when our nation was young(er) and the broader Western world was not yet in decadent...

I'm kidding. Toronto doesn't have it in its soul to do "audacious bold visioning" - it goes against the City's core programming. We feed...

So they can tear down this theatre, but not the ugly Union train shed? I just don't get it.

They quietly dropped those a while ago, unless they brought them back again recently, though I haven’t heard anything about it...

A better comparison would be Toronto's inability to implement signal priority, which works well in other places but is contrary to the...

Quite right! If it were a Metrolinx report, it would read "We can neither confirm, nor deny that we have any ongoing construction...

Yeah that was my point a couple pages back. It's one thing to bungle a huge transformative effort like electrification and new vehicle...

I would nitpick a little - the province has bungled the execution of a transformation, for which electrification is a vital enabler, but...

I guess transparency is good?

relevant xkcd

I dunno, I'm just not thrilled by this particular facadectomy. I dunno if matching the colour of the brick would have helped. But U of T...

Please do.

This is true and while I know a lot of people want electrification for many reasons (environmental, speed and frequency, keeping up with...