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I totally get that and appreciate some of the technical considerations that make this stuff complex as @darwink summarized well. Of course, Ontario's Presto isn't going to win any awards for cost-effective and timely execution - but if it's always that complicated, overly expensive and with...

Yeah that part is all good, we’ve saved some money and are future-proofed … but also it’s 2025 and it’s a transit system for a city approaching 2 million people. When are we just going to live in the present and start acting like a contemporary transit agency that’s actually interested in...

Presto in Ontario is exactly that - can use the same card in Ottawa or the many various Toronto area transit agencies. There's some technicalities to figure it all out - but it's hardly new tech and it's 2025 - common fare card systems have been done the all over the world at provincial and...

Maybe it has something to do with methodologies of Statscan and others to create this data, but the same dataset that we've been talking about says the net number of non-permanent residents is down nearly 30,000 in Q4 2024. So Statscan data doesn't align with the article. Whether or not that...

Depending on how low those non-permanent resident numbers go, we seem likely to be entering a period of pretty small provincial growth (although for now at least, still relatively high compared to other provinces). The dramatic collapse of non-permanent immigration numbers is just beginning so...

For a brand-new place that's high but not outrageously so, particularly for a suite that includes in-suite laundry and air conditioning. It's been a while since I rented, but I recall both being rare features in older buildings and they always command a premium. My preference was always older...

I have always liked this proposal - simple with a good podium, just a competent looking tower making it seem easy. It would be really funny and amazingly petty if this was actually the reason they stalled the project for 9 years.

Will be interesting to see how the airport transborder trips start to decline and to what degree. The land border has seen a sharp pull-back, to well below the pre-COVID trend line. Article mentions trips in Feb 2025 on land border were down to 80% of what they were pre-COVID. That's a big drop...

Awesome news! Any rumours on the future tenants?

Probably every street could use an underpass in practice for vehicles and/or pedestrians. Pedestrians will benefit the most from additional crossings as they have such a high time penalty to go to another underpass. There's obvious benefit to drivers too, but less as drivers aren't as impacted...

I think that's the opportunity. If you are going to spend tens of billions of dollars, might as well learn something along the way through the jobs, skills and tech required to build advanced planes. Perhaps position a domestic jet program as the stepping stone to a more high-tech plane and...

I think this is the key issue with this debate people keep skipping over- cost v. Benefit. If a minimum width pedestrian/cycle underpass costs a few million, but a vehicle one costs $20M is it worth it? What about $100M? When does the cost outweigh the vehicle access benefit? 11th Street can...

If you were to tell me that the inner city would have this many new grocery stores 20 years ago I would have said that’s wildly ambitious. This is awesome!

11th is fine either way - open or closed to vehicles. I don't really see the park working out, but with some clever design, anything is possible. The local population is incredibly high so you will get a ton of use of any public space as long as it's safe, well-lit and programmed well to support...

Big expensive planes are really three things: Fighter jets as a national security tool Fighter jets as an industrial policy tool Fighter jets as a trade policy tool Obviously we want the best jets money can buy as a weapon. Some plane nerds can tell use exactly what the "best" means as it's...

Possibly. I suggest it's equally likely we'd go the other way - nationalism and massive economic change are convalescing around an infrastructure investment mandate that means we no longer need an Olympics to help align everyone to build those mega-projects.

These boring designs are good ones to nit-pick materials and ground floor treatment. This random building in Chicago is approximately the same size and shape, but looks better due to bricks and a more urban ground floor. Size is fine, big blocky buildings can be attractive. Just needs to focus...

The longer this goes on, the more I think they really don't care about how unpopular tariffs are, internationally or domestically. There's probably some truth to the idea they want to use tariffs to pay for stuff like further tax cuts, but I also think they really do believe their own "American...

I actually would have thought the tariff policy would deviate based on how much he hates on us, and apparently respects the Mexican PM, but that really hasn't happened. I think we get a few more angry tweets, but that's the only material different tariff approach. Trump's tariffs on Mexico and...

That random sloppy asphalt curb patch job has been a street feature since at least 2009 according to Streetview.