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bearcat said:
Probably related to the metal plaques on the brick parts of the low fence behind them, they say "Charlton Settlement". There is also this at the other end of Verona Avenue: https://maps.app.goo.gl/tqnvRQL2nM24T6MH6?g_st=ac
I guess it's meant to be a "grand entrance" to the Charlton Settlement Subdivision north of there, where there is a road called Charlton Settlement Avenue.
Charleston Settlement Subdivision is mentioned here:


So sounds like whoever designed the landscaping for the subdivision thought this looked good.

I guess that's not really an explanation lol.

I tried Googling but I don't think Charlton Settlement is an actual historical settlement that was in the area or anything like that, as far as I can tell.
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That's as good an answer as any........

Though ....I'd still like a word with the L.A. .....

I don't mind pastiche, done well.........but its completely incompatible with the architectural style....if I might be so generous, on display.
 
Northern Light said:
That's as good an answer as any........

Though ....I'd still like a word with the L.A. .....

I don't mind pastiche, done well.........but its completely incompatible with the architectural style....if I might be so generous, on displ
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Actually, @Northern Light ,would you have any idea about the fate of the undeveloped part of this subdivision fronting Weston? It's just a large area of grass with some trees but doesn't appear to actually be a park. Looks like nothing was ever built there. Is this the part that was " block developed for a public park" that's mentioned in the PDF I linked from the city? Was this planned to be park someday?

P.S. It has this beautiful sales office before: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RaWkJkSxfhDXEG2x8?g_st=ac

Which seems to be the inspiration for the "logo" for the subdivision:

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bearcat said:
Actually, @Northern Light ,would you have any idea about the fate of the undeveloped part of this subdivision fronting Weston? It's just a large area of grass with some trees but doesn't appear to actually be a park. Looks like nothing was ever built there. Is this the part that was " block developed for a public park" that's mentioned in the PDF I linked from the city? Was this planned to be park someday?
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Not sure.

The City doesn't have the original site plan online that I can see.

It does have some amending agreements, but they are not pertinent to your question.


And earlier

 
Voltz said:
We would have been riding the first phase of the line 10 years ago if it was left in TTC hands.
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I'm sorry... what?

Even in the most optimistic timeline (and I do emphasize OPTIMISTIC), the Crosstown wouldn't have opened until at least 2020. That was David Miller's timeline as well. There is no universe where this thing opened in 2015.
 
ARG1 said:
I'm sorry... what?

Even in the most optimistic timeline (and I do emphasize OPTIMISTIC), the Crosstown wouldn't have opened until at least 2020. That was David Miller's timeline as well. There is no universe where this thing opened in 2015.
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Given the lengthy timeline even in a best case scenario, I wonder if the project could have been phased better to have brought some service online earlier. E.g. the surface section on its own, or perhaps Mount Denis to Cedervale rather than having to get the entire thing completed before it could open.
 
West Park Healthcare Centre is being redeveloped next to York Humber High School. Major part of the new hospital has been finished. Starting on the other parts. Having 2-way bus service to Mount Dennis Station of Line 5 better than the current 1-way bus to Eglinton West Station of Line 1.

From https://www.westpark.org/CampusDevelopment/About
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Kyle Campbell said:
This must be a strong candidate the longest project in North American transit history

Since the crosstown started, the ETS Valley Line, O-train Lines 1,2 and 4, the REM, LA's K Line, and Honolulu's Skyline have all been designed, built, and opened.
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more like in the whole wide world...
 
ARG1 said:
I'm sorry... what?

Even in the most optimistic timeline (and I do emphasize OPTIMISTIC), the Crosstown wouldn't have opened until at least 2020. That was David Miller's timeline as well. There is no universe where this thing opened in 2015.
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No.

Even as late as April 2009, the provincial backgrounder had a 2016 opening date for Eglinton - https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/5234/province-moving-transit-projects-forward

Other lines were 2013 for Finch (Yonge to Humber), and 2015 for the conversion of the SRT to LRT, and extension to Malvern. In May 2009 the province announced the Sheppard East LRT was expected to completed from Don Mills station to Conlins Road in 2013.

It wasn't until May 2010 that the Liberal government delayed all the projects by many years: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2012/cc/bgrd/CC20_1_app3_3.pdf

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And "deferred" a lot of the network to a future phase. Such as Eglinton west of Jane, Sheppard east of Morningside, SRT north of Sheppard, and the section of Finch from Finch West station to Don Mills station.

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One could argue the Ontario Line is the successor to the Queen St Streetcar tunnel, originally proposed in 1911, and then first built as the roughed-in East-West platform under Queen Station when the Yonge Line opened in 1954. Now to be fair, the OL won't use those platforms for trains (just as a circulation area IIRC). But if you do want to count it, in terms of the general concept of a subway under Queen St, assuming a 2031 opening date, that would be 120 years between initial proposals and being (hypothetically) finished, and 77 years between initial construction being done and full completion of the project.
 
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