xmyth_
Senior Member
Ugh. Do not speaketh of such. I’m still not convinced we don’t end up with a series of underground Therme spas and luxury donor built condos
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UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
...this project least has a degree of substance and necessity to it. How this was all tendered and vetted though is likely another thing.
aiekon
Active Member
Photos taken on Thursday, May 29th from The Globe and Mail building.
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‘This is the largest award of compensation that I have seen’: Metrolinx ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars more than what it first offered for Ontario Line site
The provincial transit agency had initially appraised the property in Corktown at $46 million — instead it was ordered to pay nearly double.
www.thestar.com
mburrrrr
Senior Member
The money just seems to flow/follow/funnel? the Porsche dealership sites. What do they have planned for the Polson St site in the next 10 years. Coincidences?‘This is the largest award of compensation that I have seen’: Metrolinx ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars more than what it first offered for Ontario Line site
The provincial transit agency had initially appraised the property in Corktown at $46 million — instead it was ordered to pay nearly double.
Selling nice cars seems like a side business.
junctionist
Senior Member
Or David Miller will come with the bulldozer shouting, "the money should be spent on LRTs!" I hate when new politicians mess with old transit plans. Just get what's planned built. Stop playing games. It only hurts the city.
DSCToronto
Superstar
i think owner is same guy (a doctor @ Sick Kids?) who also owns the empty (now surface parking lot for the dealers a bit north) just off Bayview @ King St. He may also own those sites too.
nightstreak
Active Member
I don't recall David Miller stopping ongoing transit projects. No rapid transit was planned or funded when he took over from Mel Lastman, In fact, it was Miller who set the stage for the transit development we're witnessing today. Toronto got a seat at the table as a city and he got Transit City fully funded. Rob Ford then cancelled it all and was convinced to build the Eglinton Crosstown — but only if more of it were tunnelled resulting in a redesign and the delay we're still dealing with today. We would have had LRTs running across the city and on Finch West and Sheppard East, up Jane and Don Mills and around Scarborough to Malvern had Miller's funded plan actually continued on to construction. Much of it was shovel ready in 2010.
I didn't support his objections to subways but I understood why: it was the quickest way to catch up the entire city to our transit backlog with the available money. I still think a Jane LRT should be looked at or if subways subways subways is our motto, then even before the Ontario line enters service, the tunnel boring machines should be relocated into new shafts and continue tunnelling future lines north awaiting funding for stations and operations of a north/south line in the west end towards Eglinton and beyond to Finch and an east end tunnel up towards Sheppard.
xmyth_
Senior Member
Roselle Bakery over at the end of Trinity (King st) posted this- couldn’t think of anywhere to ask how this was possible aside from the nearest subway station under construction. Bizarre lie from city workers? Or is this somehow connected?
Like… the distance alone, nevermind being around zero items of connection. Couldn’t be streetcar related either, right? Streetcars been through there forever, and it wasn’t a prune job.
Like… the distance alone, nevermind being around zero items of connection. Couldn’t be streetcar related either, right? Streetcars been through there forever, and it wasn’t a prune job.
nightstreak
Active Member
There is extensive lying from Metrolinx. Not little white lies, full on deliberate lying. Metrolinx and Doug Ford himself said they'd "replant 4X as many trees" that were cut at Osgoode Garden only to then retract and say that no new trees will be planted where they were cut down. None. They've also cut back on community spaces that were promised to remain during construction to replace what was taken away.
That was a beautiful tree.
evandyk
Senior Member
And they somehow managed to blank out all of Google's streetview images of that block?
Mihairokov
Active Member
They know they can count the rings on the stump to find out how old the tree was, right?
11th
Senior Member
Can we get some confirmation before jumping to conclusion? Even the post's OP was puzzled and they weren't buying the reason.There is extensive lying from Metrolinx. Not little white lies, full on deliberate lying. Metrolinx and Doug Ford himself said they'd "replant 4X as many trees" that were cut at Osgoode Garden only to then retract and say that no new trees will be planted where they were cut down. None. They've also cut back on community spaces that were promised to remain during construction to replace what was taken away.
That was a beautiful tree.
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It was a nice tree though.
Streetview confirms the tree was there since at least 2007.
nightstreak
Active Member
That's insane. How is there no street view there? What kind of conspiracy is this?
It's on Apple Maps which is where I got the above image.
evandyk
Senior Member
I've definitely looked at streetview for that section before. My son and I like to take "walks" through the city using Streetview and that was close to our old apartment, so we've digitally walked it many times.
I'm guessing that with the proximity to the street light and wires, it's probably Toronto Hydro rather than Metrolinx.
I'm guessing that with the proximity to the street light and wires, it's probably Toronto Hydro rather than Metrolinx.