toronto647
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I am confused... will there one day be a rail deck district? or is the entire plan just for show to settle $ with Metrolinx / Government?
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'Never' is a long time, but this 'never' made a lick of financial sense. It's 'always' been a scam.
Northern Light
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PE is on point, but to phrase it a bit differently.
The motive was to make money w/o building anything...........there was no obvious path to making money by by building anything in the near term.
As PE rightly points out.........if you wait long enough............things might change.............but no one here was banking on the financial situation or real estate values in the 22nd century.
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UtakataNoAnnex
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...but we can still talk about it as a fantasy project, right? Toronto's history is riddled with those. 
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Folks should get both of them, and do not, do not, do not, support Amazon (or anything American, really):...but we can still talk about it as a fantasy project, right? Toronto's history is riddled with those.
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UtakataNoAnnex
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...and Unbuilt Toronto 3 should include The Rail Deck. 
AlvinofDiaspar
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Heh, for anyone to believe those initial Moshe Safdie designs have a chance.
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UtakataNoAnnex
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...I can't speak for everyone else here, but I have always doubted our ability to create a rail deck, let alone this thing in it's various presented forms whether real, grifted or otherwise.
Mercenary
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Rail Deck Park was too ambitious for Toronto which clearly shows Toronto is not yet in the big leagues of global Alpha cities. Maybe by 2050
north-of-anything
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Toronto isn't allergic to ambitious projects: see Ookwemin Minising, the Downsview Airport redevelopment, Regent Park, the Golden Mile, etc. This one is failing because the numbers don't work out.
The closest comparison that comes to mind, Millennium Park in Chicago, had two things Toronto's proposal does not: a huge park next door that could be connected to it, and deep-pocketed philanthropists who wanted to see the park come to life. The Rail Deck area is hemmed in almost entirely by residential developments, and there aren't any big names willing to throw money at this. In the absence of fundraising, land developers and speculators got in and chipped away at the park plan with shoebox condominiums, as if Toronto had the land availability of Hong Kong or Monaco. This development was driven by greed, not ambition.