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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links
Nov. 6th, 2019 05:31 pm- A new project hopes to revitalize the Golden Mile of Scarborough, along Eglinton Avenue. The Toronto Star reports.
- blogTO looks at how IKEA is going to be opening a new smaller store in downtown Toronto in the next two years, here.
- blogTO looks at a plan to make 80 Bloor Street West, in Yorkville, into a golden skyscraper 79 stories tall.
- Sadly, Chick-Fil-A at Yonge and Bloor still has long lines. blogTO reports.
- Radheyan Simonpillai reviews the new Kevin Donovan book The Billionaire Murders, looking at the unsolved killings of the Shermans in 2017.
- Transit Toronto notes that both the Eglinton Crosstown yards and Lower Bay station were open this weekend past for Doors Open. I got to see both!
- Urban Toronto looks at the newly revealed Eglinton Crosstown vehicles.
- blogTO observes the rapid flooding faced not only by the Toronto Islands but by the waterfront generally.
- blogTO reports on the exciting possibility of a ferry connecting Etobicoke, at Humber Bay Shores, to the downtown.
- Building a linear park over the subway trench between Davisville and Eglinton stations in midtown Toronto is an idea that appeals to me. blogTO reports.
- NOW Toronto reports on a slew of original coffee shops around Toronto, including a laundromat hybrid on Dufferin.
- Urban Toronto celebrates the Ron Arad sculpture Safe Hands at One Bloor East.
A couple of months ago, past 1 o'clock in the morning, I and the other people on the Line 2 platform at Bloor-Yonge were surprised to see this RT-76 flat car zoom past. Transit Toronto's page of TTC service cars goes into some detail about this element of the TTC fleet, so often overlooked; I'd never seen one before that night. I just wish I had been able to take a better photo, but in my defense everyone on the platform by this vehicle's appearance.
- CBC notes that Toronto probably did well by not getting picked as the home of the potentially overwhelming Amazon HQ2.
- Happily, Toronto's stockpile of social capital in different neighbourhoods does not seem to be diminishing. The Toronto Star reports.
- Francine Kopun reports on the problems facing the ecologies of the Toronto ravine system, and how these parks might be helped, over at the Toronto Star.
- blogTO shares a series of photos of Yonge and Bloor, running more than eight decades up to 2005. (I miss that intersection.)
- Urban Toronto notes how the development of the Port Lands is literally creating a new coastline for Toronto.
- blogTO suggests that Eastern Avenue, east of the Don, is set to become the next development hotspot in Toronto.
The site of the former Stollery's clothing store on the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor is, even now, being prepared for massive construction. A tower will soon rise here, just as they do at the other corners of this intersection.
- Steve Munro examines the underlying factors behind crowding on the TTC's bus routes.
- NOW Toronto takes a look at the apparent Doug Ford plans to have the Ontario provincial government take over the TTC. Potentially fine in theory, given the scope of GTA transit, but not as it is likely to come about.
- The suggestion reported on by Samantha Beattie at the Toronto Star that the City of Toronto could compensate for a smaller city council with expanded neighbourhood councils does sound attractive, but it needs leadership to be pulled off.
- Making Yonge and Bloor a grassy pedestrian intersection for a few hours on the 19th sounds like fun. The Toronto Star reports.
- In the current real estate climate, the cost of living on house boats is less--and their attractiveness greater--than one might think. CBC reports.
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- Steve Munro finds much wrong with the idea of transit fare integration across the GTA through Metrolinx, over at his blog.
- blogTO notes the possibility of a new Apple store, this one at Yonge and Bloor.
- Christopher Hume notes that 2018 is going to be a year of many transitions for Toronto, over at the Toronto Star.
- An ancient First Nations arrowhead found at Fort York eighty years ago has been turned over to the city by the woman who found it. The Toronto Star reports.
- Alex Bozikovic quite likes the architecture of the University of Toronto's downtown campus, over at The Globe and Mail.
- I have been talking about the trend of converting old church buildings in downtown Toronto into condominiums for years, even sharing photos of conversions. Why not do this? The Globe and Mail describes this trend.
The towers of the Manulife Centre are literal landmarks. How much longer will they be this, as taller towers rise around them?
