[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: CN Tower, land transfer tax, mass transit, Tool Library, Pickering

[rfmcdonald]

• Toronto Life shares twelve photos of the CN Tower taken at different points during its 1970s construction.


• blogTO also shares some CN Tower construction photos.


• Torontoist notes the warning of real estate agents that continuing to rely on the land transfer tax, without other revenue sources, is a problem for the budget of the city.


• Jennifer Pagliaro notes at the Toronto Star that updated projections for the cost of the Scarborough subway extension won't be released until after the election. (I bet they will be leaked beforehand.)


• blogTO shares a series of maps imagining what the map of Toronto could have looked like had the city followed through on the many plans for transit expansion that it has since dropped.


• The Toronto Tool Library, due to unforeseen circumstances, is at risk of closing unless its crowdfunding efforts succeed. blogTO reports.


• Michelle Adelman notes at NOW Toronto that plans of evacuations in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear plant in the GTA, particularly Pickering just east of Scarborough, need updating.