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[PHOTO] Looking northwest, Yonge and King
Oct. 1st, 2019 09:34 am
- Sean Marshall takes issue with how TIFF monopolizes much of the downtown, including key arteries like King Street.
- blogTO reports on the luxurious estate of 311 Mildenhall Road, recently off the market at a price of well over $C 10 million.
- Urban Toronto shares renderings of the first phase of Galleria on the Park. Wow.
- Dozens of artists are working out of 7 Labatt Avenue, a warehouse set to be demolished. The Toronto Star reports.
- NOW Toronto reports on the mess involving the NDP in the riding of Parkdale-High Park, here.
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- John Lorinc at Spacing looks at how the idea of municipal autonomy for Toronto should not be seen as a final solution.
- blogTO notes the contracting number of neighbourhoods open for first-time buyers, here.
- Airbnb, blogTO notes, is definitely impacting the wider real estate network.
- King Street's transit operations should be taken as a model for wider Toronto. Spacing has it.
- The story of the rainbow tunnel visible on the northbound DVP is a sad one worth knowing. Global News has it.
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Tuesday night, I had approached the Cathedral Church of St. James from the south, through the mixed commercial/residential maze at Front and Church. City planners did well by making sure that it would still be possible to approach the cathedral from the south.
- At Spacing, John Lorinc notes that mayor John Tory is allowing waterfront transit plans to get delayed.
- blogTO notes that there is apparently controversy over the correct spelling of Christie Pits.
- CBC Toronto profiles the humble apartment at Bathurst and St. Clair that was home to Ernest Hemingway.
- These photos of stackt, at Bathurst and Front, look amazing. Retail Insider has them.
- blogTO notes that three new Jollibee locations are scheduled to open in 2020, including one downtown at Yonge and Gould.
- Making the King Street pilot project permanent is at least a small victory for Toronto. CBC reports.
- Urban Toronto shares the remarkable plans for the transformation of the Galleria Mall.
- The Art Gallery of Ontario has gotten its Infinity Room! Global News reports.
- The rehabilitation and renovation of 2 Queen Street East will be a high-profile project. The Globe and Mail reports.
- Steve Munro continues to examine the relative speeds of the 504 King and 501 Queen streetcars, here.
- This warning from the TTC union that Presto cards are too failure-prone to be able to properly take over from the Metropass in January makes me, a TTC user, worry. The Toronto Star reports.
- Toronto doctors can now issue their patients prescriptions to visit the ROM. blogTO reports.
- Steve Munro contrasts and compares time on the King and Queen streetcar routes, here.
- Urban Toronto shares a photo of the massive Well, a giant construction pit downtown.
- John Tory certainly should, as mayor, be informed by the province of Ontario as to what it intends to do with the TTC. The Toronto Star reports.
- Is a neighbourhood in southwest Scarborough the noisiest neighbourhood in Toronto? The Toronto Star investigates.
- Sidewalk Labs' plans for Quayside have gotten the attention of CityLab, here.
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- Matt Elliott at CBC Toronto suggests that Toronto has a fiscal crunch ahead, needing to spend more than 30 billion years on various projects over the next decade without knowing where the money will come from. Why is this not more of an issue?
- Enzo DiMatteo at NOW Toronto takes a look at election-related news in Toronto, among other things noting that the campaign of Jennifer Keesmaat does not seem to be taking off.
- The 504 King streetcar route will be split into two, to allow for better traffic flows. CBC reports.
- This 2017 Spacing article on the failure of the pedestrian movement in the Yonge Street Mall is enlightening.
- Katherine Taylor at NOW Toronto writes about some remnants of the past of Toronto, in buildings and signs and neighbourhood memories.
- Gilbert Ngabo reports on the understandable frustration of the many hundreds of tenants of the St. James Town tower of 650 Parliament Street, left to collect their belongings in lines in the stifling heat after a 6-alarm fire and facing months of potential homelessness, over at the Toronto Star.
- blogTO notes that a majority of Torontonians are willing to imagine moving to the suburbs on account of spiraling real estate prices.
- Are the affordable housing programs being put forward by John Tory and Jennifer Keesmaat plausible? The Toronto Star considers.
- Steve Munro notes that the 514 Cherry streetcar route is now no more, merged into others.
- The four Bombardier streetcars damaged by recent flooding in Toronto will be out of service for months as they are cleaned and repaired. CBC reports.
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The statue of the Virgin Mary standing by the corner of Parkdale's Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, at King and Close, stands hands open and illuminated in the night.
- Toronto Life has a Q&A feature with Dan Doctoroff, the main behind the Sidewalk Labs' plan for Quayside, here.
- Alok Mukherjee shares an extract from a book on Toronto policing in the Toronto Star, noting how the police treatment of the G20 protests upset him.
- Yonge Street beyond the downtown, up in North York, desperately needs to be tended to and made better. New urbanism can work there, too. NOW Toronto makes the case.
- The Toronto Police Service has not been doing a very good job at all of ticketing drivers ignoring the changes on King Street. Why is that? Global News reports.
- In the era of Trump, the location of Toronto outside of the United States may well be a trump card for Amazon as it preps for HQ2. CBC reports.
- blogTO notes impressive plans for a grand new park at the mouth of the Don River, by Lake Ontario.
- Toronto, happily for its residents, happens to be the fourth-safest major city in the world by one ranking. CTV reports
- This account of the life Soroush Mahmudi, one of the victims of the Church-Wellesley serial killer, as told by his wife is heartbreaking. The Toronto Star has it.
- This Katie Daubs account at the Toronto Star of Al Falcone, the King Street restaurateur who is leading protest against the transit project on that corridor, is entertaining reading, at least.
- Edward Keenan makes the suggestion that the street hockey players protesting King Street's transit are missing the point. With the street freed up, what other non-traffic uses could it serve? The Toronto Star has it.
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- Global News reports that, based on spending data from Moneris, consumer expenditures on King Street have not dropped during the transit experiment.
- The homeless shelter in the Davenport Triangle area, thankfully, seems to be going through notwithstanding some local opposition and with the help of other locals. The Toronto Star reports.
- An area of unused land near Yonge and Sheppard may not become a park after all, due to disputes over ownership. CBC reports.
- These photos exploring how Chinatown on Spadina has evolved over the decades provide a good perspective on the development of this key neighoburhood. CBC reports.
- Toronto Life showcases the classic paintings of Keita Morimoto, currently with an exhibition at the Nicholas Metivier Gallery downtown.
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- The demolition of Honest Ed's revealed ghost ads on the walls of the buildings amalgamated into that storied complex. blogTO reports.
- Support for the King Street pilot project is down, polls suggest. blogTO reports.
- That the TTC and Metrolinx are disputing the costs associated with Presto makes the whole thing ridiculous. The Toronto Star covers it.
- This summary of the TTC errors and passenger issues that made the commute of the 30th of January so challenging is disturbing. The Toronto Star reports.
- Steve Munro writes about the capacity crisis on the TTC, especially the subway lines.
- The King Street transit experiment could have been much broader, and much more radical, reports The Globe and Mail.
- Emily Mathieu reports on Toronto's Homeless Memorial, remembering the hundreds of people who died on the streets. Dean Lisowick is the latest addition to the sad list. The Toronto Star has it.
- blogTO has some recommendations for people on interested in spending a night out in Kensington Market.
- A development proposal means that the Commerce Court observation deck, in the Financial District, might be reopened to regular visitors some time in the foreseeable future. blogTO reports.
- Edward Keenan has some fun imagining how, in a Toronto winter, some works of world literature might be adapted to reflect the weather. The Toronto Star has it.
- This CBC article highlighting Hodo Kwaja bakery in Koreatown and the delicious walnut cakes it makes is superb.
- VICE shares the story of a man who went nightclubbing on King Street to gauge the effects of the transit experiment. (His judgement? There's change, but this change is natural.)
- Trudeau is going to play up Canadian diversity to Amazon as part of the Toronto bid for HQ2, reports The Globe and Mail.
- The TDSB has loosened restrictions on school trips to the United States, with some qualifications. (If any one student is blocked at the border, for instance, the entire trip is off.) The Toronto Star examines the issue.
- The further expansion of parkland at Ontario Place, as announced by the provincial government, is inspiring. The Toronto Star reports.
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- At Spacing, John Lorinc wonders what will happen when someone gets killed in an accident related to crowding on the TTC.
- Edward Keenan considers crowding on the TTC to be a crisis, one justifying the Downtown Relief Line, over at the Toronto Star.
- blogTO notes how temporary closures of Eglinton station will make Yonge and Eglinton commuting even more nightmarish.
- Torontoist calls for the King Street transit experiment to be applied elsewhere, to midtown, even.
- blogTO shares some impressive photos of the abandoned Wilderness Adventure Ride at Ontario Place.
