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Iain Campbell

@iainmc.ca

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 09/04/2026

because it’s centre-running? or because it doubles back on itself? or the weird jog at utsc? or the spur to reach malvern?

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 08/08/2025

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 28/07/2025

this is a temporary (several years) diversion while Queen St is closed at Yonge for Ontario line construction. Seems like it’s going well. Did they even make the streetcar lane transit only??

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 19/06/2025

our main streets are being murdered. it’s not because the buildings are tall, it’s what we require/allow on the ground level. like, yeah, it could be worse. but it could also be a lot better!

godawful condo in Cambridge, ON where the first five floors including ground are just a battleship grey concrete box, presumably above ground parking.

older condo on Yonge St in North York. The ground floor has a large number of small shops and is not a featureless expanse of glass.

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 19/06/2025

this is the design review process you’re defending??

Yonge St streetscape from today - a single, monolith of a building with a featureless glass wall at street level. There are only two stores, and most of the glass has been covered by the type of opaque banners you see at Shoppers Drug Mart. Surprisingly, neither of the stores is a Shoppers.

Yonge St streetscape from ten years ago - a block of small shops, each with bright signage.

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 10/06/2025

not really. Yes, the yard takes up the whole north side, but every other possible direction has pedestrian connections. The only one I could see as missing is from the north west end of the bus platform under the rail corridor, but you can still get there, just not directly.

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 05/06/2025

different shaped cast-in-place sidewalks (these two from Ray St). I think there’s still a bit of sidewalk slope, but not as bad. I remember seeing ramp extensions off the end of the sidewalk, keeping it totally level, but I can’t find examples so maybe I’m misremembering

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 21/02/2025

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Ontario has had all the tools it needs to house
a fast-growing population, even with high interest rates. But its laws prohibit labour-efficient multi-family housing on almost all existing low-rise "neighbourhood" streets, limiting apartment buildings to tiny high-rise pockets where family-sized homes aren't viable. They require that most homes large enough for families be built in inefficient low-density types and put on farmland and natural areas where construction resources are wasted on building roads, sewers and other infrastructure from scratch. […]

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 16/01/2025

this is the whole point of Joe Rogan. he’s a manure spreader. it takes him way less time to cut an episode than it takes for people with integrity to refute it. Rogan needs to be completely discredited. going on his show should make you a laughingstock.

A manure spreader hard at work spraying manure liberally over a field

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 03/01/2025

indeed, a mystery of unfathomable depth

A multi-stage pedestrian crossing with three separate walk signals: one for each side of the roadway and one for the tramway, at the 1e Con. Huygensstraat tram stop in Amsterdam.

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 23/11/2024

Inflation: 1.5x Taxes on new housing: 31.5x

Bank of Canada inflation calculator showing that a basket of goods and services that cost $4370 in 2004 would cost $6272 in 2024.

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Iain Campbell @iainmc.ca · 23/11/2024

Inflation: 1.5x Development charges: 31.5x

Bank of Canada inflation calculator showing that a basket of goods and services that cost $4370 in 2004 would cost $6271 in 2024.

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