Sign in

Urban Cayman

@projectend.bsky.social
1.4K followers 147 following 249 posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
040
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The Portlands Freight Spur is already decommissioned and parted out. There's no foreseeable future where it gets reenlisted for new service as there are already several sizable gaps in the ROW. Also, I don't quite get why anyone would want to go 8km at very low speed to get 2km as the crow flies?
000
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For reference, the Garden City Skyway is about the appropriate height (nope). So let's then say we're contemplating a lift. The Homer Bridge, just south of the Skyway, would fit the bill, but its 130m span across the Welland is a full 100+m short of the Eastern Gap. It's wild how wide the EG is!
010
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It's just not going to happen. Take this small section of Havelock just outside of Toronto. The existing trackbed & route alignment is useless for HSR, so you need to fully rebuild closer to this. There isn't a hope in hell you could do those acquisitions, let alone start laying track in 2-5 years.
211
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you’re interested specially in his absurd casino buffoonery, this is a good overview:
110
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Old heads remember…
1101
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
There's another one up in Bayview Village Park, if you're collecting!
110
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
010
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Oh *helllllll* yeah. Love 2 housing!
580
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The MRG are at best misguided, sure, but it's also beyond our homegrown 'talent's' ability to design anything remotely resembling the clean simplicity in my OP. I mean, TH here consistently just look like this dreck:
110
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It’s a fake upzoning exercise. So “what are we doing”? Nothing but value-increase for the property owners (BV doesn’t own these houses themselves, they’re just DMing on behalf of the six actual owners).
000
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Canadian Northern also secured an easement across a ton of the north western quadrant of the old City. I wonder how far that ever got. Obviously they get swallowed up in the CN grouping of 1919 so it wasn't necessary as it paralleled the Grand Trunk, but fascinating to see it in the 1913 Goads.
011
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It will not. Massing has been worked out with the [stupid] City Hall view corridor in mind. Also, 123 Edward's total trashing of this, and subsequent approval, has kind of defanged this policy from the get go.
061
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
That seems like a dream beyond reach when this is considered "generous" in our typical new builds...
010
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
There was a great show a couple years ago about this exact thing
020
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
*Imagine* a weekend in Muskoka not requiring a car (not to mention the potential social equity that could bring). They used to say “the trip up is half the fun!” Can’t imagine anyone saying that not wanting to blow their brains out on the 400…
0102
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
And finally, the glorious Maritimes! I really wish this map showed all the ferries and coastal boats.
160
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Some provincial detail. I’m really sorry Manitoba. I’m not sure how I missed your excellent province!
140
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
The previous post is a map from the Department of Mines & Technical Surveys of Canada (1951) & covers the entirety of the country. It’s *magnificent* & I’d purchase it if I could get it off of its current owners.
270
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
BC, the Maritimes, and the vast expanse of Ontario are there too!
000
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I *wish* I had more maps to pore over, but I wouldn’t say I’m not at least ‘aware’ of the unfortunate shifts from rail to road in the 20th century…
250
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
It’s extremely depressing:
050
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
The 2024 mind cannot comprehend Southern Ontario railways in 1951.
1110021
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Nope, definitely sitting on slab, not outboard. Just a tricky rendering. Good call!
010
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hmm, good point. Hard to tell from Google. The module seems to sit outboard of the slab, but there's no ticks in the slab-edge for it to anchor to. They're also waterproofing the slab edge which is a clear indicator of WW. Really good looking WW though, far better than what we get around here!
110
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Getting away from the world?
110
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…???
000
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Here’s from this morning: the rebar pick happens from a flatbed parked on the street and gets dropped on the southeast corner of the plate. You could do this with a hammerhead, but it would reach to the opposite corner of the intersection since the crane is mounted at that corner.
110
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Your regular reminder that this is *never* a bad idea.
061
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
If folks are wondering what this looks like IRL:
020
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
That’s Motto by Sierra at Dovercourt & Bloor. Tight site to the west but picks need to be done to the north & east so you’re constrained on one side but need to get material on the other. Only solution is to go luffing. They’re a touch slower, but it’s not going to significantly impact schedule.
120
Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Doug says he wants to spend unknown amounts of money boring a car tunnel under Toronto. 50 years ago, Paris started constructing (& continues to expand) the RER: (mostly) bi-level trains going 120kph under the city, for cheaper and with *far higher* capacity. Just so we all remember where we’re at…
0192