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As a developer, I'm lost as to how they make the economics work in places like Brentwood and Metrotown. I'm *extremely* jealous. Not just architecturally, but suite design and size, amenity offering, etc., the Lower Mainland is murdering Toronto on every level.

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Joking aside, it's wild when endless American urban-churn accounts lament the fact they can't seem to get some shit 5+1-with-massive-parking-garage around a new transit station. Van, unfortunately hasn't quite gotten round to the parking issue, but we are here on density!

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Holy hell just fucking die already old man

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A beautiful future America cannot fathom.

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I would have thought the first image would be Saddletown?

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Paris is the undisputed king city. No questions.

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

National Transcontinental was never a service, correct? It's a line that later formed part of the Grand Trunk Pacific, but you could never 'buy a ticket' on a National Transcontinental train, no?

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Something that's not feasibly going to happen?https://bsky.app/profile/projectend.bsky.social/post/3lolhkxugvc2q

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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?

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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!

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I was full throated for that bridge last summer but as soon as I looked at it more closely I completely went the other way. When you size out Wellandmax dimensions, then apply appropriate slopes to each of the approaches, it just gets ridiculous. Could do a lift, but way more complex and expensive.

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Leaving low-rise out (because North America generally sucks at it and, in the end, who cares), can you give some examples of bigger things and I’ll see if I’ve got answers?

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I've never thought twice about them and it's never been in comment sheets. Were that phrase to appear there at some point in the future, the most it's getting is a 'noted' and that's the last we'll hear of it.

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I don’t think any of us pay much attention to that kind of thing. With tower forms, it’s shear walls which are structural & cast in place. You couldn’t use modular “flat pack” components for the compressive strength required for taller things, esp when the new OBC comes in this year, could you?

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What are “articulation rules”?

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

It might be more fucked up that America is so car-oriented that a goddamn Hospital campus is so large it needs a people mover...

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

He’s an unprecedented level of shitbag in a council with a pretty low bar…

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Easiest tell: that building doesn’t exist in Toronto.

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Easiest tell: that building doesn’t exist in Toronto.

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

CaNaDa WiLl BuIlD HiGh SpEeD rAiL!!

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Very slight point of correction: lower to the ground, it's tied on the ground & lifted up - when the building gets taller, it's tied up on the slab...& lifted into place. Essentially the same thing, I just don't want folks going "who is this moron thinking they tie rebar & lift it up 50 storeys?!"

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It would drive a Toronto CM up the wall. Toronto sucks, don't get me wrong, but some of the things you've shown me in NYC would make a standard site super look like:

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a man is sweating profusely and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man is sweating profusely and looking at the camera .

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Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

3 trains in the morning, 3 in the evening doesn't fill multi-level garages!

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What an absolutely useless waste of money

Urban Cayman @projectend.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

He's *such* and unsettling little gremlin...

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It's emblematic of a wider issue: we can do highways in wildly short timeframes bc people see it as directly affecting their quality of life. Rail in Canada just doesn't have that same broad appeal, unfortunately. So when we need to do a big, complicated, expensive, projects, we can't find support.

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I may be too doom & gloom on this but I don't think they'll try. Contrast with Highway 413 & Bradford Bypass where there's no end to the money they're willing to throw at acquisitions. It's wild how much cash Infrastructure Ontario can come up with in an *extremely* short time when they want to...

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Tokaido Shinkansen 'only' runs at 275kph. It's Tohoku that hits 320, with Sanyo in the middle at 300. Others (Joetsu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, etc.), and all the Mini Shinkansen run lower than that (which is absolutely fine).

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