Totally get it. We lived for a long while downtown on King street. When we bought our house we bought a house with some noise around it to get the comfort noise.... I have difficulty sleeping without some ambient noise.
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Eglinton LRT
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I remember having to shut down a condo garage ramp. All owners were notified well in advance.
Do you think they advised the people renting the units????
My daughter lives in Hamilton. Aircraft noise is almost non existent but sometimes it's a Lancaster or warbird.
Now imagine property owners not informing their tenants that their homes are being torn down in 30 days. Good times.
Was this something similar?
QEW to close at Hurontario Street for LRT construction, diversion route in place | Globalnews.ca
The QEW closure at Hurontario Street will start Friday, Oct. 28 at 10 p.m. until the morning of Monday, Oct. 31.
globalnews.ca
Your link is def doable in Ontario and I’m sure it’s been done. Takes a LOT of effort to plan and set everything up. Everyone needs to be on the ball, understand their role, and the people running the show need to be top notch.
Crap like that is probably half of the phone calls to city councillors. Between industry, clubs, rail, planes, . . . Most people buy and then *****.
Yeah, lots of cheap rentals around. Sf
Subsidized almost waterfront housing on probably some of the most expensive real estate in Toronto and they want the airport shut down.
Well, thanks for posting this, very impressive. I love the way they are backfilling the structure even as it still being moved into position.
We need to see more of this to minimise traffic disruption.
Mad Mike
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I think these are called Gatekeepers -- people, special interests, and regs that weak politicians put into place to distance themselves from hard work.
Decades of indecisive politicians at the provincial and federal levels created this massive set of obstacles that keep us from moving forward, disassembling the gatekeeper system is hard work, but it appears to be gaining traction.
Ill give you an example of way the planning process takes an extremely long time and why these projects take forever to start up. In the past 20 years or so. The Provincial Government introduced what is known is the Environmental Assesment Act. Basically we have go through major proces to prove what we are proposing is the best alternative. This process has become so time consuming and costly. That on some projects it costs more to do this study than the actual design of the project. In a majority of the projects the end result was the same whether we went through the process or not. In my experience all we achieved is that we pander to the vocal minority. We could spend a large amount of design fees only to listen to few people complaing while a majority of public want the project completed as fast as possible.
This is probably another reason why the LRT is taking forever. If it were up to me I would suggest options like they they do in other countries. I would of closed up sections of Eglinton completly until that section is fully constructed. I would fairly compensate the private business that are affected or just buy them out completely. I know this sounds expensive. But when you compare it to the costs of the overuns and delays. Its alot cheaper to the taxpayer in the end and it gets the project done faster and on budget.
Vs trying to accomodate evey single person complaining about minor issues. Mega projects like the LRT are huge projects that impact 100s of thousands of people on a dayly basis for years. Their needs should take priority But when the politicians step in and the government changes every 4 years. They all add their politically correct ideas to the process and just drag everything down . As long as they look good to public perception. Thats all they care about. They never offer solutions to the problem. Just keep pushing blame around.
This is probably another reason why the LRT is taking forever. If it were up to me I would suggest options like they they do in other countries. I would of closed up sections of Eglinton completly until that section is fully constructed. I would fairly compensate the private business that are affected or just buy them out completely. I know this sounds expensive. But when you compare it to the costs of the overuns and delays. Its alot cheaper to the taxpayer in the end and it gets the project done faster and on budget.
Vs trying to accomodate evey single person complaining about minor issues. Mega projects like the LRT are huge projects that impact 100s of thousands of people on a dayly basis for years. Their needs should take priority But when the politicians step in and the government changes every 4 years. They all add their politically correct ideas to the process and just drag everything down . As long as they look good to public perception. Thats all they care about. They never offer solutions to the problem. Just keep pushing blame around.
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Agree. While it does tie up a substantial amount of money in the short-term, buy/build/sell could probably fund the project as government profits from increased land value caused by the project. You also have the upside of less complaining as you have less people affected (or at least the people affected are renters who are happy for a stable place to live). Now, buy/hold/do not build like Pickering Airport lands is beyond stupid and making the government a major long-term player in the land market which is not cool.
The Pickering Airport is a really complicated issue. If I recall correctly , the Federal Government bought out the lands a long time ago because they realized developers were purchasing lands in the area. They needed to protect a certain amount of land for an airport to provide capacity because Pearson was reaching its limits. Im not sure but I believe the intent was that cargo would go here. I could be wrong. Then over the years Pearson airport upgraded the airport by reconfiguring the runways , terminals etc. As such they were able to increase capicity. Hence no immediate need forthe Pickering by pass airport. But the need may still be there in the future.
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