[URBAN NOTE] Nine Toronto links: TTC, Mount Duff, parks, Sully’s, Six Points, heritage, Port Lands
- NOW Toronto shares a report from an anonymous TTC fare evader who argues for free transit for the poorer of Toronto.</LI.
- blogTO notes that the famous wintertime snow pile of the Dufferin Mall parking lot, Mount Duff, is back!
- I am very pleased to learn of the impending plans to make the Humber Bay Shores Park better than ever. blogTO reports.
- Neighbourhood establishment, Sully’s Boxing Gym, is facing eviction from its Dupont Street home in the very near future. Will it figure out a new deal with its landlord? Will it survive to make it to a new location? blogTO reports.
- Transit Toronto notes that the infamous Six Points intersection of Etobicoke is going to be involved in a transit schedule-confusing transformation for the foreseeable future.
- A house in Wallace Emerson just sold for $C 1.4 million, after just two days on the market. Toronto Life reports.
- This plan to replace the old University of Toronto planetarium with a new establishment, at 90 Queen’s Park Crescent, of a mixed-use centre is certainly visually appealing. blogTO <a href="https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2019/02/90-queens-park-u-of-toronto/
- Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the need of the city to preserve its heritage in all of its richnesses.
- John Lorinc writes at Spacing about the issues revealed in Toronto and Ontario politics by the Sidewalk Labs adventure in the Port Lands.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 28, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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