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Tall buildings get demolished with surprising regularity, in very successful places too.

Singapore just demolished the 52 storey AXA tower last year, it was only built in 1986!

NYC saw 270 Park...

While I certainly sympathize w/small retailers in the Ren Centre facing down a tough financial situation..........

I have to come out in favour of tearing it down.

Its incredibly anti-urban,...

While more frequent, higher speed rail is likely, full HSR is a very long way off.

If the project for the Toronto-Quebec City segment gets off the ground [[RFP submissions are due this fall) then...

The first part of the equation is overall immigration. Canada is experiencing record population growth [[not a good thing) as its happening much faster than we can build new homes, resulting in...

The article actually answers your question.

Windsor added 2,700 people to its labour force [[working age adults looking for work) while adding a whopping 2,400 jobs. That's outstanding for a...

I'm not the rainbows and unicorns type; Detroit is not yet a 'boom town' but that's not what this thread is about, its about its potential to become one again.

I think you're too negative. ...

I didn't see any wholesale criticism of the United States, nor its polity. He made an observation about 3 political figures in the United States, that's 3 people out of roughly 335 million.
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I don't think Climate alone will drive Detroit's or the 'rust belt's fortunes, though in due course, if things go as they seem likely to, they surely will be a contributing factor, but that may not...

I think something to keep in mind, in the U.S. context is that the hard discount segment of the grocery sector is less developed than in Canada.

In Canada virtually every major chain group has a...

Uh, not so much, these are original Mark 1 cars, that have been in continuous service for more than 37 years.

Now, they were overhauled by maintenance staff, but the TTC's estimate had their...

I can't say I've watched much of these, but sure, I've had those up in the morning at 3am moments..........where you just want something to distract you....... LOL

I've probably only seen bits...

In reading the first hand accounts.......it was 'about' a dozen maggots that fell on the woman.

I must admit, I don't gross out easy........I would be more than a little unhappy about that...

A few presentations of the stats w/some context for better understanding:

"Detroit's population in 1960 was 1.67 million — more than double the 639,111 counted in 2020, according to U.S. Census...

Point of clarification. Amtrak and the Federal DoT are in fact the owners of Washington's Union Station; what Amtrak is seeking to do is dissolve a 94-year lease of the facility.



No. The...

Wrong, as usual.

This is a discussion and a legal process about Washington D.C. 's Union Station.

Here is the Wikipedia entry describing the ownership picture:
" Union Station is owned by...

While I agree w/your statement overall, I do think its important to say this..

Subways/Metros don't exist in a vacuum. You have to get to a station and from a station at each end of your...

The word subway is generally used interchangeably with the word 'Metro' in much of the world.

Clearly, the word does originate in reference to tunnels, but many lines understood to be 'subways'...

The public sector can employ the real estate revenue model to, and it has, in Hong Kong, where MTR is both the transit operator and a very large developer/property owner.

There is nothing...

So you're comparing a rail line [17,000 passengers in its first month of operation, to REM which is designed to move 170,000 per Day

Right.......you don't know what you're talking about, as usual.

For those interested in the REM in Montreal as a template; the Wikipedia entry on the project may be instructive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau_express_m%C3%A9tropolitain

To date...

This is exactly correct if one is referring to the turnover of 100% of water in a given lake. [[Erie and Ontario in the case mentioned above).

But if one was to take the mean time for any given...

2-3 years is amount of time required for water to make it from the Detroit River to the Atlantic Ocean.

There is no respect to anyone, when you type TLDR.

What I wrote is less than a 2 minute read.

Easy. I did all the work for you.

If you can't be bothered, you have no moral right to...

Ok.

As a Canadian, I would not normally see fit to comment on U.S. criminal case with no connection to Canada, or anything all that novel about it.

However, the level of vitriol with very...

This graphic from 2012 [[admittedly 10 years out of date) suggests a different story that the one you think happened.

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Michigan's jobs did not go north, they went south.

To Tennesse,...