SSP Local: London

ldoto · #1 Posted: **Dec 9, 2007, 1:05 AM**

Re: London in SSP Local Ontario

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Create a thread in the main Ontario section and the other forumers and people who create those forums will get to comment and stuff, and then take it from there.

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Originally Posted by ldoto
I was thinking it would be great if London had Sub-Forums in SSPLocal Ontario this would make my day!!!!

SSP for life!!!

Originally Posted by QuantumLeap
Here is a primitive attempt at a list of all the projects in London right now...

DOWNTOWN
544 Talbot | 12flrs | U/C (Topped Out)
The Harriston | 23 | U/C (Topped Out)
The Renaissance I | 28 | U/C
180 Mill | 13 | U/C (Excavation)
435 Talbot | 6 | U/C (Excavation)
440 King | 4 | Approved
The Renaissance II | 28 | Proposed
SunLife at Grosvenor Gate | 12, 17 | Proposed
Drewlo at Locust Mount | ? | Rumoured

ELSEWHERE
Tricar Commissioners W.| 15 | U/C
Liberty Group Wharncliffe S | 7, 7 | U/C
Westmount Village II | 15 | U/C
Drewlo Communist Village at Beaverbrook IV | 12 | U/C
Sugarcreek Tr./Proudfoot | 15 | U/C
Fanshawe Pk/Medway Crk | 8 | U/C
Tricar Richmond Hill | 12 | U/C
Kipps/ Adelaide N. | 12, 12 | Approved
Hyde Park/ Gainsborough | 14, 14 | Proposed

M II A II R II K · #2 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 1:04 AM**

Well if there are enough London forumers it may fly.

flar · #3 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 1:11 AM**

There seem to be a few London forumers, but they're not that active with respect to posting. As a former Londoner I'd check it out, as I do with the current thread.

ldoto · #4 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 2:51 AM**

Even though it's buried underground and invisible from the street, Toronto's subway lines and even its subway stops are clearly outlined from the top of the CN Tower.

From that lofty vantage point, you can see the taller buildings and higher densities follow the subway lines - and the tallest buildings are close to the actual stops.

After all, that's where the most expensive land is. Development invariably follows public transit lines and nodes.

It is time London started thinking like the big city it is rather than a small backwater that will never break its addiction to the automobile.

Can't see that far ahead? Look again.

Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge has already seen it. Those cities are well on their way to establishing a light rail system to link their downtowns. So is Hamilton.

London must start catching up.

Meanwhile, the city of Rennes, France, is one of many worldwide even further ahead in planning for the future.

A city about the size of London, Rennes will hit a population of 400,000 by 2008. It opened a high-speed subway line in 2002 that is nine kilometres long and is planning a second 12-kilometre subway line at a cost exceeding $1 billion.

This is a community that understands itself, its potential, and its place in the world - and is willing to commit to making it all happen. It is now one of the fastest growing cities its size in France. Young professionals are clamouring to live there.

Not surprisingly, developers are jumping in, snapping up property around these lines, especially transportation nodes, where buses and trains meet. These are obvious locations for retailing, commercial, residential centres and public squares.

By making public investments in this way, municipalities not only attract far more private investment and increase economic activity, but also have a greater influence in how and where cities develop.

London should start thinking - now - about a light rail system (down the centre of Wellington Road, say) and establishing transportation nodes around the city.

Never mind that cities based on the car are unsustainable, that traffic, gasoline, pollution and other costs will soon force people out of their cars. If we make public transit predictable, affordable, even sexy, we won't need to wait for the inevitable.

ldoto · #5 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 3:04 AM**

I was wondering if one of your Administrators could please start a poll regarding how many london forumers would be interested in a in SSP Local Ontario of London!!!

Thanks

SPP for life!!!

LondnPlanr · #6 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 3:02 PM**

I could become more active around here... I do have my sources...

WhipperSnapper · #7 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 4:20 PM**

If KW has one ...

They wouldn't be very active but would still be nice to have stickies for Barrie, Sudbury, Kingston, Guelph, etc. in the Ontario Section

vid · #8 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 5:01 PM**

Have one or two threads (One for large projects, one for small) and anything really big, give it its own thread. Once you get more people an SSP Local will be more possible. You'd pretty much have the Ontario section to yourself. No one here is from Barrie, Sudbury already has a thread (Northern Ontario, which is really just Thunder Bay news these days) and Kingston and Guelph are small. Other than that, London could pretty much own the Ontario forum until it gets its own.

Cambridgite · #9 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by vid

Have one or two threads (One for large projects, one for small) and anything really big, give it its own thread. Once you get more people an SSP Local will be more possible. You'd pretty much have the Ontario section to yourself. No one here is from Barrie, Sudbury already has a thread (Northern Ontario, which is really just Thunder Bay news these days) and Kingston and Guelph are small. Other than that, London could pretty much own the Ontario forum until it gets its own.

Borgo100 is from Barrie!

MolsonExport · #10 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 6:03 PM**

Don't know if there would be enough traffic. A cursory examination leads me to conclude that many 'locals' are rather damned boring...announcements of tatoo parlours in Guelph, endless results about RIM's quarterly earnings, the new Burger Thing under construction at the corner of Whogivesashit and fatflatulence way, the new 3-storey Marriott Courtyard abuting the DumbCentre Big Box Power Area in Bumfuck Nowhere, etc.

vid · #11 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Cambridgite

Borgo100 is from Barrie!

Exactly.

mr.x · #12 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 8:48 PM**

i don't think there's enough traffic to support such a forum....some of the Locals that have been created aren't doing well as is.

FazDeH · #13 Posted: **Dec 11, 2007, 9:41 PM**

I'd be intersted in seeing a forum like that, I enjoy seeing what London is building I would certianly be viewing/posting regularly.

ldoto · #14 Posted: **Dec 12, 2007, 12:50 AM**

I know there's more London forumers out there. Don't be shy!!!!!

SPP for life!!!!

GreatTallNorth2 · #15 Posted: **Dec 12, 2007, 1:57 AM**

I'm in.

mmmatt · #16 Posted: **Dec 12, 2007, 3:24 AM**

Why would London get one?

As far as I can see this is how things stack up in terms of CMAs smaller than London without a SSP:Local

Rank-City Name-----Start Date--# of Posts

1.---Victoria BC---Is on its 7th thread, and it already has 519 Posts

2.---Regina SK-----07-14-2006--3756

3.---Saskatoon SK--10-27-2005--2346

4.---Saint John NB-11-20-2006--1488

5.---Moncton NB----01-31-2007--1055

6.---London ON-----08-15-2005--915

7.---Gatineau QC---03-24-2006--788

8.---Sherbrooke QC-11-01-2006--710

9.---Windsor ON----01-20-2006--684

10.--Rimouski QC---02-24-2006--600

10.--Niagra ON-----08-18-2006--329

11.--Northern ON---09-06-2006--197

Not that it really means anything...I just like lists haha

I would say Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Quebec City, Victoria and maybe Regina should have SSP:Local...anything smaller is pushing it.