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Toronto: The Port Lands Transit Solution if Toronto was in Japan.

A Useful Counterfactual on a New Neighbourhood and Transportation Planning.

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Reece
Jun 25, 2025
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The Port Lands Island, also known as Villiers Island and now officially called Ookwemin Minising, is a new island just east of downtown Toronto that has been created by rerouting the Don River around some remediated post-industrial land.

People have already talked at great lengths about the plans for the island and the problems with them. It doesn’t fee…

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