For those not paying attention to City Hall, if I understood correctly, our councillors just voted *against* prioritizing the Finch LRT extended westward.
Updated > My confusion - council voted against the amendment, not the extension...
I assume the Finch extension is depended on the airport finalizing how they are going to incorporate Line 5/6 into Pearson and they've been silent on their plans. In the meantime, it'd be nice if Line 6 was extended to Woodbine GO station.
I was going to say something similar. The decision where to go with Jane st long term may be best to postpone until at least a year after the Crosstown is open. I suspect a Skytrain/OL solution from Steeles to Eglinton would be the best bet as ridership from Eglinton to Bloor may drop...
I love all these improvements coming online right now. Although whether Toronto is becoming a transit city is debatable, it really feels like we are becoming a cycling city.
With all our additional bike infrastructure since the Jarvis cycle lanes were taken out I'd prefer that Jarvis now stays as is. We need some streets to be able to maintain high vehicle throughout and this will likely be the only north - south street to have it after our cycling infrastructure...
My first thought is that the motions to add traffic signals was originated before the cycle lanes were put in. Bloor is much calmer due to its narrowing and I'm skeptical (without looking into it) that addition lights would be needed.
@Northern Light I was wondering if you have taken a look at the latest for the downtown linear parks https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/10/toronto-public-spaces-connected-linear-park/
I did the survey and while the parks look ok I am not happy with the design. Some seats and pretty art don't make...
https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/10/125973-philadelphia-bus-cameras-document-over-30000-violations
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/automated-camera-enforcement-streetcars-1.6008151
Does anyone know the current status of bus/streetcar automated camera enforcement for Toronto?
@Northern Light Do you know when the College Street bike lane construction is scheduled to wrap up? Website still says May 2023
https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/get-involved/public-consultations/infrastructure-projects/college-street-upgrades/
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/09/17/2317226/uber-was-supposed-to-help-traffic-it-didnt-robotaxis-will-be-even-worse
Cheaper trips increase car usage. Robo-taxis will make traffic worse without accompanying regulation (I don't know what that regulation would be)
25% seems way to high to remove pay and display machines. If they want to save on operational costs, it might make sense to increase the distance between machines where there is 90%+ app usage. Some streets have a high density of machines and if 1/3 of the machines were removed there it could...