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Indeed the roots go back centuries further. At the risk of extending an off topic conversation, I think a lot of it had to do with the fall of Constantinople and with it the last remains of the Roman Empire in the 15th century. A lot of historical knowledge from both classical antiquity and the...

We have a thoughtful plan for traffic movement. It's approved and being implemented and a large expansion of cycling infrastructure is a key part of it. Nobody is blanketing every street with bike lanes. The vast majority of arterial roads have little to no cycling infrastructure at all. Even...

Getting a bike in midtown is basically impossible right now.

I sure wouldn't use New York as an example to follow. I find their system to be way more confusing than it needs to be for multiple reasons. London and Mexico City for example are a lot easier. Showing Finch and Vaughan is useful to visitors when they're looking at a map. Figuring out which...

The vast majority of posts here are opinions. Should every one start with "in my opinion"? 🤣 Looking for cardinal directions is an approach that falls apart when you don't know which direction is north or when a line doesn't predominantly follow a single direction. A terminal station, no...

People in Toronto are unreasonably attached to cardinal directions on subway lines. But the TTC is right to (mostly) phase them out. They might have been okay in the days of two subway lines but they just don't make sense on complex systems. Knowing the cardinal direction is all but useless when...

I wouldn't equate those at all. Naming a street after a person in the area's history (putting aside the potential for that person to be considered problematic at some point in the future) or a significant national milestone has a lot more personality to it than a vague, anonymous buzzword like...

Don't forget "Commerce", "Progress", "Technology", and "Enterprise" in the list of cringy business park street names.

Sheppard between Kenneth and Bayview. Not quite finished yet.

It's rarely removing road capacity. It may be removing car capacity in certain cases, but that's not the same as removing road capacity. And removing car capacity (and on-street parking) can be justified in a growing city, especially if the space can be reallocated to more productive uses like...

The Increasing Gridlock, Costing You Time and Getting You Killed Act

Ontario's refusal to adopt standard transit signals to avoid this exact kind of confusion remains as baffling as ever.

Don't forget Billy Bishop. Including all four major airports in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor there are 57-72 daily flights according to that website.

Oh I see, you were referring to streetcars in their own right of way separated from traffic. My bad, I missed that part.

Dundas too, although it's only small sections that are currently separated.

How the cheapest form of transportation ever got associated with elitism of all things is one of those things that will break your brain if you try to make it make sense.

This isn't the choice we're facing though. Bike lanes improve economic output and their effect on car traffic is negligible at most. So the choice is: -remove bike lanes and get the same amount of congestion, worse economic output and worse safety -keep bike lanes and get the same amount of...

I've heard good things about Merida but I haven't been there myself. But your first pic is similar to what impressed me about Mexico City - the amount of greenery and landscaping on their major streets. Trees, shrubs, linear parks, and the sidewalks are largely made of stone or unit pavers. Here...

Ironically enough, Mexico City has lots of bike lanes and they make it pretty easy to get around if you don't want to cram onto the metro or metrobus.

If Ford gets reelected he's definitely not going to stop at Yonge, Bloor, and University, so this doesn't surprise me at all. And he's not going to stop at bike lanes either. The Fords have ranted about streetcars for decades, maybe those will be next in his crosshairs. Maybe the long dead...