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Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

The City Bids site looks like:

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I look at the Open list quite often but recently looked at the "Pending" list and saw only very old items so asked why they were 'pending" I got a response saying..

"The “Pending Awards” page includes historical solicitations that were issued before SAP Ariba became the City’s sourcing platform. Although they appear under “Pending Awards,” they are in fact archived and no longer active."

One would have thought they could call the page "Archived Awards" as "Pending" is VERY misleading but ......
 
DSCToronto said:
The City Bids site looks like:

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I look at the Open list quite often but recently looked at the "Pending" list and saw only very old items so asked why they were 'pending" I got a response saying..

"The “Pending Awards” page includes historical solicitations that were issued before SAP Ariba became the City’s sourcing platform. Although they appear under “Pending Awards,” they are in fact archived and no longer active."

One would have thought they could call the page "Archived Awards" as "Pending" is VERY misleading but ......
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I don’t ever look at bids so I have something wrong here, but there are many hundreds of the 830 on the “pending” list that are from the past year and have an Ariba URL, so when they say that the list “includes” archived ones, I believe mean on top of ones that really are pending, so renaming the list would be misleading in the other direction.

It could be there’s a work item to create a new page for ones archived but the backlog is huge, with the priority and severity for this scoring low.
 
Northern Light said:
I think the snow route/ tow zone signage is a real improvement:

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Yes indeed and I hope they also look at SIMPLIFYING all traffic signage (i.e. simplifying the by-laws they are based on) and not have too many different schedules - Maybe one for Monday - Saturday and one for Sunday or one for Monday to Friday and then one for Saturday and Sunday. Too often there are minor differences in the active hours that simply clutter the signage and make them more confusing than they need to be.
 
DSCToronto said:
Yes indeed and I hope they also look at SIMPLIFYING all traffic signage (i.e. simplifying the by-laws they are based on) and not have too many different schedules - Maybe one for Monday - Saturday and one for Sunday or one for Monday to Friday and then one for Saturday and Sunday. Too often there are minor differences in the active hours that simply clutter the signage and make them more confusing than they need to be.
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Agreed.

I would like to see:

Rush Hours harmonized to 7-10am, and 3-7pm across the board for the purposes of restrictions.

For those that apply in rushhour+daytime I'd prefer 7 days a week, 7am-7pm (easy to remember)

For permit parking, (that's a big one with all sorts of odd times) I'd like to see it sorted to 11pm-7am on every road where it exists, no exceptions.
 
Northern Light said:
Agreed.

I would like to see:

Rush Hours harmonized to 7-10am, and 3-7pm across the board for the purposes of restrictions.

For those that apply in rushhour+daytime I'd prefer 7 days a week, 7am-7pm (easy to remember)

For permit parking, (that's a big one with all sorts of odd times) I'd like to see it sorted to 11pm-7am on every road where it exists, no exceptions.
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This is where I'd jump on my 24-hour clock soapbox :p - way easier to see at first glance. Also, we definitely need to get rid of the exceptions that land on the 30-minutes of every hour. Too much text
 
Northern Light said:
Agreed.

I would like to see:

Rush Hours harmonized to 7-10am, and 3-7pm across the board for the purposes of restrictions.

For those that apply in rushhour+daytime I'd prefer 7 days a week, 7am-7pm (easy to remember)

For permit parking, (that's a big one with all sorts of odd times) I'd like to see it sorted to 11pm-7am on every road where it exists, no exceptions.
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Agreed. It blows my mind that the moment it turns 9 am, some asshole is allowed to park in the right lane of a crucial arterial like Dundas or Queen, blocking the lane and causing gridlock for everyone else trying to get to work. RUSH HOUR DOES NOT MAGICALLY END AT 9 AM - that's still the height of it. It drives me crazy that the city allows this.
 
Northern Light said:
Agreed.

I would like to see:

Rush Hours harmonized to 7-10am, and 3-7pm across the board for the purposes of restrictions.

For those that apply in rushhour+daytime I'd prefer 7 days a week, 7am-7pm (easy to remember)

For permit parking, (that's a big one with all sorts of odd times) I'd like to see it sorted to 11pm-7am on every road where it exists, no exceptions.
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YES!!! The more complicated the Rules are the more confusing the SIGNAGE becomes! Good to look at sign-design but at same time they MUST look at the RULES too!!!
 
JasonParis said:
These should be in 24-hour time. Less confusion, more concise. Sadly, both our city and the TTC seem averse to this, despite it being standard with Metrolinx.
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Honestly I think 24-hour time would be more confusing, not less. Then you need to mentally convert it to 12-hour time, which is not efficient and goes against the idea of making things easier to read. We don't live in Europe, 24-hour time is not the standard here, even though Metrolinx uses it.
 
Dan416 said:
Honestly I think 24-hour time would be more confusing, not less. Then you need to mentally convert it to 12-hour time, which is not efficient and goes against the idea of making things easier to read. We don't live in Europe, 24-hour time is not the standard here, even though Metrolinx uses it.
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Possible, certainly anything new takes getting used to for some. But I favour the 24-clock as well, because it avoids any AM/PM confusion.

It should be said, in a City with multitudes of immigrants, many come from places where the 24-h clock is in more common usage.

Germany, Italy, France, Thailand, Israel and Argentina are among countries where the 24-hour clock is in wide use.

Closer to home, see Quebec. Your favourite primetime show on Radio Canada is Sundays at 22:00h.

We managed to adopt Metric, mostly, and to Celsius, by comparison, the 24-h clock is a breeze.
 
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