ArchiveOctober 2017

Zombie laws target pedestrians using their phones while walking. Aggressive or distracted drivers kill or seriously injure one person every two days in Toronto. Since 2005, their reckless behaviour has contributed to more than 2,000 pedestrians getting hit while just trying to walk in the city. So it takes some real gall to look at these numbers, included in Toronto’s Vision Zero Road Safety...

This is one of the vision's Sidewalk Labs has released for Toronto's eastern waterfront. You’re standing at Toronto’s eastern waterfront years from today, looking north. In front of you, the “city of the future” announced last week by Alphabet — Google’s parent company — has taken shape. As described in the vision document released by Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, the Quayside neighbourhood...

City transportation staff are recommending that council make the Bloor bike lanes permanent. The 19-page document, released last week, systemically uses a giant pile of data to destroy any and all potential objections to keeping the bike infrastructure in place permanently. Oh, you thought the lanes were underused? False. Counts show bike traffic is up 49 per cent. It’s already the second busiest...

Car2Go vehicles are, for the most part, found only in approved parking lots across the city. The company started letting people drop cars in residential neighbourhoods in 2016 but, in doing so, went against the wishes of city hall. When it comes to car sharing, Toronto is both a leader and a follower. The city leads in usage. Since April of 2016, when car share agency Car2go began to allow users...