Category: Traffic
Updated on June 8, 2015
Narrow majority of Toronto council ready to reconnect city to Lake Ontario by replacing section of freeway
Metro Toronto council is just a day away from an historic vote on whether or not to tear down the eastern section of the Gardiner Expressway, an elevated freeway that has cut off the city from Lake Ontario… Read More
Updated on May 12, 2015
Vancouver closing in on walking, cycling, transit goals five years early, but cloud hangs over transit’s future
Vancouver is on track to achieve its Greenest City goal of having 50 percent of all trips in the city by walking, cycling or transit five years ahead of schedule, according to a report to council today, but… Read More
Updated on March 26, 2015
Thousands of conversations: notes from the #yesfortransit campaign trail
“Where can I get my Yes button?” demanded the woman next to the back door on the Number 50. “You can have mine,” I told her. “I can’t wear it where I’m going now,” she told me in… Read More
Posted on February 16, 2015
With cost of driving about 21 cents a kilometre, or $16.69 an hour, a “No” vote will be expensive
Buried deep in the new Mayors’ Council assessment on the cost of congestion — about $2 billion if the Mayor’s Plan investments in transportation and traffic are not approved — is the conclusion that the cost of driving… Read More
