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Category Archives: Toronto
A week of social distancing in Toronto
Ten days ago, I spent the day at City Hall and addressed the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. While I was following news of a novel coronavirus that was affecting China, Italy, and Iran, it wasn’t on my mind that day. … Continue reading
Posted in About me, Toronto, Walking
Tagged COVID-19, Social distancing, Toronto, Walks
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On right turns, advocacy, and civic democracy
On Wednesday, March 11, I deputed to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee at Toronto City Hall in support of a motion by Councillor Mike Layton to have city staff examine and report back on expanding right turn on red (RTOR) … Continue reading
Posted in About me, Politics, Toronto, Walking
Tagged City Hall, Denzil Minnan-Wong, Mike Layton, Pedestrian, Walk Toronto
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The consequences of losing the GO-TTC discount
When the Toronto subway system was extended by six stops to York University and Vaughan, it marked the first time the TTC’s rapid transit system extended beyond the city’s boundaries. But it also exposed a major failing of the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario, Politics, Toronto, Transit, Walking
Tagged Fare integration, Fares, GO Transit, Highway 407, Metrolinx, TTC, TTC Riders, York Region, York University
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The TTC needs customer buy-in, not a campaign of scolding its passengers
Imagine any retail store welcoming its customers the way the Toronto Transit Commission does these days. This week, at least two TTC streetcars were wrapped with messages promoting the transit agency’s new aggressive anti-fare evasion campaign. Any passenger caught by … Continue reading
Deadly by design: Supertest Road
On Tuesday, January 21, a 26-year-old woman was struck and killed by the driver of a tractor-trailer at the corner of Supertest Road and Alness Street in North York. According to police, the truck driver was making a right turn … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Roads, Toronto, Walking
Tagged Deadly by Design, North York, Pedestrian, Sidewalks, Walking
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Survey says… Torontonians demand safer streets
A mock-up of a re-imagined Danforth Avenue, Summer 2019 Yesterday, I met with fellow road safety advocates Keagan Gartz, executive director of Cycle Toronto, Gideon Forman from the David Suzuki Foundation, and Jessica Spieker, from Friends & Families for Safe … Continue reading
Posted in About me, Cycling, Toronto, Walking
Tagged Advocacy, CBC, Pedestrian, Walk Toronto, Yonge Street
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Some love for Ontario’s municipal flags
The flag of the City of Toronto, designed by Renato De Santis, is an example of a very good civic flag I was in Orillia last week, mainly to check out the new Simcoe County Lynx bus system. While there, … Continue reading
Posted in Brampton, Design, Ontario, Toronto
Tagged Ajax, Brampton, Flags, Hamilton, Mississauga, Orillia, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Toronto, vexillolography
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Disappearing GO-TTC fare discount a major blow to regional transit in Toronto
Updated January 22, 2020 The TTC-GO fare discount will officially come to an end on Tuesday March 31, 2020, with the TTC and Metrolinx unable to come to agreement to keep the fare subsidy going without provincial support. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario, Toronto, Transit
Tagged Fares, GO Transit, Metrolinx, SmartTrack, TTC, York University, YRT
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Unfair GO fares on the Highway 407 Corridor
Since 1967, GO Transit’s primary focus has been its commuter rail lines radiating from Downtown Toronto, sometimes to the detriment of other transit needs in the Greater Golden Horseshoe, with bus routes complementing and supplementing that rail network. But twenty … Continue reading
Posted in Ontario, Toronto, Transit
Tagged Fares, GO Transit, Highway 407, Metrolinx, York University
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A farewell to Toronto’s CLRV streetcars
The CLRV streetcars were the first transit vehicles I remember riding. Though the new streetcars are larger, fully accessible, and air conditioned, I will miss the CLRVs. Continue reading
