FastTrackTO is launching and releasing our 10 point plan to fix the Toronto Streetcar network. A symbol of the city that could be great with achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city.
https://t.co/9RpJtWQwtM
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Hi @311Toronto Do you know what is being constructed on Lansdowne and Brandon ?
The sidewalk has been completed damaged and is no longer wheelchair accessible
If there’s one thing stopping India from looking like a halfway decent country instead of a chaotic, third-world mess, it’s our failure to provide the basics: walkable sidewalks, clearly marked roads, and clean public spaces. And in a country that can launch mars missions, fixing a footpath somehow becomes an unsolvable problem.
That’s why it’s almost surreal to see someone in the upper political class finally acknowledge the importance of something as simple as walkable streets.
The embarrassing truth is: making neighborhoods clean, safe, and walkable is cheap, easy, and massively impactful.
But India rarely does it because:
-> It isn’t glamorous
-> It doesn’t involve fat contracts
-> It doesn’t generate hype like a deep-sea port, a coastal road, or a bullet train
What our politicians and bureaucracy fail to grasp is that walkable streets (along with strict traffic enforcement) would probably do more for the quality of life of ordinary Indians than every bullet train, coastal road, sea link, and megaproject combined.
As an example, I used AI to generate how a part of my hometown of Palghar would look if it does these basic steps.
Toronto has the worst traffic in the world.
There will never be a new highway within the city and Ontario line will take 20 years minimum to finish. Let’s make transit first option. https://t.co/tZnxK8BY0V #ttc
My statement on the Ontario Court's decision with respect to bike lanes in Toronto:
Bike lanes keep thousands of people safe. Everyone should be safe as they travel to work, school and around our city. Since 2023, 78 cyclists have been killed or seriously injured in collisions on the road.
I maintain that the City of Toronto and its elected council should be the ones making decisions about municipal infrastructure. Toronto City Council has voted to formally oppose the province’s plans to override the City’s authority and remove the lanes.
Every person cycling takes another car off the road. We are also tackling the root causes of congestion by hiring 100 traffic agents, speeding up construction by increasing fees for closing lanes, and improving subways, streetcars and buses so more people take public transit.
The City is reviewing the court decision and the impact on our ongoing discussions with the province.
This stunning @globeandmail photo essay documenting the restoration of the Don River mouth tells us something profound about who we are as a city:
1. Citizen activism matters. The citizen-led Task Force to Bring Back the Don worked tirelessly for over 30 years to keep the vision alive, hold politicians accountable, and demand the highest standards of environmental stewardship.
2. We’re capable of doing extraordinary things when we take the long view and commit to the hard work. This area was once a contaminated, degraded landscape. Decades of studies imagined the path forward, but as these images show, there was no substitute for patient, hands-on restoration.
3. This is the kind of work that calls on the best in us. Projects like this don’t happen without deep collaboration, technical excellence, and long-term commitment across many disciplines. They challenge us to rise to the occasion and to contribute our skills toward something lasting, something bigger than ourselves. Few undertakings are more worthy of our highest efforts.
As PM Carney launches a next generation of infrastructure projects, I hope this serves as proof that when we aim high and stay the course, we can build cities and a country worthy of the next generation.
https://t.co/7YESjQhf4P
Bad policy that doesn’t actually reduce gridlock. Efficient road policy is about moving the maximum amount of people, not the maximum amount of cars. #onpoli
The day it leaked that @fordnation is planning on banning new bike lanes, there was a new @BikeShareTO ridership record, over 34,000 trips! At 12% of total micro-mobility usage, this corresponds to about 280,000 total trips in one day. 280,000 cars taken off the road.