Matthias Schlaepfer

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

To fight climate change, COP26 calls for doubling public transportation and TransformTO for dedicated bus lanes. Toronto, instead, blocks surface transit with empty bike lanes on Yonge Street. Bravo Councillors! @DianneSaxe @JoshMatlow @NotOnYonge #TOpoli

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Fighting Climate Change Toronto-Style: one hour after Council made permanent the Yonge bike lanes - which block exclusive bus lanes called for by TransformTO on all arteries – the GHG-spewing shuttle bus chaos re-started.@BeRationalTO @NotOnYonge @DianneSaxe @JoshMatlow #TOpoli

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Unbiased global research? Isn't this a blog of a local advocacy group that pushes bike lanes, that justified the erratic rationale for the harmful Yonge bike lanes, and that used to be chaired by a now senior city official directing bike lanes?@JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow

[Mike Layton @m_layton]

Concerned about safety on streets for all users? Want to fight climate change? Want to reduce traffic congestion? Guess what global research suggests is the answer?

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

When will Toronto start conducting multi-modal transportation planning processes BEFORE willy-nilly removing travel lanes that cause CHAOS for transit and traffic alike? @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[NotOnYonge @NotOnYonge]

@JohnTory @ActonForMayor
Traffic Services Superintendent Scott Baptist joined by Mayor John Tory to Announce “Keep Toronto Moving”, Is this moving? TTC is a public service? Is this service? Nothing moving here Wasn’t this a last @JohnCampaign promise? #Tory’s Traffic!

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Despite this massive intensification, ActiveTO is blind to the cumulative impacts on transit and traffic on Yonge and, instead, collects data on the past and present - not engaging in growth-focused multi-modal transportation planning.@JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Not quite the same: the 2022 Little Italy Festival expected 500,000 visitors while the 2019 Taste of the Danforth had an attendance of 1,600,000. Still having high hopes for 2022?

[Mike Layton @m_layton]

Sad to see the Taste cancelled this year. Have high hopes for 2022. Taste of Little Italy worked out well last weekend despite a huge CafeTO installation along that street.

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

After 4 years of unrelated 'studies' and confirmation bias - without Chief Planner, or references to growth projections, or any Q2 2019 interim findings - staff sticks to 2-lane link between Downtown and Midtown. Anyone supervising? @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Councillor Layton thinks “data would support” permanent Yonge bike lanes but ignores that current data disregards impacts from Yonge’s central role in the growing regional transit network and TransformTO’s call for dedicated bus lanes.@JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Yonge cut down to 2 lanes supposed to accommodate: construction vehicles for 25 towers; fire trucks; ambulances; regular, shuttle, and future relief buses; delivery trucks; garbage trucks; school buses; taxis; cars … and odd cyclist. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

ActiveTO and Councillors pushing bike lanes on Yonge are oblivious to the impact on transit and traffic of the planned intensification – a basic principle of sustainability – and hide behind data of historic and current conditions. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Toronto will never get the needed mode shift to transit if the TTC must alert subway passengers that shuttle buses cannot carry all due to road congestion – caused on Yonge by replacing two travel lanes with bike lanes. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton @NotOnYonge

[Mike Layton @m_layton]

That’s kinda there point isn’t it. It’s what other jurisdictions do. Toronto is no different - Build safer infrastructure and the mode share shifts.

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Board of Trade map shows why car share in the GGH is 77.6% and in Toronto 58.4% - almost 4 times as high as in Paris with 15.8%, still considered a peer city by some Councillors who push Yonge bike lanes that block transit.@JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton @NotOnYonge

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

11 Councillors against evidence-based choices voted NO to getting granular data of emergency response times for Yonge. The fire truck escaped gridlock only because no concrete cycle track barriers here blocked cars from moving over. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Complete Street CHAOS ON YONGE June 11: Shuttle buses for PLANNED subway shutdown trapped in 2-lane jam with TTC warning of delays while City pretends to pursue TransformTO net zero goals. Count the cyclists! @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton @BeRationalTO @NotOnYonge

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Prioritizing transit is a fundamental principle of sustainability. Bike lanes on Yonge where they obstruct regular, shuttle, and relief buses – all needed in 2026 when Line 1 reaches its capacity according to the TTC - do the opposite.@JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

The identical street scene seen from the south on the same day reveal the Complete Street Chaos that compelled the TTC to issue a Service Alert warning passengers of delays due to road congestion. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton @BeRationalTO @NotOnYonge

[Robin Richardson she/her 🚲 @CanadaRobin]

Love the complete street design at Yonge & St. Clair! Safe & comfortable infrastructure for young and old, whether they walk, roll, take transit, or drive. 😊

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Even prior to higher provincial growth targets and planned network extensions, Metrolinx exposed in 2015 Line 1 capacity gaps requiring major relief interventions, including priority surface transit – needs simply ignored by ActiveTO. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Complete Street CHAOS ON YONGE June 10: Regular buses and shuttle buses for unplanned subway closure stuck in gridlock on 2-lane road while City pretends to fight climate change. Count the cyclists! @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @DenzilMW @joshmatlow @m_layton @BeRationalTO @NotOnYonge

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

Active TO Midtown "Additional Data". At Summerhill on 08 June 2022 at 12:26 pm and 19° C: travel lane - packed; bike lane - empty. Isn't it time for a real traffic study as done for eglintonTOday, yongeTOmorrow, or REimagining Yonge? @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton

[Matthias Schlaepfer @msch_arch]

The likely need for a large volume of construction traffic in a 2 km stretch of Yonge Street with 25 major developments in the pipeline was not even a factor in Active TO Midtown’s flimsy corridor evaluation. @JohnTory @JayeRobinson @joshmatlow @m_layton @BeRationalTO @NotOnYonge