how about the province release a business case on the existence of the newly-acquired gardiner expressway and how demolishing it can save 'ontario taxpayers' a few hundred million per year?
let's have a talk about provincial assets that are actually draining money, maybe?
Since the Gardiner is in the news I get to reiterate why it sucks:
-even pre-pandemic it didn't carry high volumes of people
-it's still big enough to completely overwhelm the street grid at every exit
-it takes up a huge amount of the most valuable land in the country
The lack of useable transit between Kitchener and Guelph on weekends Is unacceptable. It should not take 3 hours on transit for a 30 minute drive. We will continue to advocate to work towards reliable transit between Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Cambridge 7 days a week.
doctor who spoilers//
also, this is sci fi doing *exactly* what it does best - using a peculiar premise (eg. you meet a non-human alien) to make a point about real life (the fastest and most reliable way to figure out how someone would prefer to be addressed is to ask them)
Heres Translink advertising ON ITS WEBSITE that it needs to do various things to speed up its buses (https://t.co/StTeIHtHLM), TTC should do this with the streetcars!
The same dynamic exists in the North American context.
Toronto’s suburban tower boom of the 60s and 70s produced countless modernist high rises - many of which were “luxury condos.”
Today, they serve as critical low-income rental stock for the city’s most vulnerable minorities.
Standing (most seats were already taken) on the LRT last night at 9:45pm, I couldn’t help thinking that all these passengers won’t fit on the 7 bus.
It’s absolutely bonkers to cut evening service to 30 min but a great way to kill ridership & a transit culture @RegionWaterloo
#TransLink's Mayors' Council announces the first 3 #BRT routes.
Bus Rapid Transit:
- Prioritized: North Shore - Park Royal to Metrotown via 2nd Narrows
- King George Blvd: Guildford, Surrey City Centre & White Rock
- 200 St: Langley, Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge
#vanpoli#vanre
@augustAP12 Disregarding buses as transit is exactly why transit ridership is so lackluster in the US.
Massive underutilized light rail networks like Dallas or Denver would have way better ridership if they had frequent bus service feeding them
indianapolis is no transit bastion, but these posts are not telling about the actual state of transit in cities - indianapolis built a single 21-km brt line that costs less than many other US cities' much shorter streetcar systems, carries more ridership than them, and provides
the comic which is just calvin hammering nails into a table and his mother bursts in like WHAT are you DOING and he stares at her, and then at the table and back at her like 'is this a trick question'
changed my life
To observers outside BC, you might be tempted to say that "of course Vancouver's on the cutting edge of this" but I can't tell you how hard-fought it was, and how uncertain it still is. So much room for shenanigans. It is not easy to do this here.
If you're in BC, write your MLA and tell them you love the transit zoning bill. It's the most ambitious proposal we've seen in years, and I think the government's going to be under pressure to water it down https://t.co/PtDJl3h8W6