Traffic
LORINC: What Toronto should learn from Hamburg’s self-driving shuttle pilot
By John Lorinc
HAMBURG, GERMANY — At some point in 2019, the first of three curiously upright shuttle vehicles will begin tooling around a 3.6km loop... Read More
LORINC: Sidewalk Labs, autonomous vehicles, and the persistent myth of driver error
By John Lorinc
LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum — When Sidewalk Labs unveiled its plans for Toronto’s... Read More
LORINC: Toronto’s road safety shame
By John Lorinc
LEIPZIG, GERMANY, reporting from the International Transport Forum — The contrast could scarcely be starker: with yet another death... Read More
Athletic traffic planning: Moving thousands of fans on game day
By David Hains
When the Leafs or Blue Jays play a home game, Doug Tuira doesn’t watch to see if Auston Matthews will score an overtime winner or... Read More
The wrong answer to a tragic death of a boy walking home from school
By Sean Marshall
On Tuesday, February 27, around 3:30 PM, Duncan Xu, an 11-year old boy, was struck and killed by a motorist in a residential... Read More
“Distracted walking” laws make no sense
By Dylan Reid
The spectre of “distracted walking” apparently haunts our streets. The scare has been raised again through a private... Read More
REID: “You cannot talk fatalities down” – international insights on walking and cycling
By Dylan Reid
When I asked Anders Lie, the Swedish expert on the Vision Zero traffic safety program, about cities (like Toronto) where politicians... Read More
Toronto’s strange climate change plan in the age of Trump
By John Lorinc
When U.S. president Donald Trump announced last week that he’d decided to abandon the historic Paris Accord, national and sub-national... Read More
LORINC: Wynne’s U-turn on road tolls dangerous for Tory
By John Lorinc
Since the news of the Liberals’ reversal on road tolls for the Gardiner and the Don Valley Parkway began to leak last Thursday... Read More
LORINC: A watchdog for all those $2 road tolls
By John Lorinc
During the (only half-finished) debate over John Tory’s road tolls scheme, the mayor offered up what looked mostly like a... Read More