By Dylan Reid
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Paying for transit in the GTHA: minor options
The CivicAction report (PDF) on reliable transit funding lists a variety of options that would raise smaller amounts of money for building new transit...
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Funding transit in the GTHA, addendum: transit fare surcharge
One option that was not discussed in the CivicAction report on transit funding for the GTHA, but which I suspect will end up being part of the discussion...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA 4: Regional sales tax
The last of the “big four” revenue tools for transit funding identified in the CivicAction report is a regional sales tax. In the increasing...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA 3: Gas tax
Continuing my series from last week on potential revenue tools to pay for transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area, today we come to a regional...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA 2: Highway tolls
Road tolls are one of the oldest and most common forms of paying for transportation infrastructure — they go back millenia, and although they are...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA,1: Commercial Parking Levy
In this series on the different options for raising the $2 billion/year needed to pay for new transit in the GTHA, I am starting with the idea of a...
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Paying for transit in the GTHA: The big four
The Toronto region is very congested, and if it is going to continue to grow, it needs more and better public transit. At this point in time, most people...
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Those Photoshopped people in architecture images
The image above, from the new plans for the Port Lands, reminded me that Mark Kingwell points out how the random people added into architectural...
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New plan actually improves the Port Lands
Last week, Waterfront Toronto released a revision of the plans for the Port Lands (pictured below). The revision was part of the “Port Lands...
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Neither snow, nor ice, nor sleet will keep a kid from walking to school
Do children let bad weather stop them from walking to school? One of the reasons some parents give for driving their kids to school is the climate —...
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Looking under the hood of transportation policy
Our ideas about travel behaviour provide the foundation of transportation policy. Is rail transit really more attractive to potential users than buses...
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Separating bike lanes
Toronto needs separated bike lanes — on wide, fast roads such as the Richmond/Adelaide corridor, suburban Eglinton Avenue where the LRT will be...