Traffic
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OP-ED: Addressing Toronto’s congestion will take more than technology
In a recent ranking index, Toronto is listed as the third worst congested city in the world (after London and Dublin). The metric used by the company...
By Mahtot Gebresselassie and Tricia Wood -
OP-ED: When Process is the Enemy of Progress
Politicians and government bureaucrats love process. Let’s not rush to blame them, though, because there’s a lot to love. Carrying out a...
By Roger Morier and Jonathan Schmidt -
The debate about e-scooters on Toronto streets will speed up in 2024
Ontario’s first attempts to keep pedestrians safe on our roads began a century ago in 1923 with the passage of the Highway Traffic Act. Back then, the...
By Glenn Miller -
OP-ED: Noise Pollution – no defense from a slow killer
My friend and I both nearly jumped out of our skin. The difference between us is that I could see it coming. Two rows of vehicles were stopped at a red...
By Ingrid Buday -
A year-end interview with Mayor Olivia Chow
With the final council session of the year now in the rear-view mirror, Mayor Olivia Chow is spending part of this week powering through year-end...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Road Safety for All — What’s Not to Like?
By Albert Koehl and Roger Morier, road safety advocates and members of the We Belong on Bloor campaign of Community Bikeways. There’s nothing new about...
By Albert Koehl -
REID: The pedestrian blood sacrifice
In the early 2000s, I moved into a new condo building in the Garment District south-west of Queen and Spadina. The area had been mostly an employment area...
By Dylan Reid -
OP-ED: Reining in Uber
In October, City Council temporarily paused issuing ride-hailing licenses for Lyft and Uber at 52,000, or ten times the pre-Uber average of taxi licenses...
By Thorben Wieditz -
OP-ED: “Vision One” – killing pedestrians one at a time
On the Friday of the Civic Holiday weekend, a woman was struck and killed crossing Vaughan Road at Atlas Ave, just up the street from me. It was bound to...
By Gillian Kranias -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 072, From Leipzig With Love
This Spring, Spacing Radio had the opportunity to take the show on the road to the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany. Now that the whole...
By Spacing Radio -
OP-ED: Motor mania and the mayoral hopefuls
Toronto’s mayoral hopefuls are wise to give all due respect to the demands of the city’s most dogged optimist: the motor enthusiast. For over...
By Albert Koehl -
REID: Is it time for a vehicle registration tax to help fix Toronto’s roads?
Toronto’s streets are in terrible shape. I notice this as a pedestrian, trying to cross at intersections where the zebra stripes that define my safe(r...
By Dylan Reid