Transportation planner, cyclist, amateur disc golfer, GIS, and lifelong Red Wings fan. @adamVV@mas.to
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24 people in 20 cars holding up all these folks getting on and off the streetcar on Dundas at Yonge
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The City of Toronto is planning improvements to road design, vulnerable road user safety, and cycling infrastructure in the Oakwood area.
Attend the public drop-in event tonight at 6:00 at the Oakwood Village Library and share your voice.
Find out more:
toronto.ca/community-people/…
ALT A map of the Oakwood area. Image: City of Toronto
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A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years apnews.com/article/hoboken-z…
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"The cyclist, a 60-year-old woman, was travelling east on McNicoll Ave when she was hit by the driver making a left turn." Scarborough is a tough place to be a VRU. Sending loads of love. Ghost bike ride in the works @RespectTO thestar.com/news/gta/cyclist…
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Tomorrow night, the #CityofTO is hosting the first of four public drop-in sessions to receive feedback on planned bikeways between 2025-2027. Visit toronto.ca/cyclingnetwork/in… to learn more about drop-in dates and locations, and how you can share your input online. #BikeTO
ALT People cycle in a two-way bikeway in a protected intersection, with pedestrians on the left sidewalk and a bus in the motor vehicle travel lane to the right.
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To those complaining that speed-limiting tech is an attack on their freedom:
You do realize that -- by definition -- speeding is illegal, right? People are not free to do illegal things.
Last week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that speed-limiting technology be required on all new cars.
It’s an excellent idea. @USDOT should do it.
My latest in @FastCompany. 🧵 below
fastcompany.com/90985257/you…
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I really like these new road bump-outs in Harbord Village. These simple interventions manage stormwater, increase canopy cover, calm traffic and protect pedestrians. Let's replicate them across the city.
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Two people died on this street after being hit by speeding drivers. Speeding drivers cost two people their lives.
Don’t speed. Don’t get a ticket. Simple.
One single Toronto speed camera has cost drivers nearly $2.3 million in tickets blogto.com/city/2023/03/one-… #Toronto
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A person has never seen an avocado. You hand it to them expecting them to visualize guac dip. Not gonna happen.
You send out community surveys asking residents to give advice about transportation networks. They have no idea what's possible.
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Good morning Canada! Lots to come today.
I made it my goal the past few weeks to tell as many stories about *who* Canada's national team is ahead of their return to the World Cup. I hope readers have learned something from them. Here's a few I've enjoyed: 1/? #CanMNT
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The lesson:
Some drivers inevitably hem and haw over car-free streets, but many, many residents love them, especially after experiencing them for themselves.
Politicians: Don't focus on the grumpy car owners. If you create better streets, voters will reward you.
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During the pandemic, Toronto's parking spaces generated way more revenue as patios. An analysis estimated that customers spent $181 million in the street patio spaces compared to the $3.7 million the same spaces would have generated in parking revenue.
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Real good news: standing room only at this speed limit reduction session at Canada’s biggest traffic engineer gathering. “We’ve seen great results from North American cities who reduce speed limits. Whether you just change it or calm traffic at the same time, you get results.”
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Transport words that make no sense:
— Freeways are the opposite of free
— Congestion pricing is actually about decongestion
— Downtown that could be up-town
— There is no rush during rush hour because everyone barely moves
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Social interactions between neighbors on light traffic streets are far higher than streets where cars are dominate. So let’s build streets for communities and not cars! – at Queens, NY
ALT Social interactions on three streets: heavy, moderate, and light traffic
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Safer Intersections Act passes first vote at D.C. Council 13-0. The bill:
- Bans right turn at red lights at ALL traffic lights by 2025. D.C. would be 2nd city after NYC to do it.
- Allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs if the intersection is clear of peds, vehicles
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Volunteers turn part of Yonge Street into pop-up park as part of car-free event downtown
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DOTs: Your job is not to cater to cars. Your job is to manage the space between buildings for the greatest public benefit.
ALT Picture of a pedestrian street in Antwerp with a very large crowd of people. There was a lot of deep shade in this picture so I used a filter to bring out details in the lower portion. I think I was standing on a fountain or some other street furniture to get more people in the shot.
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this is a great essay on what "ban cars" actually means:
"Car ownership simply [shouldn't] be the price of admission for full participation in society."
jalopnik.com/what-i-mean-whe…