This is ridiculous. Law-breaking cyclists are not the problem. Law-breaking drivers, who maim and kill people regularly, are the problem. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
Good for CBC’s @PaulaDuhatschek for pulling this data. 15 incidents in 15 years. None of them fatal.
Thousands of people have been hit by cars in Toronto, hundreds of them killed, in that time. For most of which Toronto police deliberately abdicated their responsibility to enforce traffic laws. theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/m…
In the mentions, lots of “bikes make me feel unsafe.” Here is what makes you actually unsafe.
In 10 years, two people have been killed by drivers within 50m of that corner. One was sitting on a Starbucks patio at the time.
We all accept that arterial roads are places where large vehicles constantly speed and ignore signals, and sometimes people just die. That is a problem.
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I watched a public consultation last night for this new City of Toronto project, which is half middle-income affordable. It was greeted by some really appalling NIMBYism. Nearby condo owners concerned about “crime.” 1/
And “it’s too tall,” and traffic, all the usual complaints. For a new rental complex replacing a parking lot, in a cluster of highrises, next to a multibillion-dollar new subway. 2/
Very solid site plan and decent prototype architecture. What’s not to like? 3/
Toronto; now one of the least affordable cities in the world, and its planning department is openly saying it doesn’t need to increase the pace of housing construction. 1/ #topoli
This analysis doesn’t even try to account for what things will cost or for how all this “housing” will be allocated. Hard to summarize how misleading this is. 2/
I can only assume this is meant to discourage the prov government from pushing (progressive, necessary, beneficial) infill goals on the city. But why would planners do that in the first place? 3/
Her interest in plants began in childhood, encouraged by her mother the horticulturalist and author Beate Hahn 2/
After escaping Nazi Germany, she studied at @smithcollege and @HarvardGSD, then worked with pioneers of modernist landscape architecture. This project with Dan Kiley and Louis Kahn, Mill Creek public housing in Phila, drawing via @ccawire 3/
My piece on Toronto schools and what should happen to them: keep them public (and if they are sold, sell them smart). theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…
These places have important public functions and government should figure out a way to maintain them 2/
News: the board’s real estate agency says they may have six or seven big sites for redevelopment. They floated this apparently theoretical proposal for 1 Danforth Ave. 3/