Chris Livett

Toronto man calls for better enforcement of off-leash dogs after crash sends him to hospital | CBC News A Toronto man is on the hunt for his unleashed four-legged attacker and its owner after a crash in Christie Pits Park on July 6 left him with a fractured ankle.

A few weeks ago my life changed suddenly when an unleashed dog running in a park crashed into with my ankle

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Since then, I can’t believe how many similar stories I’ve heard. Clearly, off-leash dogs are a real threat to safety

Toronto man calls for better enforcement of off-leash dogs after crash sends him to hospital | CBC News A Toronto man is on the hunt for his unleashed four-legged attacker and its owner after a crash in Christie Pits Park on July 6 left him with a fractured ankle.

A few weeks ago my life changed suddenly when an unleashed dog running in a park crashed into with my ankle

Article: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Video: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Since then, I can’t believe how many similar stories I’ve heard. Clearly, off-leash dogs are a real threat to safety

Main character syndrome

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Helsinki hasn't had a traffic fatality in a year: "Helsinki's current traffic safety strategy, covering 2022–2026, is nearing completion. It has focused on improving safety for children, youth, pedestrians and cyclists with safer crosswalks and smarter intersection design."

~150000 daily drivers on the Gardiner stuck in congestion - politicians at all levels leap into action to accelerate construction and fall over each other to talk solutions, a million daily subway riders trapped in slow zones . . . Almost nothing from our politicians.

Supply and demand isn’t something you can “ignore”. If a seller tries to demand a price far above the market price, it just won’t sell.

Developers and landlords don’t have this mystical power to demand whatever amount they want. It only seems like that if you live in a tight housing market.

The US is unusual in believing that nonsensical boundaries, like those of the City of Los Angeles, are as permanent as mountains.

Britain revises the boundaries of 1000-year old shires whenever they stop making sense.

Great column. If you include Hamilton and Niagara, the population south of the GTA is approximately the same as Alberta. Yet we never discuss the economic powerhouse that is Southern Ontario and have no plan for how to improve any aspect of it.

68km light rail network

Carries fewer people per day than the 47 Lansdowne bus

Yet, it’s pointed to as a success and worthy of emulation

Aww thanks! 🙏

Fundamentally, it’s about recognizing that suburban land use requires transit that allows passengers to travel longer distances in a reasonable amount of time

Unfortunately, this transit project isn’t going to do much to improve access to jobs, services, friends, or family

And I want a toilet made out of solid gold, but it’s just not in the cards now, is it?

Just you wait until Hurontario Street transforms into a vibrant Parisian neighbourhood thanks to the transformative power of light rail! :P

The key part of the GO Expansion/RER project is to turn train schedules like the one on the left into the one on the right

Regular 15-min or better service, 7 days a week

This is a service that’s attractive to both existing and potential riders

well at least you didn't try

But the heritage description says that it's an excellent example of early 20th century low-cost construction methods!

(Seriously. It's cited as an example of the low-cost alternative to arched trainsheds)

"It's a heritage structure, so let's demolish and replace only 1/5th of it"

Yeah, I don't get it either

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And English was a great asset to the Toronto Board of Trade who ignored his (and others) policy work there and instead are happy to cheer on Doug Fords 401 Tunnel and other non-problem-solving politcs.

Last comment: The fact that Jonathan English who has now written up *two* coherent regional rail plans (arguably two more than Metrolinx) and released them to the public isn't running Metrolinx is crazy. I think that neither feature "GO" branding is interesting.

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The Union Station Train Shed Should Go. A historical structure that hurts Toronto.

Union Station’s train shed should be removed or relocated. It’s outdated, unloved, and constraining transit in a major global city. Ironically, Doug Ford could pull it off with no political cost. Heritage matters—but not at the expense of mobility.
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Just asked a California transit manager if the state's Zero Emission Bus mandate is causing them to run less service than they otherwise would.

He said: "Yes, definitely."

A diesel bus only has to get 4 ppl out of cars to be better for the planet than an electric bus.

Hmm.

Toronto currently doesn't allow their transit priority system to insert a transit phase for streetcars going straight, even though the system is able to. Streetcars need to wait for left turns.

If the City also disallows phase insertion on LRT lines that would be an insult to ON taxpayers.

Opinion: Canada’s real comparative advantage is public transit. That should be our trade-war strategy This country stands head-and-shoulders above the United States when it comes to urban transportation, and the trade war offers a powerful opportunity

Really proud to have written a piece in the Globe and Mail with @wklumpen.bsky.social about why investing in transit is a great approach to soften the blow of the trade war!

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So gas prices (AND density) are higher in Santa Ana?

But transit use is higher in Brampton?

This suggests to me that gas prices don’t have much explanatory power. The value of time spent wasted waiting for an infrequent bus is worth a lot more than the difference in gas prices between locales

How Did This Suburb Figure Out Mass Transit? Transit ridership is off the charts in Brampton, Ontario, despite its typical low-density suburban layout. Here’s how the city got residents to get on the bus.

I've written an article on the extraordinary transit success of Brampton, how it was achieved, and the lessons it has for other suburban areas in North America. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The power of clockface scheduling!

Because trips depart at the same times every hour, 7 days a week, my friend can easily write the entire LRT schedule for his local station on his kitchen whiteboard

Since he knows it takes exactly 4 minutes to walk to the station, no time is wasted!

Not to flex but anyone who followed Elon's hyperloop arc saw this coming a mile away. He said he could save 90% over high speed rail by ... buying land cheaper.

That was it, he never offered any further specifics and the media utterly failed to convey how much of a charlatan he was.

Congratulations, you just invented Lower Wacker Drive

Some thoughts on Chinese subways after a bit of riding

1. The platform seems defined by a standard rectangular box with platform screen doors, no obstructing pillars and a combo of escalator and fixed stair. It’s a very attractive product and worthy of emulation.

Great to hear from Eric Goldwyn on how to manage increasing transit project costs