Toronto Shows How Easy It Is to Speed Up Surface Transit
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It only cost Toronto $1.5 million to clear cars off King Street and dramatically sped up streetcar trips for tens of thousands of people.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Toronto
Toronto Has a Plan to Clear the Way for Streetcars Stuck in Traffic
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Toronto's busiest surface transit route could get a big upgrade as part of a year-long pilot project -- if it clears the Toronto City Council this summer, where suburban interests have a history of rejecting transit initiatives.
Parking Madness: Toronto vs. Medford, Massachusetts
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It's Parking Madness season at Streetsblog, and if you're just joining us, this year's competition is all about how we sabotage transit by surrounding stations with huge fields of parking. First round action continues today as Toronto takes on the Boston suburb of Malden. Vote for the worst to send it through to the round of eight.
Toronto’s Simple Measure to Cut Traffic and Improve Transit: Toll Highways
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The funds would support road repair and transit -- and should improve congestion at the same time.
Two Very Different Ways Bike-Share Benefits Transit
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A new survey [PDF] by researchers at UC Berkeley and published in Access Magazine sheds light on how bike-share systems interact with transit. Researchers Susan Shaheen and Elliot Martin surveyed more than 10,000 bike-share riders in Montreal, Toronto, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Washington, DC. Like previous surveys have shown, Shaheen and Martin found that a significant number of bike-share users reduce car use. But their […]
19’s Plenty: Toronto Drops Speed Limit to 19 MPH on Residential Streets
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“There is no war on the car,” said Toronto City Councillor Paula Fletcher. “There’s basically been this continued war on people who don’t have a car.” To remedy that situation, Fletcher, along with all of her colleagues on the Toronto and East York community council, voted last week to reduce speed limits to 30 kph (or 18.6 […]