Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Toronto

Currently, streetcars get bogged down down in private car traffic on King Street, Toronto's busiest surface transit route. A new plan would divert private vehicles out of the path of transit. Photo: booledozer/Flickr

Toronto Has a Plan to Clear the Way for Streetcars Stuck in Traffic

By Stephen Miller | May 15, 2017 | 4 Comments

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

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 20, 2017 | 19 Comments

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.

"Tolling Toronto's Gardiner Expressway and one other highway could help the city function better. Photo; Wikipedia

Toronto’s Simple Measure to Cut Traffic and Improve Transit: Toll Highways

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2016 | 6 Comments

The funds would support road repair and transit -- and should improve congestion at the same time.

19’s Plenty: Toronto Drops Speed Limit to 19 MPH on Residential Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 2, 2015 | 10 Comments

“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 […]

Toronto City Council Blows Its Chance to Transform Downtown

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 12, 2015 | 23 Comments

Tearing down Toronto’s Gardiner East Expressway would remove a hulking blight from downtown, improve access to the waterfront, open up land for walkable development, and save hundreds of millions of dollars compared to rebuilding the highway. But that didn’t convince the City Council. In a 24-21 vote yesterday, the Council opted to rebuild the aging Gardiner with some […]

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