Ah but you see, cars are the only viable modern transit so we made our model not count bike trips as valid trips and also made our models assume no one will be biking for the next 20 years cause as we keep adding car lanes and increasing lane number and car speeds, cyclists have been decreasing. We also made sure to not even include existing bike routes in our transportation model.
Minister of car dependancy
It may get to a point where tax dollars are wasted having undercover cop cars, maybe even plain clothes officers, watching the cameras for vandals
Ticketing people for going under the limit is not wise. The biggest issue is due to inclement weather. We don’t want people driving faster than is safe for conditions due to fear of a ticket.
Some speed bumps are designed to specifically accommodate emergency vehicles as most emergency vehicles will have a wider axle width than regular cars and trucks.
At no point did the article claim a desire to ban cars, we are just asking cars to go the posted limit. The idea that hating car dependancy is classist and racist is absurd. Providing free public transit can be one of the most effective ways to lift people up in society. Plenty of people would use their electric scooter in the winter. Tons of people have fun all winter in cold conditions riding snow mobiles, the same gear that works for them could keep a scooter rider warm. The bigger issue for scooter riders is our cities refuse to maintain safe infrastructure for them.
Its too expensive is more than just an excuse. Good luck convincing a city council to go way into debt upgrading every single road all at once. The people building the road want to be paid, council needs the dollars to pay them and they only have so much. Short of redesigning the entire economy and function of the country, we can’t redesign or fix the roads without money.
What we can do is slowly improve one road at a time with more reasonable spending, for example making significant redesigns when the road is due for rehabilitation instead of just hiring a company to copy and paste new asphalt and paint. It will inflate rehab costs but the improvements will be worth it and save more money over time.
Both is good, because the way our streets are designed are both dangerous and expensive. Narrowing that 40 zone by the school can remove excess road space that now doesn’t need to be maintained, cleaned, plowed, or salted. The excess space could be used by school, have trees planted, or be used for alternative transport like transit or bikes.
The roads are currently designed to prioritize driver throughput and provide “wiggle room” for driver error, often at the expense of people outside of the vehicle. Many of the concepts that engineers use to make highways safe were applied to city streets, which in hindsight maybe we don’t want our city streets to be designed like highways.
Toronto is in Canada which doesn’t have much of a prison industrial complex. Drivers will have their lisences taken away before they are facing prison time for simple speeding offenses. Extreme speeding or dangerous driving could see people serving time but nobody is going to jail over a ASE ticket. Unpaid ASE tickets will cause your cars registration to fail to renew, making it illegal to drive which often will not result in prison time unless you repeatedly drive without registration/lisencing.
It may actually be a net positive in job creation between the installation, maintaince, and bureaucratic stuff.
Didn’t doug run after his brother? I’m not 100% familiar with Torontos political history i just remember something about doug not winning mayor of Toronto.
On the one hand, you are right and that is the ultimate solution. On the other hand it will cost millions to redesign one road whereas the cameras cost thousands to operate. The cameras can be used as a band aid solution but when the road is due for repaving or rehabilitation, it should be redesigned.
There could be some middle ground by adding those flappy sticks to narrow the lane and make turns sharper, requiring slower speeds, at intersections until the road can be properly rehabilitated.
Unfortunately it’s just too expensive to properly fix and redesign every road in the city. Even the posterchild of safe streets, The Netherlands, didn’t get safe streets overnight, they did the above strategy of making streets safer when they were due to be rehabilitated.
To be fair he didn’t really offer. He threw around the term buck a beer a couple times but booze has actually been increasing in price since hes been elected.
Half the reason we are in this mess is Toronto was too smart to elect Doug mayor and now instead the whole province gets to deal with him. He also gets to get revenge on Toronto by demolishing bike lanes.
We literally do not have enough law enforcement to properly enforce traffic laws. It is part of why average speeds have crept up to 10-20 over the limit. In fact enforcing traffic laws was kinda just something that was thrown at the police when cars were invented and we’ve never really stopped to think about it since.
Yea we’ve avoided the mass privatization of speed cameras so far and the vast majority of the fines goes into the city municipal budget, where it can be spent pretty much anywhere but often is spent on the roads themselves.
I think this is called a bike bus and they are becoming more common. Some parents are evening joining in with cargo bikes to help carry backpacks and such.
A big factor is a group of cyclists takes more road space and is much more visible, making it harder for drivers to force them off the road and into the gutters.
This makes it sound a lot more attainable. If Doug actually cared about this goal instead of just pretending to care, Ontario could come in below its goal.
I thought he stopped but glad to hear he still is. He really seems to have a passion for it.
It isn’t illegal to go under the limit. If you were unsure of the timing of the 40 zone, the safe thing would be to just do 40 anyway. I agree its still not a great system, my area typically has a 40 sign with yellow lights that flash during times the 50 zone drops to a 40. It’d be better to just always have it be a 40 zone.