I disagree with those cyclists who oppose the lanes on harbord. However they are implemented it, I think it's important to have separated lanes as a rule. I believe it would be easier to go back and improve signaling and markings after the fact than to put in the separated lanes in the first...

I am with W K Lis on this one. in other cities, also in the suburbs of Toronto, you'd be correct, but downtown Toronto has relatively narrow main streets and street parking is a frequent problem when it comes to adding bike lanes.

I think the city should look into market pricing on parking, see the link below. That would most likely mean an increase in the cost of parking. They could apply the additional money to expanding green p lots while removing street parking, or to public transportation...

In my opinion any of the proposals for the SRT are perfectly acceptable. I know, the city's subway is crazy expensive considering there's already a right of way, and Murray's subway is too short, and the LRT replacement seems to be by far the most bang for the buck. But really they all have...

it seems like a fair number of old school suburban conservatives (i leave stintz and denzil off that list) see the downtown as a potential transportation corridor, to get from their house to a theoretical destination on the other side. as opposed to a place to live, work, shop, etc. they see...

I agree that since the first story about the crack scandal, the Star has been more restrained than the Globe, the National Post and even the Sun in its coverage of Ford-related news. I've also noticed that in the comments, when they are available in Ford stories, there tends to be a lot of...

I agree it's a stretch. Few people would take Dufferin north and Bathurst south on the same trip. But for driving there are plenty of alternatives depending on how far you're going, so people wouldn't have to. At the same time neither of them have much commercial activity, which seems to be a...

I meant two lanes of streetcars, each way, and two lanes of one-way car traffic on each of Dufferin and Bathurst. I don't think they're too far apart to pair for automobiles.

I'm not saying it's likely, but a possible solution to the "Toronto doesn't build streetcars in mixed traffic anymore" problem would be a right of way. Dufferin is too narrow to add a right of way and maintain 2 lanes of traffic each way, but it could be paired with Bathurst - make Bathurst one...

The area was one that missed out on gentrification until recently - 5 years tops. The pace of gentrification in the last few years has been really crazy though and so far it has been, IMO 100% positive. Some really cool interesting stuff happening in the neighborhood. This article from 2012, I...

In fact one good reason for making the DRL express is to avoid competing with Streetcars. The proximity of Liberty Village and City Place to the financial district means that there is theoretically a huge demand for local transit that can continue to be met with the King and Queen Streetcars...

Right now it is a bit like Parkdale was a decade ago - a mixture of appearing and actually being sketchy/dangerous but with pleasant residential streets, plenty of hidden gems (Raps, Rebozos, Costa Verde) and lots of potential. This entire end of the city, in fact, is full of untapped...

Something like that may be necessary for political support, logically however it doesn't make much sense unless there is a DRL. King streetcar is the busiest line in the city and carries many more people than the cars that go along King. Furthermore King already parallels, Lakeshore, the...

I don't accept the argument that king street can't be closed to cars because of taxis and delivery vehicles - - The plan from c. 2006 as I understand it, allowed one lane for local traffic - All large buildings on King St. also front onto some other street, for example Bay or Yonge I can see...

If Rob Ford actually supports increasing taxes for the SRT replacement, it will be a major breakthrough in the debate. Suddenly everyone from all ends of the political spectrum, at least symbolically, will be in favour of taxes for transit. Others have pointed out that it is easier to get...

That's why I argue for ending the right of way at Bathurst in the West, or before that - because we already have Richmond and Adelaide for cars. Council made a similar argument for removing bike lanes on Jarvis - that bikes can go out to Sherbourne if they want a good experience. The net result...

A lot of the discussions about transit downtown have a narrow focus on moving people regardless of the impact to the downtown itself. On the one hand there are those saying that once we have a DRL we can rip out all the streetcars. Then there are people saying we need busses - Rob and Doug...

I completely understand the need to make whatever scheme is implemented time-limited, and Steve's right that a single lane of car traffic isn't really going to work. Furthermore, if you're just restricting cars to curb lanes you can't really say that you're improving the street in any other way...

People raise the comparison with Calgary sometimes. Calgary's downtown is sleepy compared with Toronto's, and while there are some businesses on the LRT-dedicated streets, they seem not to do very well. Calgary *also* has a pedestrian-only zone downtown, the Stephen Avenue Mall. They have solved...

The TTC is officially planning to study making a streetcar right-of-way on King Street. There's been a fair bit of discussion on the subject in other threads (Queen has been mentioned as well) and it's one of my favourite topics. Time to start a thread, I think...