Late summer 2016 was the inception of Toronto`s Vision Zero Challenge….. Since then nearly a 100 cyclists & pedestrians have been killed on our streets ! If the multiplier of 5 is applicable for serious injury and 10 for lesser physical abuse. Then we have had a 500 plus people hospitalized and over a 1,000 […]
Once again provincial largesse has swelled the coffers of the thousand of government workers & those politically associated companies with tens of millions of tax payers money ! How many hundreds of millions of $ have been squandered on multiple redundant G.T.A west corridor studies ? The millions spent finally concluded what an average high […]
Liberty Village has procured from the City of Toronto a commitment to build a 15 metre wide covered causeway over the Metrolinx/CN railway line. This progressive thinking rockets Liberty Village forward in a quantum like leap in becoming a tangible community of the future. […]
This insanely morbid Gordie Howe hat-trick is nothing to be proud ! The City of Toronto must be willing to do something drastic to draw the public’s attention at large to this grisly daily reality. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pedestrian-safety-campaign-toronto-police-1.4489300 In the wake of this spike, the Toronto Police have responded with a new Pedestrian Safety campaign “Road Safety […]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bids-are-in-to-transform-kipling-station-into-toronto-s-next-major-transit-hub-1.4380316 The province, the City of Toronto & the Federal government are promising that by 2019/2020 the new inter regional multi access transport hub at Kipling & Bloor will be a reality. T west end transport mecca will service Go Transit trains & buses, Mi-Way buses, and TTC subways & buses. This transport goliath will […]
Santa`s busy & determined little elves at Accurate Appraisals & Heritage Caledon Realty finally carried the day with delivering the long promised solar powered speed limit sign to the north end of Inglewood. This will greatly enhance the safety factor of traversing the Credit Valley Trail & the Trans Canada Great Trail. This will inevitably […]
Yes, It has happened! Toronto takes another small step but a metaphorically another giant leap into making Toronto a World Class City. Factually, it is just as quick to walk from Liberty Village to Yonge Street as it is to ride the Red Rocket. This is a very sad testimony, especially if Toronto truly aspires to becoming […]
Here is documented proof about increasing pedestrian fatalities, as published by the City of Toronto : https://www1.toronto.ca/City%20Of%20Toronto/Transportation%20Services/VisionZero/Links/2017%20Vision%20Zero%20Road%20Safety%20Plan.pdf Little has really changed,except for the enhanced rhetoric about promised change IE; Just this Saturday Nov 4th 2107, 8 pedestrians & 1 cyclists where struck from 8 am to 11 am. Where & when do we draw the line. […]
2017-030T ROP Project Notice – Cheltenham Badlands
Nearly 3/4 of a million public transit commuters per week must play a distant second fiddle while riding the streetcar, to those 3% of commuters that transit via private vehicles.. Factually, it is just as quick to walk from Liberty Village to Yonge Street as it is to ride the Red Rocket. This is […]