Week in review: September 17, 2016

Consultations and feedback deadlines

• NORTHDALE: Streetscape plan, comments due September 26
• CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan, public consultation September 21
• MOVING FORWARD: What are your priorities for transportation in Waterloo Region? 
  • Public Information Centres for the Regional Transportation Master Plan and GRT’s next business plan in
    • Cambridge, September 21
    • Kitchener, September 22
    • Waterloo, September 29
• TRANSIT STATIONS: Midtown and Rockway September 29
• COMMITTEES: Applications being sought for:
  • Kitchener Cycling and Trails Advisory Committee, due September 28
  • Waterloo Region Active Transportation Advisory Committee, due October 7
• GTHA: Next Regional Transportation Plan
• MAPS: Regional cycling map, first edition in need of feedback
• GROWTH: Coordinated land use planning review (deadline extended to October 31)
• FUNDING: Federal public transit infrastructure feedback
• KITCHENER: Community Engagement Workshops, September 27 and October 4

Headlines

• Speeding still a problem in school zones, while parents ask for more adult crossing guards
• Construction of new Cambridge bus terminal underway
• Cities decry plans for regional development charges
• Region wants input on the future of transportation

Top Reads

• Land use: a video helped Ottawa to lift its parking requirements, the Toronto Board of Trade recommends the city divert its parking revenues to transit (and away from parking expansion), and Neptis Foundation executive director Marcy Burchfield argues that provincial growth management policy is not to blame for housing affordability issues.
• Vision Zero: The New York Times interviews author Edward Humes on how over-engineering roads for cars is fatal, Abhi Nemani describes how San Francisco puts data to work to reduce traffic fatalities, while the American Public Transit Association has published a new report showing how commuters cut their crash risk by 90% by taking transit.
• Bicycling: this week’s reads come from Toronto, regarding the shortage of bike parking, the importance of language in crash reporting, and the surge in the number of people cycling on the new Bloor bike lanes.
• Transit: while we await new fare cards and fareboxes on Grand River Transit, Steve Munro writes about the challenges and missed opportunities with Presto in Toronto.