Week in review: July 15, 2017

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Consultations, feedback, and events

• OPEN “STREETS”: July 16, Uptown Waterloo
• ION FIX-IT LIST: What details need correcting?
• KITCHENER:
  • Urban Forest
  • Volunteers needed for BikeCheck valet
• CAMBRIDGE: Transportation Master Plan
• TRANSIT:
  • New Directions 2017-2021 Grand River Transit plan
• REGION:
  • Victoria and Westmount, potential multi-use paths, comments due July 20
  • Trade-offs in transportation
• PROVINCE: Bill 139, Building Better Communities and Conserving Watersheds Act, comments due August 14

Transit

The Record’s editorial board calls Cambridge’s motion in opposition to the proposed light rail alignment through Preston “premature.” Meanwhile Ontario opposition leader Patrick Brown told CBC KW a PC government would also try to bring two-way all-day GO to the Region, but wouldn’t commit to high speed rail.

• Bombardier admits it may miss 2017 TTC streetcar delivery target (no word on ION light rail vehicles) [The Star]
• Planning the transit hubs of the future [CityLab]
• Transit redesigns & improvements
  •  Fixing Toronto’s worst streetcar commute [CityLab]
  • Dallas council members say bus network overhaul can’t wait [Streetsblog]
  • The bus network redesign in Indianapolis will be like launching a brand new transit system [Streetsblog]
  • Can you tour a bus network redesign? [Human Transit]
  • Un-tangling transit: bus network redesigns panel (video) [Transit Center]

Cycling

• Why I believe in bike lanes — and you should too: Adam van Koeverden [Metro News]
• High collision road in Guelph to pilot green bike lanes and bike boxes [CBC]
• How flowers keep cyclists safe on some downtown Toronto streets [Metro News]
• Watch out Toronto, Mississauga is passing you in the bike lane [NOW Magazine]
• Lessons from Amsterdam: how to make cycling easy and fun [Moving beyond the automobile]
• It takes more than bollards to build a bike paradise [CityLab]
• Not ‘cars vs bikes’ but ‘people for people’: one city leader’s manifesto for better streets [People for Bikes]

Vision Zero and health

• Guelph looking at ‘living yard’ pilot project [Guelph Mercury]
• Family of slain cyclist call for harsher penalties [Metro News]
• Cyclists as a minority group? [Transportation Research]
• Seattle app puts a dollar amount on traffic deaths [NextCity]
• How ethical is your driving? [Streetsblog]
• More transportation choices, better health [CNU]

Parking and land use

• The hidden cost of bundled parking [ACCESS Magazine]
• Right-sized development should focus on planning policy [The Record]
• The invisible hand that designed your city [Strong Towns]
• One thing Silicon Valley can’t seem to fix [NY Times]

Road ahead

• Ridesourcing’s impact and role in urban transportation [ACCESS Magazine]
• Why it matters that Uber and Lyft are becoming more like public transit [Quartz]
• ‘Uberization’ no more: Edmonton city council quashes talks with ride-shares for transit overhaul [The Record]
• When your state DOT (or provincial MTO) starts talking about “relieving congestion,” alarms should go off [Streetsblog]
• All the effort that went tiny fighting a Dallas highway is about to pay off [Streetsblog]