Week in review: March 26, 2018

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Consultations, feedback, and events

• MOVING FORWARD: Online comments due March 30
• TRANSIT: 2018 network public information centres, April 4, 5, 10, 11, online
  • TRANSIT HUB: online & at the transit consultations
• MHBPNA PRESENTS: Sustainable streets April 6
• HEAVY VEHICLES and vulnerable road users, Transport Canada safety measures consultation, due April 2
• SNYDER’S ROAD: Cycling improvements April 5
• GROWTH: Guidance on the growth plan and intensification targets, due May 7

#cycleWR

We were at MovingWR on Sunday to get your ideas for a minimum grid of cycling infrastructure and to announce cycleWR, a new coalition in support of safe cycling for everyone in the Region. Join the new mailing list and share your ideas for a minimum grid!

• Iron Horse Trail upgrades slated for spring (Kitchener Post)
• Push for safety after research emerges on 131 cycling deaths in Ontario (CBC)
• Bike lanes help, not hurt, suburbs, Kessmaat says (The Star)
• FHWA Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity released (National Institute for Transportation and Communities)

Regional Transportation Master Plan

Last week, we took a look at what the Region is considering for its long-term transportation plans. Don’t forget to share your comments by March 30!

Death by autonomous car

• The first pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving car. Now what? (CityLab)
• If self-driving cars aren’t safer than human drivers, they shouldn’t be on public streets (Streetsblog)
• What Uber’s autonomous vehicle fatality tells us about the future of place (Brookings)
• How the self-driving dream might become a nightmare (CityLab)
• Video of the fatal Uber self-driving car crash upends the victim-blaming narrative (Streetsblog)
• The lose-lose ethics of testing self-driving cars in public (Wired)
• Uber pulls driverless cars off Toronto roads after pedestrian fatality in U.S. (Globe and Mail)
• Self-driving vehicle testing continues at UW after pedestrian death (570 News)

Vision Zero

• We’re designing risky roadways (Share the Road Cycling Coalition)
• Want to see some real distracted walking? Try getting old. (Treehugger)

Transit

• Region launches ION buses in Cambridge (Cambridge Times)
• Region, Bombardier and GrandLinq working on new ION train schedule “that can be relied on” (570 News)
• Kitchener urging better bus service for booming suburbs (The Record)
• Via Rail to launch process to buy new trains with federal funding announcement (570 NEWS)
• What a Doug Ford government will do about (or to) transit (Spacing)
• Transit Moneyball: How targeted fare policies can build ridership (TransitCenter)
• Falling transit ridership poses an ‘emergency’ for cities, experts fear (Washington Post)
• Houston bucks national trend of transit bus system decline (Mobility Lab)
• Only a few American cities are growing transit ridership — here’s what they’re doing right (Streetsblog)

The shape of our cities

• Opinion: There’s good news and bad news for the Northdale neighbourhood (The Record)
• Independence of land use planners challenged (Donnelly Law)
• The myth of “forcing people out of their cars” (Vox)