Lex Harvey RMTransit Nov. 15: Our guest will be Maddy Ewins, a product manager with TO Transportation. She'll talk about her work with transportation data and what's next for her team.

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Lex Harvey Nov. 8: Urbanist and public transport critic RMTransit will discuss how North America (and the world) is moving away from cars, and how upcoming transit projects in T.O. will impact the city.

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Cars are not the problem. Car *dependency* is the problem.

Keeping the streetcars in Toronto was clearly an incredibly smart decision, but the subsequent decades of doing so little to prioritize them is astounding. The streetcars vs buses debate tends to be silly, but streetcars without priority or high quality infra really aren’t good!

Surface parking lots are so bad for municipal finances. Let's compare two blocks in Center City, Philadelphia:

The block on right with parking and a substation will pay $53,896 in property taxes in 2023.

The block on the left with an office building will pay $1,732,385.

But, in the great US tradition of ignoring what's happening everywhere else in the world, DC's future Metro trains will have no open gangways, even though open gangways add capacity and allow better distribution of people throughout trains.

So excited for y'all to see what we've been working on!
SAVE THE DATE!

I really think the biggest transit city project - Eglinton should have been higher capacity (we previously even started building a subway!) and it’s something we’re going to be thinking a lot about for decades. Toronto is a big city and we have no problem filling up transit.

Same scale:

Paris: 2.2M
Houston: 2.3M

My Hot Take:
Mass-suburbanization is bankrupting us, leaving us more dependent on cheap oil, makes us less active, more unhealthy, and wastes our time

In many ways, it’s a national security threat

Hey Tory, we have an Affordable Housing Crisis. I’m running in Downsview Park, 100s acres, 2 new subway stations, and what have you built? Town-homes!!! Shameful. How can you look at people in eye, leaving Toronto because they can’t afford? Should have been 10-13 floors HOUSING.

last week i got the chance to check out the chinatown central subway station and it reaffirmed what i already knew: deep stations suck. they make transit less accessible, less useful, and less pleasant. let's learn our lesson from central subway and *not* make the same mistakes