Recent content by David Brake

A chance to do good with your mad map drawing skillz You may remember me as transit editor last year - I moved to Newfoundland and am now a transit advocate here in St John's. One simple step forward would be to supplement the existing geographical map...

ICYMI there's a story up about the launch today of the Cherry St route. Enjoy!

I just put up a story about this issue here: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/06/torontos-pedestrian-safety-plan-coming-under-microscope and would be interested in your comments.

There's a story up about this now... http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/06/big-boost-kitchener-waterloo-brampton-go-transit-service

The piece I promised is up now - thanks again drum118 for the pics and do let me know what you thought! http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/06/east-end-mississaugas-bus-transitway-progressing

The Globe also recently had a piece on the 15% rise in pedestrian deaths in the last 5 years http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/more-than-160-pedestrians-killed-by-vehicles-since-2011/article30391640/

I also just learned that Metro news is starting a campaign about the risks to cyclists on Toronto streets.

ICYMI I just posted a roundup of last week's exciting news about cycling in Toronto. Let me know what you think!

I can't do that, drum118, but will post here when it goes live - please comment then and I can quickly update. I am also awaiting a response from Mississauga as well and may use that information to change or enhance the piece too.

Just putting together a piece about the transitway around drum118's photos. Thanks for sharing! And do please let me know if there is anything I should add...

The whole office has been tuning in to that one... The 'last spike' has been 'driven' today with Kathleen Wynne in attendance. Expect a story about that from me shortly.

I will ask! But option 3C comes close and might include what you want if Metrolinx helps (slide 42)

Am going to run a story about the Waterfront transit "reset" (forum thread here: http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/waterfront-transit-reset-phase-1-study.25504/) , concentrating initially on the downtown link between the east and west sides, which could have implications for Union Station -...

You are right - there are so many different variations it is hard to keep them all straight! I hope we will find out more tonight... My costing guess was simply based on the idea that if it were not that costly it would seem to be the most elegant solution so I assume the others are compromises...

Well there certainly doesn't seem to be any solution that would be ideal - do you have any alternative suggestions? Does anyone have any idea what the relative costings of the options would be? I take it in theory instead of a loop at present one could build a tunnel and have the Queen's Quay...