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I lived in London UK and cycled everywhere. I didn't feel fearful because I got comfortable cycling... here in downtown Toronto in the 80s. The infrastructure there could be better (difficult because of the narrower streets there) but check out this...

Thought it would be useful to try to unify discussion about the latest Montreal transit news in the new thread which it would be easy for UT people to miss... Sounds like Montreal and Toronto have similar issues around "new" transit plans. But if Montreal were actually to get their...

There's a thread over here: http://skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/r%C3%A9seau-%C3%89lectrique-m%C3%A9tropolitain-rem.25492/ about the new plans for a privately-initiated RER system in Montreal. I will be looking into this and writing it up as a news story but meanwhile would be interested to...

There's a thread over here: http://skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/r%C3%A9seau-%C3%89lectrique-m%C3%A9tropolitain-rem.25492/ about the new plans for a privately-initiated RER system in Montreal. I will be looking into this and writing it up as a news story but meanwhile would be interested to...

The Bloor bike lanes campaign just asked its supporters to phone John Tory's office today to show their support. What do you think? I would have thought this would just annoy hizzoner. The vote ICYMI is Wednesday...

In addition, the federal government has announced plans to pay for up to 50% of the cost of 70 further fast charging stations across Canada by March 2018. My story should be about to go live at http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/04/ontario-promises-huge-expansion-fast-electric-car-charging-points...

Seems we are both right - there are 56 level 3 chargers but the remainder are all Tesla ones, so this makes a huge difference to non-Tesla owners. Thanks for your input - it's changed the focus of my story!

I'm currently checking on numbers to make sure you haven't missed any - if I learn about more I will let you know where they are! If you can let me know your source of information on, for example, the terms of service - privately if you like - I would appreciate it.

How the Main Street Presto gate installation went in 50 seconds

BTW more than half (300) of the new charging points are level 2 not level 3 (250) - so fast, but not ultrafast.

There's more news on the charging network - will write something up about it: https://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2016/04/ontario-building-more-electric-vehicle-charging-stations.html

Well this decision at least is up to the whole council now.

I plan to have a story written about the Bloor proposal later today, and I plan to revisit it when the council vote itself takes place next week.

I just had to tweet that out...

Interestingly Tory seems to be mulling private sector involvement too: http://www.theglobeandmail.com//news/toronto/could-the-private-sector-ease-torontos-transit-woes/article29725903/?cmpid=rss1 And I am mulling a story about both of these things together (no promises!)

To be fair, inflationary cost increases in these times don't amount to much. It's the lack of public amenity meanwhile that is the real cost.

Scrolling back to the discussion about local transit/cycling a report on commuting to school came out earlier this month http://smartcommute.ca/getting-to-school/resources/research-reports/ - "Although it seemed like active school travel across the GTHA had reached its lowest possible level by...

If you are interested in alternate transit history you should check out two exhibitions about this at the Toronto Archives and Market Gallery. I am about to publish a story about them with pictures from both if you can't make it out there!

Handy tool - I tweeted it out via UT and credited you - I was surprised to see how comprehensive and up to date it was considering how fast-changing the plans are!

If you are interested in transit history you should check out two exhibitions about it at the Toronto Archives and Market Gallery. I will be doing a story about them in the next few days with pictures from both in it if you can't make it out there!