valkoholic
Active Member
I'm looking at the summary PDF right now, and I believe what you are calling downtown is "PD1" in this document (?)
If I'm reading it right, it says the 2001 modal share to PD1 was 13% "walk or cycle". Why does this not match up with your 1 + 4% numbers? It also says 30% "walk and cycle" for travel within PD1...
I don't really feel like arguing the methodolgy behind my numbers (I don't know much, but I know how Toronto gets to work), but here goes:
No, my numbers aren't from Pd1, it was a grouping of smaller zones repressenting downtown south of Queen. It was done for a specific project in which I needed to compare a survey of travel behaviour to prevailing City travel patterns.
My guess is you're looking at residential numbers, mine are employment (more relavent downtown wehere travel patterns are driven by employment).
Here's my point:
I don't dislike cycling, it's just not a major factor in how the City works. Lot's of people on this forum cycle, and lot's of people involved in planning cycle, so it tends to come off more important than it actually is. For Toronto's transportation system, which is designed to get millions of people to work everyday, the importance of cycling is overstated. If Toronto is to truly change, it will be transit, not cycling, that makes the difference. Again, I'm not saying that because I don't like bikes, I'm saying it because it is such a small factor today. Even a massive shift towards cycling would get the mode split to only 3 or 4%, which is still insginficant to transit and (unfortunately) cars.