Prime location, good bones.
True, the article may be old news, so here is an article celebrating the success of the same location after the last 10 years.
Wish more cities would take note and move away from car centric urban and suburban design.
Your right, its sad because its true.
But when people walk across a pedestrian bridge society profits. Healthier population both physically and mentally. Greater happiness and less stress. Less pollution, pretty much all these benefits put less "burden" on peoples pockets financially, either both directly and indirectly through taxs.
Unfortunately probably all hard to quantify though.
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Make them pay! Use the money to make cities less car dependent and more livable. Make public transits accessible and implement trams/subways/trains.
Increase neighbourhood densification at the same time, by taking space back from car infrastructure. ie. massive car parking lots that are impossible to walk across.
Its a shame when projects like these are cancelled. It really shows how "car centric" North America can be in that a simple pedestrian bridge is harder to build and costs more then one designed for cars.
In a time when we should really be shifting to a more "pedestrian focused" design and "livable cities" in general, project like these are in the correct direction.
Only way to make people change their ways, if it hurts the bottom line then action is usually taken.
This is why government regulation should be harsher, and fines should be proportional to company income.
If the fine is too low it just becomes the cost of doing business.
Examples like these show its never to late to shift a city from a "car centric" design to a pedestrian focused design, with bus, tram, light rail, or subway routes.
Cities should be designed for people first, as opposed to cars first.
Pedestrian cities are also in a way cheaper in terms cost & mantinace of infrastructure, such as less traffic lights to maintain. Traffic lights are by far the biggest money sink for a financially struggling city, not to mention large parking lots that provides no return on investment.
At this point I think the TTC should just start announcing when service is actually operating.
They are pretty much closed evey weekend and during the week its one large delay from start to end.
How is it that "floating stops" designed like the ones shown below (which are great IMO) are considered to be different?
The only difference I see is instead of crossing a highspeed car lane, one would cross a slow speed cycling lane designed with the intent to protect individuals on bicycles.
But somehow instead something like this is considered "safer" where transits riders step out into a cycle lane to board a bus or tram.
Or something like such where pedestrians step out onto a roadway.
TTC barely runs during the week when getting people to work, and when its needed the most for local Torontonians during the weekend it just chooses to shutdown entirely.
A transit system like the TTC should be designed to move people around in a city during their normal day to day lives, this includes weekends for shopping and relaxation? Not just work.
Is the TTC only to get people to work? If so, maybe workplaces should be funding it more?
Talking about work life balance, our non-working hours are just as important, if not more.