Week in review: August 12, 2017

News

Subscribe to get weekly updated delivered directly to your inbox!

Consultations, feedback, and events

Fall transit schedule coming

Grand River Transit’s fall service starts September 4. But remember, the 4th is a holiday, so it’ll still be crappy Sunday service that day. Real frequency improvements start on the 5th, with 201 and 202 routes increasing to 10 minute headways at peak times. The 7 will return to King Street in Midtown, while the 200 moves to Park Street.

  • Opinon: Cambridge should change proposed LRT route through Preston neighbourhood [Community Edition]
  • To attract riders, call transit ‘congestion free’ [CityLab]
  • Downtown Columbus will buy bus rides for 43,000 workers [CityLab]
  • Ontario town’s experiment using Uber as public transit is working, officials say [Financial Post]
  • The real reason streetcars are making a comeback [Vox]
  • Podcast: Transit – an instrument of urban freedom [Invisible City]

Bike share

The local municipalities are looking to Hamilton for ideas on the Region’s next bike sharing system. Hamilton’s bike sharing model is one well worth emulating. It’s well-used and growing, providing convenient transportation to thousands. Contrast with the local CAB system, which has fewer members than bikes.

  • Cities fund student transit passes – why not bike-share passes too? [Streetsblog]
  • Data mining is why billions are being pumped into dockless bikes [BikeBiz]
  • Bike share will force Dallas to finally give us the bike lanes we’ve been promised [Dallas News]

Vision Zero

  • MADD says its time Canada caught up with lower drink and drive limit [CBC]
  • How walk-friendly communities manage speed [Walk Friendly Communities]
  • Dying to widen highways [City Observatory]
  • How to promote traffic safety? Use tailored strategies in downtown areas [Planetizen]
  • New study finds higher air pollution at school drop-offs [Metro]

Promoting active transportation

  • Forget all the other reasons you should be riding a bike. This is the one that matters [Shifter]
  • Promoting active transportation to school: a systematic review [BMC Public Health]

Bike networks

  • On sidewalk cycling and the democratization of our streets [Modacity]
  • Why cyclists hate sharrows [Metro]
  • Intersections should be just as safe as the lanes that lead into them [Alta Planning]
  • Even hilly cities have flat bike networks hiding inside them [People for Bikes]
  • Why unprotected two-way bike lanes are a bad idea [People for Bikes]
  • Toughen your rules about bike lanes, mayor tells Canada Post [Ottawa Citizen]

Land use

  • Do lane changes help or hurt retail? US study seeks streets to analyze [People for Bikes]
  • Lyfts radical experiment in charging for free parking [Bloomberg]
  • The not-so-secret trick for cutting solo car commutes: charge for parking by the day [Seattle Times]
  • Forget car-free buildings. Bike-only condos are coming [Huffington Post]
  • The million-dollar neighbourhood [CNU]
  • Multimodal transportation for economic freedom, opportunity, and security [Planetizen]
  • A history of zoning part III: Missing the trees for the forest [Strong Towns]

Finally, hat tip to Week in Review reader Chris Reid, for sharing with us this documentary about how the streets of Toronto are shifting towards cycling and walking.