Back in January 2016, I wrote about Toronto’s ambition to transform King into a “transit first” street across the downtown core. The King streetcar is the busiest surface transit route in the entire city (65,000 riders / day on average) and it was – and continues… Read More
Over the weekend, Marcus Gee of the Globe and Mail published a terrific article about Toronto’s King-Spadina district and how “condos conquered a rundown district of the city.” (This post will argue that condos were not the catalyst, but an outcome of other changes.) The image… Read More
Anyone who has ridden Toronto’s King streetcar during rush hour can tell you that the service is broken. It’s unreliable. It’s overcrowded. And during peak times it can be faster to walk. Chart below. Part of the problem is a misallocation of resources. Only 16%… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js I try not to focus on local Toronto issues this much, but this morning an important initiative was announced and it’s blowing up my Twitter feed. By spring 2017, the city hopes to have a pilot project in place that will transform King Street… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 