The Pembina Institute has just published this report looking at the impact that road pricing could have on the various income groups across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. One of the common arguments against road pricing is that it disproportionately impacts lower income folks.… Read More
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Make Way for Laneway
I was speaking with a friend this morning and he told me that he had a Pavlovian association between me and laneways. That made me happy. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ve heard me go on and on about the great potential… Read More
The case for planning transit around minimum population densities
Blitz by Tristan O’Tierney on 500px Back in 2011, the The Pembina Institute published a report called, Building transit where we need it. And in it they quite clearly outlined the population densities that are needed to make various types of transit investment cost effective.… Read More
Priced out of the city
Earlier this month, the Royal Bank of Canada and the Pembina Institute co-published a report on Toronto’s housing market called “Priced Out”. The overarching argument is that homebuyers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are being “priced out” of the areas in which they really… Read More