Auckland Transit Blues
An interesting article on Auckland’s public transport system in the Canadian newspaper –The Globe and Mail: Auckland transit blues Toronto’s main business lobby, the Board of Trade, recently called for...
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Looking closer at the transport & density debate
There’s a fascinating ongoing debate in planning circles about the question of how important density is to the likelihood of people using public transport (or a form of active transport, like walking...
View ArticleSubways as urban identity
Reading through the very informative BrisUrbane blog I came across this lovely video of the Toronto Subway System: Toronto Transit from Preston Kanak on Vimeo. Toronto’s subway system certainly has its...
View ArticleAuckland v Toronto: comparing networks
As I noted in this post a couple of days ago, there are some really useful pieces of technology that are starting to be developed that can aid us in understanding how our PT networks work, and where...
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Guest Post: Feeder buses in Toronto
This post is by Peter, and follows on from his previous post about feeder buses. Toronto is the biggest city in Canada, and is an interesting case-study because – for such a large city – it has a...
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Is reducing speed limits to save lives “nuts”?
Looks like Steven Joyce and Gerry Brownlee may have a long-lost cousin who became mayor of Toronto (click for the video): And the accompanying article: Rob Ford has dismissed a report that suggests a...
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Let’s define “congestion” properly
An article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper just over a week ago, using the rather provocative title of “Sick of Congestion: build roads not transit” has unsurprisingly led to a lot of fisking of...
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