Fascinated to see how this guy does. He's clearly starting from a weak position where he's not really empowered to solve the issue of moving more people more efficiently. But the innovation mantra always has to be "start where you are, use what you have, do what you can, and at least be more interestingly less wrong".
The good thing is (as you point out!) there is so much low hanging fruit in Toronto around moving streetcars, bicycles and improving how junctions work.
Despite Toronto's new Chief Congestion Officer Andrew Posluns' 25 years of public sector leadership experience in leading Metrolinx's GO expansion strategy & leading the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games' transportation plan, & our hopes for a multi-modal solution, I suspect & fear it'll be mostly car & truck based. The Pan-Am Games transit solution was to convert one highway lane each was to bus & High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes around the GTA, but most were taken out immediately after the Games. The Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT) has reverted to Cars Cars Cars/Trucks Trucks Trucks after the departure of their visionary Transport Lead Dr Jonathan English. Our Premier & 'GTHA Mayor' is incredibly car brained, adding the unwanted 413 & Bradford Bypass highways to spur development, not cost-effectively move vehicles. Plus his insane highway tunnel under the 401 fantasy boondoggle. The one good thing he's done is ironically keep Metrolinx/GO's great expansion plans going - even though MX's management is inept & wildly overspending. Yes, I'd like to be an MX VP too! Anyway, Poslun's real mandate will be to push more traffic through our neighbourhoods w/ smart lights. I really hope he focuses on # people moved on roads by different modes, & not just # of cars & trucks. That's the real measure, as this article points out. Toronto desperately needs more transit only lanes on its major arterials, and EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT. Unfortunately, thanks to Mayor Ford's deadening hand, the City is constantly playing 2 men short this entire period.
I don't even care anymore. When the City allowed TRBOT to dictate the conversation, we lost the plot.
Fascinated to see how this guy does. He's clearly starting from a weak position where he's not really empowered to solve the issue of moving more people more efficiently. But the innovation mantra always has to be "start where you are, use what you have, do what you can, and at least be more interestingly less wrong".
The good thing is (as you point out!) there is so much low hanging fruit in Toronto around moving streetcars, bicycles and improving how junctions work.
Despite Toronto's new Chief Congestion Officer Andrew Posluns' 25 years of public sector leadership experience in leading Metrolinx's GO expansion strategy & leading the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games' transportation plan, & our hopes for a multi-modal solution, I suspect & fear it'll be mostly car & truck based. The Pan-Am Games transit solution was to convert one highway lane each was to bus & High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes around the GTA, but most were taken out immediately after the Games. The Toronto Region Board of Trade (TRBOT) has reverted to Cars Cars Cars/Trucks Trucks Trucks after the departure of their visionary Transport Lead Dr Jonathan English. Our Premier & 'GTHA Mayor' is incredibly car brained, adding the unwanted 413 & Bradford Bypass highways to spur development, not cost-effectively move vehicles. Plus his insane highway tunnel under the 401 fantasy boondoggle. The one good thing he's done is ironically keep Metrolinx/GO's great expansion plans going - even though MX's management is inept & wildly overspending. Yes, I'd like to be an MX VP too! Anyway, Poslun's real mandate will be to push more traffic through our neighbourhoods w/ smart lights. I really hope he focuses on # people moved on roads by different modes, & not just # of cars & trucks. That's the real measure, as this article points out. Toronto desperately needs more transit only lanes on its major arterials, and EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT. Unfortunately, thanks to Mayor Ford's deadening hand, the City is constantly playing 2 men short this entire period.