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- Important note! I wasn't meaning to criticize @car2go in a recent tweet. Just observing, and it fit my sidewalk narrative. 1 hour ago
- Flavour: @Shawnte is eating a tomato plant. The greens, not the fruit. 1 hour ago
- .@car2go is giving away free memberships at Beach Alliance Cinema. They drove a car onto the sidewalk. So I give up. 1 hour ago
- Moral of the story: just say "no" to Venn diagrams. 1 hour ago
- Also, you would have wasted a lot of time. Which would be better spent cycling. But not on the sidewalk, because that makes baby Jebus cry. 1 hour ago
Tag Archives: driving
On the economics of commuting
In basic economics, the demand for a commodity is a function of the supply of that commodity and the price paid to acquire it. We can use the supply-demand model to compare commuting choices.
Posted in Finance, Living, Toronto
Tagged commuting, congestion charges, driving, gas tax, GO Transit, GTA, Metrolinx, parking tax, road tolls, transit, vehicle registration fees
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How to ride a bike on Queen Street
Cycling on the streets of Toronto is fun, convenient, enjoyable and relatively safe, but it’s also a serious responsibility. You are traffic and you could be hurt or hurt someone else if you don’t take it seriously. Biking on Queen Street can be a challenge, but once you do it a few times you’ll see just how easy it is.
Posted in Cycling, Toronto
Tagged #bikeTO, bike lanes, biking, cycling, driving, Queen Street, riding on the street, Rob Ford, Toronto
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Putting the brakes on the car tax
Stick this in your tailpipe you right-wing nut jobs: this pinko is glad the car tax is dead. Toronto’s Personal Vehicle Tax was one of the most unfair and ridiculous taxes possible.
Posted in Politics, Toronto
Tagged car tax, deficit, driving, MCTMT, personal vehicle tax, property tax, road tolls, Rob Ford, service cuts, Toronto, transit
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Buses cannot serve downtown Toronto
Under crush load numbers, it would take 476 buses to replace our 195 streetcars, just to maintain our already pathetic level of service in the core. This is just to replace the existing fleet.
More thoughts on bicycle licensing
Bicycle licensing is an issue often brought up as a way to improve cycling, by people on both sides of the argument, but adding another layer of licensing bureaucracy will just cost more money. To suggest that cyclists should be tested so much more rigorously than vehicle drivers is absurd.
The bike lane issue
The whole point of installing bike lanes on major streets is to separate vulnerable bicycle traffic from fast-moving vehicle traffic, and prevent conflicts between the two mixing in the same lane. If bike lanes are going to be useful at all, they must go where the cyclists already are.
Fuel economy experiment
As almost guaranteed by the fact that I said I would, I ended up not blogging at all on the trip to PEI. It was great, of course, but we were so busy I hardly had time to check my …
PEI Trip, Day minus one
For the past few weeks Tay & I have been making excited references to each other along the lines of “know where we’ll be 2 weeks from now? PEI!” and so on. Well today, two weeks has become two days. …
We are not at war
This was no accident. This is not a situation that a bike lane would have prevented. Although it may have been sparked by a collision, this was a brutal fight between two grown men. Regardless of the fact that they were on a bicycle and in a car, both men could have reacted differently, and both men didn’t. My fear is that characterizing this incident as driver vs. cyclist violence will result in more of that sort of violence, and we certainly don’t need any more of it.
Posted in Cycling, Politics
Tagged Bloor Street, cycling, Darcy Allan Sheppard, driving, Michael Bryant, Toronto
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Zipcar Review: Prius Patrice
Earlier this week, I had a lunchtime appointment downtown, which was going to be a pain to get to by subway both ways. Rather than reschedule or take the day off work, I picked up Zipcar’s Toyota Prius “Patrice” from …
