12-25-2017, 09:10 PM
(12-24-2017, 04:55 PM)Canard Wrote: Diane Freeman retweets a lot of my stuff (?!) so I asked her if she could help take care of it. Her response:
You bet! Once it is fully finished and signed #zerotolerance. UpTown has been so devastated by the construction that By-law is being kind for the holiday shoppers.
— Diane Freeman (@DianeLFreeman) December 24, 2017
...I don't even know what to say.
Kind to a small number of automobile drivers, not so kind to cyclists. Admittedly the number of cyclists is probably also small, but one parking user of the space uses much more space for much more time than a single bicycling user of the space.
I was thinking about this in the context of the Toronto King St. pilot project. It occurred to me that removing parking seems like a big move, but that is only because it is such an inefficient use of space. Moving back to Uptown, how many parking spaces have (supposedly, pending enforcement) been removed? I believe I recall that it was under 30 or so. So assuming people tend to park for a couple of hours each during a 12-hour portion of the day, we’ve removed maybe 200 people from parking each day. What would 200 bicycle riders per day look like? Not even noticeable — so one rider every few minutes are getting more use out of the former parking spaces than the people parking were.