Bike Walk Bus Toronto

  This is a blog post I've been meaning to write for quite a while! Every year, there's a video on Tiktok that goes somewhat viral where a college student questions why their parking isn't free on campus when they pay tuition. At base level, this seems like a valid question. However, when you expand the conversation to include equity, and what is constituted a good use of space, free parking on campus is very difficult to justify. In this blog post, I make four arguments that, when combined together, make a good case for why parking on campus should remain unchanged. Particular focus will be given to my school, York University, as well a quick look at a particular project at the University of Toronto. Lots and lots of parking at York University. Laying out some facts I think before making my arguments, I have to lay out some important facts about driving and parking that will make my case more clear.  The first of these facts answers the question of who drives more. As can ...

 Hello! Often touted as something 'new' and 'innovative,' on-demand transit has been around for many decades . While this transit plan works for low-density areas with minimal, since the COVID-19 pandemic, many agencies are replacing conventional routes with on-demand for the sake of efficiency. This on-demand 'creep' may have made sense when ridership bottomed out in the spring of 2020, I find there is a bit of disconnectivity encouraged by over-reliance on it.  In this piece, I will explain some key points related to on-demand transit, and then briefly look at four transit agencies, and how they are using (or struggling to use) on-demand and conventional transit effectively. What is on-demand transit? As the name suggests, on-demand transit is when, instead of the bus running on a schedule, it operates more like a taxi. A customer requests the bus, usually by calling the agency or using an app, and within a window, it picks the passenger up. Two things can hap...