Planning is the first step on transit front
Toronto Star, Dec. 27, 2015
I’m not at all worried about finding the room to accommodate a few million more people in the GTA over the next decades, provided we make adjustments to our thinking on how we use space. In transportation, for example, we need to convert our preoccupation with moving cars into a preoccupation with moving people. There is a big difference.
Once our planners and politicians figure this out, we will be on the right path.
Albert Koehl, Toronto
Globe and Mail, Dec. 23, 2015
The anguish of the parents and wife of Tom Samson was powerfully conveyed in Oliver Moore’s article about the sentencing hearing of a hit-and-run driver who left Mr. Samson dead on a Toronto street in 2012 (Shattered Family’s Perseverance Absolves Cyclist Killed In Crash – Dec. 22).
Sadly, 63 other families in Toronto alone this year have faced similar anguish in losing loved ones – 41 of them pedestrians or cyclists – in crashes on city roads, with little response from municipal leaders.
It’s time to set aside the excuses for inaction on road safety and start putting in place effective measures recommended by experts like Ontario’s Chief Coroner, including lower speed limits, mid-block pedestrian crossings, and a real bicycling network.
Albert Koehl, Toronto
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Toronto, Stat, Oct. 16, 2015
Many thanks to the Star for its support of the proposed pilot bike lane on Bloor St. for 2016. We absolutely agree that after 40 years of study it’s “about time.”
We’re never surprised when new cycling lanes in Toronto lead to more cycling trips. In addition to the obvious affordability, environmental and health benefits of cycling, there is one other benefit that is rarely associated with transport in our city: fun.
The Bells on Bloor rides along Bloor St. over the past seven years have not only generated up to 2,000 cyclists each year but also a multitude of smiles, not only among cyclists as young as 5 and as old as 85 but among officers in our police escort.
Putting happy faces on commuters would be good for Toronto — bike lanes on Bloor-Danforth, starting with a pilot next year, are therefore a great step forward.
Albert Koehl, founder, Bells on Bloor
Toronto Star, Sept. 20, 2015
Reduced speed limits on residential roads are great news for pedestrians and cyclists. All you really need to know is that a grandparent, child or spouse hit by a car at about 50 km/h will likely die, but at 30 km/h the loved one will almost certainly survive.
The defiant attitude of some motorists who scoff at the new law and suggest the speed limit will not be obeyed is rather odd. What are pedestrians and cyclists who are often chastised for their road conduct to make of such a cavalier attitude toward the rules of the road.
Albert Koehl, Toronto
