These are great suggestions. To whichst I would add - make streetcar lanes transit only! Like King Street, but with proper enforcement, no after 10pm opening the street to cars and no taxi exemption. The 504 King was carrying over 80,000 passengers a weekday when enforcement was rigorous - that's an LRT equivalent. There are too many makor arterials with car storage lanes. There are over a million new residents coming to live in the city in the next decade, many of whomst will live in or close to downtown. Cars are space wasting, driver angering, tire dust (& internal explosion engine pollution spouting non-EV) spraying mobile living rooms. They have no place on major downtown streetcar routes, except for the occasional cab or accessibility private vehicle. Traffic in town is far worse than it was ten years ago - and it won't get better, only far far worse. We need streetcar & bus only lanes to be planned now. Streetcar lines will become high capacity LRTs, moving people far faster and more efficiently, for less than 1% of the cost of a new subway line.
These are great suggestions. To whichst I would add - make streetcar lanes transit only! Like King Street, but with proper enforcement, no after 10pm opening the street to cars and no taxi exemption. The 504 King was carrying over 80,000 passengers a weekday when enforcement was rigorous - that's an LRT equivalent. There are too many makor arterials with car storage lanes. There are over a million new residents coming to live in the city in the next decade, many of whomst will live in or close to downtown. Cars are space wasting, driver angering, tire dust (& internal explosion engine pollution spouting non-EV) spraying mobile living rooms. They have no place on major downtown streetcar routes, except for the occasional cab or accessibility private vehicle. Traffic in town is far worse than it was ten years ago - and it won't get better, only far far worse. We need streetcar & bus only lanes to be planned now. Streetcar lines will become high capacity LRTs, moving people far faster and more efficiently, for less than 1% of the cost of a new subway line.