Removing parking minimums does not stop people building parking if they want it.

I mean, look at the signs, it’s the best value for speeding!

We have these on the Ontariobhan. They do nothing

Put a card in the spokes

We all know conservatives don’t like paying for services they don’t use, especially when it benefits the poor.

Expect when it comes to subsidizing private motor vehicle roads and parking. Then suddenly a bunch of fiscal conservatives can’t see part the windshield.

Montréal me manque ;( :(

That’s been my experience, bikes also clear out way faster than cars.

what the hell they do if there was emergency that ambulance needed access

So the neat thing about ambulances, and other emergency vehicles, is they have flashing lights AND sierns to let people know they are there.

I don’t know what to tell you, Kingston adopted vision zero in 2019, and deaths have gone up since.

No criminal, civil, or highway traffic act charges are ever laid against drivers. Including for a driver that plowed through a child in a school zone cross walk infront of a school.

Not in Fake Kingston, Ontario.

We even have signs that say “pedestrians yield to vehicles” around town.

Doesn’t beed to be above 0° the whole winter, only when there is snow/ice/snirt that needs clearing.

Round abouts, peanuts, uncontrolled, yielded, modal filtered, raised, edged, sunken, and more.

There are a lot of ways to give clear cues to all road users on what to do, and how to do it, without relying on signage. Traffic lights in particular are extremely low throughput; their primary advantage is allowing vehicles to drive really fast between intersections, so they are great for roads/highways but not for streets.

I’m unironically all for removing stop signs, traffic lights, and speed limits. If you build streets and roads properly, you don’t need those, frequently ignored, control devices.

It would remove gridlock, but not necessarily congestion.

I’ve had those work in other cities, but not this one. I’m also not going to dismount to push a button with a toddler on the back.

Then lights should turn green for my bike, instead of me having to wait for a car to active the sensor on order to cross.

Ontario Traffic Manuals (for signages)

Geometric design standards for Ontario highways (everything else)

pulled over on suspicion of being homeless

What even os this, Is it a crime to be homeless?

Ontario highway design standard require roads to be designed to a minimum of 20kph higher than the posted limit. Ontarians also always drive 15-20kph over the limit. Wild coincidence.

There is also no design speed lower than 60kph. So that school zone? It’s designed for at least 60kph vehicle travel.

I’m a pretty avid activist in this space. When I lived in Montréal I would never speed on surface roads (highways are a different story). Now that I live in Kingston, I constantly find myself driving over the limit, and missing pedestrians that I shouldn’t because of it. It’s not like speeding has any advantage either, my average travel speed in Kingston is always 35-40kph thanks to all the lights (which are required becuase of the high speeds and excess lanes, allowing higher travel speeds, but necessitating more lights, which slow average speeds…)

In my city you don’t get a ticket for murdering a cyclist

https://www.thewhig.com/feature/kingston-ontario-cyclist-fatality-police

I’m an urbanist, I mostly cycle, and I’m probably more aware of pedestrians/cyclists than most.

When I lived in Montréal, I would drive at or below speed limits, and always stopped for pedestrians. Not that I live in Ontario, I’m regularly find myself driving 15-20kph over the limit, and regularly failing to identify, react, or stop for pedestrians in time. Same with my wife.

I don’t buy that NA drivers are wholesale worse. We’re drastically underestimating the impact of the built environment on how we drive.