"SlowFood/Flaneur Urbanism": making everyone's mobility more time-consuming is actually good because **reasons** !

Any econometric model, including C/B analysis: the single most important parameter that makes your transport project pencil out is the value of time saving.

Be sure to report back

It's from a brochure for the opening of the Cambridge subway (eventually known as the Boston Red Line) in 1912. It's a fascinating document!

archive.org/details/3272...

They understood this in 1912

It's taken a concerted effort to get people to un-learn that speed matters

That would be more like the first phase being Peterborough to Smith’s Falls

Hopefully this means the end of the “dedicated lanes make transit fast and reliable” talking point

It’s a simple excuse but the reality is unfortunately more complicated

Yeah. They needed to implement Vision Zero policies and it’s easier to create and implement those policies for city-controlled transit operations than for drivers or police

Good to see the such progress on the Ontario Line

They did the same thing in Amsterdam

The streets over top of the North-South line were redesigned into the “Rode Loeper” or red walkway, prioritizing pedestrian and cycling over automobile traffic, utilizing red pavement for a consistent theme along the corridor