![]() Whatever the reason of the traffic jams maybe, it is must that we don’t lose our patience and deal with the situation composedly. Occurrence of a traffic jam depends on several reasons – narrow road ahead, making it difficult for the vehicles to pass through simultaneously a broken road, a fallen tree or some other impediment an unexpected and sudden brawl between two commuters ahead of the road a slow moving procession or an accident. ![]() People get delayed for their offices, for important business meetings along with late delivery of business goods affecting the overall economy of a Nation. Traffic jam leads to sheer waste of productive time. It is an issue of serious concern in every city these days. Traffic jam occurs when the vehicles have to completely stop or move at a snail’s pace for a certain period of time. Per Mark Shapiro, we ought to cancel those games, or schedule them much less, in order to make sure other people who aren’t into sports and want to drive into and through the core, can do so easily.Traffic congestion is a condition caused by the increasing number of vehicles on the road resulting in congestion, road blockage, slower speed, longer route time and the loss of valuable time. If this department, one that has long been hostile to Torontonians who don’t drive cars, wanted it to fail this is how they would sabotage it.Įvery time the Jays play, or the Leafs, Raptors or TFC, there’s a traffic snarl. Nobody knew when it was and plans couldn’t be made. That 36,000 number was impressive but it declined, not because it wasn’t popular but because transportation services stopped doing it every weekend, instead opting for a willy-nilly schedule no one could predict, or closing for a day instead of the whole weekend. When it’s a winning team, as it is now, the fans will come regardless. In 2019, before ActiveTO, it was under 22,000. The average attendance at a Jays game this year is just under 29,000. No conflict of interest was declared.Īt its peak in summer 2020, the city says 36,000 cyclists and pedestrians used Lake Shore West. ![]() Rogers owns the Jays and Tory is on a $100,000-a-year retainer as an adviser to the Rogers Control Trust despite his mayoral salary and being a man of considerable inherited wealth. The letter was like an inter-office memo between Rogers Communications employees. Two weeks ago, Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro wrote a letter to Tory and the rest of council asking that ActiveTO on Lake Shore Boulevard West be cancelled as it made it hard for fans to get to the games - despite the Rogers Centre being one of the most transit-connected sports venues in North America. It shouldn’t be hard to do something other cities do effortlessly, and do things people like and enjoy, but with something like ActiveTO the knives for it came from outside city hall too. This is the eighth year of John Tory’s mayoralty and this is proclaimed like some kind of revolutionary vision for basic human functions and dignity. Speaking of complexity, gaslighting and PR doublespeak, fountains and washrooms came up again at the same council meeting and the mayor touted his new initiative to “modernize” our parks when he simply means basic, old-fashioned maintenance and state of good repair. It’s hard to take these reports, staff and elected officials at face value when there’s this kind of politicized hypocrisy. CaféTO makes money though, and ActiveTO doesn’t. Finally, transportation services quashed a proposal to give one or two of Lake Shore’s many lanes over to pedestrians and cyclists - a compromise - essentially saying it’s too complex to pull off.ĬaféTO patios are wildly complex and spread across the city, but those have easily continued with the mayor’s blessing despite pandemic pressures largely gone, which was a justification for killing ActiveTO. The Meadoway, in Scarborough’s Gatineau hydro corridor, is permanent infrastructure, with no changes made for ActiveTO. The ActiveTO report also said Bayview Avenue and The Meadoway ActiveTO programming should continue, the latter being a condescending, gaslighting insult to Torontonians. ActiveTO as we knew it finally died on Wednesday, but the knives sticking out of its corpse have been there a long while.Īs it lay dead on the floor of this week’s city council meeting, with an unchallenged transportation services staff report recommending against regular recurring weekend closures and instead switching to a limited number of closures as “special events.” Maybe one, maybe more - who knows! None of that is clear but it’s now turned into a public relations exercise (no pun intended) for the city rather than something useful to residents. ![]()
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