The Last Word on Snow (Until it Snows)

10.03.2011

Last week Council debated several amendments to the already heavily revised Snow Policy. The revised policy as approved by Council is here. There was significant debate about whether the City should be plowing residential roads down to bare pavement after every snowfall. In the end Council decided that we should aim for maintaining a 5cm [...]

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Snow Routes, Parking and Bare Pavement

09.13.2011

Following up to last week’s post on the latest round of Snow Policy work, I can confirm that Council intervened and, as you may have read in the media, the blanket seasonal parking ban on bus routes has been suspended. At the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee meeting on September 6, I proposed that all we [...]

Tagged as: policy, roadways, snow, transportation, winter

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Late Transit ‘Night Ride’ Pilot Project

09.08.2011

[Update: Sept. 29, 2011: The City announced yesterday that the pilot will run in January of next year. It means the pilot will have a full university term to be evaulated, and gives more time for neighbourhood input into how the program will be evaluated - one of the major questions that came up in the Sept. [...]

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Links To Pending Snow Policy Revisions

08.31.2011

Nobody wants a repeat of last winter’s road conditions, so Council and Transportation Services continue to work toward cost effective policy changes that will improve city response times after major snow storms. We have already purchased more equipment that will allow us to remove windrows faster and more plow trucks to service residential streets. I’ve [...]

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Council’s Final Arena Offer

04.07.2011

[UPDATE - October 25, 2011: I guess the April framework wasn't Council's final offer. See here for the October 25 report outlining the post-New York changes to the agreement framework.] Make no mistake, I’m not anti-arena as some have suggested, I’m just concerned about the public financial contribution that is called for to make it [...]

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