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Ideas How I came to believe in better public transit. . .while we expand our highways, my experience trainspotting has taught me that our railways are largely very vastly under-utilised. We should be expanding our use of those railways first and then looking back at our highways when our railways are efficient, popular, and affordable, and see if the new highways are still needed. Read more Comprehensive national railway policy needed; As taxpayers and concerned citizens we need to realize that the age of the single occupancy auto is rapidly coming to an end. Read more Rail transit
opportunities
Getting trucks
off the road and people out of cars. "I come to you as a private
citizen in support of the changes to major goal number 9 of
the Official Plan,
and to express my concern about the future of transit in Guelph
specifically, and in Canada more generally. Ours may be the only
country left on the planet still ripping out more railway tracks
than we are putting in. What you do with this information will
affect all of us for years to come., Presentation to City Council by
David Graham.
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David Graham on the unique opportunity the LaFarge property presents for creating an efficient mass-transit system in Guelph. Read Reinventing Transportation, June 27, 2003. A sustainable economy is sensitive to economic, social, and environmental constraints. Sustainability requires more efficient, equitable, and environmentally sensitive transport. This cannot be achieved simply by improving the efficiency of vehicle designs or traffic management. It requires changes in the way we think about transportation . . .a must-read Pavement Busters Guide, Jan. 10.2008.This guide identifies ways to reduce the amount of land required for roads and parking facilities. It examines ways to determine optimal road and parking supply and the full economic, social and environmental costs of increased impervious surfaces.. .a must-readSmart Transportation Investments: Reevaluating the Role of Highway Expansion for Improving Urban Transportation, Oct 1, 2006. This report investigates claims that highway capacity expansion is a cost-effective and desirable solution to urban traffic congestion problems. It identifies . . .errors in analysis and looks at more cost effective alternatives. Read on The Future Isn't What It Used To Be: changing trends and their implications for transport planning, Jan. 10, 2008, This paper examines demographic, economic, and market trends that effect travel demand, and their implication for transport planning.. . future transport demand will be increasing diverse. Read more If Health Matters: Integrating Public Health Objectives in Transportation Decision-Making, June 13, 2006, Conventional transport decision-making focuses on some health impacts but overlooks others. It gives considerable attention to per-kilometer vehicle crash risk and pollution emissions, but over-looks the safety and pollution problems that result from increased vehicle mileage and the negative health impacts from less physically active travel. Read more. Public Health and Transportation Decision-Making, Sept, 2003, Integrating Health Objectives into transportation planning may be a cost effective way to improve public health. The author argues that conventional transportation planning undervalues the potential value of strategies of reducing vehicle mileage, i.e., getting people out of cars. Read more Climate Change,The Nature of Things ,Jan 3 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld. The following important news report gives us information about how our human behaviour impacts on climate change. Climate change is irrevocably altering the world as we know it, challenging our sense of the future and the fundamental values of our industrial societies. For two hundred years, we, in the west, have wagered the world that economic growth is the highest form of progress, Read more Report on public Health and Sprawl in Ontario, Jan. 2005. Summarizes pertinent information on the relationship between urban sprawl and health. Read More Solutions A diamond interchange at Stone supplemented with half diamonds at Kortright and College has numerous benefits. Read more Below-grade traffic circles. Most, if not all, of the concerns voiced by delegations at the Jan. 14, 2008 special meeting of Guelph City Council, can be adequately addressed by having MTO adopt an interchange design not considered by either Stantec or MTO. Read more
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