15 minute neighborhoods should be about student walk and bike to school and play, not adult amenities. A major barrier to this is Ont. Moving to regional vs in-community schools, even at the elementary level.
I appreciated discussion of the Transit ap. I rushed down to Bank St from a friend's place several blocks up 5th to catch the 7 announced on the app in 8 minutes. When I arrived it said in 1 minute, then now, but there was no bus in sight. I re-searched the route and it gave me 8 minutes again. It seemed like a bit of a joke and indeed it was, the bus did not arrive in 8 minutes, was maybe 10-12 minutes. I understand this is OC Transpo data, I'm not getting why it can't be more accurate. I find it really disturbing that a bus could just be pulled off it's route to serve another route. This evidently relates to the lack of busses and mechanics discussed earlier. And I'm shocked that the whole system will be overhauled, evidently for the worse, on April 27. As far as I can tell, the City wishes to humiliate anyone who does not own a car. They want us to know that we can't count on services from them. We're all focused on Trump but the reality is that our very own city is, from what I can tell, pursuing the same agenda: destroying public services and handing money to police and wealthy developers. I don't think this reality should get lost in the minutia of specific issues.
15 minute neighborhoods should be about student walk and bike to school and play, not adult amenities. A major barrier to this is Ont. Moving to regional vs in-community schools, even at the elementary level.
I appreciated discussion of the Transit ap. I rushed down to Bank St from a friend's place several blocks up 5th to catch the 7 announced on the app in 8 minutes. When I arrived it said in 1 minute, then now, but there was no bus in sight. I re-searched the route and it gave me 8 minutes again. It seemed like a bit of a joke and indeed it was, the bus did not arrive in 8 minutes, was maybe 10-12 minutes. I understand this is OC Transpo data, I'm not getting why it can't be more accurate. I find it really disturbing that a bus could just be pulled off it's route to serve another route. This evidently relates to the lack of busses and mechanics discussed earlier. And I'm shocked that the whole system will be overhauled, evidently for the worse, on April 27. As far as I can tell, the City wishes to humiliate anyone who does not own a car. They want us to know that we can't count on services from them. We're all focused on Trump but the reality is that our very own city is, from what I can tell, pursuing the same agenda: destroying public services and handing money to police and wealthy developers. I don't think this reality should get lost in the minutia of specific issues.