Posts tagged pilot projects
It appears that the City will be initiating a pilot project for segregated bike lanes on University Avenue this summer between Wellesley and Richmond Streets. This will be a big leap forward for the cycling network in Toronto, as until now, there have not been attempts to create physically separated bike facilities on our urban streets.
It is also a first for the City’s Transportation Department, which in the past has been criticized for studying things to death before implementation. Perhaps the speech by Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York DOT, last year at a CUI luncheon, where she stressed the power of just doing things, knocked some sense into the folks at City Hall.
Quoting Sadik-Khan on pilot projects:
“People are more willing to change if they know it’s not permanent,” she explains.
“The public needs to see things right away,” she says. “We have the vision in New York and we are able to implement that vision.”
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