.......Businesses will move away from Toronto and young people will leave. You no longer have any quality of life living in Toronto. The traffic is terrible. You move way more traffic with buses and cars and not with bicycles. These bike lanes have definitely made the traffic worse. And it hurts businesses. We have parks and nature trails. The bikes belong there away from the cars and trucks and buses. Keep adding bike lanes and you will hollow out your jobs and businesses. No one wants to sit in traffic all day. You will end up with a city of bicycles and with no jobs to go to. People will leave........
i just saw bs like that a couple weeks ago. TWO parking enforcement officers ticketing some work van parked halfway on the sidewalk. while literally on the other side of the street a man laid sleeping in the middle of it with pedestrians having to walk around him. The city needs to get it's priorities straight big time
Pink slips need to be given out to the fools that focused all their energy on red-light cameras and speed cameras instead of actually reducing traffic wait times
Time to fire the fools that run the traffic department since we are regressing backward ever since they were all hired and promoted starting 5 years ago
This is an extremely short sighted, costly temporarily "fix" as it completely useless in addressing the root cause in the long term. The cause for traffic congestion is a lack of safe, punctual, fast and reliable public transit - have a look at Japan, HK and China and take a lesson on how transportation should be planned, built, managed, and operated. The deployment of these traffic agents are so costly and yet do not solve anything other than adding more pressure to the city budget and taking away limited fund for other more socially useful project.
Good idea, Toronto police aren't very good at protection, timely arrivals or solving crimes, but at least they are good at traffic, issuing tickets for the city coffers, being rude to the people who pay their salaries, at least get them doing something for their exorbitant salaries, benefits. Yea at least this way the6 are working.
14 and possibly another 16 in the future, so basically 30 traffic agents will cover all of Toronto??? That's it??? 😂 ... Toronto should be like Manhattan in New York, First let's start with synchronized traffic lights for starters, then there should be traffic police in every intersection during rush hour traffic... Manhattan has 4 times the amount of vehicles Toronto has, it's in a smaller area, it has way more roads and yet the traffic flows alot better.... Oh and maybe get rid of bike lanes and widen roads back to two lanes.... How can a major traffic artery like Bloor Street be reduced to 1 lane to add a bicycle lane.... Bicyclists should have their own bike paths, it helps traffic and it's safer for the bicyclists.
Invest more in affordable, reliable and fast public transit, improve on the walkability for people , expand the protected bike lane network, and de-prioritize car dependancy That's how fix a lot of the gridlock issues Give people the freedom of options other than being solo occupant of 2 ton metal box taking an enormous amount of space
.......Businesses will move away from Toronto and young people will leave. You no longer have any quality of life living in Toronto.
The traffic is terrible. You move way more traffic with buses and cars and not with bicycles. These bike lanes have definitely made the traffic worse. And it hurts businesses. We have parks and nature trails. The bikes belong there away from the cars and trucks and buses. Keep adding bike lanes and you will hollow out your jobs and businesses. No one wants to sit in traffic all day. You will end up with a city of bicycles and with no jobs to go to. People will leave........
Shouldn't need one if drivers know not block intersections if they couldn't clear it when the light cycles.
Classic Toronto @ 1:19
City spends thousands on traffic agents, while there is a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk. The irony writes itself
Thousands? You mean millions
80k a year x 30 agents = $2.4 million a year. Yes millions.
@@jubeilam8128 and that's just the start.
i just saw bs like that a couple weeks ago. TWO parking enforcement officers ticketing some work van parked halfway on the sidewalk. while literally on the other side of the street a man laid sleeping in the middle of it with pedestrians having to walk around him. The city needs to get it's priorities straight big time
Pink slips need to be given out to the fools that focused all their energy on red-light cameras and speed cameras instead of actually reducing traffic wait times
Time to fire the fools that run the traffic department since we are regressing backward ever since they were all hired and promoted starting 5 years ago
So much construction is destroying the streets of the city
Gene, Gene the dancing machine!
This is an extremely short sighted, costly temporarily "fix" as it completely useless in addressing the root cause in the long term. The cause for traffic congestion is a lack of safe, punctual, fast and reliable public transit - have a look at Japan, HK and China and take a lesson on how transportation should be planned, built, managed, and operated. The deployment of these traffic agents are so costly and yet do not solve anything other than adding more pressure to the city budget and taking away limited fund for other more socially useful project.
Good idea, Toronto police aren't very good at protection, timely arrivals or solving crimes, but at least they are good at traffic, issuing tickets for the city coffers, being rude to the people who pay their salaries, at least get them doing something for their exorbitant salaries, benefits. Yea at least this way the6 are working.
couldnt we have just gotten the parking enforcement officers to do this? save some $ and parking officers could have some real work to do
14 and possibly another 16 in the future, so basically 30 traffic agents will cover all of Toronto??? That's it??? 😂 ... Toronto should be like Manhattan in New York, First let's start with synchronized traffic lights for starters, then there should be traffic police in every intersection during rush hour traffic... Manhattan has 4 times the amount of vehicles Toronto has, it's in a smaller area, it has way more roads and yet the traffic flows alot better.... Oh and maybe get rid of bike lanes and widen roads back to two lanes.... How can a major traffic artery like Bloor Street be reduced to 1 lane to add a bicycle lane.... Bicyclists should have their own bike paths, it helps traffic and it's safer for the bicyclists.
These guys are useless, one guy directing traffic, three of them standing around chatting on the side of the road. Great use of reasorces.
Invest more in affordable, reliable and fast public transit, improve on the walkability for people , expand the protected bike lane network, and de-prioritize car dependancy
That's how fix a lot of the gridlock issues
Give people the freedom of options other than being solo occupant of 2 ton metal box taking an enormous amount of space