kanchan m
Sr Engineer on City of Toronto Cycling/Ped Team, Posts/Likes are my own.
Please email cycling@toronto.ca for official answers to infra/project questions.
I'm not 311 🙏🏽
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- Friday is a light day - come back between Tuesday to Thursday and witness the rivers and oceans of humanity ... and shit poor wayfinding. I try to help at least one lost person every time I go in that building.
- Reposted by kanchan mDelivery workers are less likely to run red lights, ride on sidewalks and ride without helmets than their recreational counterparts — defying claims that they sow street chaos, according to a new observational study of more than 1,700 cyclists.
- Reposted by kanchan mMamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
- This posting closes at midnight on Tuesday. There are three temporary engineer openings on our @cyclingpedestrian.cityof.toronto.ca team. Please reach out with any questions.
- We are looking for 3 licensed, experienced engineers to join our #BikeTO team. Help us design and build a more equitable city. Please reach out with any questions.
- We are looking for 3 licensed, experienced engineers to join our #BikeTO team. Help us design and build a more equitable city. Please reach out with any questions.
- Dec 6, 1989 I was starting exams for my 1st term of engineering school at @uwaterloo.ca We heard about the murders on radio/TV, exams were postponed. There was debate about what really happened & we didn't know he targeted only women, or why. There is no debate now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Hey transportation nerds, our latest City of a Toronto Lane width guidelines, first released in 2014, were released a few weeks ago, fill yer boots: www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...
- We are finally in the good place #BikeTO
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- Never forget, the term #Jaywalking is a made up thing and blaming pedestrians for being hit by drivers the result of a marketing campaign. So is that 10,000 steps things. Learn more on this 2023 podcast from CBCs Under The Influence www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
- Reposted by kanchan mI think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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- Visited the #BikeAtO Hoskin side this morning. The new bike signals are in at St George with Leading Bike and Leading Pedestrian intervals in all directions. New transit platforms, planters, bike boxes and curbs are all in. A bit more line marking still to go.
- Our last batch of #BikeTO modular Zicla accessible platforms was installed over the past week. We've installed over 40 of these platforms over the past 8y Many lessons have been learned, a lot of innovation made & some very strong partnerships forged. Toronto is a winter city leader in this stuff.
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- One of our biggest struggles when designing bikeways is parking demand vs removal vs safety. We collect extensive data prior to design to ensure there is adequate parking based on actual usage. We do counts on weekends, overnight, holidays. There almost always is. Links below to data and studies
- We need to wait for road reconstructions in order to remove slip lanes. They tend to hold utilities & are usually attached to the road base But we can do interim measures to make safety improvements while we wait for the larger opportunities More pink last night. 🩷 www.toronto.ca/services-pay...
- Why we leave gaps in curbs along Bikeways There is a city standard spec for these curbs that specifies gaps every 3m, max. Winter City Problems.
- Same material as the Pink corners. One of the only line marking materials that actually sticks to concrete in a winter climate. It's toxic as all hell... But it sticks. #RapidTO
