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I wonder why only 2% commute by bike...:( That's a bad number. Makes us look more like Houston or New York. And only 36% of employers promote teleworking? That's very bad. Ironically Metrolinx are one of the corporations that fail to actively promote teleworking to their employees. Time to start eating your own dog food Metrolinx.
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ReplyDeleteWhy do only 2% bike? Are you for real?! Do **you** have time to commute by bike from Aurora to downtown T.O. every day? How about from Oshawa to Whitby??? That's almost 3 hours one way. It would be six hours of cycling.
ReplyDeleteI think you meant Oshawa to Toronto.
ReplyDeleteIn the summer I bike to the GO Station. Used to take the bus otherwise, but Durham transit has proven itself to be too unreliable, so now I drive.
ReplyDeleteThe bike stats need more context. 40% of the 1000 folks surveyed were from 'Toronto' but that's a big catchment area. You could argue that most of the potential bikers and walkers live in the Toronto core proper and nowhere else so all the other respondents would skewer the stats. The true test of biking would be something like: Do you live within x miles of your workplace? If yes - do you bike?
ReplyDeleteAny yes I am for real thanks for asking (troll).
The trolls are really bad today and I'm sorry for that. It's really hard to tell who is just being a jerk and who is being a troll.
ReplyDeleteThe trolls are really bad today and I'm sorry for that. It's really hard to tell who is just being a jerk and who is being a troll.
ReplyDelete22% would carpool "if they had assictance finding a partner".
ReplyDeleteThat implies that we could cut traffic by 22% for the cost of a decent website (a few million $).
Metrolinx should just do it. It's a rounding error compared with most transit projects.
The main problem with the survey is that it is too broad. If you want to study car versus transit questions you need to pick a catchment area. The travel plans for someone in downtown TO are going to be nothing like those faced by someone in Milton. Similarly asking a Hamilton resident if they bike to work is just a waste of a question. It's hard to draw conclusions from anything in this study.
ReplyDeleteThe last Transportation Tomorrow Survey shows 1.2% of trips to work by GTHA residents as using their bike.
ReplyDeleteGiven the sample size, the figure here is 2% ±0.87%, a pretty nig margin of error ... TTS is 1.2% ±0.01%, because it covers 5% of all households in the GTHA.