(Google announced Tuesday it will move its Toronto headquarters to Quayside to “anchor” the area.) When neighbourhood residents want a stop sign, city staff go and measure pedestrian and vehicular traffic against established benchmarks and make recommendations. Same goes with bike lanes: the Bloor Street pilot project was admirably rich in data. But it’s unlikely to change a lot of people’s minds: most will vote according to how they feel about bike lanes. It’s probably best not to sign the whole city over to Google … for now, anyway.

Source: National Post October 18, 2017 02:48 UTC