{"id":2971,"date":"2013-06-25T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:17:00","slug":"getting-the-gtha-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/getting-the-gtha-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the GTHA Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Getting_the_GTHA_Moving_blog_image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2973\" title=\"Getting_the_GTHA_Moving_blog_image\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Getting_the_GTHA_Moving_blog_image1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Getting_the_GTHA_Moving_blog_image1.png 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Getting_the_GTHA_Moving_blog_image1-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone is hearing a lot these days about the need for more transit in the GTHA, and how increasing traffic congestion is hurting our economy. \u00a0The Toronto Board of Trade puts a $6 billion a year price tag on the cost of congestion. But beyond the headlines, many people don\u2019t really understand exactly how traffic congestion and the lack of transit hurts the economy, and why this issue matters to every one of us in this region \u2013 and even to the rest of the province and country.<\/p>\n<p>To help connect the dots, I recommend a recent panel discussion held on TVO\u2019s The Agenda, which covered the issue clearly and logically. \u00a0This discussion provides an excellent overview of the issue, in a non-partisan, objective way. \u00a0Click <a href=\"http:\/\/ww3.tvo.org\/video\/190461\/moving-gta\">here<\/a> to view the episode.<\/p>\n<p>What I found most interesting about this discussion was how it was explained that the lack of transit hurts everyone, whether or not they\u2019re transit users now, or even want to be transit users. \u00a0Even people living in small communities that aren\u2019t experiencing traffic congestion \u00a0in fact are economically affected by it. The negative impacts of congestion \u00a0in the GTHA, given how important this region is to the economy of the entire country, truly do affect the entire country. \u00a0One large business that chooses to open up in the USA rather than in the GTHA due to concerns about congestion hurts all taxpayers in the pocketbook eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy watching the show and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is hearing a lot these days about the need for more transit in the GTHA, and how increasing traffic congestion is hurting our economy. \u00a0The Toronto Board of Trade puts a $6 billion a year price tag on the cost of congestion. But beyond the headlines, many people don\u2019t really understand exactly how traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,53,62,30,19],"tags":[39,18,76,350,105,119,50,22,21,939],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-general","category-live-work-play","category-rapidways","category-urban-planning","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-city-planning","tag-congestion","tag-growth","tag-gta","tag-metrolinx","tag-mixed-use-development","tag-ontario","tag-transit","tag-urban-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}