Accessibility

Wayfinding maps

We’ve wrote a lot about housing affordability, road safety, infrastructure, history, and much more here in St. John’s metro. One of the ‘more’ items is Metrobus. We try to be impartial but ultimately, transit is a public service, which means it is political. We have heard from many residents regarding their issues and it hasContinueContinue reading “Wayfinding maps”

Raised crosswalks

There are many things engineers and designers can do to make our roads safer. They can narrow the roads down like at the Kellys Brook trail crossing on Newtown Road. They can add in curb extensions like at Cavendish Square and all over Water Street. They can make roads one way like all throughout downtownContinueContinue reading “Raised crosswalks”

The islands of walking

Imagine if you will, that you could only traverse our built environment by sidewalk. Maybe you are walking a rather inattentive dog, or have a baby stroller, or use a mobility device. How does that look? While continuing to process our North East Avalon infrastructure map, I thought it would be nice to generate someContinueContinue reading “The islands of walking”

Metrobus Transit hubs

Once you start reading about transit systems all across Canada, you start to see a pattern. Big cities have transit hubs. Halifax has a half dozen, York spent tens of millions on a really shitty one, Calgary has many, Toronto has so many I can’t even count and so on. We ‘sort of’ have hubs,ContinueContinue reading “Metrobus Transit hubs”