Let's Exploit Existing Infrastructure

* Exploiting existing infrastructure

Transit Scavenger!

Idea * school buses – let’s use them when they’re sitting around between school hours

Cheapest option

Least energy

Most ecological

Integrating systems

Paradigm shift of creating new versus retrofit

1. reduce

2. resuse

3. recycle

Road capacity – we have wide roads!

Opportunity for bike/bus lanes

changing paint on the road easiest option

* reverse frontage corridors propose an opportunity walking/ biking paths

* tomorrow tax car driving and make public transit free

Example HOV lanes

Creative subsidies

Employee benefit packages

What are the cheapest most elegant solutions to use what we already have better

Kids ride free – change behaviour

Who pays?

Planning – please to grow ? / official plans

Carrot and stick approach to development

* hydro corridors – farms! Cut flowers?

Wind farm, bicycle paths

Better land use planning TTC and ORC

Own huge tracts of land – that is a major resource just sitting waiting to be exploited

How do you make cultural changes? Get people talking and sharing. Turn transit into positive space rather than negative

* bar car on the go train!

Now we are playing catch up

Water/waste infrastructure

Hey wait! Why don’t we telecommute, stay at home one day?

Happening in niches but how do we spread localization around – govt subsidized for employees

Better predictive capacity for government.

Women in workforce makes two people who have to commute

Choice – seems to be that wealth = choice

Input allows output – ie. wealthy = transit

Shift from people moving out of city when they gain wealth to people moving to downtown core with wealth

Families – downtown, 1 bedroom condos, no parking

Promote more diverse use of housing types

* bringing more people to infrastructure

*local living allowances

Employet incentives

Green mortgages and property taxes

* ? use expanded – school, office, housing and market