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Toronto is taking a 180-degree turn in its approach to the amount of parking builders will be required to incorporate in new developments.

In the past, the city has required a minimum amount of parking based on the use and location of new buildings. But a review of parking regulations this year will instead consider the maximum amount of car parking developers can build in their projects.

The proliferation of businesses with drive-through window service has reached different markets (i.e. fast food restaurants, pharmacies, banks). Given the relative success for investors on the window drive-through service, site developers are aiming to include the drive-through in their plans. However, the desire to add a drive-through window service requires site planning to avoid vehicular queues resulting from the drive-through operations impact negatively the surrounded area; without proper attention these queues can block the site parking, create conflicts to the normal internal circulation or even spill back into the adjacent roads causing interference to vehicular flow, reduction of road capacity and safety concerns.

Just the thought of life in Brampton without a car can make one’s legs hurt.

In the sprawling city’s collection of subdivisions, driveways are converted into parking lots. Cars line residential streets around the clock. Otherwise isolated neighbourhoods are linked by a network of highways and six-lane roads that a plane could land on.

TORONTO – A pilot project that will see a slight bump in speed limits on some of Ontario’s highways will go into effect later this week, the province’s transportation minister said Tuesday.

Caroline Mulroney said the new rules, meant to bring Ontario in line with some other provinces, will take effect on three stretches of highway beginning on Thursday.

In 2016, Ontario launched a ten-year pilot program to allow the testing of automated vehicles on Ontario roads. In response to advances in Automated Vehicle (AV) technology, the program will be updated on January 1, 2019 to allow for testing and sale of more innovative technologies. The following change take effect on January 1, 2019: