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By highasageorgiapine (registered) | Posted March 15, 2016 at 09:35:14 in reply to Comment 117004
even with the subsidization of alternative transportation i highly doubt there would be much uptake. the general is serviced by one bus line, the 2 barton. this bus is awful for many reasons, but worst of all is that it is unreliable and so very slow.
the general is located between 2 high speed one way streets that services large numbers of heavy vehicle traffic (trucks going to and from the north end. neither street i would ever bike on. east-west you can take barton, which is awful for biking infrastructure. best bet would be to use the cannon lane to ferguson, park it there and walk. essentially you are where a parking spot would be at that point.
carpooling would be great but then if we could figure that out the 403 and QEW wouldn't be full of single-person cars crawling their way to toronto daily.
increasing parking rates for employees isn't going to help much. if there is no other reasonable options to get to work it will just cost individuals more to get to work. employee parking is a taxable benefit and it's one way that HHS remains competitive relative to other organizations in terms of benefit packages.
the final point i will make is that the general is not perceived as the safest place to be around, and there is some validity to that statement. purse and phone snatchings are pretty common, and if you want staff to wait for a bus/use bikes/walk from work, you have to provide individuals with the sense of personal safety. the city has absolutely no interest in doing anything down barton st so i don't see this trend changing.
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