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Since 2005, the BIA has been working with the councillor's office, city staff and community groups to seek streetscape improvements above the basic streetcar track, sidewalk and water service repair project that is currently planned for 2009-10. The BIA's 2003 Streetscape Strategy, developed in consultation with businesses and the community, has served as a basis for our streetscape proposals. It is not the final vision, but represents the beginning of a dialogue between our community and the City.
A joint community committee, called Roncesvalles Renewed, has been formed with representatives from the BIA, the High Park Residents' Association, the Roncesvalles-Macdonell Residents' Association, the Sunnyside Community Association, Councillor Gord Perks' office and other community members. Roncesvalles Renewed also includes local, volunteer professionals with a background in architecture, design and urban planning, who have helped us to understand and respond to many of the technical issues that have been raised during the process. Since 2005, Roncesvalles Renewed has led workshops and information sessions in church basements, school gyms, community centres, libraries and various living rooms. These gatherings have helped community members understand various streetscape issues, and advise the City on community priorities and local conditions.
Based on the BIA's streetscape document, and following other consultations with business and community groups, Roncesvalles Renewed has idenitified four streetscape priorities it hopes to see added to the 2009-10 project:
1. A Living Sidewalk with Healthy Trees
The project would integrate Roncesvalles' stormwater sewer with an innovative new tree planting system that would finally allow urban trees to grow to maturity, instead of dying within 5-10 years of age. Sidewalks, instead of acting like funnels channelling water rapidly into our combined sewers, would become massive absorption pads, sucking up huge amounts of water and reducing the frequency of raw sewage overflows into our lake. In addition, mature urban trees will provide shade, cool the street and absorb 15 times as much carbon dioxide and airborne pollutants as the same tree in a rural setting. And of course, trees are beautiful and well-loved. It is a cost-effective solution that beautifully and efficiently integrates the urban and natural environments.
2. New and enhanced public spaces
Widened sidewalks and curb extensions would allow for new public uses such as patios, merchandise displays, benches, gardens or public art. In some cases, these "bumpouts" would allow TTC riders to board the streetcar without crossing a lane of traffic. Such a plan would change Roncesvalles into a street that prioritizes transit, cycling and pedestrian uses over car traffic and parking. This is in line with City policy, as well as the BIA’s streetscape strategy of 2003. While the BIA will seek to preserve parking where possible, the plain fact is that Roncesvalles will never be able to compete with other shopping areas on parking availability. But Roncesvalles can offer something that a mall never can: a pleasant and distinct experience for shoppers who walk, cycle or ride the streetcar.
3. Improved sidewalk standards
While opening up new public space, curb extensions would also reduce the crossing distance for pedestrians, improving safety and accessibility. Physical design features such as distinct paving can make crosswalks intuitively obvious to drivers that already have to cope with an excess of lines and signs. The reconstruction also offers us an opportunity to flatten our multi-level sidewalks, which have caused so many accidents. And finally, smart road design can help encourage motorists to slow down and share the road, making the street safer for pedestrians, cyclists, TTC riders and drivers.
4. Distinctive entrances at the north and south ends of Roncesvalles
Open spaces at Boustead and Queen provide opportunities for design treatments that announce the entrance to our neighborhood. These public gathering places could feature public art, landscaping and special lighting.
Similar features have been incorporated into other reconstruction projects, such as on College Street and St. Clair. However, by getting involved in the process early, Roncesvalles Renewed gives the community a better voice and more ownership of the reconstruction process, avoiding the misunderstandings and confusion that can mar such large street projects.
Please visit the Roncesvalles Renewed page regularly for updates on this important community project. More information is available at www.roncesvallesrenewed.org.
UPDATE: The latest preliminary streetscape proposals are now available for viewing. The BIA urges all businesses and community members to examine the PDFs of the sidewalk plan (part one is the southern half, and part two is the north), and please let the BIA know how the plan can be made the best possible. Where are the opportunities for new trees, benches, lighting or bike parking? How can crosswalks be made the safest possible? How can the transit stops be made inviting and attractive? Where else can the plan be improved? You can email us at . More information on the Roncesvalles reconstruction project is available here and here.
Can lessons from the St. Clair streetcar project be applied here?
The TTC has just published “Getting it Right: Lessons from the St. Clair Streetcar for the Implementation of Transit City,” written by Les Kelman and Richard Soberman. The report details the missteps that led to delays and cost overruns with the St. Clair transit project. The Globe and Mail sums up the report’s conclusions nicely: “The price tag of the new St. Clair streetcar line nearly doubled because nobody was in charge as the project’s scope ballooned, public consultation ran amok and more than 20 small contractors tripped over each other.” The authors also blamed provincial intervention, including the granting of a judicial review of the project, as a main cause for the delays.
Transit guru Steve Munro has posted his response to the TTC report. He questions the report’s emphasis on “project creep” and obstinate community members, and places more blame for the delays on good old-fashioned bureaucracy, mismanagement and a “silo mentality” within City departments and agencies. He also says that the TTC resisted public input not only from steadfast opponents, but from project supporters as well, and must share considerable blame for the poor public consultations.
The report mentions that a Project Management Plan is being prepared, and a single Transit City office is being established within the TTC, which should improve how such projects are managed in the future. Specifically, the report stresses the importance of:
• ensuring construction contract conditions that facilitate staging and traffic management plans,
• including both incentives and disincentives related to meeting construction milestones,
• finalizing methods of staging construction through workshops with consultants, contractors, and the City, as well as affected utilities, and
• promoting pro-active liaison with residents, businesses and BIAs early in the final design and construction stages.
The Roncesvalles Village BIA has requested that such completion incentives, along with other mitigation efforts, be written into the contract for phase two of the Roncesvalles reconstruction (set to begin probably in June).
While the Roncesvalles reconstruction is tiny compared to the scope of the Transit City LRT projects, the BIA hopes that the City and TTC will examine the lessons of the St. Clair project (along with the lessons learned so far during the Roncesvalles reconstruction), and apply them here.
The BIA is gathering input from merchants and the community about phase one of the Roncesvalles reconstruction, and is forwarding recommendations to City staff. If you have any observations or recommendations on how to mitigate disruption during phase two, please contact the BIA at , Councillor Gord Perks at , or post below.
How can we best manage disruption in 2010?
Photo: BlogTO
Recently, BlogTO posted an article on how Roncesvalles businesses are struggling during the reconstruction, a reminder of the importance of supporting local businesses during the holiday season. The BIA urges all Roncesvalles residents, please, to brave the occasional dust blast (and chilly breeze), and drop by your local shops, services and restaurants. We need you now more than ever!
The article mentions several business closures, although it is not clear that all these closures were due to the reconstruction. What is certain, however, is that business is down, and the 30 percent drop that Len McAuley from Pollocks reported sounds typical for the street. Is there way of mitigating the disruption during the second phase of construction (to begin in the spring with the streetcar track and sidewalk repairs)?
In addition to urging continued local support for Roncesvalles businesses, the BIA would like to ask community members for their observations of how this first phase of construction has been managed. What can be done better to ensure that the second phase proceeds as smoothly as possible? Good suggestions should be incorporated into the tender document, which the City and TTC will send out shortly.
Here are some sample observations, and a few suggestions:
1) Do more to ensure pedestrian movement: Quite often during the first phase, pedestrians were required to walk a block or more out of their way just to cross the street. This effectively cut off businesses from half their customers. The new contract should state that pedestrian crossings shall be maintained at each block except when this is absolutely impossible. Each hour that a pedestrian crossing was closed made a difference to businesses across the street.
2) Manage the dust: Perhaps even more than parking and car access, dust and noise were main factors keeping customers off the street. The jackhammers only lasted a week or so out front of a business, but the dust remained far longer. This meant that whenever a bus drove by, a huge cloud of dust was stirred up and thrown into people’s faces. Even after the first blast, micro particles would linger in the air, making the street unpleasant for everyone and intolerable for those with allergies.
3) Contain the mess: Right now, there are several blocks along the street that are finished but still closed off due to staging materials. Wherever possible, the City should insist that staging materials be kept on the same block where work is occurring or just one block adjacent. Whenever a block can be opened up, however partially, it should be.
4) Preserve bike parking: whenever bike posts must be removed in order to reconstruct the sidewalk, temporary bike parking should be provided nearby. Car parking may need to be restricted along Roncesvalles, but there is no reason bike parking should be.
5) Accept time-based transfers at all Roncesvalles stops, allowing TTC riders forced to switch vehicles at Queen/King/Roncesvalles to shop a bit before resuming travel without requiring use only at designated transfer locations. A similar program has been in place on St. Clair.
6) Bonuses for speedy completion of work should be included in the construction contract
Are there any other observations/suggestions? Please contact the BIA at , Councillor Gord Perks at , or post below!
The community has always understood that the reconstruction work is long overdue and is absolutely necessary to avoid having streetcars run off their rails. And disruption is inevitable with any reconstruction. But there is always room for improvement in how such things are managed. Let’s make sure the lessons learned during this first phase are incorporated into the second!
Roncesvalles redesign: your input is needed
Toronto’s Public Realm section is leading the detailed design phase of the Roncesvalles streetscape improvement project. The City needs your input to help them understand our local priorities and the local conditions.
For example, a number of businesses have told the BIA that they are currently unable to build a patio out front due to a bus shelter or a tree planter. The locations of such items are currently being considered, so it may be possible to locate these items elsewhere nearby. But the City designers cannot know about these preferences unless we inform them.
Here are some questions that only the community can answer:
- which businesses need patio/display space, and which would prefer a tree?
- where would benches be best used?
- where do pedestrians feel the most vulnerable?
- where do cars speed, or bottleneck, or otherwise get into mischief? what is the likely cause?
- where have accidents or “close calls” occurred?
- where do cars park illegally? or make temporary stops? or make other unauthorized use of the street? should this be tolerated or not?
- do people feel comfortable jaywalking, or does everyone cross only at the crosswalks?
- where do pedestrian bottlenecks occur? what is the cause?
- where do people gather (as opposed to loiter)? And where do people loiter (as opposed to gather)?
- where are the “dead zones” along the sidewalk, where people don’t wish to linger? What can be done to improve these areas?
- where do the elderly need to rest?
- do strollers need a place to park/lock up? if so, where?
- how many bike parking spots do we need? where should they go?
- where do parents pick up/drop off their kids? what routes do the kids take to and from school?
- when is parking most needed, and by whom?
- how many people buy their coffee to go, making quick stops in their cars? how many people drink at the coffee shop?
- which spaces should be greened, and which should be paved (for patios, displays or other features)? Can we do both, and if so, how?
- do people prefer an nice uncluttered street, or is a little clutter desirable if it adds interest?
Obviously, our community is not expected to design the street. That is the City’s job. But there is a difference between a street as it appears on a designer’s computer screen and a street as it actually is used. By informing the City of our local priorities and the local conditions, be are best able to ensure that the City builds the best possible street for our community.
Your input or questions can be sent directly to Councillor Gord Perks or to the BIA (). We will ensure that your comments are sent to the right people at the City. The BIA also encourages community members to discuss these questions with neighbours, fellow merchants, at your residents’ association meetings, at church, and at other public gatherings. Roncesvalles Renewed, a partnership of local community organizations, is hosting online discussions, and invites your participation. More information about the reconstruction is available here and here.
Roncesvalles to be designed to the top City standard, says Perks
Roncesvalles will be designed to the top City standard for main streets, says Councillor Gord Perks. The design will follow two key priorities: 1) a strong public realm and 2) an expanded canopy of healthy trees.
What this all actually means is unclear, but the City has webpages that outline current design standards and guidelines. The tree planting guidelines can be found here.
Councillor Perks has previously expressed uncertainty about funding for the enhanced streetscape, but he now says he knows where the money can be found once budget room is freed up due to new infrastructure funds. With the confirmation of federal funding last month, he will now have the opportunity to prove it.
UPDATE (Oct. 16): At the Sunnyside Community Association’s AGM on Wednesday, Councillor Perks confirmed that about 120 new trees will be planted along the entire length of Roncesvalles, in healthy conditions. These trees will be planted at grade if possible (such opportunities exist mainly where the sidewalk is to be widened, at the transit stops), but most will likely be planted near grade, with a slightly raised planting configuration, surrounded by a concrete lip, to allow the root ball sufficient clearance over the underground utilities.
While this is very good news, Councillor Perks regrettably says there appear to be few opportunities for a full Living Sidewalk, where the street’s stormwater drainage would be integrated with the tree’s root system, so that water first goes to the trees instead of our combined sewers. This is because there are large utility conduits under the sidewalk, whose locations could not be fully confirmed until after the completion of underground surveys, conducted over the summer. Federal law gives utility companies a right-of-way on our streets, which means they cannot be compelled to move their services. Urban Forestry says a smaller-scale Living Sidewalk remains possible between Neepawa and Grenadier and between Geoffrey and Westminister, but this project would still need funding above what Councillor Perks is currently seeking.
Councillor Perks said that existing healthy trees will be preserved in their tree planters. Unhealthy or immature trees will be replaced with new trees planted in the sidewalk. He defined a “healthy” tree as one that you could not quite get one arm around (we guesstimate about 20 cm in diameter or more). Urban Forestry says these mature trees cannot be moved without killing them. The BIA and the community have previously expressed a strong preference for preserving the healthy tree canopy, although one could argue that a new tree planted in proper conditions would quickly catch up with a healthy, but young enough tree contained in a planter, such that the loss of a healthy tree in this case would be a reasonable short term investment in the long term canopy. In any case, Councillor Perks confirmed that over the long term, the “tree coffins” will be phased out, as trees die naturally and are replaced with new trees, planted at or near grade, as above.
The City’s streetscape designers are currently seeking community input about local priorities and local conditions. Your input or questions can be sent directly to Councillor Gord Perks or to the BIA (). We will ensure that your comments are sent to the right people at the City. The BIA also encourages community members to discuss these questions with neighbours, fellow merchants, at your residents’ association meetings, at church, and at other public gatherings. Roncesvalles Renewed, a partnership of local community organizations, is hosting online discussions, and invites your participation. More information about the reconstruction is available here and here.
Stay awesome, Roncesvalles!
More than a month after heavy machinery rolled onto Roncesvalles, our community seems to be taking the disruption in stride. While plenty of grumbles are heard in local coffee shops, the fact that these grumblings are actually taking place in the coffee shops suggests that the noise and rubble (and the occasional mental image of a giant fireball of death) are not scaring away customers. Indeed, the disruption has become an ideal way of starting a conversation, at least until December when the construction pauses, and we can begin grumbling about the cold Toronto winter instead.
Amidst the grumbles, some folks are actually having fun with the reconstruction. Like the people in Uxbridge, who decided to turn their reconstruction into a local attraction, some Roncesvalles residents seem to be quite enjoying themselves. Parents can be seen snapping pictures of the massive pits, while their kids gawk at the mighty machines. And blogger Daddy-O snapped the work of some anonymous local artist or artists who turned the rubble pile into sculpture overnight.
And some enterprising merchants see opportunity in the disruption, such as the clever folks at Sukha Health Spa (right) who are offering tired souls a chance to de-stress from all the mess. They understand that a positive attitude is good business.
And while our community is remarkably free of whining, a new “Shop Local” campaign shows what truly loyal and supportive customers we have.
Other business areas have launched Shop Local campaigns during reconstructions before, such as the taxpayer-funded campaigns along St. Clair (which have been somewhat undermined by a recent lawsuit whose success depends on convincing people that the reconstruction is a disaster).
But ours is the only Shop Local campaign we know of that was conceived, developed and implemented by the community itself. Those new posters are the result of volunteer work by our own customers, who understand the neighbourhood’s need for a healthy and successful main street. Local designer Richard Peachey created the poster, and volunteers from Roncesvalles Renewed are distributing them to every business and to homes in the neighbourhood. This is truly amazing, and we are deeply grateful for such generosity.
The BIA would like to thank Mary Wiens, Martha Goodings, Veronica Feihl, Richard Peachey and all the hard-working volunteers at Roncesvalles Renewed. And thanks to all our great customers who have not let the disruption prevent them from enjoying the best street in Toronto! With your support our street will survive and thrive during this reconstruction, with our good humour and positive spirits intact.
Stay awesome, Roncesvalles!
Public Realm to lead Roncesvalles redesign, hosting public meeting Sept. 21
Councillor Gord Perks has announced that the City’s Public Realm Section is leading the detailed design phase of the Roncesvalles Streetscape Improvement Project. The project leader will be Elyse Parker, the heavy-hitting director of the Public Realm Section, within the City’s Transportation Division.
Ms. Parker’s appointment is fantastic news for Roncesvalles. Before becoming director of Public Realm, she was Project Manager for the Clean and Beautiful Secretariat (which was absorbed into Public Realm earlier this year). Spacing.ca describes her as “someone with proven experience in improving pedestrian spaces in the city.” Among her accomplishments is the development of Toronto’s Boulevard Transformation Program, which seeks to “replace hard, impermeable concrete in neighbourhoods with greened sustainable boulevards.” Clearly, Ms. Parker has the clout and vision to help our community realize its top streetscape priorities.
The community will get a chance to meet Ms. Parker and her team at a public consultation meeting, to be held at the High Park Baptist Church (9 Hewitt) from 6:30 to 9 pm. At the meeting, community members will receive a briefing on the design parameters. There will be four stations set up where consultations with relevant City staffers will take place. The themes will be: 1) tree opportunities, 2) design of bike/transit platforms, 3) street furniture and 4) overall public realm design, location of platforms, sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. Community members will be free to focus on one station or move about. The discussions will concern design details within the scope of the overall design concept established during the recent EA process, approved by City Council on May 27.
Please download the meeting notice here (to read the notice in Polish, please click here).
Gord Perks on gas pipe rupture: “the incident was safely contained”
Earlier this month, with the one-year anniversary of the Sunrise Propane gas explosions fresh in their minds, Roncesvalles residents watched behind barriers as firefighters and construction crews rushed to repair a gas line rupture, damaged during the reconstruction. Many were curious to know how close they just came to being engulfed in giant fireball of death. The answer, according to Councillor Gord Perks is: not close at all.
Councillor Perks said that whenever workers get close to an underground utility, as marked on the road, the heavy digging stops and workers switch to hand tools. Occasionally, the underground utilities are mapped incorrectly, or the pipe lies closer to the surface than it is supposed to be. So crews are always prepared for just such an accident, wrote Councillor Perks:
“Work stops. Equipment is turned off. Firefighter are called urgently to the scene. The fracture is repaired.
“Experience shows that the gas vents safely because it is does not build up to dangerous levels in an enclosed space. Think of the home safety tip to open your windows if you smell gas in your home.
“In the case of the recent incident, the pipe that was struck was an old disconnected service pipe. Because it was still attached to the main it caused a rupture in the main. When a service is disconnected, it is supposed to be disconnected from the main. We don’t know why this wasn’t done when the original disconnection was performed years ago.
“I wish higher standards for maintenance and record keeping had been required in previous decades. As you can see the City approaches this historical deficiency with several layers of safety planning. In this incident the protocols were followed and the incident was safely contained.”
If you have further questions about reconstruction safety, please contact Councillor Gord Perks’ office. The City asks that you to bring any concerns you may have to the City’s attention right away so that coordination with the Contractor can take place. You may obtain emergency service (24 hours a day) by calling 416-338-8888.
Construction? Festival!
Roncesvalles is under construction, and we are working hard to earn your business.
The RVBIA encourages our neighbours to continue to support business on Roncesvalles through this challenging time. Put your money where your house is—shop locally!
GREAT NEWS! Everything is a go for the 2009 RONCESVALLES POLISH FESTIVAL, SEPTEMBER 19 AND 20, 2009. Read all about it here!
Flushing Out the Truth: Roncesvalles needs a Living Sidewalk!
Wastewater is the very definition of an unsexy subject, but the issue seems to be attracting more and more attention from environmental activists and regulators. The attention explains the urgent need for Roncesvalles Renewed’s proposed Living Sidewalk, which would transform Roncesvalles from a concrete funnel flushing stormwater down our combined sewers into a massive absorption pad, with healthy trees sucking up huge amounts of water and reducing the frequency of raw sewage overflows into our lake.
In June, Ecojustice (formerly the Sierra Legal Defense Fund) published a report on municipal sewage overflows in Ontario, called Flushing Out the Truth. According to the report, in 2006 Toronto released over 284 million litres of raw sewage into our lake. Ecojustice also created a report, called Green Cities, Great Lakes, which recommends green infrastructure to prevent Combined Sewage Overflows. Among its recommendations is street trees to soak up rain flow; i.e.: a Living Sidewalk! CTV did a story on the Ecojustice report a few weeks ago.
And last week, federal environment minister Jim Prentice announced new rules governing wastewater discharges by municipalities. “Each time we close a beach or issue a boil-water advisory, we are reminded that we must do more to protect our water resources,” Mr. Prentice told the CBC. He said the new rules, to be published in December, would set national standards for wastewater treatment facilities, and would require new monitoring and reporting of sewage discharges. Municipalities wishing to upgrade their facilities will be able to draw from the $33 billion Building Canada infrastructure fund.
Despite the increased focus on wastewater pollution, the Roncesvalles Living Sidewalk project is not yet adequately funded. The BIA will be contributing nearly all its capital savings towards the project, and this will receive municipal matching funds under the City’s BIA Capital Cost-share program. This program is normally used by BIAs for branding opportunities or decorative features, but the Roncesvalles Village BIA believes the Living Sidewalk will provide far more substantial benefits for the community and the city than say, themed banners with the BIA logo. Meanwhile, Roncesvalles Renewed is still waiting for news about its Live Green grant application, a process which was delayed by the strike. But even if the grant is approved, there remains a major funding gap.
The BIA and its community partners had hoped the remaining shortfall would be made up by funding secured through the federal infrastructure stimulus fund. However, the Living Sidewalk was not among the 500 or so projects applied for by the City last June. Councillor Gord Perks said that information critical to the application was not yet available, and unfortunately the strike meant that this information remained unavailable by the application deadline. However, Councillor Perks says he hopes federal funding for the other projects will free up some money for the Living Sidewalk. It will require some tricky manoeuvring for the City to move up the schedules of all these projects in order to fulfill the federal government’s March 2011 project completion requirement, and so we hope the City has better luck with this second application than it had with the first. But even if most of these projects are approved (and not a nickle of federal infrastructure stimulus cash has yet been spent in Toronto), there remains the sticky issue of funding the City’s new fleet of streetcars, which might be expected to command much of any money freed up. It would be a bitter disappointment for the Roncesvalles community if the Living Sidewalk got lost among all these complex funding acrobatics!
The BIA will keep everyone posted about the funding applications. In the meantime, please write Councillor Gord Perks to show your support for his efforts to secure full funding for the Roncesvalles Living Sidewalk!
EARLIER:
The measurable benefits of urban trees (May 21, 2009)
Western Waterfront Master Plan aims to clean up Sunnyside Beach (April 1, 2009)
What stormwater management is really about (Hint: rhymes with “spit”) (March 19, 2009)
The challenges of greening Roncesvalles (May 29, 2008)
New TTC construction methods will mean quieter streetcars
Steve Munro posts a fascinating overview of the history of streetcar use in Toronto, and lays out the argument explaining why they are preferred over buses, not just in Toronto but in many cities of the world. One tidbit caught our eye: the reconstructed streetcar tracks should be much quieter than what has previously existed:
From Steve Munro’s blog:
Until the late 1960s, TTC track was built from continuously welded sections of rail, and this was installed in the street in a manner that made it fairly easy to dig up and make repairs. The welded rail holds together much longer and does not produce vibrations at the joints that lead to breakup of the pavement. In 1968, after a derailment accident with one of the two crane cars used to perform track installation, this practice stopped. At that time, the TTC’s policy was that streetcars would be gone by 1980, and there was no point in building track that would last for decades.
[…]
Fast forward to the early 1990s. By this time, the track infrastructure was badly deteriorated through inferior construction and vibration from the newer fleet, and the TTC had to roughly double the rate at which it replaced track. Roadbeds that should have lasted 25 years were wearing out in about 10.
They are now using a construction technique with welded rail and mechanical isolation of the track from the roadbed. Moreover, the substructure uses steel ties, rather than the untreated wood used since sometime in the 1970s. This means that the track bed will not disintegrate as the ties rot underneath it. Finally, all recent construction has gone right down to the base slab, and the lower layers of the structure should last a very long time with future track replacement limited to the upper part of the structure.
Track vibrations along Roncesvalles have been a big complaint of our community. It’s good to know that the TTC has changed its construction methods to ensure much quieter and longer-lasting tracks.
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