Andy Hampton

You haven't told me either 

You haven’t even told me this before! Good luck!

Further to my conversation with Josh Ward, here’s more of our email conversation. 

Hi Andy,

 

Thank you for the comments and glad to hear the feedback; I agree with you with respect to the extension of the Mill Pond trail from Oxford to Elgin Mills.

 

You’ll note the two alternative options presented on Oxford. There has been effort in recent years to make the trail connection through private property, and I’ve added the on-road alternative through the neighbourhood to the east as an interim solution should the trail connection prove infeasible. We will be going through a prioritization exercise within the next month, and I will ensure that this connection continues—as it has in the 4 years I’ve been here—to carry high priority.

 

I would encourage you Andy to subscribe to the Transportation Master Plan page for updates, as you will see more opportunities to engage in the coming months. Thanks again for the input.

 

Happy trails,

Josh.

 

From: Andy Hampton [mailto:ahampton888@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 10:53 PM
To: Josh Ward <josh.ward@richmondhill.ca>
Subject: Re: Cycling Context in Richmond Hill

 

Hi Josh

Thanks for the link. I took a look at the maps and it is encouraging to see so many proposed trails and bike lanes. 

 

Without being familiar with a lot of the other Richmond Hill neighbourhoods it’s hard to comment on the proposals.

 

But I could make one comment from my own neighbourhood. I do find it very frustrating that there is currently no connectivity between the Mill Pond trail (running north/south between Regent and Oxford streets) and the Elgin Mills Greenway (running north of Elgin Mills). There seems to have been some poor planning in the past preventing those two trail systems from connecting. So some form of connecting trail at point B on the Draft Active Transportation map, at the end of Oxford Street should be a high priority as it would allow an uninterrupted trail all the way from Mill Pond to almost Gamble.

 

Regards

Andy

Awesome Andy!   I will check out the master plan tomorrow when I have a bit more time.

Great comments. Unfortunately Doug Ford has just cut gas taxes. John Tory is not happy as that money was earmarked for TTC refurbishments.

Andy, you are so right about getting more time to get caught up on things when taking public transit!  I had to go downtown on Wed evening.  I decided to take the bus and subway.  I did have a bit of a time constraint so I ended up driving to Richmond Hill Centre.  From there I took a bus to the new 407 bus terminal and then the subway down.  And then I did the same route back.  I knew it was going to be 1.5 hours each way, but I figured not only would it be more relaxing than driving, but I could also catch up on reading news and tweets etc.   The plan was great, but unfortunately there was no wifi on the subway.  :-(    But it was relaxing and luckily I did have some other reading materials that I needed to review so I got that done.   I never have enough time for everything so it was nice to have that time.  Next time I will bring more reading materials!  But I did wish that we had the subway come up to Richmond Hill.  It would have made the trip much easier!  If we are going to try to get public transit to be the preferred option, it needs to be more readily available.  I love Sandy's idea of using the money from gas taxes and car license fees to making public transit a better, faster and cheaper option than taking a car!

Such a great post.  As someone who owns a car, I feel that more money from gas taxes and car licence fees should go towards making public transportation better and much cheaper  I am trying to car pool with others much more now but public transportation will always be the best and we should support it with money and ridership!  

Why?🤔🤔🤔

Now you are!!!!