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Gray's letter thanked all four for their "significant contribution" to the city and that the change was the result of realigning management. City spokesperson Wynna Brown declined to say why the managers are no longer working at the city.
That's when the first Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique (SCOOT)-driven traffic control system was installed in Toronto. Designed to optimize traffic signal operations based on real-time traffic conditions, it was a boon at the time but is sorely in need of an update – which is why the city's transportation services division is running two pilot projects designed to choose a technology to replace them, manager Barb Gray told ITBusiness.ca during parent company ITWC's recent Technicity conference.
A 50-year-old Manhattan native, Gray comes to Toronto by way of Seattle, where she has worked in the public sector for 17 years, for the past two as deputy director of the department of transportation.
My strategy is to meet people where they are at. I like to go out and be very engaged with communities and hear about problems they're trying to solve. There's always a scenario where plans and vision want to move faster than residents are comfortable with. Sometimes you have to move fast, especially when you're looking at equity. People who are the most dependent on walking and transit in particular, kids, seniors, people with disabilities, for me we have to make decisions (which benefit those groups). If the systems are reliable, more people will be willing to walk, bike or take transit, and the more space there is for people to drive or get goods to market.
SEATTLE's loss is TORONTO's gain as BARBARA GRAY becomes this city's new General Manager of Transportation (operating budget $400-million). At a time when pedestrian deaths are climbing, gridlock is an hourly occurrence and a battle royal is underway between bicyclists and motorists, Mrs. Gray will have her hands full.
The target, of course, is the car, so much so that one wonders if the goal of transportation general manager Barbara Gray is to drive cars completely off city streets.
City transportation czar Barbara Gray and municipal cycling guru Jacquelyn Hayward must have thought they died and went to heaven Wednesday. First council's pack of car haters gave them approval to lower speed limits down to horse-and-buggy pace on a variety of arterials Tuesday — as part of their Vision 2.0 plan.
'It is fair to say that there's a 'war on the cars' in Seattle,' says resident David Preston. 'That war ramped up considerably during Ms. Gray's tenure here.'
As Deputy Director of the Transportation Department in Seattle she led the development of the first city-wide Pedestrian Master Plan and Complete Streets policy and oversaw daily operations for policy, planning, and right of way management. She launched the plan to include a public realm activation program, a Project Coordination Office and a 24/7 Transportation Operations Center.
A 50-year-old Manhattan native, Gray comes to Toronto by way of Seattle, where she has worked in the public sector for 17 years, for the past two as deputy director of the department of transportation.
As Deputy Director of the Transportation Department in Seattle she led the development of the first city-wide Pedestrian Master Plan and Complete Streets policy and oversaw daily operations for policy, planning, and right of way management. She launched the plan to include a public realm activation program, a Project Coordination Office and a 24/7 Transportation Operations Center.
City transportation czar Barbara Gray and municipal cycling guru Jacquelyn Hayward must have thought they died and went to heaven Wednesday. First council's pack of car haters gave them approval to lower speed limits down to horse-and-buggy pace on a variety of arterials Tuesday — as part of their Vision 2.0 plan.
'It is fair to say that there's a 'war on the cars' in Seattle,' says resident David Preston. 'That war ramped up considerably during Ms. Gray's tenure here.'
Gray's letter thanked all four for their "significant contribution" to the city and that the change was the result of realigning management. City spokesperson Wynna Brown declined to say why the managers are no longer working at the city.
That's when the first Split Cycle Offset Optimization Technique (SCOOT)-driven traffic control system was installed in Toronto. Designed to optimize traffic signal operations based on real-time traffic conditions, it was a boon at the time but is sorely in need of an update – which is why the city's transportation services division is running two pilot projects designed to choose a technology to replace them, manager Barb Gray told ITBusiness.ca during parent company ITWC's recent Technicity conference.
