Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this possible, we can't do any of this stuff without our wonderful members who put in the time and effort for this!

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MPAC is supposed to reassess property values every four years, but it has now been nearly a decade. The Ford Government has postponed assessments indefinitely to look into the 'fairness' of the system. Ironic given the resulting unfairness.

To be very clear, in case there's any misunderstanding, these properties are all in the same city and pay the exact same tax rate. It's the assessed value that's broken.

First example again, even though they currently have the same listing price, the assessed value is:

↙️ $679,000 | $565,000 ↘️

Annual property taxes:
↙️ $5583 | $4807 ↘️

Annual property taxes:
↙️ $5288 | $4800 ↘️

Yea biking is typically allowed in all city bus lanes where they currently exist, so I'd guess that it would also be allowed here.

I personally don't think bikes would slow down buses all that much, as the bikes would be in constant motion. Either way it would be much better than merging.

- Marko

We've spent the last year and a half talking to people along Bank, students, businesses. The city has done a survey with close to 3000 responses.

The OVERWHELMING majority of people are supportive of removing parking.

On-street parking is heavily underutilized. We've posted the data for that.

Thanks again to @alex-is.online for helping put together the data on this! Give him a follow!

Please if you can, contact your local Councillor and the project team, links are in the blog above. Tell them that you want 24/7 bus lanes on Bank, and not a half-baked "solution" that won't meaningfully improve transit access.