The new person in charge of Toronto's roads-and-streets file wants you to share the road with your fellow commuters.
Barbara Gray made her official introduction at city hall on Tuesday morning by stressing that she's got the big congestion picture in mind.
Gray, who arrives in Toronto after leaving a position in Seattle' public service, says her vision for fighting gridlock in her new role is one that involves getting drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians to share the streets more effectively.
In fact, City Hall's new hire already has plans to make changes starting early next year.
Gray plans to implement new rules surrounding construction sites that she believes will improve the flow of traffic.
She wants to zero in on trouble spots and use data to plot the best way to break up gridlock. Gray refers to this process as "re-channelization," explaining that it could mean changing lane markings for traffic, adding bike lanes, adding turn lanes, or changing signals and signs.
She also talked about the possibility of going down to 3 lanes of traffic from 4 lanes along some routes, as a way to make traffic flow more smoothly. In some cases, it might removing a lane of vehicle traffic to add bike lanes, expand sidewalks, add parking spots, or a combination of those measures.
Gray says she would be in favour of reducing speed limits along streets where it makes sense, adding that she believes speeders are a threat to the safety of all commuters.