Transport committee  I certainly do. I mentioned on-demand transit. I use Uber a lot when I'm working in California. We've had conversations with Uber and their competitors to come up with strategies that take away the responsibility for transit agencies and suburban communities to run a big bus once

Transport committee  My take on this is a bit different. I work sort of half in Canada and half in the U.S., at least until Mr. Trump tells me otherwise, and I find that the big message is with the transit agencies. They have the bigger budgets and they have a finite role. They want to get a line bui

Transport committee  Well, I'm interested that you mentioned performance metrics, because that really is becoming a big portion of what we do in our work. We've found over the years that it's easier to design visionary cities than it is to get them implemented. We're running on the theory that what g

Transport committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] for a symposium to continue what we're doing here today, which is getting together and talking about solving big problems, but the way that you solve big problems, I think, is to incrementalize them and start out with smaller ideas. One thing I will

Transport committee  I'm old enough to remember the Ministry of State for Urban Affairs. It seemed to me that this has been lacking for the last 40 years. It seems to me that what we're talking about here, the integration of transit and environmental design, can't be looked at separately. They're ine

Transport committee  I have two very quick responses. First, transportation planning and land use planning have to happen together. I find many governments split those up, and it can't be that way. They have to be looked at together. Second, Mr. Slack spoke of partnerships, and governments really h

Transport committee  I can, and I appreciate what you've said about looking at mobility from the viewpoint of pursuing walkable, bikeable, and public transit alternatives to simply getting in your car. Going back to my statements about driverless vehicles, if we feel somehow that they're the panace

Transport committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members of your committee. My name is Gary Andrishak. I am a director of IBI Group, a global firm providing consultation in fields of intelligence, buildings, and infrastructure. I was asked today to comment on the future significance of autonomous veh