{"id":1716,"date":"2020-05-14T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2020-05-14T19:31:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T19:31:46","slug":"covid-impact-smart-city-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/covid-impact-smart-city-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Impact: Smart City Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What smart city project? Toronto&#8217;s proposed sustainable community, Quayside project, a bid won by Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What smart city transportation features would the project include?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>sensor-based traffic signals<\/li><li>dynamic curbs<\/li><li>underground delivery routes for trucks<\/li><li>self-financing light rail transit<\/li><li>heated pavement<\/li><li>pneumatic waste collection<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The laundry list of contract issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Project is controversial from land acquisition to data privacy<\/li><li>COVID-19\u2019s toll on global economies and real estate markets<\/li><li>The local development organization will continue with the project<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/finance\/Alphabet-Calls-It-Quits-on-Torontos-Smart-Future.html?utm_term=READ%20MORE&amp;utm_campaign=Alphabet%20Calls%20It%20Quits%20on%20Toronto%5Cu2019s%20Smart%20Future&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Government Technology | Alphabet Calls It Quits on Toronto\u2019s Smart Future<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/alphabets-sidewalk-labs-scraps-ambitious-toronto-project\/?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=wired&amp;utm_mailing=WIR_Transportation_051120&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;bxid=5d1657b63f92a477ac6ac29f&amp;cndid=57674105&amp;esrc=bounceX&amp;source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_TRANSPORTATION_ZZ&amp;utm_term=WIR_Transportation\">Wired | Alphabet&#8217;s Sidewalk Labs Scraps Its Ambitious Toronto Project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What smart city project? Toronto&#8217;s proposed sustainable community, Quayside project, a bid won by Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet Company What smart city transportation features would the project include? sensor-based traffic signals dynamic curbs underground delivery routes for trucks self-financing light rail transit heated pavement pneumatic waste collection The laundry list of contract issues: Project is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}