There's this naive feeling that "data can solve everything". We already have great data and advice in the city of Toronto. So many times, we've had data oriented recommendations from city staff entirely ignored by the executive.

(1) Proposed bike lanes are being moved to a side street, against recommendations & usage data - for an extra $20M https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/26/yonge-st-bike-la...

(2) Many restauranteurs claiming their business is down 50% plus, despite credit & debit receipts showing an increase. (During a Pilot project to decrease variability in LRT times & increase speed of the busiest surface line in North America) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2018/02/16/s...

(3) Building a $3.3B one stop subway instead of a LRT that would better serve the community. https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2018/02/06/updated-sc...

And we want to allow a private company to collect data that has a vested interest in nothing but advertising. Our issue with governance in our cities has never been lack of data, it's lack of leadership and poor NIMBY decision making.