COVID Impact: Smart City Contract

What smart city project? Toronto’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 controversial from land acquisition to data privacy
• COVID-19’s toll on global economies and real estate markets
• The local development organization will continue with the project

Government Technology | Alphabet Calls It Quits on Toronto’s Smart Future

Wired | Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Scraps Its Ambitious Toronto Project