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Something we desperately need to fix in Toronto is the useless hangwringing about traffic. CityNews and others make videos on an almost daily basis about Gardiner congestion, does this video once mention considering taking the train that runs RIGHT next to the highway? No.

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

this is objectively true…

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Toronto is uniquely blessed with already excellent transit to downtown which means rolling the highways to downtown is an easy and obvious proposal. Almost nobody has to drive.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

submitted 9 hours ago • 371 comments

A long first post for Next Toronto. on why we need to toll the DVP and the Gardiner. It would be better for everyone and that we haven't done it reflects a lack of vision and leadership. nexttoronto.substack.com/p/toronto-sh...

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

Abundance politics north of the border… 🇨🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

it’s so ridiculous 😂

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Whoever thought it was a good idea to have Toronto bus head signs cycle between actually useful route info and totally useless "Proof Of Payment" 1) Probably drives 2) Doesn't understand transit wayfinding

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Alright, I did a thing, really excited about this project: nexttoronto.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

There are a lot of subway stations with very little around them that should be getting this development. Mall redevelopment is fine, but it should come along with massive mitigations for the environmental harm of being located directly next to a toxic Highway

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Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

#IdeasAtWork Hoping @mayoroliviachow.ca is able to take part. Kidical Mass Bike Ride for Kids, Families & Everyone! SAT. APRIL 5TH 2 PM - 4 PM Queen's Park, South Lawn h/t @kidicalmassto.bsky.social @greenpeaceca.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social #ONpoli #TOpoli #VisionZero #BikeTO

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

#Canada announces $1.1 billion in federal funding for #Montreal blue-line metro expansion and #Quebec City's tramway project. www.trains.com/trn/news-rev...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Bike-lanes mean business.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

While Toronto politicians and planners sit on a dysfunctional uber stop heavy transit system, Waterloo is making smart changes - removing stops and making remaining ones nicer. Good thing we have major metropolitan centres like . . . Waterloo, to show us the way

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

93 stops are being removed from the GRT bus system on April 28. This is a good thing! Access to transit has not been reduced but buses will operate more reliably due to less dwell delay. This move also makes stop maintenance and upgrades easier, especially during winter. www.grt.ca/en/rider-inf...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks for the breakfast meeting, Premier Ford — and for standing up for Ontario. We’ve got a big fight ahead of us, and we’ll be working together every step of the way. We’re strongest when we’re united.

submitted 20 days ago • 382 comments

May I suggest to those living in the Toronto Tri-Region Area and extended hinterlands that they go outside soon. It's petite spring out there. Be with the people, good antidote to the news of the south.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” - Lewis Mumford

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Happy #mar10day !

submitted 22 days ago • 48 comments

Diana, our family: without your support, I wouldn’t be standing here. Without your examples, I wouldn’t have a purpose. Without your love, I wouldn’t have the strength for what lies ahead.

submitted 23 days ago • 328 comments

One thing I didn't write but should have: an Uber exec on the task force that sees bike lanes a problem. Those lanes keep their Uber Eats delivery people safe. By coming out against lanes as congestion causes they are really saying they don't care about the safety of their delivery people.

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

submitted 27 days ago • 611 comments

Look at this beauty.

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

submitted 28 days ago • 1207 comments

This is not the time for politics as usual.

submitted 28 days ago • 64 comments

Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places. Plan for the city you want. HT Fred Kent

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Very funny for Elon specifically to feign concern about children who will never see their father

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

I'm not sure people understand the mental toll. It takes on people to be wondering constantly if your country's economy is going to collapse on a whim. And a lot of this stuff is the way it is because America in the past wanted it that way!

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

😬

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Actual work has started on a suburb in Utrecht that will have space for 12,000 residents, three schools, two supermarkets, offices, restaurants and a gym – but no cars. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/03/work...

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

I feel like mixed-use housing is always above commercial or office space—at least in North America—and many opportunities are lost to create mixed use housing located above light industrial and geared towards skilled trades workers (like me), especially when that type of work is in such high demand.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The US does innumerable unfair things to Canada, but might makes right!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The "ten-minute network." Taken a few nights ago!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Bring back the slab!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

In the end, once ford is gone, I think that Toronto will eventually be a bike friendly city. The community is there and the support is there (in the city proper) to expand the bike lane network. All the city needs is a leader who will let them do their thing. #toronto #bikelanes #dougford

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

submitted 31 days ago • 589 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

submitted 31 days ago • 721 comments

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

submitted 32 days ago • 142 comments

If you wanted to make an argument for electoral reform in Ontario, these seat and vote totals would be a pretty good place to start. First-past-the-post has its merits, but these are some pretty wild splits.

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

All the parties in Ontario should play an election campaign hockey game. I think it’d be hilarious. #ontarioelection2025

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Cheering yall on from Toronto🔥

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is really important. We’re in a time when good things we’ve achieved need to be fiercely fought for & passionately protected, including NYC’s smart, successful de-congestion pricing. Watch & share @streetfilms.bsky.social’s great video from yesterday’s protest with @misernyc.bsky.social & more.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 37 days ago • 2941 comments