As mayor, I would give everyone a free puppy, fully funded by putting one (1) parking enforcement officer at Yonge and Dundas.

IM SOBBING 😭😭 BANGARANGA BANGARANGA IMABANGARANG 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬 Bulgaria was a lightyear away from any sort of winner conversation, but God is it a banger (pun).

If you haven’t signed the new Church St Pedestrianization petition yet, I am once again asking for your signature! This one is for the city wide council vote for May 20, so please do it before then! www.experiencethevillage.ca/petition

My train was the first to the fire. It unloaded at Islington and I managed to walk a bit, grab a bike share, then get to Jane long before any shuttle buses could. Why we don't have a subway disruption contingency that incorporates not just TTC but TPA, TPS, and Transportation Services is beyond me.

Yonge Street was pedestrianized 1971 - 1974. It works in other cities and it also literally worked here, bring it back!

My newest article for @spacing.bsky.social about my qualms with Yonge Street and the Sankofa Square area, and how the YongeTOmorrow project is woefully inadequate to address them. Like Church St, most EU cities would have pedestrianised Yonge decades ago, especially as the backbone of the city.

God I hope not

It's obvious which demographics Bezos thinks deserves mobility

OH MY GOD (is delusional again for the next decade, learned nothing)

Count the cars. Count the people. Why is Yonge St still not pedestrianized? At least the section south of College. #Toronto #Urbanism

signs of life from TTC wayfinding: exit codes have appeared at dufferin station!

My favourite, and the most wholesome, band of all time is from Norway and they're visiting Little Norway Park before their first ever Canadian concert tomorrow :D (I swear to God, nobody tell them about Doug Ford, it'll crush their hearts)

CHURCH STREET PEDESTRIANIZATION MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AT TEYCC!! 🥳🎉🤩💅🎈🎊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Thank you to every single speaker, letter, signature, email, pedestrian, 2SLGBTQIA+ person and ally who's supported the project! We couldn't have done it without you all!

It's unfortunate Perks is not running again even though we don't always agree. Just watched him eloquently argue why we legally cannot deny a development application to the dismay of many loud NIMBYs and Saxe, and I'm not sure how many mistakes will fall through the cracks without him.

Seems like a problem

If I had a nickel every time a Doug Ford policy initiative revolving around the proliferation of beer failed, I'd have like way too many nickels. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cra...

Anyways please please please send in a letter of support on sign up to speak by emailing [email protected] by 10am tmrw (April 30) bsky.app/profile/rzai...

URGENT! 🚨 Item TE32.46 (Pedestrianizing Church Street Pilot) has finally appeared on tomorrow's Toronto and East York Community Council agenda! Please e-mail [email protected] ASAP to voice your support and/or register to speak. #WalkTO #BikeTO #TOpoli secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Just walked through a packed High Park. Everyone's enjoying themselves, kids are playing, dogs are being walked, sports facilities are being used, people are going on bike rides. It's incredible there are still people who think cars belong there, especially on weekends.

Priorities

A common theme constantly pushed on many of the poster boards at the YongeTOmorrow open house is pedestrian safety, priority, and access... but it doesn't advance any of those.

I'll make one (1) exception for Drake

Here we go! LETS GO RAPTORS 🦖

Almost 900 people signed the petition supporting the Church Street Pedestrianization proposal from @chrismoise.ca. Please sign and share widely. #WalkTO #TOpoli win.newmode.net/campaigns/ex...

It's crazy how irate a driver can get when I physically prevent them from turning right in front of an elderly lady with a walker.

Brampton Transit is suspending four routes, on top of raising fares by 5% last month, due to lower ridership b/c of international student cuts. - 33 Peter Robertson - 36 Gardenbrooke - 55 Elbern Markell - 56 Kingknoll 1/2

We keep talking about floor crossings and Doly Begum running for the federal Liberals, but the real party turmoil is the former leader of the Rhinoceros Party not running as the Rhinoceros Party candidate in Terrebonne.

CHURCH STREET PEDESTRIANIZATION MOTION IS GOING TO COUNCIL! We need people to come speak at TEYCC (Toronto East York Community Council) on April 30 to support it, and for people to start contacting/emailing their councillors! We also have a petition coming out on Wednesday!

This lad (1965–) watched authoritarianism get dismantled once, and by god it will do so again.

This is actually how people are introduced to me when they google my name 😭😭

It's odd that the Hudson's Bay, a store that no longer exists, keeps the same hours as when it did exist, despite being on the PATH, which is supposed to close at 2 AM. Those vulnerable that need a lit indoor path to get to Yonge/Dundas wouldn't find having to come up at Bay/Richmond helpful.

I got two free coffees from Tims' Roll up the Rim expiring tonight that I won't be able to redeem. Does anyone want it? I can put in a mobile order for any location. I believe any hot beverage counts and modifications are free.

There's a cabal/convoy of KitKat promotional vehicles circling the Yonge and Dundas area. We can't have something silly like pedestrianisation get in the way of such productive forms of late stage capitalism. /s

This month, the Criterion Channel streaming service includes the short documentary "Rupert Remembers" by Xanthra Mackay about Toronto trans history of the 70s and 80s. It stars one of Canada's most prominent trans activists, Rupert Raj as he walks around the city and tells what happened where.

My trip to Brampton and Mississauga yesterday reminded me of my biggest pet peeve with the two transit agencies. Strict schedule adherence bc of lower frequency and ample padding means frequent >1 minute layovers at stops, intentionally hitting red lights, and slower driving, even on the BRT 🫠

Imagine a serial killer killing someone every 72 minutes, and the reaction of the government was to say to people to "stay alert, assume everyone is the killer, wear protective clothing, and don't get yourself killed" instead of doing something to stop the serial killer. That's this. This is that.

"It is also looking to expand its One Fare program [...] by requiring transit agencies to adopt the same fare levels" Letting the province dictate transit fares would be such an egregious power grab that could devastate certain agencies' budgets (by lowering) or cost riders more (by raising).

The in-house terminal train cleaners at Finch, Kennedy (Line 2), and Sheppard-Yonge (Line 4) typically sweep and mop the entire train. No disrespect at all to the third-party guy at Mount Dennis, but they gave him a pair of tongs and a Ziploc bag to pick up the entire two cars' trash by himself. 💀

My act of rebellion is playing banger songs in other languages at this relatively homogeneous Planet Fitness (they let you queue up songs on the app).

The Rhinoceroses were truly ahead of their time 😔 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's not like maintenance on the O-Train could be *less* funded, *more* deferred, and *more* susceptible to derailment... right?

😭😭😭😭😭 this is frying me so bad

Definitely an issue Chow let slip away. PSDs have been one of the top issues for advocates and inaction means the conservatives get to control the narrative. At least it's not going to become an election issue, but there's no reason Bradford can't take something else obvious and run on it.

"Ford, who used to deride the previous Liberal government for presiding over 'the largest subnational debt in the world,' has massively run up that tab since taking office in 2018." Funny how that works. If this was Wynne, hundreds of thousands would be rioting down University Avenue.

God I wish we had a Toronto SNL (too niche for THH22M I think)

New from me at TVO, on Doug Ford's war on the car. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Nothing will stop drivers from acting dangerously beyond structural fixes: not the lives of children nor the lives of brave crossing guards meant to protect them. Doug Ford would rather people die than have drivers slow down for even a second or, heaven forbid, get a ticket for speeding.

The Toronto Public Library approved my suggestion for @modacitylife.com's Women Changing Cities and bought four copies :D

I'm happy Woodbine Mall is exactly the same as how I left it in 2008