The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem. It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project. It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

TORONTO: #DrawTheLine FOR PEOPLE, PEACE & THE PLANET Rally & March Sep 20, 14:00 (2:00 PM) Yonge and Dundas Carney cuts services while billionaires profit. WE UNITE: 💰 Tax the rich 🌾 Land Back ✊ Status for All 🕊️ Arms embargo on Israel 🌍 End fossil fuels ⚡️& MORE drawtheline.world

T-12 days until people from coast to coast to coast mobilize to #DrawTheLine against genocide, exploitation and austerity! On September 20th, we’ll flood the streets in 50+ communities to fight for a just future for ALL of us. Find or organize and action near you here: drawtheline.world/canada

Toronto with the Gardiner Expressway: 🫣🫣🫣

Everybody wants a walkable city until it means highway removals From @climateandtransit.bsky.social

Join TriTAG at these upcoming events! TriTAG will be tabling at Waterloo Region Climate Fest, tabling and riding at Ride for Refugee, and speaking at the Guelph Transportation Summit. DM us or email us at [email protected] if you'd like to volunteer! Links in thread below. (1/4)

14 cyclists through an intersection in the same time it takes 4 cars to go through. Over 3x the throughput in half the space. 📍Bloor & Walmer, Toronto

They missed the easy layup

🍌💳 No Frills Presto Card 🍌💳 No Frills Presto Card 🍌💳 No Frills Presto Card www.metrolinx.com/en/news/pres...

Sometimes I think I’m delulu and then there’s Ford delulu He thinks PM Carney will designate his highway 401 tunnel as a “national interest project” to skip regular environmental assessment processes… www.torontotoday.ca/local/politi...

I want a VIA rail speedo.:;

No such thing as too many polka dots

The future urbanists want

any book recs for September?

“one of the most egregious interventions in university autonomy we've ever seen in Canada,” one scholar of governance in higher education says. Ford will do literally anything but properly fund education in Ontario

Happy to see Councillor Chris Moise consider my Church Street pedestrianization plan for Toronto’s Gay Village!

check out our recent project mapping street space allocation in Toronto we find that more than 80% of transportation infrastructure in Toronto is designed for cars, far more than how people actually travel w/ @lanrickbennett.bsky.social & Mia Wang schoolofcities.github.io/who-are-stre...

I’ll be speaking there :) see y’all there!

North York Centre

NEW: Operations of the Finch West LRT have been transferred to the Toronto Transit Commission, moving the route a step closer to finally opening. #ToPoli #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1140305...

Taking videos of vibrant businesses and patios along St. Clair West for @denisagar.bsky.social at Movement to show that transit only lanes complement low-rise commercial corridors like Burnaby Heights!

Revolutionary Socialist ↙️🚲 THIS LANE

Chat are we cooked?

Eglinton Crosstown LRT opening now targeted for October, revenue demonstration not started yet: Metrolinx toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/05/e...

Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane

I co-authored a fare report for TTCriders in 2021 and it's crazy to see the TTC finally considering policy recommendations like fare capping seriously. Obviously it wasn't just the report, this has been decades of advocacy and internal conversations in the making. www.ttcriders.ca/farereportla...

LOVE LOCAL (CONSTRUCTION)

Full LRT has the highest economic benefits, however BRT has the highest Benefit-Cost-Ratio, due to lower capital costs compared to full LRT. We need to control the LRT construction costs for a better BCR and better chance at funding. Report: pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

Stage 2 ION LRT Initial Business Case results are out: The full LRT alignment has the highest ridership and economics benefits, but also the highest capital and operations costs. Presentation: pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.a...

Strong mayor powers having ‘little to no impact’ on housing, municipal civil servants say globalnews.ca/news/1135456...

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Network status info screens for all regional rail, subway, and light rail lines is great to see! As transit continues to improve in our region, people will take more complex trips across multiple modes, so an information hub like this is important

The Metrolinx Wayfinding Standards have been updated to present the new threshold sign designs. New designs emphasize the operator logo, which is what the TTC had been requesting. Hopefully this improves buy-in from TTC. Updated TTC standards should be coming soon.

I feel like nothing can fix me

This is the urbanism I approve of

Thrilled to see the TTC recommend fare capping as part of the Ridership Growth Strategy, something that we have long called for as a common-sense solution to making transit more affordable! This would replace an expensive monthly pass, that you need to pay for upfront on the same day as your rent.

Excellent article today in UrbanToronto regarding the King Street priority corridor. After 7 years of transit priority, the street remains unchanged, with no timeline for when improvements are coming. This is low hanging fruit and the city is failing big time. urbantoronto.ca/news/2025/08...

The budget sheet for Highway 413:

I don’t understand how it’s legal to start construction using tax payer dollars while the budget remains a secret?? Like we’ve already normalized not having timelines on projects, we can’t normalize budget secrecy!!

The way I have waited my whole life for this project The original Environmental Assessment was completed in 2009, and only this year did the Province award the tunneling contract I'm so excited to finally be able to take the subway to my childhood home... hopefully my parents will still be around

It’s time to IONize Waterloo Region! Announcing our new campaign to build ION light rail the full length to Cambridge, and then to keep building. Check it out, and sign up for our newsletter for updates:

This is frying me 😭😭

Recently, I went up to Northeastern Ontario and saw work started on the new Northlander train stations. The Timmins-Porcupine terminal is a long way from anywhere. seanmarshall.ca/2025/08/25/t...

My first Starter Pack! The Canadian urbanism and planning community on here is growing. Give these folks a follow. Some well known faces … and some you should get to know! (please re-post!) go.bsky.app/AEYL7FZ

New report out on The Impacts and Response to Drug Use on Public Transit in America Commissioned by the Transit Cooperative Research Program and funded by the FTA, this landmark study examines how drug use is affecting transit in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Portland. (1/4)

I can't guarantee I ran the numbers right, but my math says ION light rail got 120 boardings per revenue hour in 2024

Wow! Sainte-Catherine East, in Montreal’s Gay Village, is going to be rebuilt as a permanent year-round pedestrian street. Currently it’s only car-free each year in the summer.

Mississauga skyline is kinda insane

Omg it’s me 🤭🤭

Leading physicists claim Mark Carney’s elbows are in a quantum superposition of up and down simultaneously