Good luck Edmonton. Hoping for some valuable input from the community (by which I of course mean the people able to make it out on a weekday to speak).

Great take on the challenges of our current bus system. I understand why opening day was people riding the line end-to-end and checking out the interchanges. But a big difference will be getting from, say, Bayview to Dufferin without having to change buses (or wait in mixed traffic, of course).

Smooth sailing eastbound from Eglinton West to Kennedy. Ran into @kevinrupasinghe.bsky.social and some brave souls who had caught the first LRT and were headed home. A long wait but more of Toronto is now a little bit closer.

Everyone booed at Don Valley Station and chanted "Science Centre"

Lots of interesting stuff about funding models and contracts that can probably be applied beyond bikeshares. Involving other agencies or companies in a service that uses public infrastructure (and ideally integrates with public transit) isn't necessarily bad but the details matter!

Lies, damned lies and statistics. Between this from Edmonton and Toronto's mayor claiming "73% of housing starts are with City-led or supported projects," my nerdy wish is that all governments publish absolute numbers alongside any claim about percentages or relative changes.

"Out of 25 transit projects that started in 2011 around the world, from Beijing to Instanbul to Moscow, the Crosstown is the last to open." Also lol at the Jamaican patty cost estimates.

#yeg now has $62M/yr of new revenue from mature neighbourhood infill compared to 2016. That's over $330M added to city coffers All using the same roads, pipes, preserving farmland and enabling neighbourhood-level shops. All of this is thanks to Edmonton's pioneering approach to urban redevelopment

One thing about tower-in-the-park style is many have big semi-circular driveways. I'm not saying that's great urbanism but at least you're not losing expensive interior space to garbage. And towers in the park get way more hate from planners (and councillors pretending to care about loneliness).

We're doing the dance again. Keep Edmonton the most affordable large city in Canada! Email council now 👇

"Officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said. The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said." Holy Christ. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why are we designing homes near transit around the needs of the minority who own cars? Parking minimums raise rent and raise emissions.

A surprising failure of imagination from the councillor who imagined one of the most vibrant parts of her own ward as dystopian. But what both imaginings had in common was a failure to accept that some people live differently from oneself.

Carney said the foreign aid budget wouldn't be touched. Now they're laying off GAC staff and moving to be more "selective in... aid distribution by focusing on countries [Canada] wants to trade with." We tell the world we want to serve champagne when we are barely shelling out for sparkling water.

Help Edmonton stay winning. Consider Toronto as a cautionary tale.

I'm sure it helps that it's a refurbishment, but 9 years for a nuclear project is my new metric. The City of Toronto has been talking Lawrence Heights revitalization since 2007, officially kicked off in 2015, and they still don't even have a development partner. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Cities are for people!

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...

GO Train derailed at Union Station. GO says "signal issues" at Union. www.reddit.com/r/gotransit/...

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

it turns out that the fascists were the real threat to free speech all along, not some cringe Oberlin students

It's bad when this guy says it and it was bad when Gregor Robertson said it. Unless something new was actually built, housing wealth comes from rent-seeking. It isn't earned.

One of Eric's best qualities. He won't always end up agreeing with you but he will always hear you out. For the bike lane Qs, know that Eric went into the mouth of the beast (AM 640) so that Ben Mulroney's complaints wouldn't go unchallenged, to make the case in a way that might convince opponents.

Here's the City of Toronto's definition of its operating budget ("day-to-day"). But in fact its operating budget includes transfers to and from reserves (which are neither day-to-day revenues or expenditures), and discounts and reserves which are wrongly treated as expenses and revenues.

We've done it. Refinements and corrections will certainly come. There are still areas where we want to push the envelope further. But our understaffed team, working on a tight timeline, has delivered what is very likely one of the most aggressively pro-housing zoning reforms in the country.

It’s the big day! The appeal hearing @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s successful Bill 212 case is being heard at Ontario’s Court of Appeal. Time permitting I’ll try and live post the proceedings, like I did for the Ottawa convey injunctions back when #lawtwitter was a thing.

Looking into Canadian laws on air rights for our new reverse angular plane era.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I am heartbroken about the loss of Kirsty Duncan. I was always impressed by her devotion to science, the environment, animals, health and to the community she served as MP for Etobicoke North. She was a friend. During her battle with cancer, she was inspiring…

Big thanks to my neighbours on Mount Pleasant today. Some of this is probably the City overnight but I saw some of you out shovelling this morning and you are the best.

"New mom with stroller becomes expert in mountaineering - Now trains K2 expeditions"

🚨Toronto City Hall hotdog vendors are still open! #snowTO #ONstorm

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

Not just for NYC. I shan't be going outside today but maybe tomorrow I will begin my photo collection for Toronto.

“To make a pivotal speech about the need for new alliances, and the very next day, lay off the exact people responsible for building said alliances, is confusing to say the least.” @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social making some great points here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Congress could end this today if they had either spine or integrity

Things that happened at these ostensibly democratic processes: * then-councillor said she only wanted to hear from people on one particular street * multiple councillors dismissing people who disagree with them as party of shady organizations or insinuating that they are paid * anti-renter garbage

The US lives because Canada controls the polar vortex. Remember that, Donald.

Me when I can buy fresh cheese curds at every shop

Gonna stick with my bicycle and ride it around in the bike lanes. Oh, wait...

🤞Trump negatively polarize other countries into building more renewables 🤞

Sooooo who is Russia in this analogy?

Finally someone standing up for the little guy who just bought 10 or 12 homes to fund their retirement through rent-seeking. (My first suggestion was that we replace the Arrested Development banana meme with this but then I remembered that I don't want to see Bessent's face, so nevermind).

There are only ever so many arguments I am gonna make in a single column BUT I will add that I'd be a lot more inclined to back "tariffs on Chinese EVs 4evah" if Ford, GM, or Stellantis had actually made more than trivial noises of dissent from Trumpism.

We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Interested in more housing a short walk from the subway? Mid-rise apartments off of arterial roads? Wonder what's up with the low-rise areas around the Danforth? Consider attending a meeting to support the Major Transit Station Areas policy implementation. www.moreneighbours.ca/news/getting...