Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

BRAD BRADFORD, WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PODCAST.

I was having this thought for a few days but I think now it’s even more fitting, Putting up more signs or lights as a way to reduce speeding and road violence is about as effective as thoughts and prayers for reducing gun violence.

Working as a transit planner at a transit agency is pretty darn cool. Highly recommend.

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

🚨🚨 City of Toronto is going to resurface Eglinton Ave between Keele and Mt Pleasant without the already approved bike lanes. We need to do something right now.

Toronto: 🧑‍🦯👩‍🦯

I haven’t been back to Toronto in a few months. I’m visiting for a few hours. What new stuff should I check out in the central area? (Other than Biidaasige Park of course).

Why do people need to know it’s light rail? Also these signs were different a few months ago. Metrolinx’s Wayfinding standards keep on changing so often, that the Eglinton station signs have to keep on being replaced 😐. Great way to keep people employed I guess.

I’m so confused. Are the MTSAs in Toronto in effect or no?

The jokes write themselves.

We won 🚲 www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toront...

Happy we got the transit lanes on Bathurst and Dufferin south of Bloor but this graphic from @chittimarco.bsky.social is going to be constantly on my mind when I use them.

Anyone have advice for bike lights? My front one which I love because it’s super bright keeps on getting stolen 😐 I know y’all are going to say “just take it with you inside.” Well yeah, I do, but sometimes I may hop on my bike several times a day. I don’t want to keep on remembering to take them.

This but for Toronto and the lack of pedestrian streets. And in the Netherlands, every other street and the city centres were pedestrianized

Re-entry Trauma:

No new cycling projects being approved this summer plus reversing an approved project? "I've never seen a cycling report that doesn’t include new projects,' said Michael Longfield, executive director of the advocacy group Cycle Toronto." via @torontotoday.ca www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

I’m always confused when people complain about cyclists not stopping at stop signs. The vast majority of drivers do a “rolling stop” (i.e., they don’t actually stop) when possible. This is so normal people don’t even see it as breaking the law, but when cyclists do the same thing, it stands out.

Meefter altercheckin - don’t forget to tap off with your bank card!

Applying for co-op jobs 😩

Yeah so I went to the Netherlands for four days. Was one of the places I’ve dreamed about. Usually post all my photos and tidbits on my IG stories so I’m too lazy for a detailed thread unfortunately but it was INCREDIBLE. Amsterdam, The Hague, Haarlem, Keukenhof, Zandvoort Beach, Gouda and Utrecht

The infrastructure and the flow of everything and everyone in the Netherlands just continues to blow me away as a Torontonian.

There’s this place I wanted to go to since I became a cycling advocate in 2020… I’ve dreamed of their streets.

Is NO ONE going to talk about the fact that Bloor-Yonge’s Platform Screen Doors are still unfunded in the modernization project, Everyone’s under the assumption they’ll be built but obviously no money, no doors.

Join @cycletoronto.bsky.social at their rally for justice the night before their charter challenge!

Any good places to visit in Amsterdam or the Netherlands? Particularly any places an urbanist would love?

Paula Fletcher veto’d a motion for the TTC/City implementing temporary transit priority measures like no stopping restrictions, turning restrictions & some dedicated lanes to alleviate diverted streetcars in Downtown & to speed up service. …and it flew COMPLETELY under the radar. I am beyond upset.

It annoys me so much when I see a streetcar that could have easily made the signal...not make the signal. Even the streetcar in the right-of-way. It just barely misses the green, stops, cross-traffic goes, cross traffic stops, cars left-turn or u-turn (of course) & the streetcar finally comes. 1/2

Hi planners, anyone have any tips for using this site to find development applications? I can never find the applications that I actually need and the parameters don't even work half the time! www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

Shh Doug Ford’s focused on protecting Canada, maybe he’ll forget about this whole bike lane thing.

Slack is down and the Gen-Z in me is uncomfortable with sending an email.

We need to outfit TTC streetcars with a metal bar & a rubber strip that can push out a car in the way. These incidents have happened so much in the past week it’s insane. I know many would prefer a hydraulic crusher or a zapper, including myself but I feel like the above should be the bare minimum.

Toronto-Quebec High Speed Rail is a vital project being pushed forth but it’s extremely vulnerable to political changes Unless shovels are well in the ground when the government changes, it’s toast due to its extremely high price tag. Our mistake was not doing it sooner, but WE NEED HSR in Canada.

Help!! I need some transit themed gift ideas for a foamer in my life.

Six storeys almost citywide, plus affordability requirements. Real planning reform.

For a report: Does anyone know if the Alness Street / Champagne Drive cycle tracks were installed yet @kayehm.bsky.social ?

So this whole debate for Avenues was literally to just get us to the next step? Jeez.

It's crazy the extent we go to prevent an extremely rare occurrence like a catastrophic fire in a metro station, and then we just shrug for a much more common occurrence, someone falling in the tracks, saying installing platform barriers even in brand new systems is too complicated or costly.

the jane street bus lane project will have an update next month at the TTC board. much of it is going to be watered down to queue jumps and other priority measures because of intense opposition from car drivers (despite transit ridership being higher than car throughtput on jane). not amazing!

Good morning!

[HELP] Does anyone have the KML formatted shape-file for the NEW “Federal Riding Borders” within the City of Toronto that Elections Canada will be using for the 2025 Federal Election..? #GIS #OpenData #Election2025 www.toronto.com/news-story/1...

First day of work 🙌

I didn’t say anything about congestion pricing in New York so I wouldn’t jinx the launch again. Congrats guys. Can’t wait to see the results it’ll have!

These GO trains are again parked here in Kitchener all weekend instead of going back and forth to Toronto. Hope Metrolinx has a New Year’s resolution to finally get us weekend train service

When the liberals do it, it’s vote-buying and inflationary. When the conservatives do it, it’s relief and economic stimulation.

Ughhh gonna have to take the subway to work in January 🙄

I know a lot of people are mad at Olivia Chow & the city for not doing anything on the bike lane removals & while many would say it’s because the city has no power in this situation. The truth is, they’re working tirelessly to fight this just as much as the advocates. They just can’t talk about it.

I now have more Bluesky followers than Twitter followers 😳

The fact that we have the least-liked premier in the country yet no clear way forward to getting rid of him is ughhh

WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner this morning in Toronto on the Gardiner ExpresswayThe people of Ontario have had enough Premier Ford. 📸 @martinreis.bsky.social