Today the STM launched its redesigned bus network. Modifying 80+ lines and impacting a zone of 600K+ residents, it is the STM's most significant network revision ever and among the top 3 in Canadian history. Among the benefits: more frequent lines. It was a privilege to contribute to planning it!

The decline of Stack Overflow, presumably in favour or directing coding queries to LLMs, appears to be reversing rapidly (!!).

Stop spacing is one of those things that most people don't think about. I probably think about it too much. This graph shows how totally out of whack Canadian stop spacing is compared to the places where transit is widely used. People like transit with wider stop spacing.

See, I think so many of our problems in North America re transit come down to ignoring that speed is REALLY important. I *don't* think its hard to believe that *getting places quickly* is peoples top priority! This is especially true because most people have access to a car!

I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍 The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R. The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.

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*.

TIL that St. John's is called "San Juan de Terranova" in Spanish

C’est le grand jour du déménagement (et de la Fête du Canada 🇨🇦) Les mulos sont disponibles jusqu’à la fin de la journée pour vous vous aider avec le déménagement 📦🪴👕👗 Bonne route 🚲 Merci à @julian.city pour la superbe photo !

Aujourd'hui j'ai pris un mulo pour récupérer les dernières choses qui traînaient dans mon ancien logement ! Déménagement terminé 😌😌 @mulocargo.bsky.social

Took a mulo cargo bike out today for a costco run 🚲 Was quicker, cheaper and more pleasant than using car share which is how I usually go. Great initiative that just launched this month in Montreal @mulocargo.bsky.social

Ayant grandi à Windsor, je trouve encourageant que les journalistes au Québec s'intéressent à ce que cette ville vit actuellement. Je ressens l'unité de mon pays à ce moment critique de notre histoire commune. Merci @fanniearcand.bsky.social et Dominick Gravel de cet exposé ! lp.ca/4FIcL3?shari...

Here's my latest reflection on a lesson I learned from a woman who was in the second tower on 9/11. When the world is turned upside down taking action is the only way to survive. Our democracy is under threat but politicians are still living in 2024. charlieangus.substack.com/p/no-return-...

Si on dépasse une profondeur de neige de 54cm à Montréal, ce serait le montant le plus important de neige au sol qu'on aurait vu depuis plus de 50 ans !

It’s time for Canada to import Japanese zoning, Korean and Spanish transit construction practices, Dutch road design, and Swiss building codes.

I keep saying: Canada and Mexico (and EU) should go for a US talent grab.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Pretty funny how the company whose AI technology is considered a "black box" compared to the remarkable openness of DeepSeek is called "OpenAI" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I had some fun with the weathercan library today in R. Two illustrations of how much milder Canadian winters have gotten : days with sub-zero temps in Vancouver and maximum snow depth in Montreal.

Colombia es el corazón del mundo 💛💙❤️

Not only do 17% of US coffee imports come from Colombia…Colombia is also the largest supplier of cut flowers to the United States. Valentine’s Day is in 18 days.

"For there is always light If only we are brave enough to see it If only we are brave enough to be it"

Gare Centrale’s signage is a mess: still says AMT (it’s exo now), no signs for REM or exo from outside, a single bad sign to the métro, and nothing to help navigate the RÉSO. So I fixed it—installed 7 signs myself. They’ve been up 3 months, and Cominar hasn’t noticed. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

Most of the solutions to climate change actually make life better, not worse. So we should be moving towards that better future with great joy and haste.

In the good old days of Twitter, I made sassy commentary on the misplaced values of political leaders in Windsor, Ontario (my hometown).

I just deactivated my account on X. Before departing that space forever, I wanted to return to a tweet by @qagggy.bsky.social from a few years ago that really stuck with me:

Took a trip with Metro Connect today, Greater Portland Metro's new on-demand transit service that they launched this month. Pretty neat!!