If this is on Twitter, I would expect comparing the replies here with the replies there would tell me plenty about what's actually going on, or not, in each space. I really do like this one. Space, and particular idea.

A demonstration: take a 500ml & a 2L bottle of coke. Put them upside down at the same time. Regardless the extra "lanes" of the much wider 2L pop bottle, the actual limit of the opening (intersection turn lanes, advance greens, presence many times a block, & more) mean water/cars flow the same.

Seems like an interesting pt from Ford. Arguing to remove Bloor bike lanes by saying this'd move more people/goods (which seems to ignore all the ppl/goods bike lanes move), while ~explicitly stating "yes, they'll all move slower". Who are these drivers waiting at home for a chance to move *slower*?

Really must admire how quickly the universe intervenes to point out that, yet again, assertions by some politicians & aspiring mayoral candidates, in this case that bike lanes are clear before roads, are completely off base. (Unrelated: carry a bat & expect to be on base? 🚫you're automatically out)

Lovely chat, @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social facilitated by @moreneighboursto.bsky.social, tonight. Talking a wider view of homelessness than most of us will ever get. Advocates, like people experiencing homelessness, are filled with so many more stories, life, & kindness than some'd have you think...

Lovely chat, @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social facilitated by @moreneighboursto.bsky.social, tonight. Talking a wider view of homelessness than most of us will ever get. Advocates, like people experiencing homelessness, are filled with so many more stories, life, & kindness than some'd have you think...

Democracy dies in darkness, I believe a onetime pillar brick of it once said.

It is quite blunt, and unsurprising, that the Environmental Protection Agency will now not consider impacts on the environment, only on businesses' costs, and ends the haggling between Ds & Rs about the value of a human life, setting it at $0. A continuing story for those continuing to not listen.

It was once the normal Canadian winter thing to drive to Maple Leaf Gardens to watch a hockey game. Now, it's an ice rink, and a fitness facility, and shopping all under that same roof, and maybe the new Canadian winter thing is to bike your gear down for your match. The right tool for the right job

At ~22k rides per day, bikeshare is moving as many people as a highway lane, or the busiest city lane. For vastly less cost, vastly broader reach than any roadway project, vastly quicker to create, and much more rapidly growing, too. Seems like the kind of thing we should tap into, not out of.

If Ford was really the Small government (pay for what you use, road toll style) Pro-commuter (lowering travel times for drivers, transit users) Pro-business (vastly higher sales growth) Business-minded (show me the data) Politician he wants you to think he is, why is he making every opposite choice?

Last week, TO approved upzoning on some wards' major corridors, w a carve-out for school sites. Is that any worry? Seeing a school torn down for 7->6 McMansions seems a poor trade. Similarly, I'm torn to know a school near me was torn down, for ~40 homes at $1.6M+. Less bad, but what'd be better? 1/

Underneath the veneer of "it doesn't fit neighbourhood character" or "there'll be too many trees lost/shadows created" or "this housing isn't the right/affordable kind" lies the ever-present truth: blocking the creation of more housing supply helps existing owner equity at the expense of all others.

When I hear fire departments becoming anxious about single stair, an unfamiliar form, I can understand it. People were also afraid of seatbelts when they were first introduced. The point is to actually look at the studies, or in our case what the majority of the world does, & learn, not rest in fear

When you're clearing and salting the sidewalks, making sure there's a trench to the sewers for you and your neighbours' runoff (and pointing out they've left their pipes set up to flood their home), and you realize oh no, I'm what child me was most afraid of...

Edward Scissorhands as 🇺🇲Christmas movie 2025. Folk discover those they don't understand/relate well to, or seek to. Happily take the benefits they provide to ignored parts of their lives, for crumbs. Upon being rebuffed for further plundering, see such rebuff as all out war, & banish, to their loss.

More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech. Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed. www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...

"Why don't media represent my communities, my generation?" Well, when you chop out the spaces that grow them, it's kind of a lot harder. A friend who started at Waterloo's campus radio now works for CBC. Countless others who wrote for our campus paper now inform you elsewhere. This is awfully sad.

Cycling and Pedestrian Projects is hiring a Senior Project Manager to help build bikeways and sidewalks that contribute to a safe, equitable and livable city. Apply by December 19. https://jobs.toronto.ca/jobsatcity/job/Toronto-SENIOR-PROJECT-MANAGER-TRANSPORTATION-SERVICES-ON-M/597960217/

I'm excited to share this big report, a few years in the making, which contemplates how policy and financial reforms could make it possible for tenants to build wealth through renting. I call it Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Heritage Conservation perplexes me. Take Draper St: worker rowhomes of 1.5 centuries ago, facsimiles of what 1%ers who could afford the 1st automobiles had. Now it proudly helps stop worker housing, instead filled w the 1%ers who can afford the first self-driving cars. What is real, what is cosplay?

When folk say the public service & unions - which I support over the binary opposite - are irreproachable in how they do things, it is beyond easy to find examples where, just as the world indefensibly bends to the whims of a few billionaires, cities & countries bend to their indefensible whims too.

Should we check with Doug? A new request has been made as was done with speed cameras; is it time to ban public transit? www.newsbeep.com/277015/

Is there a chance this (wasteful, useless, deadly) proposed change is just what happens when you grew up and were nepotized into and inherited a labeling company: there's no better solution than some form of label, and if it fails, just make it bigger?

We had a parking lot described as ❤️ of the community. Now we have new housing, amenities, parks, described as removing "that opportunity for friends & neighbours & your local shopkeepers, where you can actually feel that you're not just in this world by yourself" "a complete massacre to this area"

When housing in Toronto is proposed which removes a tree, remember that preserving that exact tree all but assures vastly more trees are destroyed elsewhere, with drastically less ability to be replaced.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Preparing for my cross-city multimodal trip, to see how best to save multimodal options for myself and future generations.

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Would this be exactly the spot automated enforcement cameras belonged? The driver may have been helped by Ford banning them. The 52 year old crossing guard, however, won't be around for the eventual acknowledgement that "please pay attention" signs, all Ford might put here, won't help the next one

Yesterday I sat for a lecture by 3 folks from ReHousing. Hosted by UofT's school of Arch, they detailed the history of change in Toronto, how post-war suburbs rubber-stamped neighbourhoods as repetitive as a 100 floor condo does today, horizontally, & how for half a century we've seen near no change

This is what can make advocacy work so hard. On biking, on transit, on housing, it can take serious work to debunk even a single completely false source of material. And even when it is as astroturf as the anti-transit lane campaigns Toronto just saw, councillors will still hold it up as gospel.

I want to understand what's going on in a World Series stadium, hosting Canada's team, and playing a Toronto artist. How many NYC artists did they play last year? I just couldn't. But, I'm OK with where it all sees us right now.

On that inning-ending 6th strikeout, physics and the universe literally forced Ohtani to tip his cap to Yesavage.

This is a nightmare for commentators, how do you handle so much improbable two batters and three pitches in?

Got the closest parking spot possible to both a Blue Jays World Series game, and my rec hockey league at the old Maple Leaf Gardens, in the space of a day this weekend. No sweat, literally, because I rode my e-cargo bike. Feeling like the Canadian I want to be, within our beautifully diverse fabric.

Ford should be aware: when you present a leader with facts, whose entire career is based on them & their base ignoring facts, nothing good comes of it. Alt: they do say in disagreements, it's best to lead by admitting your faults, so on the matter of accepting truth, maybe Ford has some mea culpas?

Huh. Kinda looks like if we had today's rule, the Jays may not have made it to the World Series in 93. Or if Naylor had 93's rules, maybe we wouldn't have been in this year's. Some things change, and some things still echo with familiarity. On the right side both times ⚾️

As an advocate, I have years of experience talking privately and publicly about homelessness. So, I'm pleased to have worked with Social Planning Toronto on this resource to help people and orgs communicate across divides about homelessness! www.socialplanningtoronto.org/talking_abou...

I was just told by a friend that there won't be another total solar eclipse in North America for decades. Watching the Jays game, I said I'd take a full moon shot right about now. The very next pitch... 😳😅🤷

Like, no classics are perfect, but... the Addams universe has held up its end of the bargain exceptionally well. Millenial magic. Happy October viewings, to those who celebrate.

What I Like About You - The Romantics

This notes what studies show (ppl on bikes/foot/TTC spend more than drivers) & shares success of places like Paris adding bike lanes, w/o admitting this means bikes are best on streets (w shops), cars on roads (w/o destinations). Note Paris puts lanes w shops (beige), none in shop-free gray. See🖼Alt

Am I surprised that it isn't just law-breakers (speeding & destruction of law enforcement assets) Ford is on the side of, but also not the 1%, but the 0.5%? That's what fraction of drivers receive tickets, a mere 10th of the people doing 30%+ over the limit. Just...wow.

One of the best date nights is a public consultation date night. As engaging as you want it to be; you can read, write, draw, converse. And the keepsake, a ways down the line, is you might see yourselves reflected in the new shape of an improved community.

I would enjoy a reporter asking what Ford thinks these should be. #1 would include, in a 30kph zone, driving 163% of the limit, increasing odds of pedestrian/child death in collision from 10% to 90%. #2 would include driving 197% of the limit. #3 would cover speeds not legal on any non-highway road.

I'm pretty darn close to starting a thread rewriting the verses to this classic... 🎶Doug waits for us to die... So many Doug ways to die... Doug weighs: we should die... So drivers can more recklessly drive...🎶 youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw

When hundreds of us legally protest, saying "let us live", Doug makes laws ensuring more of all of us die. When a few vigilantes attack law enforcement, saying "let us kill", Doug proposes laws ensuring more of all of us die. At least he's consistent.

A thing that may surprise. I biked yesterday. 10km. To get to hockey. I got there faster than if I'd driven, and more warmed up than prior years, for which I have much experience. This could be pretty neat. E-cargo bike, you are growing on me.