So glad to be featured in @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social excellent video! High costs in Canada have been accepted as an inevitability - as projects are descoped & cancelled. ION & REM show that another way is possible… …given the humility to abandon our Anglo roots & learn from global best practice.

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*.

it takes a lot of audacity from the TTC chair to tell a transit advocacy group to muzzle basic asks we hear from riders. these councillors failed to advance new revenue tools we ask for, cry that there isn't money *every* budget cycle, then call basic transit upgrades "unrealistic". rinse+repeat.

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i won't stand for this

what gif pops up when you type your name?

i've enrolled in six courses for fall term, and by miracle i've managed to arrange a four-day week and pack most of the synchronous commitments into the mornings. what's to be determined is whether i can handle the workload, lol

The Problem With Left-Wing NIMBYism

cloucestrophobia: a fear of enclosed places named by the english

finch west LRT is currently being tested ahead of opening. like its counterpart, the eglinton crosstown, it's stuck behind left-turning traffic. note the transit signal showing red while lines of left turning cars advance. 40,000 people are projected to use this line daily when it opens.

sure, i'll do this again. first relative to date line, then relative to americas N: denali park S: bogotá E: seoul | east of rome W: north shore o'ahu | incheon

SAGINAW. #NiagaraFalls #Brick #Photography

i love happening upon stuff like this

it took me awhile to realize this but when I ask my 10yo semi verbal autistic daughter how her day was she'll sometimes do the David Byrne "same as it ever was" gesture from the Once in a Lifetime video to let me know nothing important happened and I fucking love that

say what you like about the food of northern europe, but rye crispbread and mustard herring is actually quite nice for breakfast. i love a preserved fish and ikea delivers

'mayhaps' had no right to its annoying 2010s fame when 'howevertheless' was an option the whole time. mayhaps: source words don't overlap and their stressed syllables clash howevertheless: source word stresses line up perfectly over a four-letter, two-syllable overlap i rest my case

stick with a look for long enough and you'll eventually find yourself ahead of the trend

posting spring photos in summer because summer is not real 🌺🌧️🧋 @fernkhahn.com

interprovincial road undecided between "stop" and "arrêt"

i'd love to see a fresh take on this classic form of toronto sixplex

i really hope our new TTC CEO turns out more like clarke than like our last one, who used the system's crowding to downplay its miserable quality of service 🙃

there's a unique street view character if you go near downsview airport. is this supposed to be a blackpink concertgoer for rogers stadium?

good shout on those flags! i've built on the concept mocked up by @infrastructureweak.bsky.social, adding information relating current service to upcoming service. the goal is for a rider to identify their route before and after the change, all with minimal reading.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

is anyone going to acknowledge that that's not the shape of riverside county? that's the whole of southern california with a slice of arizona tacked on

@englishrail.bsky.social and I have a piece in the Globe & Mail about how Canada can make housing more affordable and accessible, and disentangle itself from its unreliable and hostile southern neighbor: give its elevator industry the option to use the European/global standard, not just the U.S. one

Positively beaming about this endorsement of my book on how to be an effective transit, bike, and street safety advocate. Can't wait for it to help lots of people fight for the changes they want to see in their community.

screw it. one like, one opinion ↓

Why Does Everyone Hate This Neighbourhood? youtu.be/4iiIaFRMg1E

3. Paper timetables and maps are still really important and I wish transit agencies would still produce them. Or, at the very least, static PDF maps and timetables

That’s so cool! Montreal’s bike share system is rolling out trailers that work on BIXIs as well as personal bikes. They’re hoping to have 50 by the end of the summer, and hundreds over the next few years.

Meanwhile in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city of 783,000…

anti-transit groups have done a good job making it seem like residents are split, when it's hardly the case. -from public consultations, 68-77% support -yesterday, ~70 people made public comment, with 60 being in favour -IME doorknocking around either street, 70% of residents support in most areas

what's with the new @sfmta.com map? the base looks like some kind of bad image trace with smoothing

what i've learned is that transit costs too much to build in north america because it's illegal to build a metro without building a second metro in case something goes wrong with the first one

wow, this makes me proud to be colombian and chilean

it's international non-binary day, send me some international money 💛🤍💜🖤

if you find yourself forgetting to use alt text, toggle on the 'require alt text' setting! settings > accessibility

public consultation results for dedicated transit lanes on bathurst+dufferin. note overwhelming support (75%+ dufferin, 67-68% bathurst) for transit priority+converting parking to transit lanes. transportation services recommendations + councillor compromises do not reflect what people want.

(1/7) We are disappointed that City Staff have backed away from recommending RapidTO dedicated transit lanes on Bathurst and Dufferin north of Bloor. These routes—especially Dufferin—have been held up as a cornerstone commitment by this City Council to prioritize transit riders.

Garbage, Parking, and the Death of Small Businesses. Eager to hear your thoughts! @jasonthorne.bsky.social @alexbozikovic.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social

overall, this is exciting! i got carried away thinking of some service-neutral-ish changes i'd like to see in Berkeley. these are mostly built around improving connections to BART for Alcatraz, Dwight, and the 52. other changes cascaded from there, mostly to avoid lines getting too long.

Canadian COVID Forecast Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 ONTARIO HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 118 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~7X higher -Hospitalizations ~6X higher -Deaths ~5X higher

bus service in central hamilton is a beautiful mess, and the official map has just about given up on explaining it. networks like this benefit from grouping routes according to their behaviour in the core. here is my take, minimizing the number of discrete lines while preserving route traceability

i'm not big on naming public things for people or organizations, but this might be the best way to go about it. here, the street name is kept short, memorable, and somewhat abstract, with the namesake separately identified in full. it's less cumbersome and more resilient to changes in public opinion

A patient at UC San Diego received a letter threatening to have their care discontinued if they continued to request staff wear N95s. The letter calls this behaviour “disruptive” Covid isn’t over. An N95 is one of the best ways to protect yourself. It’s not disruptive to fight for your health.

This is really creative and effective messaging about the cost of *not* doing stop rebalancing. American agencies would be wise to take lessons and not just get stuck in theoretical fights

winnipeg is about to launch a pretty elegant new bus network. i'm enjoying this thorough, plain-language breakdown of the changes made and why they made them: www.winnipeg.ca/services-pro...