You need to remember that America is a big special boy and it was his birthday last week.

That's $1100/hour, 24x7. That's quite an expense assuming there aren't 10 officers around any given time. I thought that Canadian municipalities weren't allowed to charge excessive surplus-generating user fees and I'd be curious if that principle legally extends to other public bodies like police.

I was really hoping for a better data point before I charted this... But the Eglinton LRT surface section (Don Valley to Kennedy) remains embarrassing.

Hell, Line 5 has made me smile. It's a good thing that opens up the city and brings a little joy to the heart each time it accelerates fast away from the station.

Once in a while I miss exploring abandoned buildings. Saw some awesome spaces while I was in the game for about 15 years. All but one of these were shot on film, mostly 4x5. Lots of these places have been demolished.

Just a note here in #TOpoli An adult and child riding their bikes on College St. This is the question you can ask your incumbent and/or candidate. During your 2026-2030 term will you be installing infrastructure that prioritizes the safety of these types of vulnerable road users? Yes or No?

I hope that the “report” that will come to council about pedestrianization in Toronto will lay out that we cannot treat pedestrianized streets and pilots as “festivals.” The cost and staff effort is far too high. They must be treated like any other street. Just without cars and designed for people.

Too many people are fixated on political aesthetics and not nearly concerned enough with material outcomes.

This is so important because even though we pedestrianized Church street, the city forces a lot of things through an Events / Festivals framework right now. This is why you see security by the “entrances” and why the regular city garbage bins are covered.

Specifically, want to note that Colle is opposing this after cancelling the Marlee bike lanes and pedestrian safety improvements project last year.

A) This is good and meaningful B) This takes DCs back to, what 2020 levels? 2022? It's clear there's something badly flawed with DCs as a tool for municipalities and that they are not working as policy? Better to have reasonable property taxation for everyone than relying on new homes for funding.

The police demanded full time paid duty. The greatest legal shakedown in Ontario. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

I hope this kills the idea in Toronto that these types of things need 15 years and 5 multi-year consultation periods and environmental studies before pilot implementation.

It’s surreal seeing it come full circle. The people stuck in the crowded Church Street sidewalk are now free to roam the streets! (At least during the 2 month pedestrianization pilot) Streets are for the people!

It makes me so happy to see one of my favourite people in Canadian journalism contributing to @thelocal.to thelocal.to/youth-sports...

Great piece from @spacing.bsky.social. I also love that the workers are identified by name in the photo captions. It's a rare touch, but an important one—it helps ensure the people who built these industries aren't lost to history. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Bike parking is one of those quiet issues in Toronto that frustrates cyclists. Plazas & suburban stores rarely have racks, there’s no incentive to install them & it’s not easy for renters to own a bike. We can quietly accept this, but we’re doing something about it. This is BPAT.

Ben Nobleman Park @ Allen & Eglinton, threatened by the intersection project. A community #orchard (apple, plum, pear, apricot, cherry, serviceberry, paw paw), #pollinator garden, #art, playground, #tree canopy. Join a tour & fundraising plant sale on June 27th. #toronto #TOpoli communityorchard.ca

Among the many interesting facts emerging from StatCan's release of its 'Infrastructure Economic Account' for 2025 today is the high and rising average age of Canada's stock of buses. #cdnecon

This make not me the simplest chart we’ve ever produced but it is worth taking a moment to look it over. It explains quite a lot. Thanks to @cbreton.bsky.social & @irpp.org. #CoT2026 policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/06/albe...

@joshmatlow.bsky.social and @chrismoise.ca bring forward a motion for a Pedestrian Streets Program for Toronto!

Every time my city has a street festival, there are complaints the next day about how crowded it was. And instead of recognizing this as a city's overwhelming demand for more festivals and pedestrianization, the powers-that-be treat it as an excuse to offer fewer festivals due to crowding risks

More or less at last year's sustained summer peak, one full month early. The organic demand for Toronto Bikeshare is there, with ridership levels system limited. It needs the capital investment for thousands more bikes and stations, and the sooner, the better.

The most shocking thing to Canadians about this pedestrianization project would be the timeline. 4 years from pop-up pilot to complete road redesign. What happens when you don’t “consult” to-death over a decade. Opposers carried a coffin through the space to signify the death of the area. Ignore.

Winnipeg, MB and fare evasion. Some points. 1) I've raised directly with staff the reaction to overkill enforcement in other cities. We're trying to avoid that. Safety officers are frequently giving rides in mobile units to people who can't pay b/c they clearly need help, or ask for it, for example.

If you're able to take bikes and trailers on that thing, it could be really good

*Cries in Toronto*

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

Every street in Kensington Market is a dozen trucks and then 200 people walking on top of each other because the sidewalks are so narrow. Seriously, why is it designed like this? It's Saturday afternoon, the entire thing should be fully pedestrianized no?

"Church Street is being pedestrianized — that wasn’t so hard, was it? The recently approved pilot project proves the City can rubber-stamp such initiatives without endless consultations and excuses" - by @johnlorinc.bsky.social #walkTO spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

It doesn’t take much observation to see that Toronto should probably start to pedestrianize Yonge St

Want to show your support for the cancelled Eglinton Complete Street? @cycletoronto.bsky.social will be hosting a Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux on Tuesday, June 2 (6 PM) at Eglinton and Holly. Please spread the word. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.cycleto.ca/rally_for_eg...

It's municipal election season so you're going to read a lot about what the *real priority* should be (including from me, sorry), but TTC cost disease really and truly should be a top 3 issue for the city. It has lost the ability to build or buy anything.

In the green rolling hills of southern Manitoba near the town of Holland, a small francophone Trappist monastery made for many years some wonderful washed rind cheeses.

Kind of feels like the City has a real problem with doing stuff

Last fall Cycle Toronto urged the city not to delay and to move forward with the planned installation of the Eglinton bike lanes, or risk interference from the province. Nine months later, that's exactly what happened. The city's lack of urgency has proven to be a costly (and predictable) error.

Toronto Today published this article about the scrapping of eglintonTOday from Keele to Mt. Pleasant. The article mentioned the contract expired on May 20, but the City must be held responsible over the gross negligence with this file. #shame #BikeTO #TOpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

*Two years after approval*. This city has a real delivery problem.

(Street pictured) Municipalities across this province are backsliding on ped/bike infrastructure. Hotter summers make it more essential, not less. Giving people alternatives to driving is cost-of-living relief nobody talks about, seems like an opportunity for the right politician this fall.

This is beyond disappointing. It's going to keep Eglinton as a car sewer for a long time, making it a worse place to live and harder for people to run businesses.

This seems like pretty small-bore, uninspiring stuff. Maybe that's just what people want from municipal governance! But I think that people should be asking more of our leadership to make Toronto an actual good place to live.

Paris’ RER is a perfect example of solving phone call problems. Instead of duplicating infrastructure because different agencies controlled it, Paris made sharing work. It saved a fortune and created Europe’s most impressive regional rail network. open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

All my faith in this city would be restored all at once if we somehow go with option 7 and close the Allen.

This is really a wild piece from the Transportation Services memo on why they weren’t supporting Church St pedestrianization. “Since the BIA is the applicant for the closure, the city is partially liable so we can’t support it”.

The Province killed the complete street redesign that would have saved this woman's life.

Don't get me wrong, this is fantastic to be moving forward, and I hope it's the start of many pedestrianised streets to come here, but this isn't even 250 metres! The way some people were talking about it, I thought it was multiple km

The Church Street pedestrianization project is APPROVED 20-4. Church between Wellesley Street East and Alexander Street will be made car-free between June 19 and August 21.

Ookwemin Minising will be a good place. And a near-total refutation of City Of Toronto’s planning and urban design thinking over the last 25 years. Big congratulations to Jason Thorne and the city staff who moved along this new plan, but without Waterfront Toronto, it would not have happened.