10/10, trains rule

I'm taking a day trip to Hamilton with my son. We could take a Communauto car share car, or a hypothetical car we own, or GO train and then a bus, or GO train and then taxi. Which will be cheapest and fastest? Let's calculate!

Everyone cares about transportation. This makes studying it really fun, but also means everyone (including experts) is in danger of confusing their opinions for facts. You would not believe how many comments in an academic talk about walking and cycling have to do with regulating e-bikes.

"A distracted pedestrian might cause a minor inconvenience. A distracted driver, enabled by street design that encourages high speeds, can end a life. To treat these as equivalent is to ignore the fundamental physics of power and force." -Lanrick Bennett

Me on my bike

I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Nothing good in Toronto that Doug Ford won't try to ruin www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

I'm so excited to be part of this discussion hosted by the Toronto Public Library. Libraries are champions of civic engagement and I think it will be a really fun and unique event. Come on out if you're in the area!

#ThIsTorontoDanforth Taking Action for Safe Cycling in the City Join for a discussion with cycling advocates working to make Toronto cycling-friendly Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 2 - 4 pm eventbrite.ca/e/taking-action-for-safe-cycling-in-the-city-tickets-1797500766179?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

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Kids are in bed, let the Standard Time games begin

You all posted so good and I'm proud of you. Here are the ones that kept me going through these dark times

I think we should have a parade for the blue jays. Look what they did for all of us. ❤️

To all my fellow #BlueJays fans here on Bluesky, it’s been such a delight to cheer with you all. “I promise you there is something worse out there than being sad, and that's being alone and being sad. Ain't no one in this room (on this timeline) alone.”

But at least we can still celebrate the most important thing

For a minute there I let myself believe it was possible

If the clocks roll back due to daylight savings ending during game seven of the world series that unlocks an infinite inning overflow glitch

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

This ump is really cranking the chaos lever in this game

Look at us. We’re all here, on the 97th most popular social media site, enjoying a live event together.

<slaps roof of the 2025 MLB playoffs> This bad boy can fit so many extra innings in it

what if instead of sports we chose happiness

Look I actually don't care who wins but I want everyone to be happy and Toronto to have a big party so let's just do that anyway no matter what happens

You look good today, Toronto!

I may not own a car but I DO have two kids and a cargo bike and if you leave an August bike camping trip's worth of crushed goldfish in the bottom for three months it WILL turn into a moldy grey puck welded to your panniers 😫

Halloween 1, baseball 0

I stayed up past my bedtime for this!

This chart always makes me think about how we made the streets "safer" by making sure no one goes outside ever, especially kids

Parents of young kids - please be careful trick or treating tonight I found this Dodge RAM 1500 hidden inside a Snickers bar last year Unlike razor blades or Fentanyl massive trucks like this actually do injure or kill a significant number of kids on Halloween

I biked two kids to gymnastics in my absolute least favourite weather: cold, dark, pouring rain. I got cold and wet and a little grumpy, but I'd rather be all those things than be the lady in a minivan who nearly smoked a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

I think I'm messing up the bike share stats because I'm actually *more* likely to use it when the weather is bad: subway + bike share the last km vs. biking the whole 10k on my own bike.

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This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

6 hours ago I got COVID and flu jabs in each arm so yeah, not to brag but I guess I know what it's like to throw 100 pitches in the World Series

Kirk telling Yesavage in his mound visit "you got this, you were built for this moment, trust your stuff" 😭😭 THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

Walkable city baseball edition: Andrés Giménez on how you get the feeling of a city by walking it.

THREE PITCHES AND TWO HOME RUNS!!

Tenant issues are not the only reason why we must stop Bill 60. A provision is included that would ban cities from removing vehicle lanes for bike lanes or any other purpose such as bus lanes (as opposed to Bill 212's requirement of cities to get provincial approval). #BikeTO #TTC #TOpoli #ONpoli

“In Toronto, fans get to the game the way God intended: on mass transit that drops you off right at the ballpark, because the communal experience of professional sports should include the ride there”

day 4: the blue jays just crushed the LA dodgers 11-4. you know what else toronto crushes LA in? public transit. i'm a nerd, but it's funny how similar the ratio of transit ridership is to the points scored tonight. we're the transit city, and we're the baseball city too 🚇⚾

Record highs in October

If the Rogers Centre had a parking lot that covered the same surface area as the Dodgers' parking lot, it would stretch from Queen Street on one end to the Lake Ontario waterfront on the other

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

Winner is unequivocally the Sky Dome and that's without even considering the CN tower views

World Series, Stadium Edition: Rogers Centre vs. Dodger Stadium 🤔

Reading material for the ride home. Her teeny voice drifts over me as we roll along: "Bahhh-y! Hop hop! Fwog! 'bit!"

The transformation of Montreal continues! This new protected bike lane was installed this summer. Here’s a before/after. I can tell you which one I prefer.