2 years after approval, bike lanes are finally coming to Portland. This will provide the only waterfront connection between Strachan and Simcoe!

I really don’t like how Chow has completely conceded to equating “safety” with more cops, and “congestion” with limiting impacts to drivers.

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”.

This is what I believe to be the case as well. You know the rage machine from ABC and IntegrityTO will be stirred up with videos of traffic on Jarvis or College and Bradford Bradford will be right there talking about how it is only “common sense” to get rid of it. Gay patios are the perfect wedge.

I'm trying to expand visualizations and features on my website. Let me know of any open data sources from the city I can add as I would like to expand beyond just bike ridership numbers.

Huge news, this really is the first *very small* step to hopefully very big changes across the city. A lot is riding on these 2 blocks for 2 months. Next stop -- 4 blocks, year-round and forward across the city! Thank you @chanface.bsky.social for all your work on this one!

This is a poison pill. Staff will jump on this in an instant. Transportation services already wants this to fail, and the culture war machine will be revving full force to push the "unacceptable impacts" narrative.

You are either designing a curbless, pedestrian-first street and allow/expect pedestrians to use the entire space, or you have clear distinctions between modes. Building a curbless street with construction signage telling pedestrians to stick to the periphery is such a failure.

Build the bridge. Although your elected officials don’t care because they have cottages.

Kensington Market, 6 years after consultation on possible pedestrianization began.

Who could've imagined that the guy in the first picture is the current Toronto Sun darling. It is almost beyond parody how spineless Bradford is. He didn't even ask for a recorded voted on the bike lane upgrades that he is currently railing against in the Sun.

Toronto provides a lot of data on bicycle counts at different intersections, but no visualization. I set out to change that. I present a comparator tool for tracking all the bicycle counters around Toronto. I have also included (unofficial) Bike Share Toronto trip data.

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

One underreported improvement in the last 3 years is the decrease in deaths of those experiencing homelessness. 50 names on the homeless memorial list in the first 4 months of 2023 vs 6 this year. One is too many.

What a difference a decade makes. Same intersection in both pictures. In 2014, there were 7 cars and no cyclists. In 2025, after the introduction of the Bloor St. bike lanes, 7 cars and 10 cyclists. Same amount of road space, over double the throughput!

Those that speak of Toronto’s nightlife being “dead” just grew up and aged out of the scene. 131 McCormack is one of many great venues that have cemented themselves as nightlife mainstays since COVID.

@toronto.ca vehicle parked in the bike lane. When I asked the driver why as a representative of the city he was putting cyclists at risk he said, “it doesn’t matter. You can take the picture, they tell us to do this.”

Isn’t Eglinton approved by council? You should be good to go whenever, no?

I was under the impression Markham St. in the new Mirvish Village development was going to be pedestrian only. Is that not the case? Really disappointing if so.

Who do I send this to that was arguing that transit lanes on Bathurst and Dufferin would somehow “slow down” emergency vehicles?

Amazing news! Great way to make “integrityTO” heads explode after they have been celebrating Perks’ departure.

A great update to the Ookwemin Minising sees the middle of the new development transformed into a pedestrian space! This a huge improvement from the initial plan presented to council in 2024.

The Church Street pedestrianization pilot in Toronto's Gay Village has passed community council unanimously and is one step closer to reality! The final step is a vote at City Council on May 20th.

There will always be a reason for transportation services to say NO to pedestrianization. It is time council takes the first step to reform this outdated viewpoint and say YES to reforming how Toronto pedestrianizes streets. The community, BIA and local councillor support this effort. That’s rare.

Police with American thin blue line decor don’t want to enforce exclusion zone requested by the gay beachgoers. Shocker.

For municipal reforms, after the fear-mongering is stirred up, once implemented the subsequent reports on its success are ignored. For “drinking in parks” they got a report 2 years later saying nothing changed. It has 2 public comments on it vs hundreds of RAs weighing in when pilot was implemented.

All! Stakeholders! Must! Be! Mad!

Let’s do 15 years of consultations and studies to throw out the one thing that time and time again residents asked for. Hilarious and a great encapsulation of the “City of Toronto.” You will never get a pedestrianized street, but you will get millions spent in the process to not get there.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, this fucking city.

Today FastTrackTO is officially launching and releasing our 10 point plan to modernize the Toronto Streetcar network. An iconic symbol of the city that could be fantastic with some achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city. fast-track.to (1/2)

This just in, biking is growing as a revenue source *far* faster than parking. 30% growth in revenue for bike share vs only 5% for parking. It's growth is also consistently underestimated in forecasts vs parking which is overestimated.

The expansion of Bike Share to Toronto island contributed to 10% of total revenue for the entire program last year ($1.4 Million). The City cancelled an agreement with a private bike rental company on the Island that was only paying them an $83,000 fee, annually (+2% of revenue).

New ideas need old buildings. In today’s @globeandmail I showcase a vision for Toronto’s Old City Hall as a space for contemporary culture - opening this year. Let’s go. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Sorry, but why are Ontario residents paying Steve Paikin 370,000/year to write what have now been multiple articles waxing poetic about his BFF who also happens to be a disgraced politician.

I will be eagerly awaiting a possible run from Chiara Padovani who heads the York South Weston Tenants Union and lost (to a cheating) Nunziata by 94 votes.

A letter to the editor stating that instead of "studying" closing roads in High Park in 1973, they should "save the money" and just do it. I wonder how much money the city has wasted over 50 years of studying the concept. Perfect encapsulation of city hall.

Is there any appetite for looking at improvements to the design of these flexposts? 1 winter into the new Harbord bike lanes and it is already a graveyard.

Pleased to say the underground portion of line 5 well surpassed my expectations. Looking forward to it improving even further with 80km/h max speeds coming in March.

I think this is pretty clearly tied to the fact that Toronto prices have dropped pretty drastically in past year, while Montreal has increased.

Back in 2019 Toronto started planning the approval/installation of new bike lanes in 3-year blocks to consider them as part of the city's broader cycling network, not just as local projects subject to individual councillor's whims. Even prior to Bill 212 we started seeing a regression of that goal.

Worse than that, the City of Toronto apparently has a policy that they will not permanently pedestrianize a street unless an adjacent land owner agrees to “activate the space”. This was evidenced in a report to council when Cllr Moise requested Market St. Be pedestrianized year round.

the paper in question. it's really all a look into very broad correlations, so don't take it as concrete evidence, but the trends are real: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08280

Happy New Year from the King St transit priority corridor, 8 years later.

Bike Share ridership increased 20% in 2025, to a record 8.3 million rides!

I’m sorry, but I’m not giving even a tiny dollar amount, to HIM.

to inaugurate the new blog, i've written about a local and contentious topic that's been on my mind for years. at its heart, it's about understanding the information that transit riders need. the case for splitting TTC Line 1:

Great, and you have the power to change Toronto’s current policy that recommends against pedestrianization in almost every case. Even when the local councillor explicitly requests if: bsky.app/profile/obse...

No you don’t understand. It must be 47 minutes because TTC has scheduled it to be 47 minutes.

Rode Line 6 again off-peak as an experiment to see how much faster service could be with optimisation. Trip time: 41 min Dwell from lights: 11 min Dwell from schedule padding: 4 min Actual run time: 26 min Increase the speed limit, and I'd say we could safely do 25 min off-peak/30 min peak.

Lie.