I actually don't think this corner is included as Sumach is not designated as a "community street". This means stores like this one would not be able to exist in the current zoning changes.

Since there has been lots of talk of "neighbourhood retail" without specific definitions of "neighbourhood" and "retail", I thought I would try to bring some clarity.

Don’t worry, I’m sure he’ll run on fear mongering about it anyways. Facts don’t matter.

So, this passing is about the best option we could’ve hoped for from today, eh? As much as I don’t like carving out old Toronto from the suburbs with these zoning changes, I feel like in a Tory mayoralty with this same council they would’ve just failed city-wide by a vote.

Ok Toronto people time to write to your councillor if you support n’hood retail options and tell them to support @joshmatlow.bsky.social’s motion at council this week.

so @joshmatlow.bsky.social has posted a motion that allows councillors to adopt neighbourhood retail in their own wards, effectively allowing the removed attachment to be adopted on a ward-by-ward basis. it's not perfect but it's something!!!

Do we dare to dream? Could Toronto possibly have a pedestrianized gay village? Montreal pedestrianized their gay village seasonally for years, and has just announced they will be making it pedestrianized year-round.

So, Bike Share Toronto is very close to becoming profitable. For the first 8 months of the year it has a contribution margin of just $680,000. That is about 13 cents/trip. In 2024, it was 32 cents/trip.

Our brand new $128 million dollar civic asset (St Lawrence Market North) sitting empty on a beautiful Sunday. Meanwhile the city refuses to make Market Street pedestrianized year-round because adjacent market BIA hasn’t agreed to “animate it” in winter. Where is your own “animation”?

I have added Bike Share data to my bicycle counter website. It should be updated in relatively real-time (about every 10 minutes)!

Enough said.

Did you know Toronto has 15 permanent bicycle counters around the city? I have created a portal that should be updated monthly when the city updates their open data. It's live now at: observingthecity.ca

Stay tuned I may have something cooking. 📈 🌐

One intersection on Bloor saw average daily bike ridership consistently hover around 6000 for the past 4 months. This is a 20% increase over last year. Yet, Premier Ford wants to target this lane for removal. I wanted to highlight this, one year after the passage of Bill 212.

Imanishi Sando Bar and McCormick Park cafe are amazing, but would not be allowed to exist in most of Toronto. Our parks deserve great independent businesses within them. Our imagination of what can be included in our park space needs to be expanded!

You know @torontolifemag.bsky.social is for a specific demographic when the headline is “where to buy *NEXT*”

Bike share revenue is up over 30% compared to last year, and now has close to 300k unique customers. That is 10% of the population of Toronto! I also think that their internal forecasts are a little pessimistic pinning 2025 rides at 8.1 million. I forecast closer to 8.3M when the year is over.

I was at Wellesley station last night at around midnight. I had never seen such an intense cleaning operation. There was also electrical work going on replacing light ballasts and such. There must have been 40+ employees working. I thought it was just standard nighttime maintenance, guess not.

Will anyone take responsibility for what is happening with the Yonge Street re-design. First proposed 10 years ago. Approved 4 years ago with a recommended design. Original timeline had construction starting in 2023. Now apparently there will be 3 (?) more years of design!!!!

Northbound rush hour on University. It’s the traffic lights, not the bike lanes.

Why is the Eglinton bike lane not getting constructed with the roadwork it was originally intended to? You can’t blame the province as Bill 212 would not have applied. Cowardice?

These people live in Toronto (Mohawk), Ontario (Iroquonian), Canada (Iroquoian)! That damn woke Jacques Cartier.

Don’t worry, according to Dianne Saxe there are no issues with traffic/bunching on Bathurst not during rush hour. (Taken at 7pm on a Saturday)

The Toronto Star published a feature of the cyclist who was recently struck and killed at Church and Gerrard. The 28-year-old was identified as Samuel Willetts; an aspiring cinematographer. RIP. Memorial ride details TBD. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero #YouNeverRideAlone www.thestar.com/news/gta/mot...

A huge congrats to @cycletoronto.bsky.social on their huge charter win. The bike lanes will stay. Join tomorrow for a victory rally & ride!

Overheard two teens on bike shares on a side street with sharrows in the middle of the lane: “I hate biking when there is a car behind me.” Same.

This is awesome, Toronto is a cycling city. The one area that has a connected grid (west end of old Toronto) has huge volumes of cyclists. Imagine if we replicated it city-wide.

Centre Island Ferry Dock has consistently been the most used bike share station this summer, even on weekdays. All 6 island stations consistently rank among the most used in the network. Most would have told you this was a no brainer for years. What other low hanging fruit exists in this city?

Absolutely feckless letter from @mayoroliviachow.ca on implementing bus lanes between Eglinton and Bloor. These lanes were first proposed 5 years ago. The “path forward” was presented in the original plan. It could be approved today. It won’t be because the mayor doesn’t care if it is.

tomorrow's the last day you can vocally speak up to the mayor and city councillors before they vote on dedicated transit lanes on bathurst+dufferin. already, it's been watered down to be only south of bloor thanks to nimbys a thread on how you can speak against the status quo tomorrow ⬇️ 1/6

Buried in the City’s report on the Bathurst and Dufferin #RapidTO lanes is this figure that shows that the 352 parking spaces being proposed to be removed only make $310,000 a year. That means, on average, each of these street parking spaces makes the city less than $2.50 EACH DAY. #TOpoli

The most Toronto to ever Toronto.

@mayoroliviachow.ca has been a complete failure on public transportation. We know what solutions would have a lasting impact on mitigating traffic, council has re-affirmed wanting transit priority lanes for a decade. No follow through and no mention of improving transit in her "bucket list".

I mean… isn’t the whole point of legalizing sixplexes is to spread the density across the city? So we don’t just keep piling on the density onto Yonge, causing issues of overloaded schools & community centers, while the surrounding low rise neighborhoods are experiencing a loss in population?

Well, that was fast. The daily trip record for Bike Share Toronto was just smashed yesterday as 44,000 trips were recorded. Bikes were free yesterday in a promotion with Tangerine Bank.

RT to scare councillors Holyday and Crisanti.

Very disappointed with Councillor Dianne Saxe, who ran on improving reliability and efficiency of transit. She wants to exempt Bloor to Dupont from RapidTO. Climate champions don't give priority to street parking on our arterials over transit lines that move 40,000 people a day.

The city has released a presentation on their plan to *start* creating pedestrian street policy and guidelines. I don't know why we only look to North American cities when looking at examples of implementation.

Yesterday, Bike Share reached a record 36,000 trips! In addition the 14-day average is about 20% higher than this time last year. The popularity of the system is exploding, and our governments need to support a safe and connected cycling network.

Run @lanrickbennett.bsky.social, run!! I’m sure there are many here who would support you in unseating this incumbent 🤔

Any outsider can plainly see the obvious. Torontonians rely on active and public transportation despite our municipal and provincial government making it actively hostile. Great video from @nerd4cities.bsky.social pointing this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gT...

I can only imagine the story that led to these signs to be placed on a Bloor St. bar patio. Nothing says "welcome to a bar on a major street" like a sign telling patrons to be quiet. I'm sure it was directed by the city, like they did for a similar patio by the Gladstone.

NIMBY, non-grass root, fake astroturf campaign "protect bathurst" is now crashing out and comparing street parking to an 100 year old oak tree. All the while using a picture that shows the congestion caused by parked cars forcing vehicles and streetcars into the same lane.

“Protect Bathurst” anti-transit astroturf doesn’t understand logic. They are complaining about streetcar delays causing traffic blockage. This occurs because there are parked cars in right lane, so traffic has no way of getting around. With dedicated transit lanes they would never block traffic.

Councillor Mike Colle wants to stop moving forward with the beltline gap connections project, which included bi-directional bike lanes and *no* lane removals. Which filled a gap in the network of the Beltline and Marlee ave. He advocated for it last year at committee.

Unfortunately Toronto’s only real, major pedestrianized zone is private land. The city wouldn’t dare pedestrianize streets under their jurisdiction.

Rush hour at Adelaide and Jarvis. 13 bikes and 9 cars. Bikes allocated 25% of road space. You do the math on how to solve congestion.

Toronto’s two new ferries will be costing this much alone. Not to mention maintenance/staffing annual costs that I’m sure are much higher than a bridge.

I thought it would be desolate since cars weren’t able to pull up in front of them?

so much of toronto's congestion and transit reliability issues would be mitigated if transportation services didn't run this city under the pretense that every car driver has a god-given right to turn left at every intersection (and in some cases, right-turning traffic too)