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.

Good recap of an infuriating TTC board meeting. The incompetence and incuriosity of TTC and city staff on full display.

Northwest Toronto just got a transit investment that actually lengthens their commutes. They deserve better.

That's crazy! @nwestoll.bsky.social reports Car: 29 minutes Bus: 31 minutes LRT: 47 minutes

What are we doing here? 170m between streetcar stops. It makes the service borderline unusable.

Glad to see that the city is moving forward with 6km of cycle tracks on Kingston Road. It's a huge shame that due to Bill 212/60, they will not be able to connect it to Danforth East. I'm afraid ridership might not be very high as we end up with more bike lanes to nowhere.

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

This is also happening in Toronto, and it would be nice if @mayoroliviachow.ca or the City itself would advertise it like it is a good thing.

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)