A #metroscapes site update: West GTA Watersheds has been updated to include some watercourses I missed, and refine watershed boundaries. Changes have been published over to the data portal as well.

Seven weeks ago, it was 30c and I was swimming in an outdoor pool. We get it all

Walking south from Charles Sauriol Park

Greetings to all of my new followers. If you are new to Metroscapes, this is a good intro to what I explore and how I document my walks.

strong contender for "walk of the year"

Holy moly. No wonder those transmitters (like the facility at 2424-2480 Lakeshore Rd W, Mississauga) is fenced with barbed wire. I still believe there's room for improvement, but I get it.

Interesting article from @ericgrenier.bsky.social suggesting that floor crossers in the last 25 years have fared relatively well in subsequent elections. #cdnpoli

Hard to believe I finished my migration 2 years ago now. Seems so short and so long ago at the same time.

This week, a very special transit system turns 50! If you've never heard of the Morgantown PRT, this is what they thought the future of transportation would be in the 70s. It's WILD! youtu.be/08HNZbxfai4

With Stellantis moving production from Brampton to the US, where does Canada go from here? I get a history lesson from Greig Mordue on the auto industry and look at why the future may point toward China.

A Reddit post screen capped a version of the Metrolinx Wayfinding Design Standards that had the train lines lettered A-G. Kind of circular given that's how they used to do it. www.reddit.com/r/gotransit/...

We used to build great things.

As plans for new regional rail stations advance, Toronto is reckoning once again with SmartTrack, a campaign promise that never really went away. But as details slowly emerge, Torontonians deserve transparency of how these new stations will actually work. seanmarshall.ca/2025/11/04/t...

While the Eglinton Crosstown LRT still has no opening day, the GO Train and UP Express Station at Mount Dennis Station will open on November 16, 2025. Will you check out this GO/UP Station when it opens or wait till the full Crosstown opens to visit the station? #GOTrain #TransitToronto #Toronto

This is a fun chart! The green is the main bsky load balancer traffic throughput from Saturday night, and the purple is how much traffic there was 7 days before (the previous Saturday) The spike is due to the world series - pretty incredible! ⚾

I watched this too. What a gong show. That officer is going to have to answer for a) failing to stop the vehicle, b) the injuries to the person being detained, and c) almost running his fellow officers over too.

Damn, already setting up conditions for lower rents and he isn't even mayor yet! What a beast!

I'm going to have to do some fundraising soon. This hobby creates a lot of data, and upgrading my storage is probably going to cost $1,000. That's on top of $700 of capital costs I put towards equipment in the last 2 years, $100 each year to run my website, and lots of gas and transit fare.

In the last 12 months I’ve connected with more followers on Bluesky than in over 10 years on that other site before I left it. And waaaaay fewer bots and trolls! Thanks, Bluesky urbanism community!

Welp, back to begrudgingly dreaming of winning the Stanley Cup I guess. Apologies to my new followers last night, I normally don't tweet that manically. But it became BlueJaySky for a brief period.

And Rogers walks away with record profits.

That really hurts.

Whoa

We need to bring Vladdy home. Please.

It's May 13, 2013 all over again

geddy lee claps for the blue jays in 7/4 time

"It's now November 2” as we now go into the 11th inning.

Getting him at 1st, with 2 outs, in extra innings, with bases loaded. I don't know if you can cut it much closer.

If you're not having a stroke, you're finishing tonight with an upper body injury from tensing so hard.

This is bad.

I can't do this

Yo

The weight of a nation is on the Jays right now

CAN WE STOP WITH ALL THESE 9TH INNING SHENANIGANS?!

We'll take it

OH MY GOD

It’s OK. It’s our tradition to win World Series with home runs.

Hoffman finished it. I'm happy about that, but I am NOT happy about facing the prospect of extra innings. I don't know that I have it in me.

Hello darkness my old friend

Omfg let's go

Ah geez

Bring him home boys

So close yet so far.

Doug Ford is a very strange politician. Totally car-brained, awful to cyclists. But is also funding the biggest transit expansion in North America. Tougher than Carney on the US and tariffs. But is also the only person in the world I’ve ever heard say something good about Ambassador Pete Hoekstra.

That community, west of Winston Churchill in Oakville at Bromsgrove used to be a Sheridan Nursery - all open fields and gravel roads. Streets, like Sheridan Drive, Rosewood LN, and Redbud Ave are named in recognition of that.

Good morning from Oakville GO/VIA Station. Today I'll be following a hydro and pipeline corridor east from here through Mississauga. Let's go. #metroscapes

One more shot at home

What

I'm watching the blue jays with 6 young boys and 2 overtired mothers. It's a lot.

We just crossed it. Yay! Congrats everyone and Happy Halloween!