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People should stop asking why Donnie is making a illogical fuss over a bridge we paid for, and start asking what he's trying to distract from now.

a great set of recommendations. there is a broader issue with the way toronto implements street-running LRT, in that it merely slaps it down the middle of a street and expects it to work without changing traffic flows (and signalling, seemingly) to prioritize the primary mover of people - transit.

The Canadian government has paid for the whole goddamn thing.

Freezing cold to do a riverside walk, but was glad to have joined a rep from Freshwater Conservation (formerly Trout Unlimited) Canada this morning to check out some of their restoration work along the Speed River between Guelph and Cambridge. A beautiful trail...hope to see it in the summer.

I bought Minecraft so I could play with my kid, and now it's after 10PM...

The 501 Queen Streetcar has been cited as one of the longest streetcar routes in North America, but has no one verified whether it's is *the* longest (if considering it all the way between Long Branch and Neville Park)?

On Sunday, Line 5 Eglinton opens! To better understand this corridor, we layered the route alignment relative to surrounding building footprints; space for cars, bikes & pedestrians; zoning; green space; pop. density; household income & senior populations https://ow.ly/ojyb50YaunQ

The great Friday student pilgrimage to the only afternoon Kitchener GO train to Union

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The TTC map just got its biggest upgrade in decades. Meet the cartographer behind it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There's gates, lights and a million signs. How do you still drive into the tunnel?! Between this and yesterday's GO train derailment, seems like Toronto's major hub has been a disaster for commuters.

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The first half of the Lower Don Crossing for the Ontario Line is being shifted into place above the DVP this weekend.

Trying to crunch some historic data to understand this better, but I think I need to better understand how each of the lakes progress relative to each other. I also need NOAA data for the last 5 days, I tried subbing from another source and it's not lining up.

Here it is: the inside story of how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT went off the rails. This was the result of months of work, research and sourcing. www.thestar.com/news/gta/off...

Given that Orlando is going to be below freezing overnight this weekend, maybe they should just box a few orchards and ship direct not from concentrate.

The first passenger train between Toronto and Allandale ran on the Ontario, Simcoe & Huron Railway in 1853. VIA Rail ended service to Barrie in 1996. GO had extended its Bradford trains to Barrie in 1990, but provincial funding cuts truncated the line at Bradford again in 1993. 2/3

Jan 30, 2012: GO Transit extends its Barrie Line 3.5 km north from Barrie South to the new Allandale Waterfront station. The line's new northern terminal sits beside the former Grand Trunk Railway 1905 Allandale station and is more convenient to downtown Barrie. 1/3

There's something exceptionally badass about regional rail during a Canadian winter night. Even if you're still hungry for more.

Pretty remarkable that advocates have been pressing for transit signal priority on Eglinton for years, the City voted in April 2025 for TSP to be studied with a report by last October and yet here we are. Like, where’s the urgency and accountability?

Eglinton Crosstown won’t get full signal priority before May, TTC Chair says www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Had to walk across the property to a separate building, rummage through boxes in an upstairs crawl space to find a paper file that has not been digitized yet. I feel old because I knew I should fill out one of these in its place.

Railway / mining news. Owners of the Mary River Mine on Baffin Island, Nunuvat say they have completed consultations for a rail line, to transport ore to ports at Steensby and Milne Inlet. Construction is planned this year, and once complete, it will become the northernmost rail line in the world.

The Overnight Temperature Profile is brought to you by the HRDPS (CAN Weather Model)...and the letter "S" for "Savage". (yah, I grew up on Sesame Street) #onwx #onstorm (bundle up!)

If temperatures fall below -26.3°C on Thursday night, it would be the coldest Toronto has experienced in 32 years! A reading of -28.6°C or colder would place this among the city's top 10 coldest days ever recorded. https://ow.ly/okQM50Y5H2U

Doesn't look like the frigid pattern will be changing anytime in the next two weeks. Constant shots of cold air sweeping over southern Ontario. #onwx

Pretty sure the Speed River is completely frozen over. Normally there's a bit of an open spot under the bridge where there's increased velocity, but that appears to be gone.

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I had trouble sleeping night before last. All I could think about was the clip of children screaming and crying inside the Texas detention centre. Just playing over and over in my head. Monsters.

@waterfrontoronto.bsky.social undertook a feasubility for some sort of seabus service along the central waterfront. I am going to pump out some initial thoughts as I flip through. www.waterfrontoronto.ca/sites/defaul...

Well below zero yesterday but it was so sunny it created just enough melt to make magnificent icicles across the city. (aka death from above, 2026)

Humber River yacht club at the centre of a battle over Jet Skis and wildlife shut down by the city

The idea of restoring passenger rail service to Ottawa's Beaux-Arts Union Station has been gaining some steam thanks to the Alto HSR plans. Unfortunately, there are a lot of barriers to that happening. But the existing modernist VIA station has a lot of advantages. seanmarshall.ca/2026/01/26/o...

Meanwhile south of the border, one website is reporting 650,000 customers without power in the states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Kentucky alone. Many of these areas are experiencing temps below the freezing mark right now through tonight, and even hitting below 0°F / -15°C.

The entire Upper Grand District School Board system is shut down tomorrow. There's going to be a lot of people trying to work from home with kids. Office should be quiet.

A record-setting day that's not over. #TOwx #onstorm

The latest Environment Canada Winter Storm Warning for Toronto calls for up to 60cm of snowfall accumulation near Lake Ontario. This lake-effect band / lake enhancement is really living up to expectations! If this is an ‘orange’ warning, I guess you really don’t want to see a ‘red’ warning. #ONstorm

Click on every photo in this thread, it will do you good

One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.

Phased another way: "Give us info to track dissidents, starve the poor and scoop the undesirable, and we'll stop shooting." On top of insisting US citizens are conditionally privy to their 2nd amendment rights (which I don't agree with, but are Constitutionally granted), what else do you call this?

Christopher has done a cool nesting of this map progressing over time, but you can get it with other parameter data directly from @glicetracker.bsky.social.

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social Tom made a poster of you.

Yay Canada! exporting Roshel armoured vehicles to ICE and Doug Ford loves it! Time to cancel Dough Ford (typo, but I am leaving it!) globalnews.ca/news/1155832...

Latest snowfall accumulations for #ONstorm and #QCstorm. The second graphic is a GTA/southern Ontario cropping of the snowfall forecast. #ONwx #MeteoQC

It's the perfect day to ensure the mall is open. Businesses will have fewer walk-ins but you can get away with one person on staff, and make a gain on the day. Facilities are open to warm up for anyone walking around in the storm.