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You still managed to make it look unsafe and devoid of any Esplanade characteristics🤷. Try this one. Planters can also hide metal bollards for actual protection from 2000 lbs cars. Plants and planters show a clear demarcation of space indicating this is not for cars nor delivery trucks
December 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You still managed to make it look unsafe and devoid of any Esplanade characteristics🤷. Try this one. Planters can also hide metal bollards for actual protection from 2000 lbs cars. Plants and planters show a clear demarcation of space indicating this is not for cars nor delivery trucks
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The TTC website is now reporting daily OTP stats on the front page. This was previously available on the daily customer service report but is now placed front and centre for all to see. I'm liking the new CEOs transparency initiative.
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The TTC website is now reporting daily OTP stats on the front page. This was previously available on the daily customer service report but is now placed front and centre for all to see. I'm liking the new CEOs transparency initiative.
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Yay!
Minor thing: looks like they still haven't figured out the most important thing that should be on the dot matrix displays (next vehicle info).
Minor thing: looks like they still haven't figured out the most important thing that should be on the dot matrix displays (next vehicle info).
December 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Yay!
Minor thing: looks like they still haven't figured out the most important thing that should be on the dot matrix displays (next vehicle info).
Minor thing: looks like they still haven't figured out the most important thing that should be on the dot matrix displays (next vehicle info).
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>> dwell times average 20s per stop
Whoa, that's already a big improvement!
Can't help thinking that Line 6 can run faster than the buses it replaces if TTC management make that a goal. We have to keep pressure on the board and on council or the car-lobby councillors return with reinforcements.
Whoa, that's already a big improvement!
Can't help thinking that Line 6 can run faster than the buses it replaces if TTC management make that a goal. We have to keep pressure on the board and on council or the car-lobby councillors return with reinforcements.
December 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
>> dwell times average 20s per stop
Whoa, that's already a big improvement!
Can't help thinking that Line 6 can run faster than the buses it replaces if TTC management make that a goal. We have to keep pressure on the board and on council or the car-lobby councillors return with reinforcements.
Whoa, that's already a big improvement!
Can't help thinking that Line 6 can run faster than the buses it replaces if TTC management make that a goal. We have to keep pressure on the board and on council or the car-lobby councillors return with reinforcements.
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Wow, that’s impressive. That’s all it took.
December 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Wow, that’s impressive. That’s all it took.
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I hope you realize the inconveniences this is going to cause for Toronto politicians if riders along Eglinton get an LRT too. They're also going to want nice things like that.
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I hope you realize the inconveniences this is going to cause for Toronto politicians if riders along Eglinton get an LRT too. They're also going to want nice things like that.
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public backlash+advocacy and yelling at your elected officials works ✊
December 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
public backlash+advocacy and yelling at your elected officials works ✊
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- TSP worked 2/3 times to give trains an advance green before left turns or shortened a left turn phase immediately to give a transit phase at jane and finch
-slow line speeds in between stops still a problem
this feels noticeably better. more improvements coming early next year!
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-slow line speeds in between stops still a problem
this feels noticeably better. more improvements coming early next year!
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December 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
- TSP worked 2/3 times to give trains an advance green before left turns or shortened a left turn phase immediately to give a transit phase at jane and finch
-slow line speeds in between stops still a problem
this feels noticeably better. more improvements coming early next year!
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-slow line speeds in between stops still a problem
this feels noticeably better. more improvements coming early next year!
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just took line 6 this evening, two weeks since opening. a smooth 8 min to jane, and then an 8 min ride back (faster than scheduled).
-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
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-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
1/2
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
just took line 6 this evening, two weeks since opening. a smooth 8 min to jane, and then an 8 min ride back (faster than scheduled).
-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
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-dwell times average 20s per stop
-in both directions, my train never hit a red light except at jane st
-green transit phase insertion/rotation being tested
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I’m not a “champagne socialist!” This is only a Crémant d’Alsace!
Saxe pushes back against Chow saying that people in Rosedale can afford this increased land transfer tax. She says not everyone in Rosedale is wealthy. She asks Chow to apologizing for painting the neighbourhood with a "broad brush."
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I’m not a “champagne socialist!” This is only a Crémant d’Alsace!
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And here I am still waiting for that wealth to trickle down to us rabble...
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
And here I am still waiting for that wealth to trickle down to us rabble...
Vince Crisanti, Brad Bradford, and Stephen Holyday: " The rich are rich because they are smarter and work harder than everybody else. The poor are poor because they are lazy and don't work hard."
@johnlorinc.bsky.social @joshmatlow.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @ausmalik.bsky.social
@johnlorinc.bsky.social @joshmatlow.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @ausmalik.bsky.social
Councillor Vince Crisanti says the increase to the land transfer tax on homes for more than $3 million is a "forced redistribution of wealth" and "insulting" to people who can afford homes in that range. "The wealthy already contribute to the economy in so many ways," he says.
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Vince Crisanti, Brad Bradford, and Stephen Holyday: " The rich are rich because they are smarter and work harder than everybody else. The poor are poor because they are lazy and don't work hard."
@johnlorinc.bsky.social @joshmatlow.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @ausmalik.bsky.social
@johnlorinc.bsky.social @joshmatlow.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @ausmalik.bsky.social
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Audible guffaw from me upon reading the Kingsway Park Ratepayers express concern over affordability requirements on Avenues.
December 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Audible guffaw from me upon reading the Kingsway Park Ratepayers express concern over affordability requirements on Avenues.
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A little inside baseball but I found this very funny. Two councillors, who are routinely confused why they can't NIMBY harder because of changes to the Planning Act made a motion asking staff to develop educational materials on those changes "for the public".
December 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A little inside baseball but I found this very funny. Two councillors, who are routinely confused why they can't NIMBY harder because of changes to the Planning Act made a motion asking staff to develop educational materials on those changes "for the public".
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I will hold any consideration until the actual alignment options for Alto HSR are known, but once again we are probably gonna see the curse of anglosphere urbanism on HSR, i.e. the financial and political burden of routing rail through our infinite sprawl for (not?) getting to downtown.
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I will hold any consideration until the actual alignment options for Alto HSR are known, but once again we are probably gonna see the curse of anglosphere urbanism on HSR, i.e. the financial and political burden of routing rail through our infinite sprawl for (not?) getting to downtown.
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Colle has, politely, never been the most policy oriented councillor but what he's calling for here makes no sense even by his standards. He wants to.. pause the rulings? Of an independent tribunal in response to them... correctly ruling that applications meet provincial TOD policy?
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Colle has, politely, never been the most policy oriented councillor but what he's calling for here makes no sense even by his standards. He wants to.. pause the rulings? Of an independent tribunal in response to them... correctly ruling that applications meet provincial TOD policy?
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Thanks @cyclingpedestrian.cityof.toronto.ca and @mayoroliviachow.ca for the very quick turnaround on this bike lane fix in Bloor West Village. jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/a...
A quick bike lane fix on Bloor
Yesterday I posted a picture of cars parked in the bike lane on Bloor, in front of the Bloor West Village No Frills, and tagged the cycling and pedestrian unit. I also posted the photo on facebook …
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December 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Thanks @cyclingpedestrian.cityof.toronto.ca and @mayoroliviachow.ca for the very quick turnaround on this bike lane fix in Bloor West Village. jnyyz.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/a...
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Nah it makes absolute sense to start on the shortest and easiest segment.
Both from an engineering perspective (build local experience) and from a political one.
(The moment the first segment is open is the moment HSR goes from may be cancelled by new government to everyone wants one)
Both from an engineering perspective (build local experience) and from a political one.
(The moment the first segment is open is the moment HSR goes from may be cancelled by new government to everyone wants one)
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Nah it makes absolute sense to start on the shortest and easiest segment.
Both from an engineering perspective (build local experience) and from a political one.
(The moment the first segment is open is the moment HSR goes from may be cancelled by new government to everyone wants one)
Both from an engineering perspective (build local experience) and from a political one.
(The moment the first segment is open is the moment HSR goes from may be cancelled by new government to everyone wants one)
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I hope the city of Toronto doesn't move to block this. The correct synthesis imo is cars suck, human drivers suck. Move to add transit lanes, pedestrianize streets downtown, block through traffic in neighbourhoods, etc. to tame cars and it won't matter who drives them.
Alphabet's autonymous-vehicle subsidiary Waymo has expansion plans that includes the #Toronto market, writes @johnlorinc.bsky.social
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
#ONpoli #TOpoli #Waymo #drivelesscar #AV
LORINC: Waymo aims to get a driverless foot in Toronto's door - Spacing Toronto
In the past few days, Toronto’s chronically testy conservation about mobility glommed onto the disappointing launch of the Finch West LRT (Line 6), which crawled along on its maiden journeys thanks to...
spacing.ca
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I hope the city of Toronto doesn't move to block this. The correct synthesis imo is cars suck, human drivers suck. Move to add transit lanes, pedestrianize streets downtown, block through traffic in neighbourhoods, etc. to tame cars and it won't matter who drives them.
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City Council will consider 20 km of new bike lanes without removing any car lanes. This comes after a hectic IEC where deputants sacrificed their speaking time to ensure it wasn’t deferred. It’s only a “win-win solution” if Council adopts the staff recommendations: www.cycleto.ca/win_win_solution
Win Win Solution
www.cycleto.ca
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
City Council will consider 20 km of new bike lanes without removing any car lanes. This comes after a hectic IEC where deputants sacrificed their speaking time to ensure it wasn’t deferred. It’s only a “win-win solution” if Council adopts the staff recommendations: www.cycleto.ca/win_win_solution
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New GO Station! First time at Confederation GO.
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New GO Station! First time at Confederation GO.
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People sometimes say "don't complain". And the TTC has just made excuses instead of listening and showing leadership.
But advocates complained, and got a win as a result.
But advocates complained, and got a win as a result.
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
People sometimes say "don't complain". And the TTC has just made excuses instead of listening and showing leadership.
But advocates complained, and got a win as a result.
But advocates complained, and got a win as a result.
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This is fantastic news. We just need to be ready to do the hard work of saying *no* we cannot have a stop on every block. Toronto is lower density than Paris, or Zurich, or Berlin. It should not have a wildly *higher* density of stops.
Not just TSP ! — new motion brought late today at TTC Board to look at stop spacing, vehicle speeds, and parking and turning changes. Let’s go!
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is fantastic news. We just need to be ready to do the hard work of saying *no* we cannot have a stop on every block. Toronto is lower density than Paris, or Zurich, or Berlin. It should not have a wildly *higher* density of stops.
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campaign slogans are my passion. only posting this one cuz I'm proud of it 🤭🤭
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
campaign slogans are my passion. only posting this one cuz I'm proud of it 🤭🤭