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Barry
@btravennt.bsky.social
I left Xitter ( X is pronounced SH in Portuguese ) for Bluesky s and green fields
We could be the kids in the back seat screaming that dad is driving over a cliff ; all the while he is looking in the rearview mirror smiling at the beautiful past and ignoring the disastrous future.
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Avi , I had never heard of Tony before the CLC debate. I was totally impressed !
He has some brilliant ideas that should be incorporated into the NDP platform.
Food self sufficiency is a real important plank.
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Polite bike rides will not change Ford’s reptilian brain.
Direct action will !
Block traffic at major intersections with bicycles during rush hour.
That’s how true Dutch built a cycling culture.

www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/...
How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to t...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
No Robert it is speeding on the rails directly to hell
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
It wasn’t the City of Toronto that supercharged the Gardiner work. The Gardiner was uploaded to the province, reversing Harris’s downloading from the 90’s.
It was prioritized because Ford - Cars.
The City has to tiptoe around Ford’s anti cycling bias
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM