The Flying Moose did a pretty good deep dive too!

youtu.be/XlHqqA0onn0

I believe it actually bans any road changes that remove a vehicle lane, including widening sidewalks, adding a parking lane, and road diets, as well as bicycle lanes.

My daily commute intersection of Bay/Cannon, while still ripe for improvement is so much safer & doesn't give me anxiety every morning now that cyclists & pedestrians have a leading phase.

Just a year prior I was hit at the intersection on my bicycle because a driver didn't yield to me.

Our roads have literally become a Mad Max dystopia. People in my neighbourhood blast through stop signs and red lights every single day, people text and watch TV while driving past my house, and people walking nearly get hit regularly. Zero enforcement of traffic laws and no road design changes.

Councillor Shelley Carroll says she gets a lot of calls wanting her to fight applications for cannabis store licenses, but, "I can't, in my database, find a single complaint about one once they are open." Perhaps there's a lesson there.

Wouldn't want people in your neighbourhood to be too weird, they've gotta fit some pre-designated mold to live near you, because otherwise it could threaten your white walled, gaudy furniture home and your bland grey Toyota Corolla and basic haircut and normie clothes.

I'm hardly a hardcore free-market libertarian, but it does seem like the reality of market forces should be a bigger part of this debate. The basic reason you don't need to worry about a 24/7 bar/potshop/noise-making emporium setting up on a small street is basically "there's no demand for it."

Up now: corner stores. The original recommendation to allow small retail uses within neighbourhoods was watered down at committee, but the recommendation to allow retail uses along designated major streets remains. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

I kind of hate how it's a national pastime to complain about the cold.

I made a decision years ago to embrace the cold, spend extra time prepping for going outside, purchasing blankets & such for home.

I'm sad the cold patios in fall and spring with heaters didn't stick around after COVID.

It's honestly a pretty simple solution; include a dead man's remote so the HSR driver if too far from the bus it shuts off.

i.e. if CPI increases (2%-2.5%) led to rental construction halting, could double CPI (4%-5%) lead to construction continuing while renters keep some stability?

A mix? (no rent increases for the prior two calendar years, allows a double CPI increase) or (double CPI increase two years within 5 years)

HSR drivers routinely get out and leave the bus running. I've taken the bus in Hamilton maybe 10 or 20 times my entire time living here, and the driver got out at least 2 of those times in the middle of the route for a bathroom break and Tim Hortons coffee. Left it running for heating.

It legitimately surprises me that she plans to run for mayor again, it barely seems like she wants to be mayor, both in her prior campaign, and in her being Mayor. I don't know, maybe she's getting tons done behind the scenes, but it can't be seen in changes, nor has it been advertised well.