Trevor Heywood
@metroscapes.ca
Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide.
🌐 https://metroscapes.ca
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🌐 https://metroscapes.ca
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Trevor Heywood
@metroscapes.ca
· Aug 19
3,000 km of walking #metroscapes across Greater #Toronto, , #Hamilton, #Niagara, the #Tri-Cities, #Guelph and #Ottawa. Roughly the driving distance from Charlottetown to Dryden. #hiking #cities
"...the Nintendo Playstation" I'm sorry wut?!
This video is riddled with interesting knowledge.
This video is riddled with interesting knowledge.
The genius of the Playstation startup sound
YouTube video by Mixed Signals
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"...the Nintendo Playstation" I'm sorry wut?!
This video is riddled with interesting knowledge.
This video is riddled with interesting knowledge.
Celebrating meme culture with your friends IRL with a slight trade-off of minor risk of bodily injury. I get it.
I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Celebrating meme culture with your friends IRL with a slight trade-off of minor risk of bodily injury. I get it.
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He's mentioning 2013-14.
If i remember correctly, that was the winter people were skating in the middle of Toronto Harbour.
If i remember correctly, that was the winter people were skating in the middle of Toronto Harbour.
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
He's mentioning 2013-14.
If i remember correctly, that was the winter people were skating in the middle of Toronto Harbour.
If i remember correctly, that was the winter people were skating in the middle of Toronto Harbour.
I think Ryan Hall is a bit underappreciated. Yeah, he lures you in with some of his graphics nowadays, but he usually smacks you on the head with some realism about uncertainty. Plus this video leans on solid historical analysis. That's good content. I just wish we had a Canadian equivalent.
Here’s How Much Snow You’ll Get This Year…
YouTube video by Ryan Hall, Y'all
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think Ryan Hall is a bit underappreciated. Yeah, he lures you in with some of his graphics nowadays, but he usually smacks you on the head with some realism about uncertainty. Plus this video leans on solid historical analysis. That's good content. I just wish we had a Canadian equivalent.
Kicking off a bus ride listening to some KAYTRANADA.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Kicking off a bus ride listening to some KAYTRANADA.
My dad was in a Toronto hospital 30 kilometres away, with a window pointing towards the accident site. The fireball lit his room up in red-orange light. My grandpop picked him up earlier than scheduled the next morning, likely out of caution and for contingency planning.
46 years ago I woke up to massive explosions and a tower of fire 2 miles away. My Dad thought the Russians had attacked.
A train derailment and exploded tanker cars created a cloud of chlorine gas over the city, so we evacuated with 250,000 other Mississaugans.
canadaehx.com/2024/11/05/t...
A train derailment and exploded tanker cars created a cloud of chlorine gas over the city, so we evacuated with 250,000 other Mississaugans.
canadaehx.com/2024/11/05/t...
The Mississauga Train Derailment
It’s a quiet Saturday night in 1979. Residents in Mississauga, Ontario are asleep. The next day is expected to be quiet for the thousands that live there. Many would be looking forward to a nice br…
canadaehx.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My dad was in a Toronto hospital 30 kilometres away, with a window pointing towards the accident site. The fireball lit his room up in red-orange light. My grandpop picked him up earlier than scheduled the next morning, likely out of caution and for contingency planning.
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.
West GTA Watersheds
An overview of watersheds and watercourses covering the urban areas of Halton and Peel Regions.
metroscapes.ca
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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.
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Seven weeks ago, it was 30c and I was swimming in an outdoor pool.
We get it all
We get it all
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Seven weeks ago, it was 30c and I was swimming in an outdoor pool.
We get it all
We get it all
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Walking south from Charles Sauriol Park
November 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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.
Explainer: How to Explore Metroscapes Walks
YouTube video by Metroscapes
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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.
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strong contender for "walk of the year"
November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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.
Why You Shouldn't Touch a Radio Tower at 200,000 FPS
YouTube video by The Slow Mo Guys
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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
Weekly Writ 11/6: Does floor-crossing help or hurt an MP's chances?
Chris d'Entremont crosses over to the Liberals. Will it improve his re-election odds?
www.thewrit.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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.
Walking away from a social network is hard. But I finally shut down my X account. It was easier for me because I started putting the work in two years ago, migrating 5,647 pictures onto 126 pages on my own domain that I can control. If I can do it, you can too. metroscapes.ca/2022/05/01/m...
Migration
Announcing the migration of my walk content from social media to direct pages on this site.
metroscapes.ca
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hard to believe I finished my migration 2 years ago now. Seems so short and so long ago at the same time.
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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
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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
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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.
"There is nothing... that suggests continuing to tether our industry to the U.S industry is the best bet," Greig Mordue (@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social) tell @jeyantvo.bsky.social. Is it time for Canada to look beyond the Big Three automakers? Tonight at 8pm | Producer: @colinellis81.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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.
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We used to build great things.
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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...
But as details slowly emerge, Torontonians deserve transparency of how these new stations will actually work.
seanmarshall.ca/2025/11/04/t...
The revenge of SmartTrack
Metrolinx is looking to serve new Kitchener Line SmartTrack stations with its UP Express trains only. It’s only fair that the transit agency comes clean to transit riders on how it will make …
seanmarshall.ca
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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...
But as details slowly emerge, Torontonians deserve transparency of how these new stations will actually work.
seanmarshall.ca/2025/11/04/t...
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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
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
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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
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
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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! ⚾
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! ⚾
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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! ⚾
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.
We are aware of an arrest gone horrifically wrong. After a person was tased by police, a TPS officer exited his vehicle without parking it, it hit the person & another officer. Cop entered the SUV & instead of stopping it hit the gas, making the situation worse. We will be watching this closely.
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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!
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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.
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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!
November 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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!