Nick Shaw
@nickshaw.ca
🚉 I’m a transit planner based in Toronto
🫡 Registered Planner (RPP, MCIP) & PRINCE2 certified (UK+Europe’s PMP)
🌎 I do this because it’s the space between places that determines the health of self and community. and peace blooms in cities 🏳️🌈
🫡 Registered Planner (RPP, MCIP) & PRINCE2 certified (UK+Europe’s PMP)
🌎 I do this because it’s the space between places that determines the health of self and community. and peace blooms in cities 🏳️🌈
Probably what’s in all our attics: collective intergenerational trauma
a man is standing in a dark room with a blue light shining through the ceiling
ALT: a man is standing in a dark room with a blue light shining through the ceiling
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November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Probably what’s in all our attics: collective intergenerational trauma
I did a back-of-the-napkin analysis of my no car vs with-car life. Investing my net savings I could retire 15 years earlier (50 instead of 65) and live 5 years longer (based on a conservative mortality rates for a no-car lifestyle). This brought it home why I became a Planner—fix this mess.
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I did a back-of-the-napkin analysis of my no car vs with-car life. Investing my net savings I could retire 15 years earlier (50 instead of 65) and live 5 years longer (based on a conservative mortality rates for a no-car lifestyle). This brought it home why I became a Planner—fix this mess.
Existing: 4-lane collector
Proposed: centre running LRT with sod track bed, 1 general purpose lane per direction between the LRT guideway and new raised cycle track.
Their concern was response times. The unprofessional shaming was a response to a challenge to their all-or-nothing position.
Proposed: centre running LRT with sod track bed, 1 general purpose lane per direction between the LRT guideway and new raised cycle track.
Their concern was response times. The unprofessional shaming was a response to a challenge to their all-or-nothing position.
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Existing: 4-lane collector
Proposed: centre running LRT with sod track bed, 1 general purpose lane per direction between the LRT guideway and new raised cycle track.
Their concern was response times. The unprofessional shaming was a response to a challenge to their all-or-nothing position.
Proposed: centre running LRT with sod track bed, 1 general purpose lane per direction between the LRT guideway and new raised cycle track.
Their concern was response times. The unprofessional shaming was a response to a challenge to their all-or-nothing position.
A colleague of mine, an experienced senior planner, was once told point blank by a FD stakeholder that they’d have children’s blood on their hands. Why? For suggesting that the bike lanes they opposed could actually improve response times because they were wide enough to accommodate their trucks
September 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
A colleague of mine, an experienced senior planner, was once told point blank by a FD stakeholder that they’d have children’s blood on their hands. Why? For suggesting that the bike lanes they opposed could actually improve response times because they were wide enough to accommodate their trucks
Better get started on that ephemeral sketch animation now
August 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Better get started on that ephemeral sketch animation now
Nap shame is real tho, maybe because after kindergarten suddenly it was like “big kids don’t nap.” Let me have a guilt-free Power Nap at the office and I think some of the RTO resistance will be pacified (pun intended)
August 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nap shame is real tho, maybe because after kindergarten suddenly it was like “big kids don’t nap.” Let me have a guilt-free Power Nap at the office and I think some of the RTO resistance will be pacified (pun intended)