Grant Mason 🍁🏳‍🌈🚴

It's kind of sad when she used to be such a hard line environmentalist, but doesn't seem to make the obvious connections between housing, transit and sustainability.

Drivers barely even slow down when they hook turn on red these days. Half the time they don't even try to stop before entering the crosswalk. It's an epidemic of bad behaviour on behalf of drivers.

This is so amazing. Whereas Toronto is about to build another traffic street along the shoreline because our planning is still stuck in the 1980s. 😭

It's hard work but it's (dis)honest work.

Hot take, people who hate cities shouldn’t be in charge of cities

@ttcalerts.bsky.social I think your map at Shaw and Dundas is wrong. Why is Shaw west of Ossington? Very confusing when it's relevant to the route change.

Once again, the only thing that units all Canadians is that we're not Americans 💪💪

I love everything about this outcome.

...something about living too long and becoming the villain.

But Reece! We need to balance the needs of drivers!!!

So many good ideas have died on the mantle of balance in this city.

Toronto urban designers when another row of fine grain retail gets replaced with a ground floor wall of glass and plastic window wrapping:

Toronto's housing policy is so backwards, it's infuriating.

It's so frustrating that after all the investment the track level feels... the same in most locations.

The city is THRIVING

I've lived here for 15 years and the scale of Toronto Pride still blows my mind. It gives me hope for the rest of the year – we can do big things if we just dare to try!

It's such a great venue. Rain or shine, the Bentway is a go! Excited to see it evolve into the city's fabric and identity

The police seem much more lax on public drinking these days too. Can't say I mind.

A student in a class I gave a presentation to asked what the single most important thing to prioritize in planning was, and my answer was "efficiency" because everything else flows from that. Want more nature? Build efficient cities. Want more transit? Build more with less. Etc.

*residential* zoning should NOT discriminate between low and high density housing. It should only be about separating housing from pollution. Including car exhaust and micro particulates (looking directly at everyone putting apartments next to car sewers and patting their backs)

Meanwhile the sea of detached house residential zones, and the 100% vacant airspace above it, is apparently perfectly normal and fine. Totally fine that it means few poorer people can live in those zones. Status quo bias is everywhere.

I remember when I moved here, the skyline really only looked impressive from a few angles, looking north or south. But now it's filled in and looks massive from every angle. So cool to see take shape over only 15 years.

not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh

Done, made my own edits. Thanks for sharing.

There*, ugh.

Wanting corporate money out of Pride and having that granted feels like a monkey paw wish, but I suppose time will tell.

The only things I can award our condition is that maybe firetrucks will get their easier and for 2 months each year people could feel sun on their faces when it's not cloudy. It's interesting to consider that we've given up every other benefit in pursuit of those two things.

Don't worry, those wide ROWs and stepbacks will start paying dividends aaaaannyyy day now.

Regressive infrastructure (highways) are expected to cause damage so it's downsides are excused, whereas 'progressive' infrastructure is expected to help the environment and so it has to be perfect and can't harm anyone in the process, lest it falter on its promise.

We need more nuclear.

In a meeting today, Sidsel Birk Hjuler pointed out a facet of motonormativity that even I had failed to see: why do we talk about people using people-sized vehicles as MICROmobility? How did people driving around with 4 empty seats get normalized as "mobility"?