Hafeez A.

Hafeez A.

@trainguy89.bsky.social

Toronto < - > Waterloo. Designing better streets and fighting for change! Transportation Planner. 🚲 🚃 🎓UW Planning ‘27. Opinions are mine only of course.

2,607 Followers 513 Following 296 Posts Joined Aug 2023
1 week ago

I was thinking if there was this much demand, they need way more bike share in the region.

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1 week ago
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So I uh…made something 🫢

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3 weeks ago

Interchanges like here (Eglinton) are going to be awful and I think a lot of people are already thinking when we’re going to see the next trains that can actually handle the loads and most importantly, circulation and egress.

(From doors opening to train departing, it was around 1min 30s.)

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3 weeks ago
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I feel like Toronto’s regretting having a vehicle that constrains the flow of passengers this bad. Single doors means one at a time. Getting off the train is also nearly impossible at busy times. There’s just very little circulation.

This was from opening day. Imagine during actual rush hour.

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3 weeks ago

I was hoping for a tad more colour. The colours I saw for the station name accent were Orange and then Gray…Dark Gray…and Black. I wanted a bit more colour and the walls are totally sterile. Just needs something other than the all white.

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3 weeks ago

I literally almost missed my connecting bus that’s only every 20 minutes.

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3 weeks ago

Holy shit the Eglinton Line stopped at EVERY FREAKING SIGNAL 🤬

We got to a stop, we stopped for a lot of time, by the time we depart, the next signal is red. We wait for cross traffic, then we wait for the left turning traffic, then we go, then we stop to pick up passengers. It’s ridiculous.

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1 month ago

When’s the iPad app coming out 😭

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1 month ago

Yeah, it was a pain and super slow to get off the train at Eglinton. It was basically single file.

This is going to make egress so slow and annoying at interchange stations.

Clearly this was not thought of when they decided on the rolling stock.

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1 month ago

Unicycles only.

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1 month ago

Yeah, it’s mainly many of the bike lanes and cycle tracks I see that have not been cleared. The multi-use paths have been cleared. But alas, my experience has mostly been by the university.

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1 month ago

Have you noticed the snow clearing’s been awful this season in KW? It’s usually really good but the bike lanes and cycle tracks are just not cleared. Definitely discouraged me from taking my bike out.

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2 months ago

Yeah, there is so much to takeaway here in terms of the idea of flow.

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2 months ago

You don’t need to, you need to convince the premier.

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2 months ago

Yeah, and the city’s proactively implementing quick build curb extensions everywhere.

Daylighting is not an issue in Canada like it is in the US.

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2 months ago

I’ll make a thread later

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2 months ago
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I have so much to say about my time here in CDMX. The urban planning, the transportation systems and complete streets.

Shits on Toronto any day. Our politicians are cowards.

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2 months ago

This coulda been Olivia Chow

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2 months ago

SpEeD bUmPs though!

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2 months ago

By Ontario, I mean Ontario, Canada 😅

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2 months ago

Just finished an internship at a relatively small transit agency in Ontario. It was actually quite informative and eye-opening. Happy to answer any questions.

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2 months ago

Thank you!!

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2 months ago
person yawning while driving
Conspiracy theorist relieved that proposed local amenities have been voted against and will now be a 30 minute drive away.
CALGARY, AB - "I love my car and I love driving" he said after the vote was finalized. He reiterated how all he wants is for everything to be accessible only by car - "having options to walk, roll or use transit is just not fair - we need a balanced driver first approach." He next wants the city to tackle traffic congestion that has been "brutal and seems to get worse every year."

"Conspiracy theorist relieved that proposed local amenities have been voted against and will now be a 30 minute drive away."

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2 months ago

As drivers we love this. It’s awkward to block the bike lane and sidewalk when we often need to for visibility and to see if there’s vehicles.

As a cyclist, it can be minorly annoying but I accept the safety benefit.

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2 months ago

Any places I should visit in Mexico City?

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2 months ago

Wow, that’s impressive. That’s all it took.

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2 months ago

Finished my term at Guelph Transit (Planning and Scheduling team). Did a lot, saw a lot and learned a lot!

Now back to class in the new year.

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2 months ago

Yes I made the headsign.

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2 months ago
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If you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to these past few months…

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2 months ago

This map just tells me how tiny PEI is

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