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Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.

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CHICAGO β€” Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

09.10.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 17212    πŸ” 10213    πŸ’¬ 2847    πŸ“Œ 1853

I bet all bike friendly cities are also great cities!

10.10.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?

A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.

10.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 8

It’s not just UPS. I recently ordered something for an event from Canada. I’ve used this company in the past with zero problems, but this time the package (via FedEx) was held up in customs for days and missed the event because of it. This is a problem fully manufactured by the Trump admin.

10.10.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scootersβ€”a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

β€œThe transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietlyβ€”& quicklyβ€”become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency β€œcoronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

10.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 11

NEXT WEEKEND! I’ll be among a lot of great speakers in TORINO/TURIN Italy for the #UTOPIANHOURS European festival for city-making and urban innovation! Check out this line-up for a truly unique event!

10.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NEXT WEEKEND! I’ll be among a lot of great speakers in TORINO/TURIN Italy for the #UTOPIANHOURS European festival for city-making and urban innovation! Check out this line-up for a truly unique event!

10.10.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What if you had to take your drivers test at least every 10 years?

A lot changes over time. Including knowledge/memory of the road rules, driver skills and ability, and the size and deadliness of vehicles.

10.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 264    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 8

Once. At least here, drivers have to take a test once. They might have to have a fitness to drive examination starting when they're 80 but nothing to test that they recall the rules of the road or understand any new rules. And vehicles are becoming tanks.

10.10.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speak truth to power.

Speak truth ABOUT power.

10.10.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Paris thrives

Doug Ford takes Ontario backwards

10.10.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

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By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

10.10.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2173    πŸ” 734    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 37

Remember, a β€œmassive increase of tariffs on Chinese products coming into the USA” means A MASSIVE INCREASE IN PRICES FOR US CITIZENS. Or the goods won’t be available to you at all. Sound β€œgreat” to you? It’s ok though because the revenue collected from you is funding Trump’s tax breaks for the rich.

10.10.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

09.10.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 815    πŸ” 249    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 22

Wow, that’s really good.

10.10.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Consider my jaw officially dropped.

10.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marvel’s multiverse is getting out of hand…

10.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scootersβ€”a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

β€œThe transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietlyβ€”& quicklyβ€”become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency β€œcoronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

10.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 533    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 11
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TIER ONE: Americans who Donald Trump pedophiled with: They get shielded from prosecution for the crimes they did commit.

TIER TWO: Americans who brought Donald to justice for the crimes he did commit, they get prosecuted as revenge even if they committed no crimes whatsoever.

10.10.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2185    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 27

He wants it so badly for no other reason than Obama has one. These slobbering sycophants can't conceive of the fact that the Nobel committee isn't as enamored with someone who sends troops against his own people as they are.

10.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WHAT?!?

10.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretending every huge peaceful protest is worse than January 6th while also pretending January 6th never happened.

10.10.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1462    πŸ” 309    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 2

Truly pathetic.

10.10.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

See what he did there?

10.10.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two years ago, the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Grab.

Two years later, it’s dΓ©jΓ  vu β€” Labour Minister David Piccini admits he personally picked which of his friends got millions from the Skills Development Fund.

10.10.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hoursβ€”and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

10.10.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7110    πŸ” 1655    πŸ’¬ 303    πŸ“Œ 420
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Trump can't deliver the lower costs he promised. All he has is cruelty and revenge.

Cuomo is unable to confront him because they share the same billionaire donors. Just look at his statement last night.

I will stand up for this city and with our Attorney General.

10.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3394    πŸ” 613    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 19

Good bike infrastructure will make the Charlottesville area a better and safer place to live. We are tired of waiting for it to become a reality. It’s not that hard. We need the city to deliver on its promises asap.

10.10.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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