Lanrick Bennett

I’m feeling like I need to bring @tizzyent.bsky.social into the @thewaroncars.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social #VisionZero sphere.

Tizzy this a driver that needs to be found for so many reasons.

Apply for the Social Video Producer job at the link below by October 24!

Sitting down with Cam Gordon at Twitter Canada HQ to talk about #JacksLibraryTour Oct 7th, 2016 Made it out to Twitter Canada this morning to talk about #JacksLibraryTour, Toronto Public Library, Daniel Rotsztain and transit above Bloor Street. A very different offering when you don't have subway service, limited streetcar (sans St. Clair) and waiting on packed buses. Shouldn't take 5 hours to travel the length of Jane Street visiting 3 libraries. Will be writing a more in-depth dig into the wants and needs of transit users that live above the belt line. Some great people at #Twitter today. Huge thanks for the opportunity to share. See less

#ThrowbackTuesday

When Twitter was Good!

Thx @camgordon.bsky.social #JacksLibraryTour

Will be walking with fourth-year Geo & Planning students w/ @uoftdlsph.bsky.social for 'Stories in the Stacks: Active Transportation, Equity, and the Future of Healthy Cities' in 2 weeks ;)

h/t @utoronto.ca

✊🏾❤️📢 @uoftcities.bsky.social

Jeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social, Senior Research Associate; Lead, Data Visualization

Graphic promoting Canadian Library Month. Text reads: “Celebrate Canadian Library Month / Le mois des bibliothèques au Canada. October 2025 | Octobre 2025.” Includes the Ontario Library Association logo and the hashtag #LibrariesForLife. Illustration shows a stack of pastel-colored books with butterflies.

October is #CanadianLibraryMonth, when libraries & library partners across Canada help raise awareness of the valuable role libraries play in our lives. More: librarianship.ca/event/canadi...
#LibrariesForLife #LibrarySky

taking the subway home after a dance competition. The kids are alright

City life with my kids, couldn’t, wouldn’t have it any other way 🥰

#IdeasAtWork

Coming soon:
Toronto Public Library Centre for Democracy.

To learn more and apply: boyden.thriveapp.ly/job/3009

h/t @uoftcities.bsky.social @imfgtoronto.bsky.social

“Could Congestion Pricing Unlock a Better Toronto?”

YES!!!!

Wrote this with Jeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social Senior Research Associate; Lead, Data Visualization at @uoftcities.bsky.social

Who has the #PoliticalWill to take this issue on?

#TOpoli
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TTC and Metrolinx planning service adjustments as data show commuting office workers face more gridlock Both the TTC and Metrolinx say they are planning service adjustments to account for the fact that many workers are being required to comply with more stringent in-office policies, as the latest data s...

Regardless if they are moving or parked, single occupancy vehicles are in the way of the city’s ability to move people efficiently. “This is a moment for the TTC to reintroduce itself to people,” Siemiatycki says. “But it has to be top notch.” h/t @iiutoronto.bsky.social www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Cc: @chrisjamesdrew.bsky.social

McCleary Park last summer: City workers driving a pick up truck through the outfield in order to lock the washrooms just as our softball game ended

Vision Zero Plan Overview The Vision Zero Road Safety Plan is a comprehensive action plan focused on reducing traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries on Toronto’s streets. The Plan prioritizes the safety of our most vu...

#VisionZero Plan Overview

The City is committed to Vision Zero and upholds its fundamental message: fatalities and serious injuries on our roads are preventable, and we must strive to reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries to zero

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TransformTO Net Zero Strategy In June 2025, City Council adopted the TransformTO 2024 Annual Report on Implementation Progress will go before the City’s Infrastructure and Environment Committee (IEC). The report outlines progress ...

#TransformTO Net Zero Strategy

Toronto City Council has adopted an ambitious strategy to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions in Toronto to net zero by 2040

“Transportation

75 per cent of school/work trips under 5km are walked, biked or by transit”

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#ThisIsTorontoDanforth

Jones Av is a 2.2km long street that connects 7 elementary schools & 1 high school. A #TransformTO’s dream.

A 40kmh streets with ZERO School Zones at 30kmh & ZERO protected cycle lanes. Both would prioritize the safety of vulnerable road users. A #VisionZero nightmare 1/

We’re excited to welcome the Urban Policy Lab as a new affiliated initiative! UPL and its director Gabriel Eidelman will work with SofC on coordinating a new policy brief series and serving as knowledge mobilization lead for Canadian Municipal Barometer schoolofcities.utoro...

Image of myself with a few other people smiling outside via Kristin Kathleen

How did I miss these?

Way back in the day. ❤️

Describe your Bluesky account in one image

Thanks for the pic @plannersean.bsky.social Aug 3rd, 2018

Look how wonderful Low Traffic Neighborhoods can be!

This is the Van Gogh Walk in Lambeth, London. This street is decades old but built for people first yet still has access for last block travel & emergency vehicles! @openplans.org @nyc.streetsblog.org @thewaroncars.bsky.social @nycdot.bsky.social

Not a laughing matter. Ugh!

Video Playlist for Oct 6th 2025 #IdeasAtWork 1. Why can't Canadian hockey teams win? by Tifo Sports by The Athletic 2. The Toronto Blue Jays Are The 1992 World Series Champions! by Toronto Blue Jays 3. Jacques Villeneuve - Winner Indy 500 (1995) by SPEEDWORLD 4. The Story Behind Magdeleine Vallieres' Rainbow Ride In World Championships 2025 by FloBikes 5. Relive The Toronto Raptors' Historic NBA Championship Run by SPORTSNET 6. UNBELIEVABLE upset 🤯 | New Zealand v Canada | Rugby World Cup 2025 | Highlights by Rugby World Cup and World Rugby Women 7. Canada makes history after beating U.S. in women’s soccer by CBC News: The National

Illustration of a hockey player on the ice On teh ice is written Failure

Image of cyclist in a race "Rainbow Moment"

Image of Canada's Womens Tean

#HappyMonday

Sharing my collection of #IdeasAtWork video playlist for October 6th

h/t ‪ @lesleynope.bsky.social @cyclingweekly.com @joelwwood.bsky.social @chelsealeite.bsky.social @canadasocceren.bsky.social @flobikes.bsky.social youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is #TorontoDanforth every spring, summer and autumn. Trucks in our parks because why not 😔

Becky Katz O• 1st Manager, Operations and Maintenance, City of Toro... 2mo • Edited • ® It's a new bike day for us in Operations and Maintenance! When I first introduced the idea of using bikes for contract oversight and inspections, there were some eyebrows raised. But with a little leading by example and some real-world downtown challenges like limited parking, our team gave it a try. And they've come to love it! Bikes, for some works, offer flexibility, speed, reliability and a little fun/ exercise to our challenging maintenance portfolio. I'm also grateful that our staff have access to a strong network of bikeways to safely navigate the city on the job. Proud of the team for embracing something new-and overseeing core city services that help keep our streets moving, beautiful, and safe.

A nod of thanks to Becky Katz, former Cycling and Pedestrian Projects Manager at @toronto.ca who was already tossing ideas of utilizing E-Cargo Bikes in different depts for a little bit now :) #BikeTO

rock'n'roll lore goes, Van Halen requesting that a bowl of M&Ms in their dressing room have absolute-ly no brown ones is legendary. Ce-lebrity excess perhaps, but also a lesson to sweat the small stuff sometimes. While there's debate around the reason, frontman David Lee Roth said it was a test. When Van Halen rolled into town witha complex stage show full ofhigh-voltage, heavyitems, their contract stipulat-ed technical specifications along with the M&M demand. If the brown ones were present, it was a sign of sloppiness andreason to check every other detail, some of which could be calamitous if over-looked. Ithought ofthose brown M&Ms while reading the response Toronto Parks and Recreation recently sent to city council, answering a request to look into the practice of driving trucks and large vehicles in Anybody who travels this city knows large vehicles are routinely in parks Sometimes contractors other times the city itself cleaning washrooms or trimming shrubs, of-ten with a supersized crew cab pickup truck worthy of the Alberta Landscaping that costs Toronto- nians substantial money to create and maintain is destroyed or dam-aged by the city itself. There's also less immediately visible damage to city infrastructure and tree roots. It's disrespectful to Torontonians, ascandalous waste ofmoney, but theres alo a human ande Parks are as essential as water and elec-tricity for urban life, the yards

I’ve had this conversation with @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Should E-Cargo Bikes replace trucks in Toronto Parks?

Opinion | How Toronto can take a lesson from Van Halen, and learn to sweat the small stuff - @shawnmicallef.bsky.social

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

#IdeasAtWork

So then constituents in #TorontoDanforth should be able to have infrastructure prioritizing the safety of vulnerable road users installed on Jones Av and the reconfiguration of Carlaw Av and Logan Av approved. It’s lack of political will not the province that is holding it up. Got It!

The Week of October 5th #HearThis Sharing 3 Pieces of Black Specific Content With My Kids This Week

Ottawa Sens prospect proudly dons durag on ice Djibril Touré went viral after scuffle exposed his close-fitting cloth David Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 20 Ottawa Senators prospect breaks the ice — and the internet — for wearing durag under his helmet September 20 A video of Djibril Touré wearing a durag under his helmet in a prospect game went viral online. It's being hailed as a first and while the NHL’s stance on durags is unclear, the Ottawa Senators are supporting it. Touré hopes it inspires others.

Nikole Hannah-Jones 'The Backlash Was Coming' Cannonball with Wesley Morris

Image of Mary Manning "Mary Manning, Dunnes Stores striker My connection to South Africa"

#HearThis Sharing 3 pieces of Black specific content with my kids this week.

1. The Durag, Explained
2. Nikole Hannah-Jones on '1619'
3. Ireland's connection to South Africa

I think these stories are all worth #Amplifying

h/t @nytimes.com @davidnihill.bsky.social medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban | CBC News Concerned parents gathered with their children by a speed camera near Bloor and Dundas streets Saturday afternoon to protest a plan from Premier Doug Ford’s government to end automated speed enforceme...

When bikes lanes were the target, it felt like it was just a Toronto thing.

This, this is against the whole province! Stand up. Fight!

‘Despite studies, municipal data and police testimony, Ford has said speed cameras don't make roads safer, calling them a "cash grab" ‘ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#UrbanismBookClub

Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything. Published by @coachhousebooks.bsky.social

“ @spacing.bsky.social‘s executive editor Dylan Reid and senior editor and political columnist John Lorinc are co-editors, along with Monumental’s Zahra Ebrahim and Civic Action’s Leslie Woo”

Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills • 1d Good luck to our friends up North!! #GoBills x @BlueJays Image of of a Jays and Bills players “GOOD LUCK IN THE PLAYOFFS BLUE JAYS”

Currently getting love from…checking notes. Buffalo Bills. The other Southern Ontario football team.

Thank you @chrisjamesdrew.bsky.social and @torontomet.bsky.social #BikeTO

Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...

“When Dr. Andrew Boozary and his team at Toronto's University Health Network looked deeper into the issue, they discovered that about 100 patients accounted for more than 4,500 emergency department visits in one year.”

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