I joined Dan Seljak for a coffee at a neighborhood cafe (that would currently be banned from opening in Toronto) to discuss how local retail like this, along with grocers and convenience stores, contribute to our quality of life.

Streetcars are supposed to come every ten minutes or better. But arrival is highly erratic.

How do we change this? By getting private cars out of the way.

The average car has just one person in it. And is almost never full.

The average streetcar will hold over 100 people several times a day.

For people who live in Beaconsfield or along Dovercourt, these are the people claiming to represent you to city council. They hate Dovercourt and your neighbourhood and want the restaurants shut down.
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.

@alexbozikovic.bsky.social @shawnmicallef.bsky.social @johnlorinc.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca @mayoroliviachow.bsky.social @diannesaxe.bsky.social
How it possible that Jamaal Myers has taken no accountability for things like this? A true failure of leadership with 60% reliability is insane!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 wow!

Harbord Street in Toronto. Newly improved cycling lanes.

Matt Elliott: Without acknowledging hard truths, Toronto’s traffic czar isn’t likely to get very far It’s probably good that this new position will come with a handsome salary because this traffic czar will be given an impossible task. There’s no solving Toronto traffic, writes Matt Elliott.

My @thestar.com column: City hall is finally hiring a traffic czar. But I worry it’s a sucker gig.

With too many cars and limited roads, there’s no fixing Toronto traffic for drivers. To make any progress, this car czar should be ready to tell some hard truths.

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Connecting Esplanade to Adelaide via Yonge Street, protected cycle tracks on that section of Yonge Street would be awesome!!!

awesome developments all around the city, thanks so much to you and your team and everyone at the city involved with this @kayehm.bsky.social

1000%

Happy Thanksgiving, Toronto. I'm grateful for the TTC and all its hard-working staff delivering transit service which I rarely have to wait more than 5-10 mins for at all hours of the day. Even with all its faults, the TTC delivers one of the most usable transit services in all of North America.

Toronto’s Cycling and Pedestrian Projects Team continues to hit it out of the park. Out for a ride today and here’s just some of the new cycling facilities that I came across. New concrete planters and permanent curbs on Harbord Street. /1

The main reason city streets are dangerous for children isn’t because of crime.

It’s because of cars.

Correction... Coming days, not coming weeks. (Unverified)

15 currently installed & 20 more will be installed & activated over the coming months. Including another display.

Palmerston/Bloor should be approaching One Million people cycling so far this year in the coming weeks. 💥

We verify this data with a 2nd counting source 2x/yr before we release it.

the waterfront is terrific, we are so lucky to have it and, every year, more and more of it is open to the public, more connections made, new promenades and walking areas, its one of if not the best urban waterfronts in the world in my opinion!

The bike rave this week was filmed for the German-produced TV show "Megacities", about night life around the world. The route we took led us along the waterfront, and through many of the areas I associate with Toronto's renewal in the past decade to a city that values public space.

I tried to explain this to fellow bike ravers, but was met with blank stares. Some people just want to have fun, and not everyone thinks it is fun to muse about the public realm. It's a good lesson to me on having friends outside the urban/architecture bubble.

#biketo

hmm, is that David Stonehouse?

If you are making side streets twice as wide as Queen Street you have lost the plot.

@alexbozikovic.bsky.social do you know which design firm is working on this?

who is the person that wants roads to be this wide in a new development in a city????

Looking south down the new protected cycle track on leaside bridge

View of Toronto skyline from bridge

Looking north, just uni directional bike lane, extra ped space

Some more pics from the newish protected cycle paths on the Leaside Bridge (2/3)

View north towards millwood rd/leaside bridge at night. Fully protected intersection for bikes.

View southwest down pape.

View southeast down donlands. Red bus bay and bike lane.

Selfie of me on the leaside bridge

Finally got the chance to check out the new-ish Millwood/Pape/Donlands fully protected cycle intersection by Leaside Bridge! (1/3)

Passing Gardiner traffic on the LW GO train (feat. passing Amtrak train)

@buildtoronto.com this is a great start! lots of great ideas here. The only change to make is the arterials policy. At a minimum, if your not going to advocate for bike lanes there, you have to advocate for bus lanes/transit priority lanes.

@chanface.bsky.social love this, just messaged you!

Me holding a church street pedestrianization map next to josh Matlow at a park

Was great to chat with Toronto-St. Paul's Councillor @joshmatlow.bsky.social about pedestrianization & intersection scrambles!

He was delighted by my plan & said he wants to see more pedestrian spaces across the city

A street he'd pedestrianize in his ward and Yonge & Eg scramble update in🧵⬇️ (1/3)