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Ah, come on.
It was a perfect warm up game where no one gets hurt.

Did you check my bio before asking those questions?

Hmmmm. That says the project delivery is paused, not that staff have stopped working on it.

Where did you find out that planning or design for Dupont was foregone?

Depends how one defines "normal". 😐

The design also resulted in a ped KSI: "A careening car also broke the leg of Moses Kreiger, a passing pedestrian. A month later, the Toronto Star reported that another accident at the same intersection resulted in another car being overturned."

Safer street design:
www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

The @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca is such a great resource

The design of the corner of Barton & Manning resulted in several drivers flipping their vehicles in Oct 1929.

There are curb bumpouts & bollards here now, with street direction changes.
Live & learn.

www.instagram.com/p/DPoS9rTjNc...

100yr old View from the infamous Dundas Dupont Traffic Island / park. If you enjoy watching traffic, this and the "Bermuda Triangle" at Dundas College are your happy places.

There are lots of ideas to improve this, including some to make it worse.

www.brownandstorey.com/project/dupo...

Quinn doesn't understand the metric system or science.
Not holding out much hope for expertise in other areas related to research or logic.

Yikes. I had no idea they were worth that much.

comics.ha.com/comic-issue-...

Fantastic how many (former and current) city staffers came out to the @thewaroncars.bsky.social show! (It's easy to be cynical, but Toronto is fortunate to have so many smart and dedicated true believers working behind the scenes.)

Did anyone happen to spot any elected officials though?

Who knew I'd learn about the radicalization of Superman at an event about active transportation.

Thanks to @thewaroncars.bsky.social @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @cycletoronto.bsky.social for facilitating a great discussion of #Bill212 and our current struggles living in #BikeTO

Graph of hourly bike trips over the past 7 days

Graph of daily bike trips over the past 30 days

Graph of bike trips this year overlayed on previous years' data

Map of stations with circle radii corresponding to number of trips yesterday

Yesterday there were approximately 3,152 Toronto Bikeshare bikeshare trips
Most used station: Temperance St Station and 1 other (57 trips)
Least used station: Brimorton Dr / Orton Park Rd and 470 others (0 trips)
Active stations: 1007
#bikeTO

I'm planning PEI (the only province/territory I haven't been to) and Magdalen islands this summer.

20min into this Lost Rivers Tour of the PATH starting at Union Station . they have already commented about the poor wayfinding.
Many people have said they will never find their way here again

That and ..
- the levels don't match up. The levels on north side dont correlate to levels on the south side .. & it all looks the same with no landmarks.
- some maps have north as up and others are orientated to the way the viewer is facing.
- no staff
- no daylight
- no cardinal indicators

Jurisdiction and inability to cooperate .
There are at least 3 different transit authorities and 3 levels of government at Union station. Municipal (TTC and City) Provincial (Metrolinx and UPx) and national (Via).

There are guidelines for this stuff that are not being followed

Friday is a light day - come back between Tuesday to Thursday and witness the rivers and oceans of humanity

... and shit poor wayfinding.

I try to help at least one lost person every time I go in that building.

Delivery Workers Are the Safest Cyclists On the Road, Study Finds - Streetsblog New York City A new study from sociology researchers at Hunter University found that Delivery Workers are the safest cyclists on the road.

Delivery workers are less likely to run red lights, ride on sidewalks and ride without helmets than their recreational counterparts — defying claims that they sow street chaos, according to a new observational study of more than 1,700 cyclists.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

This posting closes at midnight on Tuesday.
There are three temporary engineer openings on our @cyclingpedestrian.cityof.toronto.ca team.

Please reach out with any questions.

💪🏻🚲🛻🇸🇪💨

We are looking for 3 licensed, experienced engineers to join our #BikeTO team.

Help us design and build a more equitable city.

Please reach out with any questions.

Also went into a bank today to open a joint bank account.
It was empty.
We were told we needed an appointment and had to talk to a real person who was "all booked up"...as we looked around at the empty bank.

We couldn't open the account.
🤷🏽‍♀️

Dec 6, 1989 I was starting exams for my 1st term of engineering school at @uwaterloo.ca
We heard about the murders on radio/TV, exams were postponed.

There was debate about what really happened & we didn't know he targeted only women, or why.
There is no debate now.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

They don't pass our interview process. 🚫

Hey transportation nerds, our latest City of a Toronto Lane width guidelines, first released in 2014, were released a few weeks ago, fill yer boots:

www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

There is no approval process for 3.0m or 3.3m as per the guidelines

We can just do it.

Traffic engineers design bike lanes 😉

The City's Open Data Unit is also here!

#OpenData #CivicTech

www.toronto.ca/city-governm...