Andrew

I don't do the studies, they just show that pre-boarding is better for dwell times. What we wish people would holistically, nobly do, and what they actually do, doesn't align well. It's also much easier to move around on a platform than a jam packed LRT to get to any fare reader, if buried deeper.

In that case you've run into the parallel parking problem. Since there's a reader on the train, or a parallel parking spot right in front of your restaurant, why bother pulling out your card in the cold, or parking in the parking lot or structure, when clearly there won't be a rush on the *best* one

Might this be why Bieber took his option? Any deal would have been 'pending physical', and you'd have to imagine this could put even more damper on offers. What shows up on both a post-surgery resume, and another year before pre-deal physicals, will look much better next fall.

Primary reason is speed, same reason we pay before getting to the subway platform, which these stations are more like than streetcar ones. It is a not inconsequential thing to have to wait for every tap, even when a bus has 3 boarding doors, or a streetcar more still, time the pre-payment saves.

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I'm excited to share this big report, a few years in the making, which contemplates how policy and financial reforms could make it possible for tenants to build wealth through renting. I call it Shared Prosperity Rental (SPR) Housing.

Apparently, there seem to be payment systems designed to be nearly like digital coins, as quick & fee-lite as buying a paper at a corner store and occasionally dropping a penny. So it'd likelier be a media mindset that the problem isn't the sinking ship: it's an opportunity if others sink faster 😑

Let me pay $X monthly to access news. Divide it amongst the publications I access. Let them decide when to cut me off (if their per-story share would fall too low, article vs time rates) and allow me to top up, and any under-reading surplus still goes to pubs, vs how Spotify/Netflix just pocket it.

I'm still waiting for the ability to pay more like the old days, of buying a paper, but digitally. I subscribe, but there's enough media across so many papers and magazines that I can't reasonably subscribe to all of them, but there's no way to pay as I read, or cap that in a month, so I use TPL.

I've been meaning to try my safety glasses, but definitely always have ears, forehead, cheeks, in mind. Pogies take time for my hands to warm up from their outdoor state, but have been great.

Also yes, & in the past month again, in fact. And to this day, I've never (yet) gone to England.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Boggles the mind. Seeing a sidewalk or a hallway, a clear direction of travel, and folks almost universally stop to have a conversation by... blocking it, standing side by side across the path of travel, versus having the identical experience standing parallel to & not obstructing the path. 🤷

Heritage Conservation perplexes me. Take Draper St: worker rowhomes of 1.5 centuries ago, facsimiles of what 1%ers who could afford the 1st automobiles had. Now it proudly helps stop worker housing, instead filled w the 1%ers who can afford the first self-driving cars. What is real, what is cosplay?

This is where blaming solely Ford fails. This is a combo of a few near-retirement unionized public service employees who don't want to write a new manual, or have to learn one new thing, or have to confront the thought that they've been directly sabotaging transit for decades, to whom we acquiesce 😮‍💨

If your household isn't on Crave watching Heated Rivalry, I don't know what to think. Stellar CanCon, and bonus fun spotting Toronto classic NYC stand-in. Plus, you know, 🥵🔥

I'm sure it will be fixed with Ford's moves to remove all authority for anyone but his government to determine all municipal designs and standards...

Plenty of folks will hear "line 2" and think they're by the bloor subway. Others will hear "line to finch West" and think they are westbound. Some renaming might be sensible.

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When folk say the public service & unions - which I support over the binary opposite - are irreproachable in how they do things, it is beyond easy to find examples where, just as the world indefensibly bends to the whims of a few billionaires, cities & countries bend to their indefensible whims too.

Android also does the abs one, sadly.

Given St. Clair W is removing stops before adjusting signals whatsoever, it wouldn't seem like that's considered an option, even though lagging lefts serve transit and drivers best.

Alongside Layton and his replacement, feels like the horseshoe-shared conservative suburban NIMBY mindset that hurt GO plans: transportation forms should allow me to get downtown, but no one to get near me. That, you see, might change the character of my neighbourhood, which was full the day I came.

My bag lost, I feared fraud. Told every bank to not give credit cards/accounts casually to my name. A five-figure debt collector & stonewalled back&forth later, I got the 3 line bank notes: CC application. Do not grant casually. Casually granted. Only Sean O'Shea finally got them to own their error.

Where are key underserved areas for subways here? Underserved to me meaning has subway densities both at & close bike or bus ride from stations. TO's approach to ensuring these never happen with regularity, the Bloor Line egg waiting the better part of a century for density demand chickens, maddens.

I would have loved to hear any committee arguments that a craft beer brewery had no place expanding into (checks notes) a defunct Beer Store location.

Sean, you had me at apartment, and then you reached back for a little extra ✨️🍻

I was interviewed by The Star for a piece on why people left/came to Toronto in the pandemic, and how the housing market was affecting that. The Star's photographer made some comment about his house, and heading up to his nearby cottage after the shoot. Yes, he was a tad older. Bygone days, sadly.

Mountain bike trails instead? 🥹

Would either of these spots be more We/Us if we were seeking to add housing alongside the kind of public amenities that best enjoin us? More and more in cities, I wonder what public amenities don't deserve (public?) housing hats on top.
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