Matt

Move Forward with Sheppard

A new motion risks delaying or even shelving the Sheppard Ave E Complete Street indefinitely. Nothing in Bill 212 blocks the City from proceeding with the project. Tell the City we need leadership that stands firm, and not let fear of bullying block our progress.

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Like last week when I saw a ped get lightly hit by a driver who didn't stop as he crossed a sidewalk and the ped apologized.

A rotten culture we have built here around cars and trucks.

New from me at TVO, on the Premier's spat with Diageo. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

Note: the photo is not from Chicago, it's from Toronto.

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"

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Huge number of dropped charges at Ontario courts amounts to ‘lawlessness’: NDP Hundreds of thousands of Highway Traffic Act (HTA) charges that were dropped last year are a sign Ontario’s justice system is failing to live up to its basic functions and puts Ontario on the road to ...

“The simple slap on the wrist of the Highway Traffic Act ticket and penalty is not even administered. How crushing is that to somebody who remains off work after being injured by someone?,” Shellnutt said at the news conference.

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I swear to god Lee's Palace used to be bigger.

I just saw a clean cut middle aged dude come out of the McDonald's at Queen and Roncey wearing a "Freedom" shirt. Buddy, you're in Canada. Your martyr did not believe in the freedoms we have here.

We invented graduated drivers licenses for teens. They worked. But we leave 80-year-olds to “see how it goes.” Every family suffers on their own. But this is a shared social problem, not a personal one. We need conditional licenses for older drivers. Daylight. Local. Annual medical check-ins.

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/...

No one wants to live in a basic city.

What’s the threshold to get a ticket from Toronto’s speed camera program? Here’s what the Star has found For the first time, the Star can report the threshold for a ticket when driving over the posted speed limit — at least in Toronto and other large municipalities nearby.

The Star (okay, except for “The Fixer”) is busy busting the speed camera myths.

The threshold in Toronto and Brampton is 11 km/h over the posted limit. That’s definitely not a “tax grab.”

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Shawn Micallef: How Toronto can take a lesson from Van Halen, and learn to sweat the small stuff Anybody who travels this city knows large vehicles are routinely in parks. It’s disrespectful to Torontonians, a scandalous waste of money, and intrusive to those trying to enjoy the outdoor

🤘🏼I wrote about sweating the small stuff. The city parks dept answered city council’s request to look into destructive practices w a shrug. That’s not good enough. Total park reform is needed & needs to be an election platform. If Chow passes on it, someone else surely will. Pls read & share. 🙏🏼🤘🏼

This backpedaling of bike lanes in Toronto due to Bill 212 is absurd with Sheppard from Bayview to Leslie being the latest casualty! We already had this happen with Marlee, Jones, Logan, Eglinton, Dupont & Danforth (east of Victoria Park)! #shame #BikeTO #TOpoli secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

A map of part of the Bloor West bike lane showing that a section beween Islington and Resurrection Rd was prioritized for removal. Nearby streets curve off in various directions, avoiding railway tracks and providing no straightforward alternative.

This "priority removal section" for the bike lane on Bloor W demonstrates that Ford and Sarkaria were never serious about finding parallel secondary routes. Where is the parallel route here? They don't care. www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

If there's on street parking instead, needless to say, it won't help congestion at all.

gotta admit, funniest thing he's done in years

Fed-up residents say Toronto’s best days are behind it. Let’s build a safer, more affordable city When more than half of residents feel less safe today than they did a few years ago, it’s clear that City Hall needs to do better.

Really striking how vague the actual policy ideas are here for a sitting councillor announcing a 2nd mayoral bid: more special constables on TTC, vague DC relief, don’t raise property taxes so much. Think this Bradford for Mayor sequel will need more substance. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Thousands of charges against drivers withdrawn in Ontario as critics decry system in ‘shambles’ Hundreds of thousands of charges against drivers, including careless driving, speeding, dooring and failing to stop, are being withdrawn before trial as one judge says Ontario’s provincial offences co...

"It’s really upsetting. It feels like it’s not a priority. Essentially, the driver, and the community, are being told that dooring someone doesn’t matter,” Dermody said. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

How much shit will the Ontario voter eat, and pay for, before they get upset?

But it seems your solution here has already been implemented all over the city and has failed to prevent drivers from dangerously blocking bike lanes. The bike lanes have been designed with delivery zones. Buildings are designed with loading docks.

What does Build Toronto consider an unreasonable position from cyclists?

How does excluding safe bike infrastructure from arterials by default represent "balance"?

Delivery trucks routinely park in bike lanes right next to loading docks.

Isn't this exactly the attitude that has led to the disconnected network?

Took a read through this new active transportation memo from @buildtoronto.com. While there are some things I agree with such as the need to build bike lanes faster & remove parking spaces, there are some serious problems that must be acknowledged. 🚲🧵 #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #VisionZero (1/5)

Yes, I'm sure they are. But I don't expect driverless cabs to replace personal vehicles though, and full AV personal vehicles won't be marketable if they are as safe as Waymo cars.

That's great, but I think we'll start seeing the marketability of safe AVs bump up against the safety improvements.

AVs will only be safer if AV-makers program them to be safer. But they won't. They will program them to deliver a desirable driving experience, which will not be slow enough to avoid all collisions or prevent all deaths.

She was thrown under a streetcar when a car driver knocked her off her bike. Her case was withdrawn — one of thousands tossed each year by a ‘system in shambles’ The mass withdrawal of road safety-related charges has become routine, the result of an overwhelmed court system that is leaving millions in fines on the table and letting dangerous drivers off the ho...

We regularly see Toronto prosecutors toss cases or police fail to submit disclosure where cyclists have been hit by dangerous motorists, resulting in life altering injuries. This is a travesty. An injustice. Fantastic reporting by the Star's @alyshah.bsky.social:
www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...