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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · Sep 6

the most gender euphoria i have experienced recently is from this conservative reply guy affirming my nonbinary-ness

love an unexpected ally

a screenshot of a news video with August wearing blue. A comment in the comment section reads "What gender is that thing in blue?"

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

already, we've used these screens to decide whether to wait for a train to waterfront or to catch a bus on commercial drive that goes downtown. usually the train makes more sense, but late at night or when there's delays on the expo line, the bus can make more sense.

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

there's a few quality-of-life things translink does that add up to a better rider experience.

one of those wayfinding pieces: next train screens right at the entrance to stations, so riders can know whether to rush, or to stay at street and catch a bus going to the same place, etc.

entrance to commercial broadway, with a next train screen under the station entrance sign

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

for the record i do love trolleybuses

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

can never go one day in this city without witnessing a trolleybus in distress

(last time, my local bus de-wired twice in one day of using it)

dewired trolleybus in the evening, with the trolley poles split between two parallel wires

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

oh and ridership is popping off. standing room only 6-car trains. frequency drives ridership :)

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

7pm on a sunday in vancouver.

just missed a train while going up the escalator. the next train is now, 2 min, and 5 min. i love being in this city 💜

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

that's very cool, didn't realize that's why these areas are stone dust! i like the intentional "sponginess" of this park

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

biidaasage in the evening is absolutely dreamy 💛🧡

sunset skyline photo, with the skyline centered on a path between vegetation in the foreground. a tree on the left obscures the sun, giving a glowy effect

skyline at sunset between out of focus vegetation

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 4d

Biidaasage Park evening with @auguststreet.ca

August taking a picture of the Toronto skyline

Me and August in front of Toronto skyline

Me and August in front of an owl structure

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 5d

TTCriders volunteers were chatting with riders about fare capping and petitioning this evening at Broadview Station!

What we heard: riders aren't really buying the monthly pass anymore, and they find that taking the TTC can really add up over the course of a month!

group of people standing in front of a station entrance holding flyers

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 5d

Transit riders win for safety! City Council voted today to approve the expansion of Toronto Community Crisis Workers in the subway for a safer, more inclusive TTC - after over 500 people wrote-in to their councillor with our email tool!

Thanks to all who emailed their councillor!

Graphic of a rally for safer transit

Text on graphic is same as post text

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

and conservatives are scared of public transportation 🥀

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

(on my bus ride home)

4-year girl on the bus is telling her mom that she's mewing. the mom is like "meowing?"

dad: "don't entertain her"

mom poorly imitates her daughter, and then the dad was like "you've gotta accentuate the jawline by making the hand motion slower" and proceeds to demonstrate

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