Mike Doherty 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈
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“There's no one getting a ticket for being 1 km/h over,” Mayor Patrick Brown said, calling speed cameras “an effective tool to combat reckless drivers.”
“I don’t believe we should be taking police off more serious criminal investigations to run speed traps,” he added. “It’s much more expensive.”
Cameras slow speeders, data shows, as Ford government says it's prepared to ban them
Revenue funds traffic-calming measures, not general expenses: Mississauga and Burlington
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The Transportation Safety Board shouldn't have to make a video like this to get something done about Enhanced Train Control in Canada. After years of consultations, we expect new regulations in early 2026, and we demand a rapid rollout of ETC.
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Not Following Signal Indications – TSB Watchlist
The TSB just launched its latest TSB Watchlist! Shaped by investigations, industry input and safety trends, it highlights where action can prevent accidents. Learn more about this issue:…
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Strongly agree with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social here. From parklets to congestion pricing, support grows after people personally experience the benefits.

Good leaders will persevere through initial pushback, confident that constituents will come around (and that they’ll be better off!).
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However, there’s always room for improvement. Having more weekend trips to Kitchener and 2WAD service in the next few years will be essential to growing the Toronto-Kitchener corridor.
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🚆 Kitchener-Waterloo residents are finally getting what they've been wanting for decades.

Weekend GO service to Kitchener will officially start on November 23rd, with four weekend trips being extended from Mount Pleasant to Kitchener GO.
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Actually, I will already be in Toronto for a show on Fri night. Guess I can come back on Sunday instead of Monday morning now!
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Do we want livable, accessible units in neighbourhoods in Toronto? A 3 storey, single stair, elevatored, sixplex is not radical. It  should be the most simple, easily replicable way to provide livable housing within neighbourhoods… the “Toronto Special” of the 2020s. And yet…
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And it has a friggin elevator!! A three-story building in North America with an elevator. You NEVER see that – it’s likely costing around $200,000 (CAD). Stair injuries and deaths are far more common than fire ones. Disability and elderly advocates should be storming City Hall about this decision.
Do we want livable, accessible units in neighbourhoods in Toronto? A 3 storey, single stair, elevatored, sixplex is not radical. It  should be the most simple, easily replicable way to provide livable housing within neighbourhoods… the “Toronto Special” of the 2020s. And yet…
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Well, isn’t this frustrating.

The city published it was open to alternative solutions to allow single stair buildings.

Someone has tried to put a design forward… and let’s just say it’s not going great.
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.

I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.

#singlestair #sixplex
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This is another place the mayor could force some change.

It's wonky and won't win hearts and minds widely but when asked about what she's doing about housing she can point to it vs her councillors stopping housing (Fletcher on Craven Ave)
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.

I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.

#singlestair #sixplex
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Toronto simply does not want to solve the housing crisis.
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.

I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.

#singlestair #sixplex
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Notice how this real city doesn’t “taper density away” from the arterial. It was designed by a real city planner
Great urban form fosters mixed density and sustainable mobility for liveability.

The urban fabric of Barcelona 🇪🇸👇
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“Given our untapped resources lets build oil pipelines, ports and roads for mines”

That’s not the untapped resource I see in #canada.

It’s all this talent that can’t take the risk of being entrepreneurial because housing is so oppressively expensive.
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An obvious next step is that M’Linx should buy the K-W to London line and modernize it. But there should be long term strategies in place for separating freight and GO service on the remainder of the shared tracks (the Milton line should be next but they all have merits)
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That particular part of the corridor has been a huge issue for the past decade. It’s not an understatement to say that resolving it (if it has been properly resolved) is a big deal for the GO network. This could allow Metrolinx to put its attention towards other troublesome parts of the network.
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The details of the longer term plan for a ‘joint’ corridor from Bramalea to Georgetown will matter a lot, so I’ll reserve full judgement until then. But overall this seems positive and people in Guelph and K-W are going to be pretty excited about weekend service (as they should be).
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Toronto and single stair reform. I've mostly stayed out of this debate out of sheer exhaustion, but Pamela's thread will be enlightening to a few advocates outside Canada, and I also had reflux at the City response b/c it really gelled for me that we have a cultural and not a regulatory problem...
After TO Council passed a motion indicating the City was open to Alternative Solution Proposals for a single stair in apts up to 4 storeys, I applied for a single stair in a 3 storey Part 9 6plex.

I’m told it’s the first one, so it’s a test case. Here’s how it’s going.

#singlestair #sixplex
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So, breaking the law is okay if everyone does it? And it's bad if everyone is caught in an unbiased manner and fined?
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“I would have remained in the United States had Trump not won the election. My presence at Yale made it a target. Now I’m compliantly unconstrained, I can say whatever I want.”

Maybe Canada (and Europe) should build a lot of *housing* to welcome Americans escaping Trump.
Academics leave Trump’s America over budget cuts and threats to intellectual freedom • FRANCE 24
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Endless obfuscation and moving of goalposts. Credit to @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social and co for keeping an eye on this.
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1) Toronto was going to use development charges to fund a project that was critical for existing residents
2) Now the feds are putting in money as a reward for Toronto reducing DCs, which they didn't actually do
Yesterday, the announcement was this: "Upgrading Toronto’s Black Creek sewer infrastructure to catalyse the construction of 63,000 new homes. Through [CHIF], the federal government will provide up to $283 million to expand capacity in Toronto’s Black Creek sewer system."