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Not Smooth Steve 🍁

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4h

A couple of months ago, on the 30th anniversary of the crash, I released a video explaining what happened - and how it relates to the TTC's current state.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkc...

TTC's Fatal Subway Crash - the Russell Hill accident

YouTube video by notsmoothsteve

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 15h

It would have been nice to have had some of this in game 1.

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 19h

Dunno, but it was there in time for my July 2023 video about universities in Toronto so it's at least that old 😀

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 22h

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 21h

Another way of saying 1500 crashes in a decade is "a crash nearly every other day"

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 1d

This is the road where people are driving 154 km/h. A residential area with young families on one side, a park on the other.

And yet for some reason, people are clocking Autobahn speeds here. A few years ago a guy doing 100 killed an elderly couple. 1,500 crashes on this stretch in the past decade

A view of Parkside Drive in Toronto showing a simple residential street with a park on the other side

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 1d

When? When the market improves - same as for other proposed highrises in the area.

They're planning to put the buildings right on the edge of the property. Still pretty low land and sounds like a bad idea to me but I take it they're just within the rules.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 2d

Zeitgeist > Zitgeist

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone wondering how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT revenue service demonstration is going, many of the drivers are still finding it challenging to stop in the right place and to set the destination shown on the vehicle (and on the displays above the platforms).

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 2d

It's all Dougie's fault!

Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 2d

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 3d

Reading material in the Mar-a-lago toilet.

Kat in Az @katphxaz.bsky.social · 3d

Is there anyone left who even knows how to access US intel resources anymore?

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like they're actually using the real bus terminal at Don Valley - they've cleared out all the construction equipment and debris and I saw buses turning into it this afternoon.

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 3d

4400 hp and nearly 200L of displacement per locomotive will have that effect!

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

The Red Wings' brown A and C patches are ugly.

But the faux leather gloves are great. The goalie equipment should be the same.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 4d

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

My cat volunteers to take care of some of them.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

Assuming this is related to virgin olive oil, it must be from people who've never f***ed an olive.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks. She was a fine musician (look her up) and a better human being.

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

I believe so, yes.

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

In case anyone is wondering how the Eglinton Crosstown LRT's revenue service demonstration is going, at least two of the vehicles have flatspotted wheels - a problem these vehicles have had intermittently for the last few years.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 4d

Less than 2 km from where my friend Julia Cleveland got killed last October (near Annette and Pacific) - another pedestrian mowed down by a car.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 5d

IO was also hired by the City of Ottawa to manage the disastrous Confederation Line LRT P3 project. And the current CEO of Metrolinx came from [checks notes] IO.

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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 6d

Doug Ford is not the mayor of Ontario

The premier’s continual interventions in municipal affairs diverts attention from pressing provincial issues

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 5d

January 6th thugs = ICE thugs…

Political cartoon by: Clay Jones

ICE agents standing in front of small children saying to each other: It’s easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol…

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Lauscho @lauscho.bsky.social · 6d

circumcision does not imply causation

tell that to my foreskin

(new way to tell someone to "suck my dick" unlocked!)