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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 19h

The city data is missing numbers from March to August. Any info on this @kayehm.bsky.social?

Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

I also hope this disproves the theory that Montreal is a cycling city and Toronto is not, considering some Bloor counters are putting up numbers that are comparable with the St. Denis/Berri ones.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

I actually was inspired to make this after seeing Montreal's counter dashboard, and being frustrated Toronto didn't have the same: villedemontreal-sum.eco-counter.com

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @kayehm.bsky.social and team for the data!
Hopefully more come online soon. Transparent and easily accessible data on ridership is key to fighting misinformation. cc: @cycletoronto.bsky.social @shawnmicallef.bsky.social @graphicmatt.com @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know Toronto has 15 permanent bicycle counters around the city? I have created a portal that should be updated monthly when the city updates their open data. It's live now at: observingthecity.ca

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

Just have to make it prettier... deployment coming 🔜

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

I know. Just saying, you’re not starting your advocacy journey with the right dogwhistles. Both those terms you originally used are wielded wildly by NIMBYs and advocates against multi-modal transportation around these parts.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

Uhh, you complaining about “traffic” and “condoland” is kind of placing you in the 50% to which Shawn is referring. Hop on transit or a bike, advocate for more housing options and welcome to a big city.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 1d

Stay tuned I may have something cooking. 📈 🌐

Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 2d

One intersection on Bloor saw average daily bike ridership consistently hover around 6000 for the past 4 months. This is a 20% increase over last year. Yet, Premier Ford wants to target this lane for removal. I wanted to highlight this, one year after the passage of Bill 212.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 2d

One intersection on Bloor saw average daily bike ridership consistently hover around 6000 for the past 4 months. This is a 20% increase over last year. Yet, Premier Ford wants to target this lane for removal. I wanted to highlight this, one year after the passage of Bill 212.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 7d

Cc: @jasonthorne.bsky.social, @joshmatlow.bsky.social , @mayoroliviachow.ca , @alejandrabravo.bsky.social

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 7d

Imanishi Sando Bar and McCormick Park cafe are amazing, but would not be allowed to exist in most of Toronto. Our parks deserve great independent businesses within them. Our imagination of what can be included in our park space needs to be expanded!

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 8d

You know @torontolifemag.bsky.social is for a specific demographic when the headline is “where to buy *NEXT*”

Jake Tobin @jaketobin.bsky.social · 8d

New illustration for the latest @torontolifemag.bsky.social on forthcoming developments in neighbourhoods around the city. The brief was to create a fantasy mash-up community with transit, parks, mixed use, sixplexes & high-rises.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 18d

Bike share revenue is up over 30% compared to last year, and now has close to 300k unique customers. That is 10% of the population of Toronto! I also think that their internal forecasts are a little pessimistic pinning 2025 rides at 8.1 million. I forecast closer to 8.3M when the year is over.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 18d

I was at Wellesley station last night at around midnight. I had never seen such an intense cleaning operation. There was also electrical work going on replacing light ballasts and such. There must have been 40+ employees working. I thought it was just standard nighttime maintenance, guess not.

Ben Spurr @benspurr.bsky.social · 18d

Mayor Olivia Chow at Wellesley station announcing details of a pilot project that will deploy Toronto Community Crisis Service teams to downtown subway platforms.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 21d

Or cancel the beltline gap connections project on Marlee.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 23d

My hot take is if they had done Danforth/Kingston Road first instead of Bloor West of Jane, we wouldn’t be in this mess with the province. The provincial conservative base of power is in the Kingsway.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 26d

Lmao they built it on Palmerston in order to not put bike lanes on Bathurst.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 28d

Sorry, I should have been more clear. This is the redesign of Yonge downtown between college and Queen. Not Yonge in North York.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 29d

The latest update is 2030-2035 construction (subject to Ontario line). The two first images are still linked on the YongeTOmorrow website. One from the report to council 2021, and one from the website's (current) home page. Now made out of date by the "project timeline" page.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 29d

Will anyone take responsibility for what is happening with the Yonge Street re-design. First proposed 10 years ago. Approved 4 years ago with a recommended design. Original timeline had construction starting in 2023. Now apparently there will be 3 (?) more years of design!!!!

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · Sep 3

Northbound rush hour on University. It’s the traffic lights, not the bike lanes.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · Aug 26

Why is the Eglinton bike lane not getting constructed with the roadwork it was originally intended to? You can’t blame the province as Bill 212 would not have applied. Cowardice?

Josh Matlow @joshmatlow.bsky.social · Aug 26

There’s a place for Purolator boxes. But blocking the view while approaching the main entrance to Davisville subway station isn’t it. I’ve asked the TTC to put it somewhere that isn’t in front of a busy entrance. We should also have more respect for how our streetscape looks.

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · Aug 23

It doesn’t need permission if contacts had already been awarded, which they had.

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