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Rodney 🚧🚇
@chanface.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Have added 70 new accounts to the Diverse Urbanism Voices starterpack since I first created it!
So make sure to check it out again even if you've clicked follow all last week! Thank you everybody for all the suggestions, it is now full at 150 accounts.
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So make sure to check it out again even if you've clicked follow all last week! Thank you everybody for all the suggestions, it is now full at 150 accounts.
go.bsky.app/LYKueU7
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Ask for more bikeshare glam shots and you shall receive
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ask for more bikeshare glam shots and you shall receive
Always pleasant waiting at bus stop next to a ginkgo tree
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Always pleasant waiting at bus stop next to a ginkgo tree
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Onwards to Cambridge! Today's IONizeWR newsletter shares what we heard when the ION stage 2 direction was approved, and why the 2026 GRT budget matters:
Onwards to Cambridge!
Last night, Regional Council formally adopted its decision to extend ION to Cambridge! At the November 4 committee meeting, councillors had voted 15 to 1 for ION to be extended as light rail, for the ...
ionizewr.ca
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Onwards to Cambridge! Today's IONizeWR newsletter shares what we heard when the ION stage 2 direction was approved, and why the 2026 GRT budget matters:
BRT stands for Burger Rapid Transit
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
BRT stands for Burger Rapid Transit
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Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Almost half the Waymos on California streets are driving around empty. They're either waiting for the next customer or en route for a pickup.
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
If robotaxis scale, anything close to that level of deadheading would create crushing gridlock.
www.thedriverlessdigest.com/p/what-cpuc-...
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ONDP leader Marit Stiles was ejected from the Legislature this morning for calling Ford's government corrupt. Stiles refused to withdraw her comment.
(Starts @ 5:01 of video)
#OnPoli
(Starts @ 5:01 of video)
#OnPoli
Marit Stiles ejected from chamber over skills fund comments
NDP Leader Marit Stiles was ejected from question period after refusing to retract comments she made in a heated exchange over the Skills Development Fund.
www.cp24.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
ONDP leader Marit Stiles was ejected from the Legislature this morning for calling Ford's government corrupt. Stiles refused to withdraw her comment.
(Starts @ 5:01 of video)
#OnPoli
(Starts @ 5:01 of video)
#OnPoli
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Join us to ride the first weekend GO Train Kitchener to Toronto! Help us mark a major milestone.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Join us to ride the first weekend GO Train Kitchener to Toronto! Help us mark a major milestone.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
Toronto activities: TTCriders Streetcar Summit, Santa Claus Parade, or just enjoy the city.
Return via 4:48pm train or train to Bramalea + bus. Weekend GO Passes are $10, kids under 12 ride free.
Today I checked out the newly opened underpass portion of Eglinton West Station (soon to be Cedarvale)! A thread 🧵/1
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Today I checked out the newly opened underpass portion of Eglinton West Station (soon to be Cedarvale)! A thread 🧵/1
Me when I give a low ridership bus an extra rider:
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Me when I give a low ridership bus an extra rider:
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You are absolutely right Mr. Carney that great cities need great public transit. That's why your government should fund ION light rail to connect Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge across the great rivers that divide them (Grand River, Speed River, Highway 401)
But seriously please fund ION expansion
But seriously please fund ION expansion
The REM is essential infrastructure — an automated light metro system across Greater Montréal that will connect more and more of the city as it grows.
Great cities have great public transit, and that’s what we’re investing to build more of across Canada in Budget 2025.
Great cities have great public transit, and that’s what we’re investing to build more of across Canada in Budget 2025.
November 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
You are absolutely right Mr. Carney that great cities need great public transit. That's why your government should fund ION light rail to connect Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge across the great rivers that divide them (Grand River, Speed River, Highway 401)
But seriously please fund ION expansion
But seriously please fund ION expansion
I rode the Movember streetcar and everybody knew you…
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I rode the Movember streetcar and everybody knew you…
Brad Bradford is against fare integration and affordable transit.
Even Stephen Holyday voted in favor of it…
Even Stephen Holyday voted in favor of it…
Councillor Bravo's motion to request the province integrate the UP Express with the One Fare program, making it more affordable, before this new St. Clair - Weston Station opens, CARRIES 21-1.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Brad Bradford is against fare integration and affordable transit.
Even Stephen Holyday voted in favor of it…
Even Stephen Holyday voted in favor of it…
Now you see them
Now you don’t
Now you don’t
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Now you see them
Now you don’t
Now you don’t
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Excellent piece by @isaaccallan.bsky.social and @colindmello.bsky.social about how difficult it was tunneling *perpendicular* under the 401. I believe it was tricky doing the same for the Kitchener Line / UP Express tunnel as well. A parallel tunnel to expand the 401 would be insane.
Metrolinx struggled to tunnel under Hwy. 401, forcing lane closure and repairs | Globalnews.ca
Since early 2023, a tunnel boring machine has been slowly making its way south from Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road, digging out a route for the Scarborough Subway Extension.
globalnews.ca
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Excellent piece by @isaaccallan.bsky.social and @colindmello.bsky.social about how difficult it was tunneling *perpendicular* under the 401. I believe it was tricky doing the same for the Kitchener Line / UP Express tunnel as well. A parallel tunnel to expand the 401 would be insane.
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Budget season is here! Speak up for public transit at budget input meetings happening November 18 and December 3 at 6pm. (1/2)
Sign up to speak: www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-...
Learn more about the budget and do the survey: www.engagewr.ca/region-water...
Sign up to speak: www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-...
Learn more about the budget and do the survey: www.engagewr.ca/region-water...
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Budget season is here! Speak up for public transit at budget input meetings happening November 18 and December 3 at 6pm. (1/2)
Sign up to speak: www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-...
Learn more about the budget and do the survey: www.engagewr.ca/region-water...
Sign up to speak: www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regional-...
Learn more about the budget and do the survey: www.engagewr.ca/region-water...
Trying to fall in love with winter
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Trying to fall in love with winter
Trying to romanticize my winter commute 🚊❄️
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Trying to romanticize my winter commute 🚊❄️
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Cars might work fine in California or Florida, but they’re not practical here in Canada. We have winter.
More than 300 collisions reported as early season snow slams parts of Ontario
YouTube video by CTV News
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Cars might work fine in California or Florida, but they’re not practical here in Canada. We have winter.
Back in her natural habitat 😎😎
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Back in her natural habitat 😎😎
First snow of the season Toronto ❄️❄️❄️
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
First snow of the season Toronto ❄️❄️❄️
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ION Stage 2 LRT passes committee, Kitchener GO expansion, and better bus stops! Here's the latest in transportation in Waterloo Region and where you can get involved!
News roundup: November 8, 2025
First of all, this week the Region’s Sustainability, Infrastructure, and Development Committee voted 15 to 1 to support extending ION as light rail all the way to downtown Cambridge! Once ratified, st...
tritag.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
ION Stage 2 LRT passes committee, Kitchener GO expansion, and better bus stops! Here's the latest in transportation in Waterloo Region and where you can get involved!