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Pete
@peeete.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I saw this mug at the flea market today, and it literally has my name on it, so I bought it 💖
Absolutely embarrassing to claim Affordability as a ✅
✅ Future Growth: Preparing for the O-Train West Extension to Algonquin and Moodie Stations
✅ Safety and Security: Increased uniformed presence with both Transit Fare Enforcement Officers and Special Constables
✅ Affordability: EquiPass, Community Pass and Access Pass fees remain frozen
✅ Safety and Security: Increased uniformed presence with both Transit Fare Enforcement Officers and Special Constables
✅ Affordability: EquiPass, Community Pass and Access Pass fees remain frozen
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Absolutely embarrassing to claim Affordability as a ✅
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Spending a week and a half in Paris and Madrid really drives home the point that the (American-ish) concept of a "one-seat ride" is overrated, and frequent headways at nearly all hours of the day is the true gold standard.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Spending a week and a half in Paris and Madrid really drives home the point that the (American-ish) concept of a "one-seat ride" is overrated, and frequent headways at nearly all hours of the day is the true gold standard.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Sound up!
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Raven encounter at lunch.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Raven encounter at lunch.
If your transit fare is so expensive that you need multiple different carve-outs for disadvantaged groups, maybe reconsider the price of your basic fare.
Transit shouldn't be a service of last resort, it should be the primary mode for everyone, and it should be priced to achieve that goal.
Transit shouldn't be a service of last resort, it should be the primary mode for everyone, and it should be priced to achieve that goal.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If your transit fare is so expensive that you need multiple different carve-outs for disadvantaged groups, maybe reconsider the price of your basic fare.
Transit shouldn't be a service of last resort, it should be the primary mode for everyone, and it should be priced to achieve that goal.
Transit shouldn't be a service of last resort, it should be the primary mode for everyone, and it should be priced to achieve that goal.
*wouldn't even cost $1 million
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
Extending OC Transpo transfer window could cost nearly $1 million, staff say
Extending OC Transpo transfer window could cost nearly $1 million, staff say
Extending the OC Transpo transfer window an additional 30 minutes would cost Ottawa’s transit service nearly $1 million in lost revenue, according to staff.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*wouldn't even cost $1 million
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
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people absolutely were displaced, but the resulting buildings improved the lives of many more people. Also, the ongoing gentrification of central Toronto houses has probably displaced even more people, whose problems are invisible.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
people absolutely were displaced, but the resulting buildings improved the lives of many more people. Also, the ongoing gentrification of central Toronto houses has probably displaced even more people, whose problems are invisible.
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Toronto politicians force most development onto main streets where places like The Imperial & United Bakers is then…try to stop housing there. Classic. Private space is sacrosanct. Public spaces are easily lost.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Toronto politicians force most development onto main streets where places like The Imperial & United Bakers is then…try to stop housing there. Classic. Private space is sacrosanct. Public spaces are easily lost.
@transit.app
Your email "contact us" button in the app is *still broken*. It's been like this for a year now.
It opens the email window and auto inserts "info [email protected]" with a space between info and en.
Your email "contact us" button in the app is *still broken*. It's been like this for a year now.
It opens the email window and auto inserts "info [email protected]" with a space between info and en.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
@transit.app
Your email "contact us" button in the app is *still broken*. It's been like this for a year now.
It opens the email window and auto inserts "info [email protected]" with a space between info and en.
Your email "contact us" button in the app is *still broken*. It's been like this for a year now.
It opens the email window and auto inserts "info [email protected]" with a space between info and en.
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Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
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For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Navneet Alang: Condos get a bad rap. Here’s why they should be part of the Canadian dream
My parents bought their first home for 11,000 pounds (approximately $20,000) in 1974. It was an ordinary small row house on a dour street in East London. Now, more than
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
For the Star, I make the case for the condo/apartment as aspirational -- that the Canadian dream can also be an apartment in a dense neighbourhood and not, as is so often the case in this country, be taken to only ever mean a detached house. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Warp drives. Orbital habitats. Space elevators. The golden age of 20th century science fiction produced dreams with some things in common — they're extensively designed, in no sense real, and possibly strangling the future.
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social on the weird platonism of sci-fi for Heat Death!
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social on the weird platonism of sci-fi for Heat Death!
The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
heat-death.ghost.io
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Warp drives. Orbital habitats. Space elevators. The golden age of 20th century science fiction produced dreams with some things in common — they're extensively designed, in no sense real, and possibly strangling the future.
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social on the weird platonism of sci-fi for Heat Death!
@goldwagnathan.bsky.social on the weird platonism of sci-fi for Heat Death!
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Our last batch of #BikeTO modular Zicla accessible platforms was installed over the past week.
We've installed over 40 of these platforms over the past 8y
Many lessons have been learned, a lot of innovation made & some very strong partnerships forged.
Toronto is a winter city leader in this stuff.
We've installed over 40 of these platforms over the past 8y
Many lessons have been learned, a lot of innovation made & some very strong partnerships forged.
Toronto is a winter city leader in this stuff.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Our last batch of #BikeTO modular Zicla accessible platforms was installed over the past week.
We've installed over 40 of these platforms over the past 8y
Many lessons have been learned, a lot of innovation made & some very strong partnerships forged.
Toronto is a winter city leader in this stuff.
We've installed over 40 of these platforms over the past 8y
Many lessons have been learned, a lot of innovation made & some very strong partnerships forged.
Toronto is a winter city leader in this stuff.
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Folks, we're on newsprint. I have achieved a childhood dream. I am Hagar the Horrible. I am Beetle Bailey.
Comics from @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social and @hausofdecline.bsky.social in the new edition of @thegrindto.bsky.social, rolling out across the city today!
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Folks, we're on newsprint. I have achieved a childhood dream. I am Hagar the Horrible. I am Beetle Bailey.
The idea that we'd be spinning up a brand new dump on basically pristine land is so absurd in 2025.
ANALYSIS | What happened behind the scenes before the city's pursuit of a landfill site went public | CBC News
CBC News has pieced together some of how the city has gone from landfill opponent to the prospective buyer of an east end landfill site, including how the owner first informed the mayor’s office it wa...
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The idea that we'd be spinning up a brand new dump on basically pristine land is so absurd in 2025.
Anyone know what happened to this plan? I can find a handful of articles from 2019 about removing car traffic from the square and adding some spectator space but nothing since then. Nothing about renaming the square either. Did the deal fall through?
Lansdowne Park turning Aberdeen Square into full-scale event venue
Lansdowne Park is revamping part of its pedestrian mall to host major events and concerts as part of a wider campaign to attract more year-round visitors to the area
obj.ca
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Anyone know what happened to this plan? I can find a handful of articles from 2019 about removing car traffic from the square and adding some spectator space but nothing since then. Nothing about renaming the square either. Did the deal fall through?
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Vote for people who'll spend more on housing and social programs.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
"The longer visible signs of social decay are allowed to fester, the more inclined those with means will be to simply check out ... leaving those without the ability to relocate to deal with playgrounds littered with drug paraphernalia." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: We have normalized delinquent, disorderly behaviour in our cities for too long
There is nothing normal about an encampment forcing toddlers in the daycare next door to stay inside
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Vote for people who'll spend more on housing and social programs.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
Vote for tax cuts and exclusionary zoning, and you're asking for encampments in poorly maintained parks.
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"Why must they build these condos so tall?" cry the people who think that 70% of the city shouldn't have new buildings.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Why must they build these condos so tall?" cry the people who think that 70% of the city shouldn't have new buildings.
Our entire framework for regulating these devices is so stupid, and licensing ebikes (while continuing to ban escooters) does not look like it will change that. Especially on a city by city basis.
Toronto is looking at licences for e-bikes. Here’s why that may be better for delivery riders — and pedestrians
Toronto is looking at licences for e-bikes. Here’s why that may be better for delivery riders — and pedestrians
Toronto is looking at a licensing e-bikes, which could close a gap in protections for delivery riders and other road users.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Our entire framework for regulating these devices is so stupid, and licensing ebikes (while continuing to ban escooters) does not look like it will change that. Especially on a city by city basis.
I'm not an expert, but looking at this picture I think I can identify the source of the problem.
Westboro resident says a planned redesign of his street will make it too narrow
A Westboro man is part of a group of residents that wants the City of Ottawa to rethink a planned redesign of their street.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm not an expert, but looking at this picture I think I can identify the source of the problem.
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Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy - Spacing Toronto
I have lived for many years less than 30 metres from what was once one of Toronto’s storied corner stores — a green grocer known locally as “Dom’s” — for the owner, Domenico Cozzi. He and his wife Ros...
spacing.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social.
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...