Picture of street filled with people when cars are prohibited, with a prominent sign saying “road closed.” Via Urban Truth Collecrive (Also, it’s a street, not a road)

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong?

Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

Saka: “Personally every time that I've intervened in specific design decisions, it hasn't gone too well.”

sorry, old reference

kind a yellow alien. photo by me

kind of a metallic alien. photo by me.

kind of some weird blue aliens. photo by me

Toronto Sculptures (with legs)

Can we make totes?

The BT is going to be redeveloped I hear.

Cheese Magic store in Toronto

paid a visit to my old friend

All-lowercase is my signal that it is a low-effort shitpost.

Toronto pointy thing with Spedina in the foreground.

spacenoodle cities are my fav

URBANIST: [taking a selfie video] Hey folks! I'm here at the now-CAR FREE Pike Place Market -I'm walking around this iconic local spot without having to worry about BEING MURDERED BY A CAR -Notice how peaceful and calm everyth--ope! [they bump into another person taking a selfie video) URBANIST 2: Sorry! I'm just documenting how nice it is here without cars, for my urbanism blog! URBANIST 1: So am I! URBANIST 1: I have 2 words for you: retractable bollards URBANIST 2: Oh god yes [They make out in the middle of the road as people continue to walk by]

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#DOOMLOOP #seattle #urbanism #pikeplacemarket

Orca with speech bubble saying “Apartments are fine actually”

It's basically 6% logo, 25% blank, 6% "welcome aboard", 34% "welcome aboard" again, and then a thin 29% slowly rotating between the time of day, next destination, stop requested, and operator number.

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the primary public transport agency in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, operating the majority of the city's bus and rail services.

I don't expect everyone to care as much about information design as I do but...the TTC passenger information display could make better use of space.

The most disgraceful thing we did was turn the Memorial Plaza into a parking lot. While most of the parking remains, I’m happy we are at least giving the Memorial Wall some additional breathing room.

Toronto. Photo by me.

They have a lot of Toronto-style bus stops in this town.

A project by Bjarke Ingels Group.

Plaque in Toronto. STO ONTARIO'S FIRST PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS In 1793 it was decfed to move the capital of Upper Canada from Niagara to York now Toronto. Iwo single storey brick parliament buildings were constructed near this site. Opened in June 1798, the buttdings wete used for court proceedings and religious services in addition to parliamentary sesstons. During their; occupa-tton of York, Aprtl 27 to May 2, 1813, American troops set fire to the parliament bulldings. By lozo they had been repaired and a connecting centre block added. Four years later, fire from an overheated chimney flue reduced them to ruins. The site was abandoned and in 1832 new parliament buildings were completed on Front Street, west of Simcoe Street. Drtaro Heritage Forndation an agoney bl he Gorernient of Ontatio

“During their occupation of York…American troops set fire to the parliament buildings.” This tracks.

Car parked on the side of the road in Toronto projecting something random on the side of a building.

Yoyo strawberry-banana sour with vanilla and marshmallow at Bandit Brewery in Toronto. Chewy and delicious.

sunset on holiday wreathed pike place

I also just want to say thank you again to everyone who made an effort to visit and support Pike Place Market this winter! It clearly made a difference. There is always more to explore and discover: www.pikeplacemarket.org

Pike Place Market just released new sales data for Feb 2026. Looks like Jan+Feb 2026 had 11% higher sales than Jan+Feb 2025 (before the pedestrian pilot)! Congrats Seattle, you managed to find a way to shop at the market in the dead of winter without driving your cars through the middle of it.

We had those in Portland too.

Probably not.

A project designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in Toronto.

There is a BIG project on King Street.

It would be great if NYC got these but, if you’ve ever peeked under the street, you know why underground bins might be impractical.

Mamdani to swap parking spots for more than 6,500 curbside Empire Bins across NYC It’s a major expansion in the rollout of the “trash revolution” that former Mayor Eric Adams started.

Mamdani to swap parking spots for more than 6,500 curbside Empire Bins across NYC gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

Verdict: crisp exterior, excellent lamination, middling butter flavor and a bit greasy.

Today’s croissant is from Blackbird Baking Co. here in Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market.

Toronto. Photo by me.

Stepping off a streetcar onto a lane with active vehicular traffic is…weird.