Even without the logical fallacies & planning mess - Jets should not be operating within hundreds of meters of human beings, esp children.
Period.
Yes, I've flown out of YTZ, but it would have been just as easy to get to/from YYZ. The number of people for whom YTZ is more convenient is miniscule.
Mis/Disinformation applies to road safety as well: If people are emotionally invested in misinformation they will share something even if they know it is not true.
About AI: We already have a fact checked source of information - it's called the newspaper.
@westendphoenix.bsky.social @justinling.ca
Love to see so many doctors talking about disinformation and praising @drjengunter.bsky.social as an accurate source of information.
@westendphoenix.bsky.social
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
This feels like we are in the early days of COVID when we assumed the problem was "over there" and wouldn't affect us
It's all connected.
We are all connected.
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Task Force Answer: Southern Ontario has a unique climate on this planet with 60C annual temperature extremes and hovers around freezing for months at a time = pothole paradise.
(Plus a massive road repair backlog, partially due to so much $$ being earmarked for a 🌉 for so long)
And almost half of the road maintenance budget was dedicated to keeping a bridge in the air for a very long time. It will take decades to make up for that neglect. If ever.
🙄 Toronto roads are no different from other Canadian winter city roads.
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The previous City of Toronto Street Furniture contract was TWENTY YEARS.
It included both the supply and maintenance of transit shelters, garbage/recycling bins and benches (the city was not responsible for maintaining them)
Have your say to help make the next contract better.
Roadway vs bikeway design:
We know the safest options - but we intentionally take less safe options to public vote to determine what to do.
But not all design aspects, only ones that impact the most vulnerable road users.
#visionzero #BikeTO
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The brightness can obscure or totally hide pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. As a driver, if you have to look away from the light to protect yourself, you're also diverting your attention away from everything/everyone else in that area - typically it's the direction you are driving.
If you aren't impacted by this at all, I'm wondering why:
- Are you driving a vehicle where the driver position is very high?
- Do you have the privilege of perfect vision?
- Do you generally not think about safety - of yourself or of others?
Are you also impacted by the brightness of motor vehicles lights at night?
Transport Canada wants to learn more.
Have your say and provide feedback here.
#VisionZero
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AI vs Doing the Work in high school, and in life.
I've encountered this with co-op students & even adults - mindsets geared to focus on results rather than process & problem solving.
How do we change systems to empower adults who trust themselves to do the work?
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I was pleasantly surprised to see a driver pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.
Nevermind that they told the driver to park on the sidewalk so other drivers could pass by - don't want to do anything to slow drivers down.
There was an empty laneway directly opposite to pull into, but no.
When people talk about "law-breaking" among cyclists and drivers, it's important to remember that the actions are not remotely equivalent. A cyclist running a stop sign or riding on a sidewalk does not pose nearly the same risk as a driver speeding or running a stop sign.
Ah, come on.
It was a perfect warm up game where no one gets hurt.
Did you check my bio before asking those questions?
Hmmmm. That says the project delivery is paused, not that staff have stopped working on it.
Where did you find out that planning or design for Dupont was foregone?
Depends how one defines "normal". 😐
The design also resulted in a ped KSI: "A careening car also broke the leg of Moses Kreiger, a passing pedestrian. A month later, the Toronto Star reported that another accident at the same intersection resulted in another car being overturned."
Safer street design:
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The @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca is such a great resource
The design of the corner of Barton & Manning resulted in several drivers flipping their vehicles in Oct 1929.
There are curb bumpouts & bollards here now, with street direction changes.
Live & learn.
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100yr old View from the infamous Dundas Dupont Traffic Island / park. If you enjoy watching traffic, this and the "Bermuda Triangle" at Dundas College are your happy places.
There are lots of ideas to improve this, including some to make it worse.
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Quinn doesn't understand the metric system or science.
Not holding out much hope for expertise in other areas related to research or logic.
Yikes. I had no idea they were worth that much.
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Fantastic how many (former and current) city staffers came out to the @thewaroncars.bsky.social show! (It's easy to be cynical, but Toronto is fortunate to have so many smart and dedicated true believers working behind the scenes.)
Did anyone happen to spot any elected officials though?
Who knew I'd learn about the radicalization of Superman at an event about active transportation.
Thanks to @thewaroncars.bsky.social @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @cycletoronto.bsky.social for facilitating a great discussion of #Bill212 and our current struggles living in #BikeTO