I have a lot to say about this, but I love it when governments state things like "vehicle travel will grow another 16 percent" as though this is a foregone conclusion and there is absolutely nothing the *checks notes* full force of the federal government can do about it.
Congestion is a choice.
ask yourself not what your local bar can do for you, but what you can do for your local bar
ridicolous squiggily route
The HSR route after we've consulted everybody and no one is happy:
www.reddit.com/r/AltoHSR_Ca...
Please remove all shoulder lanes. They're under used and traffic flow would improve if all lanes are available to all drivers.
i think we have to ask ourselves what exactly toronto benefits from having a bunch of driverless cars roaming on our already-congested streets.
as if single occupancy cars were not enough of an issue, let's throw zero occupancy cars that regularly block transit and emergency services into the mix
Canadian Healthcare is a trade where you accept many aspects of it are individually frustrating in exchange for the far more valuable bedrock of essential care will always be available and won't bankrupt you.
Let’s transform the heart of the Village into a walkable, car-free space! 🏳️🌈🚶♂️
We're proposing to pedestrianize Church St (Wellesley to Alexander) from June 19 - Aug 21 to celebrate The 519's 50th & our Cultural District.
Help make it happen! Sign here: ExperienceTheVillage.ca
"Touching grass", as the kids say, is a lot easier when you don't have to go out of your way to enjoy the anonymous company of others.
A nice thing about living in a densely-populated neighborhood is even when you're not having a great day, you can readily and with minimal effort observe other people who are, and that can help lift your mood a bit. 🙂
Walking to work is
1) great exercise
2) connects you to other people
3) fun
#urbanism
threatening to commit war crimes? that's just the art of the deal! 🥴
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
in toronto, service is being increased on several buses, streetcars and subways, connecting GO trains will run every >15min, airport trains will extend hours later into the night. union station will be open.
nyc on the other hand is shutting down its busiest station and making it harder to travel.
hey so this is fucking insane
(the original version of this message used km/h, but that felt inappropriate considering where this disruption is coming from, among other kinds of disruption 👀)
(a previous version of this post used km/h, but that felt inappropriate considering where Anthropic is operating from)
I cannot understate how disruptive tools like Claude Code have been to professional website and webapp development over just the past 6 months. Things are moving at 100mph over here, it's quickly becoming normalized, and something important is sure to break because of it. God help us all.
meanwhile, up north: www.altotrain.ca/en
make incompetence shameful again
Mind you bluesky was shading X on X about adding AI tools 5 months ago
Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
your grandparents voting for reagan
There is no way to conclude that the @nytimes.com's failure to tell its readers that one of the "skeptics" was a former College Republican leader who is a far right bigot is anything other than intentional. That's such an obvious piece of context that this omission can't be accidental.
BRT is not supposed to be about moving buses. It's supposed to be about moving *people*, on buses.
Which means people need to be able get to/from the buses safely, comfortably, and conveniently. If they can't, they won't ride.
walked 30 minutes to an appointment in my 15-minute city and liked it, is this illegal
Ultimately, the great thing about living in a great city is that you can go do something a few miles away from your house and then you can just enjoy a lovely walk home. That’s it
Today FastTrackTO is officially launching and releasing our 10 point plan to modernize the Toronto Streetcar network. An iconic symbol of the city that could be fantastic with some achievable, common sense and low cost changes. The plan if implemented would transform the city.
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if 2025 was the year of people telling on themselves by accusing other people of engaging in conduct the accused was not but the accuser themselves was, 2026 is the year of doing that but with agentic workflows 🥸
A prompt on the default screen of the Credit Karma Android app that appears after logging in asking me what car I drive, with only 4 options: Toyota, Honda, Subaru, and "I drive something else".
Credit Karma is back with the hits: no option to say you don't drive a car. 🥴
During budget crunches, governments find the money to fund what is valued, so I guess what's valued here is checking a box, not delivering transformative transportation projects for a city that has long been undervalued, underappreciated, and the frequent victim of overpromises and underdelivery.
“This is an economic driver,” Ford added, speaking of the waterfront airport a short drive from downtown. “A lot of people don’t want to be driving up to Pearson … give people an option.”
Hm, yes, if only the provincial government would provide an option as an alternative to driving to Pearson. Maybe some sort of… express? www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...