Marta O'Brien

Never mind the furniture. I'm looking at the reel-to-reel & gramophone.

Yellow cargo bike with big yellow bucket in back in front of Shell gasoline sign showing gas prices fo 3.48 - 4.49.

Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.

Acquiring a share of Billy Bishop Airport…

2M sq ft convention centre on Ford Fantasy Island …

Doug Ford fancies himself a billionaire desperate for a legacy.

On the taxpayer dime.

All while he tells students and their parents to go further into debt.

Fix OSAP ASAP

Take our "4/5" single-stair prototype building
and put it on two 33'x122 lots.

Mid block or corner.
18 elevator accessible homes, where every home has windows on 3 sides.

Light, Air, and a Social Stair

Doug Ford says Ontario will expropriate Billy Bishop airport to get jets in The provincial premier said he told Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow of his government’s intentions during a conversation at his home.

Fuck it (local democracy)

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There's no end to Doug's hatred of our waterfront. Ontario Place, now this.

Uh huh.🙄

From what I saw on my walk today what bursts forth are countless bags of dog poo. I stopped counting after 25 in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Courtesy of certain "I always pick up after my dog" folks.

Yeah, that is dumb. Why does the government care about this?

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NEW STUDY: “Thanks to the influence of the road lobby, the harms of driving are underestimated & overlooked, while measures that make walking, cycling, & public transport the easiest option are viewed with suspicion. Policy responses to reducing population-level driving…can create positive change.”

Beautiful Peter!

My Dad, who'd enlisted to serve in Second World War, sat & listened to that song on my Woodstock album. He was impressed & we discussed the lack of clarity about the Viet Nam war compared to fighting Hitler.

RIP Country Joe.

A beautiful space. Also, Ron Thom's design is timeless inside & out. I've been all through Massey College & it still looks amazing. Funny that Modernists criticized it for being somewhat retro, yet it has held people's affection more than much pure Modern architecture.

I was joking. Many of my renting relatives lived into their 80s & 90s.

I can understand that overall renters have less access to healthy food & lifestyles as so many struggle to pay ever-increasing rents.

It's a great building. I love it.

I know! Somehow people who wouldn't toss a can or bag onto the ground think nothing of tossing a butt. My only smoking friend (RIP) insisted they were biodegradable!

Nice work by Jeremy!

This is an active duty RCAF officer:

"For Armstrong, who is in his mid-40s, 'the ideal woman is childlike' ... Armstrong posted in a separate comment: 'The moment a girl has her first period, she is at her peak marriagability.'" [sic]

Summerhill may be the Bessarion of Line 1.

I like Summerhill if I've walked from downtown & get too tired to face the hill.

White text on black If YOU THINK PEDESTRIANS + CYCLISTS DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE SHARING THE ROAD WITH DRIVERS, WAIT TIL YOU MEET OTHER DRIVERS. DRIVERS ARE PROBABLY THE MOST ANTI-DRIVER PEOPLE OUT THERE.

It’s brutal out there.

I lived thru '70s oil crisis. On corporate trip to U.S. we were told to dress for extreme heat 'cause they'd cut AC use. I remember weirdness of seeing casual office wear in the 1970s!

Also remember thinking at least it would show the folly of relying so much on oil. Young & naive I was.

Train brain is an expensive affliction in Canada Two days of my life are spent travelling 450 kilometres and back. That's just crazy in this day and age.

I took Via Rail from Toronto to Ottawa and back. Not a big deal, you would think, except it took up two days of my life and cost me hundreds of dollars on top of the ticket. lloydalter.substack.com/p/train-brai...

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#IdeasAtWork

Could Car Free Sundays work in a city like Toronto?

Why the hell not!

Seen yesterday at the 2nd Annual Femme Friendly Bike Fair. - Open Streets via @880cities.bsky.social

Equitable Movement in The 6ix

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#BikeTO #WalkTO

Puppy trying to get over a wall of magazines and books

Learn why Robarts Library is so hard to navigate. Episode 1 is out now: “Toronto’s Ugliest Building?”.

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Time for some #TOHistory Monday

9 months ago I posted about the ruin on Highland Creek. I've know of them for many years, but knew nothing about them

This lead me down a rabbit hole of Scarb history, stagecoach robberies, theft and politics. All tangentially tied to this one ruin on #HighlandCreek

A friend who lives in Toronto did it for a change of scene/break & loved it!

Lipstick-sized metal slide-open tubes in different colours & on clips to serve as portable ashtrays.

My nephews been to Japan twice & said they use portable ashtrays. Example:

Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape.

Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.

I hated that I'd have showered, washed my hair, & put on nice clothes only to attend any event or dine out & come home with hair & clothes reeking of smoke.

Also remember shopping for clothes in a Montreal store & finding a couple of pieces with cigarette burns on them!