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Graphic of busy car-filled road and text stressing that car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.

Gas price hikes & shortages “fuel” controversy, especially when they’re “driven” by an illegal war. But let’s not forget one of the most important discussions that should flow from such hikes — how they spotlight the difference between places with mobility choices, and places that are car-dependent.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

this is what a real democracy looks like…thriving markets with variety and competition where big companies and small businesses can thrive equally. if only…

wow it’s almost as if competition is important or something

I love how my ADHD brain makes so many connections. I feel like it helps me come up with creative solutions to problems

...but it's so hard to write or create sometimes when everything feels like it's connected to everything else ><

what are we doing at this point—I mean come on Ford do something useful for peat’s sake!

yeah it’s bad

Happy Friday.

Here's a community of small lot single stair buildings mixed with multiplexes and single family homes.

City skyline visible behind a bus stop with three people waiting and a cyclist passing by on a sunny day.

Moving around the city means interacting with shelters, benches, and litter bins every day, so your feedback is key as the City explores how street furniture can better support City goals.

Share your opinion by March 26: https://ca.mar.medallia.com/?e=90006671&d=l&h=53277D161466F96&l=en

‘It's not a profit making venture,’ Housing expert explains the benefits of living in a Toronto co-op - NOW Toronto A housing advocate highlights the benefits of co-op housing as an affordable alternative to renting, as a new co-op opens in Alexandra Park.

It’s weird to hear the co-op sector keep claiming that they generate affordability. That’s because government paid for the buildings! It’s not magic. nowtoronto.com/news/housing...

are they even stable???😭 i mean arguably not building homes in them makes them less stable/viable

ahh i see. makes sense. the better solution here would prob be to STOP denying good housing projects in these neighborhoods.

ESPECIALLY gentle density. that’s how you’d solve this problem right?

they really oughta build more in mixed use icl. tbf i don’t really know too much about this

there’s no way…right? RIGHT?

hell yah!

what a segway i’ve gotta respect it😭

like the eastern section could’ve been*

the entire thing should’ve just been elevated just like the eastern section, and then it could’ve been a light metro

this guy is actually unbelievable i can’t man

exactly. it started raining at my streetcar stop once and I went into a local business to shelter (because the stop was just a sign pole) and they *denied* me and sent me out in the pouring rain in a t-shirt😭 this is why we need good transit stops

and transit shelters too. hopefully we can get better ones.

i totally wish carplay worked with steering wheel buttons. it’d be way better and less anxiety-inducing…touchscreens are dumb

damn apple is way better wth

Graphic showing all the many costs of suburban brawl, explaining how many costs are hidden and indirect costs, and sharing stats and data. Prepared by the Sustainable Prosperity Institute.

Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them.

HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...

gonna remember this winter. truly one of the greats.

i want to live in one of these. more please!

might also mean more support for whoever does run in his place on the conservative side of the sprectrum.

rightttt so that’s why they didn’t build a bridge there. I thought it was weird. anyways.

on second thought he doesn’t deserve thanks at all…