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Any estimates of the cost of a King-Liberty Village station?

19.02.2026 21:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Isn’t there connection between Shopify and Juno News?

18.02.2026 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Toronto-Danforth population should climb once Ookwemin Minising and McLeary District are developed.

18.02.2026 17:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Chow likely gets re-elected if that Scarborough and North York approval rate holds.

12.02.2026 19:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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“Getting information out of Metrolinx is like pulling teeth”: Blogger Steve Munro has been calling out Toronto’s transit problems for 20 years - Toronto Life The so-called Yoda of Toronto transit nerds explains the TTC budget woes and how streetcars got so bad

"Transit Yoda" celebrates 20 years although might seem a tad full of himself ;)

torontolife.com/city/steve-m...

12.02.2026 18:27 👍 51 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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In 2022, I won $185K in the municipal budget under former Mayor John Tory to make menstrual and incontinence supplies free for homeless people unable to access shelter space. This proposed $100K increase for this initiative, to be built into the 2026 budget, will help to meet the real need.

10.02.2026 17:49 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Don't give Integrity TO any ideas.

05.02.2026 23:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Putting out feelers, I should say.

05.02.2026 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There’s a few names I’ve heard

04.02.2026 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Can the Eglinton LRT outrun the bus? The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on its performance.

Can the Eglinton LRT outrun the bus?

The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT will soon open, finally, and it should be significantly faster than the local buses it replaces. There are reasons to be hopeful that this project will be more successful than the Finch West LRT, but it also has a lot more riding on…

30.01.2026 13:28 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Also the Perkins next door to the Congress Centre.

28.01.2026 14:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please add me. Thanks!

27.01.2026 20:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Go get the chainsaw“

22.01.2026 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
War on Cars Live poster advertising tickets at cycleto.ca/cars

War on Cars Live poster advertising tickets at cycleto.ca/cars

TORONTO! Tickets are now available for @thewaroncars.bsky.social LIVE.

Join us Feb 5th for a conversation about cities, transportation, and their new book, Life After Cars. Generously sponsored by @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social .

🔗: www.cycleto ca/cars

19.01.2026 16:20 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
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Ion: An Ontario LRT that somehow works With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract - Ion works well.

Ion: An Ontario LRT that somehow works

With proper signal priority, reliable service, and a flexible route, Waterloo Region's LRT is a good example of a successful transit service and planning tool. Though it has a few issues - including some slow sections and a restrictive operating contract -…

19.01.2026 15:09 👍 57 🔁 22 💬 6 📌 5
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City expects to help two-thirds fewer homeless households with private-market rent subsidies this year While province assures no one enrolled will lose subsidy over funding, the city expects less money to refer new homeless households, budget docs show.

In theory, I've never liked the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which bridges the gap between a person's income and market rent — it's a landlord subsidy. But it's also one of the only ways we move people into housing. These cuts will leave people on the streets. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

16.01.2026 16:01 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Volunteer from Community Bikeways pushes shovel to clear slush and snowmelt from Bloor Bike lane near Runnymede Rd.

Volunteer from Community Bikeways pushes shovel to clear slush and snowmelt from Bloor Bike lane near Runnymede Rd.

Great team out today clearing the Bloor bike lane of snow (+ slush) from Royal York Rd to Runnymede. #biketo

Summary by @jnyyz.bsky.social

jnyyz.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/b...

17.01.2026 21:52 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

A lot of anxious Liberals MPs in Etobicoke and North York.

16.01.2026 21:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Stone has never been more around

12.01.2026 23:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hopefully Leslieville and The Beaches pick up once the Ontario Line is complete.

07.01.2026 20:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Overhead: Community land trusts gaining ground - Spacing National THIS EPISODE: Community Land Trusts Gaining Ground A good news story in recent years is the amount of progress Community Land Trusts (CLTs) have made in communities across the country. New CLTs are be...

New episode of our housing series The Overhead on the @spacingradio.bsky.social feed: from Parkdale in Toronto to the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, community land trusts are growing, and keeping housing affordable in their communities: spacing.ca/national/202... @bshnode.bsky.social

05.01.2026 15:18 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2
Pickup truck parked in the bike lane.

Pickup truck parked in the bike lane.

I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

17.12.2025 13:15 👍 583 🔁 149 💬 47 📌 11

We have a winner

11.12.2025 13:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Can the Finch West LRT Keep Up With Its Promises? | The Local After years of delay, Line 6 is now running across a historically isolated part of the city. At its launch, politicians posed, transit enthusiasts assembled, and some locals wondered if it was worth t...

Two years ago, @thelocal.to did an issue on how this long-awaited transit line promised to transform northwest Toronto. Yesterday, @royinori.bsky.social and photographer Duane Cole rode the line with locals to try to find out if the LRT can keep up with its promises. thelocal.to/finch-west-l...

08.12.2025 14:15 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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A New Tramway and a New Leaf. Canada’s newest urban rail line open to the public.

I rode the Finch light rail today. It’s slow, but it has potential, and it brings with it a lot of good things. Read my latest article now:

open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

07.12.2025 17:32 👍 49 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Free transit, eh?

04.12.2025 18:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Try Hamilton.

04.12.2025 15:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations

03.12.2025 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll wait a month or so for the kinks to be worked out, but I’m definitely wary.

03.12.2025 23:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Turbo New Urbanism

02.12.2025 13:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0