To do what needs to be done, We need to make sure we never have a day like this again!
Cycling Infrastructure is Public Infrastructure that will allow us to hit our milestones for #VisionZero #TransformTO & become an equity model to move people beyond point a to b
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Our Children’s children Are Doomed. Where are the ADULTS in the Room?
Of course I ask this with a gas plant down the street from where I live in #TorontoDanforth
h/t @oncleanair.bsky.social #TransformTO www.cleanairalliance.org/four/
Dear Councillor Carroll, I hope you’re well. Budget Committee<buc@toronto.ca> Lanrick Bennett Jr. Hello Lanrick, Confirming your submission has been received as a communication. Your communication will be distributed to the members of the Budget Committee and all Members of Council. Your correspondence including any personal information will become part of the public record, your name will be listed as a correspondent on the agenda and minutes of the Budget Committee or City Council, and as agendas and minutes are posted online, your name may be indexed by search engines like Google. For additional information on speaking or writing to Committees, please visit https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/council/council-committee-meetings/have-your-say/ Regards, Fortis City Clerk's Office
Councillor Carroll<Councillor_Carroll@toronto.ca> Lanrick Bennett Jr. Dear Lanrick, Thank you for taking the time to write and outline your thoughts on this year’s staff-prepared Budget. The City Clerk’s Office will be sure to include as a submission for Budget Committee’s consideration. I will be sure to share your feedback and questions with Councillor Carroll in advance of Councillor Fletcher’s town hall. Best, Tom Gleason Chief of Staff Office of Councillor Shelley Carroll Budget Chief Mayor's Economic Development & Culture Champion Ward 17 - Don Valley North 100 Queen St. W., Ste A3 Toronto, ON M5H 2N2 Phone: 416-338-2650 Website: shelleycarroll.ca Subscribe to Shelley's Thursday night E-Blast Communicating with a councillor or councillor’s staff at the City of Toronto on certain subject matters (e.g. all communication covering sales information, pricing and business development) may require you to register as a lobbyist. To help determine if you are required to register, you may refer to the interactive tool on the Office of the Lobbyist Registrar website. You may also contact the Office of the Lobbyist Registrar by phone at 416-338-5858 or by email at lobbyistregistrar@toronto.ca.
Thank you to Councillor @shelleycarroll.bsky.social ’s office and the City Clerk for formally receiving and circulating our Toronto–Danforth budget submission to Budget Committee and Council.
h/t @henrikbechmann.bsky.social @planningtoronto.bsky.social
#BudgetTO #TransformTO #VisionZero
For #TransformTO to work,
We need to #LeaveTheCarBehind!
These are the true SUVs in our city. #SustainableUrbanVehicles are the future.
h/t @mbonsma.bsky.social @ternbicycles.com #BikeTO
#IdeasAtWork
Toronto Climate Stories
How do climate and environmental change show up in your daily life in the GTA?
Share your story below and contribute to a collective narrative of Toronto's changing climate.
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h/t @utoronto.ca #TransformTO
This is #TorontoDanforth
Our Past
The Present
How do we go about changing the Future?
h/t @oncleanair.bsky.social
Cc: @juliedabrusin.bsky.social @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @toenviro.bsky.social @environmentaldefence.ca #TransformTO
Riding begin another person on a bike because the protected bike lane on Danforth Av is filled with ice and snow.
Following a parent that just did their kid drop off on Danforth Av.
I’m not into conspiracy theories but if you weren’t a big fan of #VisionZero or #TransformTO, eliminating options like equitable travel by bike seems like a slam dunk. Fuck the climate & VRUs.
Making Bike Lanes DANGEROUS again!
I literally have a gas plant in my ward. h/t @toenviro.bsky.social #TransformTO bsky.app/profile/bren...
CF Wards Project<wardsproject@climatefast.ca> CF Wards Project <wardsproject@climatefast.ca> Congratulations and Thank You!! Last week we came together with people from across the city at the Infrastructure and Environment Committee to demand their support for stronger TransformTO 2026-2030. And the entire council noticed! Over 120 in-person/online deputations were given on the main climate items and hundreds more written deputations were submitted. People from a variety of sectors and interest groups were almost unanimous in their call for strong, immediate and meaningful climate action. It was a really long day, with many of us demanding TransformTO be strengthened with BEPS. And it was worth it when we learned that a motion was introduced by Councillor Fletcher to bring it back! (Unfortunately, Paula Fletcher’s motion was for it to be brought back to committee in 2027 which is much too long a wait - but there could be some work arounds on this. Stay tuned!) This inclusion was very much down to people like us exercising our rights and strengthening grassroots democracy. Tomorrow the Executive Committee meets to discuss Maximum Indoor Temperature Requirements and the City’s Heat Relief Strategy. Additionally, Executive will hear back on Toronto’s Climate Resilience plan a critical part of preparing our City for the changing climate. On December 16, Council will convene and look at the recommendations sent by the IEC and Executive for consideration. At this meeting the Wards Project will be submitting the petition asking for support of TransformTO to the City Clerk. Councillor Josh Matlow will introduce the petition during the meeting. If you have a petition with signatures, please let me know ASAP and I will arrange to have it picked up by Monday December 15th. Thank you and congratulations again for all your efforts over the past months that got us to this point. Yours sincerely, Susan Bakshi Wards Project Steering Committee
Apologies for my elected municipal rep, who is also the IEC Chair #TransformTO
Dear #TTC, May I have your attention please:
The single biggest most important and best thing you can do for #TOpoli goals #VisionZero and #TransformTO is faster, more reliable, and more frequent public transport service that encourages people to ride not drive, reducing road trauma and emissions.
Attending the Infrastructure & Environment Committee @toronto.ca today, one of 59 speakers urging intensified action on #TransformTO, the city’s #climateaction plan for next 5 years. Proud to share the #Etobicoke report from a Etobicoke Climate Action public workshop.
Thank goodness we have an elected municipal rep ready to prioritize the safety of vulnerable road users over drivers here in #TorontoDanforth
PURE SARCASM!
#BikeTO lives in the #EastEnd at Wroxeter Av and Pape Av
People on e-cargo bikes navigating life in our city. #VisionZero #TransformTO
We need BETTER leadership
#IMHO the current crop (can only speak to #TOpoli) won't even mouth the words #ClimateCrisis. Find leaders who will plot #TransformTO as a lynch pin to Housing/Affordability, Inequality, Public Health & Infrastructure investments. Waiting for the leaders to make some noise
FALL 2025 ESS LECTURE SERIES THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER 7:15-8:30PM ROWE MANAGEMENT BUILDING, POTTER AUDITORIUM THE HUMAN-POWERED CITY: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, ONE RIDE AT A TIME Lanrick Bennett Jr. is Toronto's first Bicycle Mayor. He is Urbanist-in-Residence at the University of Toronto's School of Cities, where he advocates for equitable mobility and sustainable city-building. His work focuses on climate justice, public space, and building cities that prioritize people over cars.
Image of my children on a bridge for Open Streets Toronto Introduction: Finding Policy in Plain Sight How did you get here today? What did you notice? That's urban policy.
Doing this very cool thing in #halifax tomorrow evening at @dalhousie.bsky.social ‘THE HUMAN-POWERED CITY: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES, ONE RIDE AT A TIME’ part of the College of Sustainability ESS Lecture Series.
h/t @uoftcities.bsky.social #TransformTO #MakingNoise www.dal.ca/faculty/sust...
Time for Toronto’s #TransformTO to double down on our commitment!
‘Toronto City Council has adopted an ambitious strategy to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions in Toronto to net zero by 2040’
www.toronto.ca/services-pay...
Cc: @toenviro.bsky.social @atmosphericfund.bsky.social
“Electric Cars Won’t Save Our Cities”
Checking Notes @ianwalker.bsky.social
#TransformTO #VisionZero
Image 4: Road resurfacing at the Yonge Street/Queens Quay intersection provided the opportunity for the City to add concrete islands as a protected waiting area for people cycling northbound. Upcoming additions include a bike box, chevrons, crosswalks and hazard markers on the islands.
Image 5: Integrated bike/bus platforms have been constructed on Davenport Road at the Dovercourt Road and Christie Street intersections. These platforms keep the bikeway clear for people cycling, while providing sidewalk-level access for people boarding and exiting TTC buses.
Image 6: Concrete planters, permanent curbs and sidewalk restoration have been completed on Harbord Street and Hoskin Avenue between Grace Street and Queens Park Crescent West. Cycle track curb and concrete planter construction is ongoing between Grace Street and Ossington Avenue.
Image 7: Havelock Street has been resurfaced, allowing for a smoother cycling ride, with concrete planters constructed at the cycling-only block between Dewson Street and Sylvan Avenue
Grab a bike. Lace up some shoes. Roll if you can, but get outside this weekend.
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h/t @chrisjamesdrew.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @kayehm.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @torontopublicspace.bsky.social @toronto.ca
#VisionZero #TransformTO 🚲 #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange
#IdeasAtWork
What would happen if Toronto prioritized reducing car trips?
To strengthen #TransformTO To bolster #VisionZero To ease the financial burden on #TOpoli’s maintenance budget to repair our streets.
What might that look like? Do we have politicians & the #PoliticalWill to make it happen?
#TransformTO Net Zero Strategy
Toronto City Council has adopted an ambitious strategy to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions in Toronto to net zero by 2040
“Transportation
75 per cent of school/work trips under 5km are walked, biked or by transit”
www.toronto.ca/services-pay...
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But, but, but 75 years ago… “Pisani was born in her Euclid Avenue home in the 1950s, and says the traffic along her once-quiet street has never been worse.”
Cars equal traffic, contributing to congestion. Remove car dependency. Give streets back to people. 1/2
#TransformTO #VisionZero #BikeTO
Image of my bike across the street from the centre
An almost empty bikeshareTO depot
The city’s #VisionZero Canpaign
Me and wearing my hoodie “Bicycles Deliver The Freedom That Auto Ads Promise”
Creating spaces to have these conversations and teachings is such an important step in crafting the planners and city builders of the future.
Humbled to be a part of their continued learning. /End
@tomflood.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social
#BikeTO #TransformTO #VisionZero
I do think what it does do perfectly is set a bar of what’s real, what isn’t and how within the urbanist community do we start to craft true form narratives to highlight climate change, prioritize the safety of vulnerable road users and decouple ourselves from car dependency. #TransformTO
If you missed my Metro Morning interview with Stephanie Skenderis, click on this link
youtu.be/q8oAIf8DmlI?...
We discuss my article in @spacing.bsky.social speaking to 'Why Canada Must Recognize Bicycle Mechanics as a Profession'
h/t @tomflood.bsky.social
#BikeTO #TransformTO #VisionZero
From friends in #NewZealand
“Let's recreate cities for people and equitable mobility. Let's prioritise healthy ways of getting around and connecting with each other. Let's all take effective climate action.” - Alex Dyer #TransformTO #VisionZero alexmdyer.notion.site/6f0a820a8642...
It was a pleasure to celebrate the Women4Climate mentorship program and the innovation of these young climate leaders!
#TOpoli #toronto #women4climateTO #CityofTO #TransformTO
Image of Ookwemin Minising NEWS VIDEO CBC A new park is opening on Toronto's waterfront: Join us for live coverage LIVE IN 23 hours A new park is opening on Toronto's waterfront: Join us for live coverage In 23 hours | News LIVE Toronto's decades-long efforts to revitalize the Port Lands has reached a major milestone, with a new park now opening along the waterfront. Join CBC Toronto for exclusive live coverage from the water's edge starting at 5:35 a.m. ET Friday, just hours ahead of the park's official opening.
This is #TorontoDanforth
Planning an early morning bike ride before work on Friday to the mouth of the Don River while CBC’s Metro Morning has their live coverage of the opening of Biidaasige Park in Ookwemin Minising
h/t @unitedwaygt.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social
#BikeTO #TransformTO
If there is a silver lining @mayoroliviachow.ca has made clear, her overwhelming pick for Infrastructure & Environment Committee Chair, regards #VisionZero and #TransformTO as annoyances to drivers. Streets are for cars. Priortizing Vulnerable Road Users isn't necessary
medium.com/@lanrickbenn...
Feeling your pain, because Toronto isn’t doing much better with our leadership.
We’ve even got a roadmap #TransformTO
We continue to vote yes towards implementing it and at the same time, continue to chip away at making it a reality.
So frustrating. medium.com/@lanrickbenn...
SOS #TOpoli
h/t @annehidalgo.bsky.social @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
Cc: @juliedabrusin.bsky.social @toenviro.bsky.social @greenpeaceca.bsky.social @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @climatefast.bsky.social @musicdeclarescan.bsky.social @torontopublicspace.bsky.social #TransformTO
