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🎙️🚌 Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast 🚊🚲 Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇭🇰

Instagram reel of Daniel Tate’s new campaign account
As of Wednesday morning, seven candidates had signed up to run in Toronto Centre. Others included tenant activist Walied Khogali Ali, former advocacy director for The 519 community centre Nicki Ward and former tech company executive Joe Cadeau. Voting day is Oct. 26.
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Rodney met a guy at the bar and immediately started talking about walkable cities Lmfao Fork found in kitchen Oop Seen 12m ago 2:30 AM
Toronto Transit Commission consideration on July 22, 2026 TTC16.14 - Speeding up the College Streetcar Study - by Commissioner Dianne Saxe, seconded by Chair Jamaal Myers Consideration Type: ACTION Recommendations It is recommended that: 1. TTC Board direct staff, in collaboration with the General Manager, Transportation Services, to report back to this Board in Q1 2027 with recommendations how to improve the speed and reliability of the College Streetcar through measures that are within the control of the TTC.
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Home / Riding the TTC / Updates / Line 5 Fest: Call for local vendors Line 5 Fest: Call for local vendors NE E5T Celebrating Line 5 Eglinton. The TTC is preparing for the official grand opening celebration for Line 5 Eglinton, Line 5 Fest, on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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1/2 Marit Stiles * @MaritStiles You can get from Willowdale to Queen's Park without changing subway trains. Minister Cho lives 6 km away and has a taxpayer-funded car and driver. He still billed you $16,000 for downtown hotels. Under Doug Ford, it's one long party with the taxpayers' dime. Colin D'Mello | Global News e @ColinDMello NEW: A senior cabinet minister in the Ford gov't billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, despite living just a few kilometres away from Queen's Park - public money that he's now promising to partly pay back. Ford government minister bills taxpayers $16K for Toronto hotels despite living in city
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Brendan Bastyovanszky (left) and Tom Digby of the Vancouver park board hold a press conference as Vancouver mayor Ken Sim announces his intent to run a full slate for ABC parks board commissioners. Photo by NICK PROCAYLO /10112199A
Commissioner Brennan Bastyovanszky Brennan is the founder of the Vancouver Rogues Gay and Inclusive Rugby Club. He is a former tech executive and holds an MBA from the University of New South Wales. He lives in the West End and is passionate about making parks and fields more accessible.
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-Can't always be in Paris, New York or Milan. Someone has to hold it down in North York, Ontario. HULLMARK CENT 7,505 143 65
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Toronto is a drug zombie wasteland... mayor likes dancing and nachos 525 776 419 4,118 IntegrityTo integrity_to e Follow Your "progressive" city, run by your ...
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Which words best describe how Church Street felt during the Pedestrianization Pilot? Select up to three answers that best apply: • Stressful Inclusive •Safe • Relaxed •Loud • Chaotic OLively •Friendly •Dirty •Unsafe Welcoming • Crowded
TE34.228Opens in new windowNew Permanently Pedestrianizing Scott Street between Front Street East and Scott Lane (Ward 13)
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map highlighting proposed pedestrian street, scott st, from front st to scott lane. transit nearby
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Stephen Lecce • @Sflecce X.com 50% of oil imports into Ontario run through a pipeline that cuts through the U.S. It is clear we need a sovereign pipeline route that connects Alberta crude oil to Sarnia — the country's largest refinery and petrochemical hub with capacity of 400,000 barrels per day. @fordnation is supporting jobs, championing Ontario steel, and boosting energy independence as we unlock the full value of the third-largest proven oil reserve on earth. в Bloomberg 7 @business • 6h Alberta and Ontario proposed a crude oil pipeline and energy corridor across Canada as a way of reducing the country's dependence on the US bloomberg.com/news/articles/... 12:49 PM • 2026-07-06 • 8.2K Views
Video about the crowds on church street and improved safety and vibrancy due to pedestrianization
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• NANOS RESEARCHI Rating the importance of Alto High-Speed Rail as a Government priority Q - As you might know, the federal government has recently proposed building the Alto High-Speed Rail Project, which would be Canada's first high-speed railway, connecting Toronto to Québec City. The total cost is estimated to be between $60 and $90 billion, with both public and private investment. On a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is not a priority at all and 10 is a very high priority, how much of a priority is it for the Government of Canada to build the Alto High-Speed Rail project? 38% 20% 38% • High priority (7-10) • Neutral (4-6) • Low priority (0-3) • Unsure 4% *Weighted to the true population proportion. *Charts may not add up to 100 due to rounding. 4 in 10 Canadians each rate the importance of the Government of Canada building the Alto High-Speed Rail project as either a high priority (38%) or a low priority (38%). Residents of Quebec are more likely to say this is a high priority (48%) than residents of the Prairies (21%). Source: Nanos Research, RDD dual frame hybrid telephone and online random survey, June 26 to 28, 2026, n=1051, accurate 3.0 percentage points plus or minus, 19 times out of 20. V NEWS NANOS
• Subway and light rail status 1 Normal service • No service Ossington to St George • Normal service 4 5 6 No service Mount Dennis to Cedarvale • Delays Cedarvale to Kennedy • Normal service
hour. The total cost would have been absurd - around $3 million, Moise says. After some negotiation, the police agreed to a compromise where the city will instead pay $250,000 to hire private security guards to patrol the area, plus $50,000 for supplementary paid-duty officers. It's pushed the budget for the project way beyond the initial $150,000 estimate. There's a lot that's ridiculous about this. The Toronto Police Service sometimes feels like a telecom provider, with any service change requiring an add-on that costs more money, either through increased premium overtime pay or a budget increase. In recent years, they've told the city that work like managing protests, better enforcement of traffic laws and more regular TTC patrols all require more money beyond their $1.4 billion annual spending allotment. And now, of course, they're effectively saying pedestrian streets are an extra, too. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW But there's been no evidence offered to suggest pedestrian streets require a bunch of extra policing. In fact, since cars represent a significant danger to pedestrians — killing or seriously injuring more than 100 people last year — there's a reasonable assumption that pedestrians would actually be safer on a car-free street than one with cars.
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drsjwsjw At first I thought we were getting farm animals on church street but later in the day I realized it was for gay farm animals so that's fine ! SIAPOS SRExpress Food Market 14 likes • 1 reply
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unhabitat 4 days ago UN@HABITAT FOR A BETTER URBAN FUTURE TRAFFIC JAM EXPECT DELAYS PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT VS TRAFFIC CONGESTION MOVES MORE PEOPLE Buses, trains and metros carry more people using less space. 術 MOVES MORE VEHICLES Cars take up more space and move fewer people. LOWER EMISSIONS Public transport reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. HIGHER EMISSIONS Cars are a major source of air pollution and climate emissions. SAVES MONEY More affordable for users and reduces household transport costs. $） COSTS MORE High costs of fuel, parking, maintenance and road infrastructure. INCLUSIVE MOBILITY Accessible for all ages, genders and incomes, including people with disabilities. 8 EXCLUDES MANY Car dependence excludes those who cannot afford or drive. 嘿 EFFICIENT LAND USE Frees up space for homes, green areas and public life. TAKES OVER OUR CITIES Roads and parking lots consume valuable land and public space. LESS CONGESTION Reliable, high-capacity systems keep cities moving. MORE CONGESTION Traffic jams waste time, cause stress and reduce productivity. Public transport supports the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. CHOOSE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. FOR BETTER CITIES. FOR PEOPLE. FOR PLANET. 220 4 33 30 unhabitat A traffic jam is often a sign of too many cars, not too few roads or lanes. So, what if we designed cities to move people instead of... more 07
The 506 route runs about 15 km from Main Street Station to High Park, serving neighbourhoods including Cabbagetown, downtown, the University of Toronto area, Kensington, Little Italy and Roncesvalles. Those who use the route report wait times up to 30 minutes. "It's extremely frustrating for transit users, and sometimes when I know I need to get somewhere on time, 'II just bike instead," said urban planner Rodney Chan, a transit rider who attended the conference to speak in support of Blanc's plan to fix the streetcar route. "If our streetcars reliably arrived at six-minute intervals downtown, it would unlock
Blanc said he has conferred with transit experts, such as creator Reece Martin, who hosts RMTransit, a YouTube channel focused on public transport systems around the world, and Jonathan English, the co-founder of advocacy group FastTrackTO, which in March published a 10-point plan to speed up Toronto's streetcar network. Some of English's ideas, including eliminating slow zones and limited left turns for vehicles along the streetcar route, are included in Blanc's plan for the 506.
"There seems to be a lot of talk about slow transit in the city, both with the mayor and the public with the opening of new LRT lines, so I think this is really the political moment with public support to speed up our streetcars," said Chan. He added that it's "really refreshing" to see a "knowledgeable candidate" who listens to experts on the best practices to speed up public transit routes.
Upcoming volunteer opportunities Logistics Tuesday Jun 30 9 a.m. Assemble and Deploy Patios 560 Church Street