fern k hahn

@fernkhahn.com

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local designer and nonpractising urbanist who would like to make transit easier to use 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🇨🇴🇨🇱🇰🇷 | 🦝🌳 | she/they 🚏 blog: fernkhahn.medium.com 📐 portfolio: fernkhahn.com

Weather in Toronto is 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit), feels like 16C (61F), humidity 56%, dew point 11C (52F).
Pigeon resting by a tree in a street planter.
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Promotional image of official Washington Metro water bottle and stickers. There are 98 blank frames printed on the bottle and 98 colourful stickers, each representing one metro station.
Twitter post, with two photos to illustrate: "My 3-month-old son is now TWICE as big as when he was born. He's on track to weigh 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10."
Wikipedia: "Sea lions have been spotted at the far eastern terminus of the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel, at approximately 38°33'04.3"N 121°34'46.6"W, as have American white pelicans, at approximately 38°33'04.3"N 121°34'46.6"W."
Google Street View screenshot facing east on Grand Avenue at Bay Place, Oakland. The scene matches that in Darrell's screenshot, the apartment buildings since repainted and streetcar tracks removed from the curving roadway.
Satellite view of the island of Trinidad, with roads and towns shown.
Satellite view of some rugged BC coast with four islands, labelled Tangent, Sine, Cosine, and Anger.
View along a narrow paved path flanked by home gardens and low wooden fences, framed by towering trees. At the path's end, a glimpse of downtown Toronto across the water, including the CN Tower.
Yellow road sign under a tree reading "watch for pedestrians".
Screenshot from IKEA email: "We think you might like these. Here are a few items we've picked out just for you." The items are two grey DRÖNA boxes of different sizes, one priced $5.99 and the other $4.99.
A look upward at a black squirrel making its way through leafy branches in a dense tree canopy.
A grizzly bear wades in a pond within an open-air zoo enclosure. It playfully pulls at a hanging toy with its mouth and paw, then lets go and shakes itself dry.
Metal sign on street post reads "this building protected / vertical watch", featuring an image of a neighbourhood watch eye among tall apartment buildings. The sign is stained by debris from the large street tree that shades it.
"Phone" field in online form goes red and reads "Try again" containing only a 5 and a blinking typing bar.
Small black sign pasted on subway station tiles. Big blocks of yellow contain arrows, exit letters, and pedestrian icons, indicating the way to different lettered exit groups. Underneath each is a list of lettered exits and their respective destinations.
View across a small street of a four-storey brick building behind blossoming cherry trees. On ground level, two retail spaces open to extra sidewalk space with seating and tree cover. Above, three levels of apartments with ample terraced balconies.
Google Street View screenshot of a stop sign and a pair of two-bulb signals hanging from a wire. One signal is displaying two red circles, while the other is off.
Selfie of Fern walking down a commercial street under a blue umbrella with polka dots. They are wearing headphones and a t-shirt, their slightly smiling face made pink by cool air.
Tyler Rogers throwing a baseball pitch from his uniquely low arm angle
At a decision point in the station mezzanine, new signs pasted on a tiled wall point left to exit A and right to exit B. They join existing overhead signs that describe the exits in words.
Yonge Street, a downtown Toronto street lined with shops and residential high-rises, on a sunny afternoon. The narrow sidewalks are moderately busy, while the four-lane roadway is nearly empty.
Yellow road sign reading "Watch for children"
Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation speaking to a waiter at a restaurant table.
Scan of isometric illustration of proposed ICTS alignment in lower Hamilton. Emerging from a portal under the Niagara Escarpment, the line travels north on James Street to a one-way loop around the city centre. Stations at St Joseph's Hospital, King William/John Streets, and MacNab/King Streets.
"After" image of new Ontario ministry logos, distinguished only by text and the colour behind the common trillium icon.
Screenshot from "Our Clients" section of Ove Brand Design website, showing the new Ontario logo and wordmark.
Upright, four-sided cheese grater containing a pile of grated marble cheddar.
Stock image of moving horizontal cables strung between columns along a platform edge, separating the platform from the metro tracks.
Flag of Bilbao. Aspect ratio 2:3, mostly white, a red square half the length of the flag's short edge in the top left corner.
WordleBot ratings webpage showing a skill score of 304 and a luck score of 36, both out of 99. A paywall panel is at the bottom, scrolled away and held down to reveal the full ratings.
Empty iPhone case with a smiling BART train in front of the San Francisco skyline. The colours are faded and the print is badly chipped, leaving transparent spots.
Small, crude drawing in pen of Fern sitting at a desk. Text: "Fern K Hahn 2026"
Google Maps route information for Kelmscott station, showing the Armadale railway line and bus routes 219, 220, 240, 241, 243, 244, 245, and 907.
Transit App screenshot showing 10 departures of route 1 in the 12 noon hour, split evenly between two branches.
Elevated view of Hamilton, Ontario skyline from Sam Lawrence Park on the Niagara Escarpment. The skyline mostly comprises residential towers of various ages, partially obscuring the tip of Lake Ontario. Grassy plants grow in the foreground under a blue, partly cloudy sky.
A red tram and a blue bus on a red roadway sit on opposite sides of a wide, low-level island platform. Circular signs mounted on a pole indicate the two modes: a letter "L" on red, and a letter "B" on blue. By Abesty - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129519570
Google Maps screenshot showing dozens of red "health" pins within a few city blocks of Progreso International Bridge. Most are dental clinics.
Google Street View screenshot. A bus and a train dock on opposite sides of a raised island platform, split down the middle by barriers and fare gates.
Screenshot: "Bluesky Elder / This user has been here since before the media tab (August 2023). This label is not a label of honor—no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. This label is meant in jest and dates to early experiments in labeling. It is applied to the first 800,000 Bluesky accounts. Appeals honored." Label options: Off (selected), Show badge, and Hide
Four-panel comic drawn crudely in ink on paper. In the first panel, an empty room with a window and text reading "you're out of frame." Fern's character slowly backs into frame. In the last panel, they say, "happy trans day of visibility!" Below the comic, small text reads "CC BY-SA-NC 2023 FERN K HAHN"
Selfie of Fern, Royce, and August looking cold and smiling aboard a small car ferry headed for Wards Island, Toronto. Downtown buildings glow behind them under the dusky grey sky.
A metro train passes over a wide city street as traffic signals at a crosswalk flash green. Mountain peaks and a sunset sky adorn the background.
A pedestrian waits to cross a four-lane city street under a flashing green light at night. As soon as they press the button to request to cross, the signal turns yellow, then red. As traffic stops, a pedestrian signal across the street turns to "walk", and the pedestrian safely crosses the street.
Diagram comparing trips between stations on straight, U-shaped, and V-shaped lines. Arcs connect every pair of stations on the straight line and most pairs on the U-shaped line. On the V-shaped line, arcs connect station pairs within each half of the line, with little overlap between the two halves.
Screenshot of piece linked in quoted post. [Linear diagram of Line 1 with interchanges.] "At a more granular level, the arc diagram above shows which pairs of stations see the most trips, and which pairs have very few between them. Dundas (now TMU) to/from Bloor–Yonge was the station pair with the greatest number of trips. At a more regional level, the diagram shows two distinct domes (or mountains) of arcs, one for the more well-travelled, eastern, Yonge section and one for the longer, western, University section. This dual pattern highlights how Line 1, based on trip data like this, is used more like two lines that share an overlapping section (stations south of Bloor)." [Linear diagram of Line 1 with interchanges, showing the line to Vaughan in blue, the line to Finch in red, and the line between St George and Bloor-Yonge in both colours.]
Google Maps satellite screenshot of Tyler, Texas and its environs. US 69 travels north-south through the city, I-20 travels east-west to its north, and Loop 49 makes an incomplete loop to its west and south.
Google Street View screenshot of a green road sign entering Knights Landing, population 995, elevation 36 feet.
Google Street View screenshot. A single-track railway runs straight through a landscape of green, treeless rolling hills. Wooden poles hold up an overhead wire along the railway, and a smaller pole displays a white sign simply reading "Birds Landing". Windmills dot the background.
Map of Maple Leaf station area north of where Maple Leaf Drive crosses over Black Creek Drive. The map shows a small station box with dotted lines leading south to Maple Leaf Drive and north to Rustic Road, representing a new pedestrian connection.
Map showing potential extensions of the Mississauga line to South Common (for UTM), Winston Churchill Transitway station, Lisgar GO station, and Brampton via the Orangeville-Brampton Railway right-of-way.
Map of two Ontario line extension options: "Black Creek" and "Mississauga". Both extend the line from Exhibition to Sunnyside, near Queensway and Parkside Drive. Black Creek line follows Parkside Drive, Keele Street, Weston Road, Black Creek Drive, and Jane Street to "Black Creek" station (present Highway 407 station). Stations are spaced one kilometre apart, but nearly half are labelled "Potential station". Mississauga line follows the Gardiner Expressway to Sherway Gardens, then the Milton GO line and Hurontario Street to Square One. Stations are spaced farther apart. A dotted line suggests a further extension westward.
Screenshot: folder of third-party social apps on my dark-mode iPhone home screen. Some have shiny corners and depth in Liquid Glass style.
New TTC bus at Mount Dennis bus terminal displaying "27 Jane South to Jane station"
Google Street View screenshot of an American football stadium and a 6-ish storey brick building styled like a pointy castle overlooking Commencement Bay and the Port of Tacoma.
Group chat screenshot. Me: "instead i spend all day enriching mine on reddit" August: "the real alt right pipeline" Me: "this is what i don't understand about the left's obsession with stopping pipelines" (2 likes) Me: "if you don't build any more pipelines you're just funnelling more people into the alt-right one we already have" August: "you should post that" August: "these two messages, as is"
Spanish-language Monday-first calendar of February 2100, occupying four Monday-to-Sunday weeks.
Sunday-first calendar of February 2026, neatly occupying four rows from Sunday the 1st to Saturday the 28th.
Google Maps satellite screenshot of Old Cummer station vicinity. A pin labelled Old Cummer Historical Bridge sits where a pedestrian path connecting Cummer Avenue to Old Cummer station crosses the Don River.