Reia 💕

@forkast.bsky.social

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🌈 she/her 🗺️ planning student 🌟 politics, urbanism, transit •🍁🍁🍁•🍁🍁🍁•🍁🍁🍁• 📍 RH 📍 Kingston 📍 Toronto 📍 Singapore https://youtube.com/@forkast

viva next expansion plan map
low floor light rail vehicle arrives at eglinton station in toronto as people record
south facing render of 315 Spadina via AlbertC on UrbanToronto showing interface with rest of streetscape
render of corner Spadina & D'Arcy streets for new 315 Spadina development via Feruzian on UrbanToronto
street view plan of 315 Spadina via DavidCapizzano on UrbanToronto
Grenville and Bay
Render of 315 Spadina via UrbanToronto
1960-2020 Queen & Bay in Toronto
view facing south on Spadina Ave in Toronto
graphic from mayor olivia chow reading "streetcars + LRTs signal priority is on the way"
DC economist Joey Politano with local influencer Reia
Kensington market outdoor food market in toronto
torre velasca in milan viewed from the top of the duomo
Map showing the route from Finch Station to Richmond Hill with five new stations at Steeles, Clark, Royal Orchard, Bridge, and High Tech (Metrolinx image)
conceptual rendering of high tech station platform
Caelem: You know for a while I've been going "all my oomfs get suspended so easily they need to chill" but I think this one has made me realize "no wait, it's because they're trans" Reia: reia has literally never tweeted anything risqué because she was usually too scared to lol Caelem: Well yeah that's what made me realize this lol
Toronto viewed from Chinatown with the skyline and CN tower juxtaposed in the background
streetcar and crowds at Yonge & Dundas facing north up Yonge St.
reia in front of an engraved portrait
reia in front of an old Toronto city map
reia at an old type press thing
William Lyon Mackenzie plaque 1795-1861 Born in Scotland, Mackenzie came to Upper Canada in 1820. He became a prominent radical journalist and was first elected to the assembly in 1828 building up a strong popular following. He was the first mayor of the city of Toronto in 1834. Frustrated by political setbacks, Mackenzie led an abortive rebellion in 1837 and then fled to the United States. From there he watched the achievement of Canadian self-government, which he had sought ardently but without success. Returning under amnesty in 1850, he sat in parliament again until 1858.
exterior facade of the Mackenzie house, an old town home, in Toronto
an A&W adjacent to Marine Drive Station on Translink (Vancouver SkyTrain Canada Line)
reia in front of a 6 story hotel building, in front of a much large housing development taking up the entire background.
photos of Singapore MRT wayfinding sign including Letters and numbers for exits
Google Maps view of Toronto showing Dundas West and Lansdowne Line 2 stations as well as streetcar lines connecting into Dundas West and GO lines running down, including those that stop at Bloor GO
Toronto skyline viewed from on top of a building near Spadina and College I think
Midtown Toronto looking north on Yonge St. towards Eglinton & Yonge
map of state parties to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership that succeeded the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Singapore Little India graphic by Reia
A photo of Reia at the Singapore City Gallery, with a model of the central business district of Singapore in the background.
Diagram comparing slow zones in Boston (MBTA) in September 2023 (over a quarter of the system) and today (no slow zones).
Streetcar on Dundas through Chinatown
For these new arrivals, a hub was needed where they could go to find help in their search for accommodation, work, and education. Areas like St. James Town had large Tamil populations due to cheap housing, but lacked the services to help Tamils acclimatize to their new homes. Several community organizations popped up in the Tamil community, including the Society for the Aid of Ceylon Minorities (SACEM). SACEM successfully approached the federal and provincial governments with a prop osal for a 10 million dollar, 129-unit housing co-op at 20 Wade Avenue, in the Bloordale area. Tamil Co-Operative Homes, Inc. (or more informally, the "Tamil Co-op Homes") was subsidized by both levels of government, and became one of the major co-operative housing projects in the city. Before the space even opened, it had waiting list of about 100 people. 80% of the occupancy was reserved for Tamils in the city, with priority placed on seniors, widows, and those in need. One apartment was held as emergency
Reia in front of the AGP mart wall
Yonge & Eglinton in Toronto, photo taken from Eglinton Station Yonge street entrance. Shows TTC roundel with skyscrapers towering into fog.
side platform at North York Centre station in Toronto with a subway train visible to the left
yrt bus in old Richmond Hill
viva blue bus in old Richmond Hill
Mannheim tram map
wide protected cycle track in medium density neighborhood with attached buildings and ground floor retail
passage from Jake Landau's substack reading: "Has Ottawa, in the grand tradition of their city, grasped defeat from the jaws of victory once more? Have they taken something almost universally beneficial, and somehow made it truly suck? The answer, dear reader, is yes. In Ottawa? The answer is always, always, yes."
reia sat at a table with a laptop in front of her wearing a pink and white dress
top 10 bluesky accounts by follower count
circle of Reia's most interacted with accounts
graph showing Reia's Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, and bluesky followers overtime. The graph shows an incredibly steep bluesky increase in followers very recently. The graph also includes circles to indicate the 100 followers mark, and a star to indicate when twitter and youtube stats met at 200.
Diagram showing old union station line 1 platform, new side platform upgrade, and possible spanish solution upgrade
Google maps street view of Princess Towers
princess towers in Kingston, On