Lanrick Bennett

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Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault

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Congestion Pricing From Concept to Law to Implementation By School of Cities, University of Toronto 958 followers 129 events 7y hosting 15k total attendees Follow U of T School of CitiesToronto, ON Wednesday, August 5 • 12 PM - 1:30 PM
PSA the bicycle doesn't have to be for every trip in every circumstance for every person. you can use it as needed and replace the car trips that are doable for you.
Map of makham Ontario Honda Dealers Indy at Markham Traffic Impacts July 19 to Aug. 27 DOU LIONLE AVE RAIL ROAD DEGRASSEST UNIONVILLE GO STATION HWY 407 RAM ENTERPRISE BLVD NOW CO ACCEND 407 HWY 407 RAMP INEDY ROAD DUFFIELO OR 205 Q8 €7 1,032 cityofmarkham Markham is gearing up for the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy race weekend! Plan ahead by checking road closures, mapping your route, and staying informed before you travel. Beginning July 19 through August 27, intermittent overnight road closures and lane restrictions will be in effect throuahout Markham Centre to support
City Council adopted this item on June 24 and 25, 2026 without amendments. Expand All + Collapse All - City Council consideration on June 24 and 25, 2026 MM42.39 - Creating a Pedestrian Streets Program for Toronto - by Councillor Josh Matlow, seconded by Councillor Chris Moise Decision Type: ACTION Status: Adopted Wards: All City Council Decision City Council on June 24 and 25, 2026, adopted the following: 1. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services, in consultation with the General Manager, Economic Development and Culture, the Toronto Police Services, Toronto Paramedic Services, and Toronto Fire, to create a Pedestrian Streets Program and implementation plan that identifies the process for identifying candidate streets, the criteria for selecting them, and the approach for planning and implementing pedestrian street projects, and
THE WEEK OF JULY 19th #HEARTHIS SHARING 5 PIECES OF BLACK SPECIFIC CONTENT WITH MY KIDS THIS WEEK “Surround yourselves with uplifting energy and decolonize your bookshelves.” — by Yolanda T. Marshall
Ontario wildfire smoke tracker Tracking current PM₂.₅ exposure across Ontario and the estimated health consequences of wildfire smoke. July 18, 2026 Updated 8:26 a.m. EDT 38 of 43 stations reporting Dave Sawyer For more detail on methodology see: The health impacts of Canada's new, smoky summer reality Severe smoke event Smoke levels across reporting stations are 12.5 times the clean air baseline The average PM₂.₅ reading across Ontario stations is 75.1 µg/m³, compared with a clean air baseline of 6 µg/m³. 12.5× the clean air baseline 69.1 µg/m³ above baseline Average across stations 75.1 µg/m³ 31 stations reporting Stations above 25 µg/m³ 31 of 38 28 at or above 50 µg/m³ Highest station average 173.2 µg/m³ Thunder Bay Highest hourly reading 273 µg/m³ Thunder Bay
Aug 11, 2026 @ 12-2:30PM WALK & RIDE A guided transit & walking tour in Little Jamaica with Little Jamaica CLT and the Infrastructure Institute LITTLE JAMAICA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST Infrastructure Institute
City of Toronto • ... X TORONTO 2h • #TrafficAlert From 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 18 to 1 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, Front Street West, from Blue Jays Way to Lower Simcoe Street and John Street, and from Front Street West to Wellington Street West will be closed to vehicle traffic for Import Fest.
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THANK YOU, BIKE BRIGADE. YOU SHOWED UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY, EVEN WHEN THE AIR WAS HEAVY. Riding in fire smoke conditions isn't easy. It takes care, compassion, and commitment. You put your health on the line so others could receive what they need. WE SEE YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU. Thank you for going the extra mile, as always. @bikebrigade.ca
Zirka Kelebay ostpdeSrnohlih0u0291t5uu5lg011l 1 520c46gcuf 1 0666lclu h cci3l82i · This very fancy, and I’m sure very expensive contraption located on the corner of Bloor and Oakmount Road across from High Park, was taken on July 7, 2026 Who among you actually believe that since January this year, 162,456 bicycles have travelled along this bike path? That constitutes an average of over 900 bikes EVERY SINGLE DAY, including bone-chilling temperatures in January and February, snow-covered bike lanes AND rainy days! How much money did our brilliant city council waste on perpetuating this myth? See less Image of a Bicycle Counter at 22:28 Cyclist this year 162,456 Cyclist today 2,093
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Chris Rickett in • 1st ... Driving Community & Economic Impact |... 22h • G I live a few blocks from where the shooting happened at Salsa on St. Clair. I woke up to dozens of text messages from friends and family checking to see if we were alright (we are). It's scary when these things happen. It's horrible that people have lost their lives. We've had shootings in the neighbourhood before, but it's worth remembering that Toronto is a very safe city per capita - and gun crime in Toronto was at its lowest level in a decade last year. Salsa on St. Clair is a cultural institution. It was launched to support the businesses along St. Clair, and it has worked for two decades. The response to the shooting shouldn't be about moving it - gun violence can follow. And it shouldn't be to shut down the festival. Two people brought guns to a street party. That's a gun violence problem. You don't fix it by dismantling the street party. And we already know where the "just add more security" reflex leads. Church Street's pedestrian pilot was budgeted at $150,000. Police quoted $3 million for round-the-clock paid duty. It landed somewhere around $300-500K - for one block, for one summer. That's the going rate now for the privilege of animating a single street. Do that to every festival, patio and night market in the city and you don't get safer streets. You get emptier ones. The businesses these events exist to support can't carry a security bill that size, so the events will quietly stop happening - and our streets will go silent and they won't be safer.
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RIDE IN SOLIDARITY. NEW VOLUNTEERS WELCOME We are a volunteer-powered network mobilizing people on bikes to deliver food and essentials in solidarity with communities across Tkaronto. MAKE AN IMPACT Support community care and help fight food insecurity. EVERYONE WELCOME All skill levels, backgrounds, and identities. BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT Join a passionate, inclusive community that shows up for each other. SIGN UP TO RIDE WITH US via the link in bio. @bikebrigade.ca
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THE WEEK OF JULY 12th #HEARTHIS SHARING 5 PIECES OF BLACK SPECIFIC CONTENT WITH MY KIDS THIS WEEK “I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.” — by W.E.B. Du Bois
Toronto Police Operations • @TPSOperations Active Shooter St Clair Ave W & Arlington Ave 8:12pm - reports of a shooting -multiple injuries -police o/s -public advised to stay away from the area -further information to follow #GO1436736 ^av
Map of Toronto with a highlighted route in orange Lanrick Jr Bennett Today at 10:48 AM • Strava App do Toronto, Ontario Morning Ride Distance 20.63 km Elev Gain 85 m Time 1h 8m
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Illustration of people utilizing different means of transportation mPACT; Transit + Community Toronto Sept 14-17, 2026 I'm Speaking! mpactmobility.org/schedule Join me in Toronto for #MpactTO26
oliver-moore.bsky.social • 2024-02-08 Interesting discussion in the newsroom about what are the boundaries of downtown Toronto. Quite a range of views, it turns out. City staff make it Bathurst to Don and lake to roughly Dupont. What are your boundaries? • 76 17 64 86 ill 130K 企 Plz Delete If Not Allowed • 2024-02-08 G • Weird to use Dupont instead of Davenport. But I think more realistically Bloor in the north. I agree with Bathurst and the Don, but could see an argument for Sherbourne. Closer to the valley starts to get more woodsy and less downtowny. • 1 271 21 ı|| 4.9k A 企 oliver-moore.bsky.social: 2024-02-08 This report has the northern boundary as the CPR line, so between the two toronto.ca/wp-content/upl...
Marco Te Brömmelstroet O • Follo Professor in Urban Mobility Futures, Aca... 5h • Electric cars were not invented to save the planet, our lives or our cities. They were only invented to save the car industry. by Antonio Huerta) FOSSIL FUEL VEHICLES ELECTRIC VEHICLES WALKING, BIKING, & PUBLIC TRANSIT
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One of Toronto’s most popular streets is banning cars for a pedestrian-only summer festival this month. 🚗🚫 Find out more here: https://bit.ly/ossfest-toronto
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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻? One of the world's deadliest machines is the automobile. Every year, over 1.19 million people are killed by cars globally. Yet, we have normalized this. We treat it as a "necessary evil". The unavoidable, tragic cost of doing business. But there is already a solution. And for some reason, politicians don't want it. For every grand challenge, two questions need to be answered: - 𝗛𝗢𝗪 to solve it. This is a technical, technological question. - 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 to solve it. This is the question of political will: are we actually going to use the solution we've found? When it comes to road safety, we already have the technological solution to practically eliminate traffic deaths. It’s called Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA). It automatically limits a vehicle's speed to the posted limit. Is it a 30 km/h street? No matter how hard the driver presses the gas, the car won't go above 30 km/h. The 𝗛𝗢𝗪 is solved. This technology has already been tested with incredible success around the world: 🇺🇸 New York City installed ISA on hundreds of municipal fleet vehicles, dropping severe speeding by a staggering 77%. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 London mandated it on their public buses, and speeding plummeted from 17% to barely 1%. Now for the 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥. This is where decision-makers should step up and make this technology mandatory. The mayors of Barcelona, Amsterdam, Tokyo, or Rio de Janeiro could say today: No car can enter this city without an active ISA installed. But they don't. Instead, they give us a mountain of excuses: "The GPS isn't 100% accurate yet", "Drivers might need to speed up to avoid an accident", "We can't force this on older cars. We need a 15-year phase-in...", "It infringes on personal freedom...". These excuses are moral cowardice. Which brings me back to the question at the top: Why don't politicians want to save the lives of children?
Lanrick Bennett Jr. @LanrickBennett X.com Question to some of our urban media peeps @LaurenPelley @dmrider @moore_oliver @BenSpurr @jsquaredink @shawnmicallef @dandyhorse @rogerfpetersen does the language of how we describe cyclists and crashes that happen through out our city matter? #bikeTO #VisionZero . Friends and Families for Safe S.... 2019-03-27 Language matters in #RoadViolence. Like shifting to say #CrashNotAccident, perhaps we should shift to "people who ride bikes" because the linguistic dehumanization of "cyclist" affects driver behavior, predicting dangerous, threatening driver...
This policy brief summarizes original research published by the School of Cities as part of its Canada’s Urban Infrastructure Deficit research report. The paper assesses which populations have highest access to cycling infrastructure in four Canadian cities, based on census data and a standardized national classification system. To read the full report, visit uoft.me/sofc-infrastructure-deficit KEY MESSAGES Only one in five urban residents in Canada have easy access to community amenities, due in part to uneven and inequitable transportation infrastructure Children and seniors are disproportionately affected by the lack of safe cycling infrastructure, and should therefore be prioritized Investments in cycling infrastructure are essential for health and health equity Cycling infrastructure should be built to serve a range of users of all ages and abilities Local governments require support from senior orders of government to address inequities
user avatar Toronto Police Operations @TPSOperations COLLISION: Queen St E & Berkeley St 11:35 am -police responded to reports of a cyclist struck by a large truck -unknown extent of injuries at this time -truck remained on scene -police on scene with @TorontoMedics -updates to follow ROAD CLOSURES: -Queen St E is closed in both directions between Berkeley St and Ontario St -use alternate routes -expect traffic delays in the area #GO1398079 ^sm 3:57 PM · Jul 6, 2026 5.4K Views