Nick Shaw

@nickshaw.ca

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🚉 I’m a transit planner based in Toronto 🫡 Registered Planner (RPP, MCIP) & PRINCE2 certified (UK+Europe’s PMP) 🌎 I do this because it’s the space between places that determines the health of self and community. and peace blooms in cities 🏳️‍🌈

“If 2025 gave out awards, you'd get: Most Likely to Have a 5% Design Ready by Lunch For turning every crisis into a colour-coded phasing plan and every napkin sketch into a Class 5 estimate -before anyone else's coffee cooled.”
Screenshot of a New York Times article titled “At State Department, a type face falls victim in the war against woke” with a picture of tired and pissed off Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Line graph of liquefied natural gas export capacity in selected countries, 2005-2030. The graph shows the United States rapidly expanding capacity from nothing today to nearly double the next largest exporters, Qatar and Australia.
Eyes of golden retriever a dog peeking out of a window.
Screenshot from the Electricity App showing realtime GHG intensity and Electricity mix, the decreasing as the latter shows 25% of Ontario’s electricity is generated by wind power.
Map of the Eglinton East Light Rail Transit project—a proposed 27 stop, 18.6 km light rail transit line (future Line 7) spanning across eastern Scarborough. This is one of the City of Toronto’s two priority transit projects.
Axonometric hand drawn illustration of Bloor-Yonge Station in Toronto by Sigmund Serafin commissioned by the TTC. Source: City of Toronto Archives (1957, Fonds 16, Series 2449, Item 1)
Image of a fire station in Paris, France showing small fire trucks in the background and two firefighters in spandex shorts scrubbing floors in the foreground
Photo looking south down Avenue Jean Médecin in Nice, France in July 2025 showing arcade sidewalk on the sides with two tram tracks running down the centre. (Credit: Nick Shaw)
Map showing the conceptual location of a multiuse path alongside the Barrie GO rail corridor connecting to the Davenport Diamond Greenway at Bloor Street West and the West Toronto Rail Path at Dundas Street West.
Screenshot of a snapshot of Ontario’s 2024 natural gas electricity production at 25.5 TWh and 16.17% of Ontarios total production but nearly 90% of its total GHG emissions.
Graph showing the change in Portugal’s yearly electricity mix from majority gas and coal in 2017 to no coal and majority renewables by 2024.
Bar chart of Portugal’s electricity GHG emission intensity dropping from around 500 gCO2e/kWh in 2017 to 100 last year.
Graphic illustrating east-west profile of Canada from Vancouver to St. John's indicating current weather conditions at cities in between. From July 4, 1987 Toronto Star newspaper
Image of wide street where photo radar is being deployed
Canadian quarter coin, the left with the image of Queen Elizabeth II the right with the image of King Charles III
Two graphs showing hourly carbon intensity and electricity generation mix in California ISO over 3 days May 25-28, 2025. Shows solar almost entirely displaces emitting sources during daytime with overnight generation increasingly being filled by batter storage. Source: Electricity Maps app
Screenshot of beck taxi fare estimate in Toronto: $14-16.
Image of St. Patrick subway station in Toronto with exposed tunnel walls
Bar graph summarizing the annual CO2 emissions of top emitting countries alongside SUVs