Marcus P.

@reluctantaxe.bsky.social

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Tabletop gaming enthusiast, urban planning & transit advocate, and Kamcon gaming convention organiser.

An intersection with bus queue jumping lanes and slip lanes.
Aerial view of towers along the 427 in Toronto
Scott road bus priority at a minor intersection without slip lanes
The A&W burger family
Oprah Winfrey meme, you get at multiplex and you get a multiplex, everyone gets a multiplex
From the Tyee: "That the decision to construct this line was utter stupidity goes without saying, and such will be demonstrated as the costs skyrocket (to be borne in part by public servants' pension funds) and it becomes clear that the predicted ridership has been grossly inflated."
Orange vest with lots of pockets.
Small soccer ball keychain being used as a compass card.
Mr Skinner meme. Am I out of touch. No, it's the children who are wrong
Map of the Mellenium line
Map of the most ridden bus lines in Toronto
muscular blue centaur-like creature with small horns
Midrise buildings
What changes are the City of Toronto considering? The City of Toronto is planning to implement two of the four elements of TSP along both Finch and Eglinton avenues: green light extension and phase rotation. City spokesperson Kate Lear said city staff has already worked out a plan for how green light extension can be added at intersections where LRT vehicles interact with traffic. “The maximum amount of time that it is possible to extend the green light is 16 seconds for Line 5 – Eglinton LRT, and 30 seconds for Line 6 – Finch West LRT due to LRT frequencies,” Lear told 680 NewsRadio Toronto. Lear also said the city plans to implement phase rotation, allowing LRTs to go before vehicles intending to make left turn. “The City of Toronto plans to work with the TTC to implement an unconditional priority of both the Finch West LRT and Eglinton LRT vehicles to move ahead of left-turning vehicles at intersections,” Lear said. “This will supplement the existing transit signal priority provided as part of the construction of both lines where green lights are extended to give the LRTs additional time to clear the intersection and shortening red lights to minimize delays.” However, the city has not indicated any plans to implement red light truncation as part of TSP changes.
Chart showing the Jericho Lands, legalizing outdoor saunas, and Olympic village school as the highest number of public comments for Vancouver council by a wide margin
Jacky Chan confused
Why do people on here keep suggesting removing stops? (50%? Seriously??) It's such an unimaginative defeatist response. "What if we try making streetcars slightly faster by making their accessibility much, much worse??" There are other, much more effective things we can do to speed up streetcars. We don't need to make them less accessible and less convenient. One of the great things about our transit system is how quickly you can find a nearby stop, at least downtown. Why make it more of a pain in the ass to navigate around the city?
Picture of a hobbit hole
Finch LRT vehicle at a stop
Oppenheimer looking sad
A satellite picture showing the route of the R6 rapidbus in Surrey BC
Image of the Finch West LRT train
A screenshot of two comments from an online discussion thread. The first comment, by user CalligrapherOne1228, reads: "You could see Driftwood Station from Jane & Finch. Stevenson isn't even 300m from Albion." This comment has -12 points. The second comment, by user crumblingheart, reads: "And? There are bus and streetcar stops that are literally across the street from each other." This comment has 6 points.
A meme featuring a surprised Pikachu with the following text above it: "Rezone for large livable multiplexes People build large livable multiplexes"
A four-panel 'You guys are getting paid?' meme featuring four public transit agencies. Panel 1 (TransLink): "I dodged the LRT everytime when building our automated metro." Panel 2 (ARTM - Greater Montreal): "I built over 60km of automated metro but it's all trams from here on out." Panel 3 (TTC - Toronto): "I spent billions on LRT but our weird uncle decided to build an automated metro downtown." Panel 4 (OC Transpo - Ottawa): "Wait your supposed to automated the trains?
Aliens guy meme but says Developer lobby instead
Graph of Canada and US metro areas with a breakdown of percentage of people that live in density density bands
A map of Toronto showing all the rail services including commuter rail and streetcars
Post from TransLink showing the benefits of a Gilmore routing being 3 bus lines.
Vancouver population density map
Meme of man with sickos on his shirt looking into a house wind saying Yes... ha ha ha... Yes
Image of a Reddit post saying that Vancouver needs trams with a picture of a tropical tramway
Handshake meme with three hands. The hands are labeled Quebec, BC, Manitoba and the handshake labeled "hydro power goes burrr'
A ma of the skytrain and rapid bus network in vancouver
Frog Prince from Chrono Cross
Graph of the 323 boarding by stop with a huge spike at 76th street
Poll showing 21% CPC support for becoming the 51st state going up to 33% if the liberals win
Map showing routes and stations of the King George Boulevard and 200th street BRT lines