Torontonian. Etobian. Climate Justice Advocate. Driver against car dominance. Also find me at bsky.app/profile/how-sen.com
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Jun 2
Human societies have had public streets that prioritized commerce, public gathering, and public transportation for literally thousands of years before the invention of the private automobile.
It’s past time to prioritize cars on *every* street.
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Jun 3
It’s funny how, when faced with the obvious reality that streets predate cars by literal millennia, the “but streets were built for cars!!” people immediately switch their messaging to “but older things are always worse”.
How many of them are “Make X Great Again!!”, I wonder?
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Jun 2
The main difference between car traffic today and car traffic with automated robotaxis is this:
Instead of roads being jammed by cars with just 1-2 people in them, roads will be jammed by cars with just 0-1 people in them.
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Jun 2
Give any thought past “Toronto could use a second airport” and it becomes clear that Billy Bishop cannot be that airport.
There’s simply no space.
Compare it to Pearson, which is served by a train, two major highways, and several square kilometres of parking.
#topoli
Jun 2
Access denied: Billy Bishop expansion records shielded from public view thetrillium.ca:443/news/muni…
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May 28
It’s important to note that almost every one of those cars has just one occupant in them (or is an Uber with one or zero passengers).
28 cyclists and 11 cars make their way through an intersection on University Avenue during rush hour on a Thursday, 8:45AM. The moving vehicles (and 3 parked cars) are allotted 3x the space. These actors are not acting in good faith.
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May 27
Why we need bus lanes.
Here’s 6 Bathurst streetcars NB to Line 2 at rush.
Those riders in their own cars or ubers at 20km/h would form a line nearly 8km long. That’s the distance from the lake to Eglinton.
At 40km/h, it would be 13.8km. That’s the lake to Sheppard.
#topoli
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May 27
Streetcars and buses deserve their own lane.
If everyone in this streetcar were driving, the line of cars would stretch well over a kilometer long.
(One kilometer is the distance between College and Bloor streets.)
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May 27
Here there are about six Bathurst streetcars going northbound to Line 2.
At 20km/h all those riders in their own cars lined up in one lane would be nearly 8km long. That’s the distance from the Lake to Eglinton.
At 40km/h, it would be 13.8km. That’s the Lake to Sheppard.
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May 27
By the way: these calculations all assume that the average number of occupants per car is 1.5 (including the driver)
During rush hour, the average is closer to 1.1 occupants. So you all those final distances should be multiplied by 1.36
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19 Nov 2025
A reminder that all the most successful shopping malls in Canada aren’t the ones with the largest parking lots: They’re the ones with the best connections to public transit.
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19 Nov 2025
Here’s a list from 2023.
Of the top 12, only Square One, Laval, and Masonville have no connection to upper level transit.
Notably, the country’s most famous mall, West Edmonton, doesn’t even make the list while across town, Southgate (with a transit rail connection) does.
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19 Nov 2025
Further, many of the malls on this list without rail transit links — like Square One and Sherway here in the GTA — are essentially bus transit hubs.
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18 Sep 2025
“The very thing that’s exciting about solar energy — its abundance and low cost — also makes it of little interest to investors. Sun (and wind) are so freely available all around us that it’s hard to hoard them and make big profits from them.”
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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16 Sep 2025
I just had a smoothie that had a large chunk of plastic accidentally blended into it and I can’t wait until we eliminate single use plastics forever.
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18 Aug 2025
This has been one of the most extreme summers in my lifetime.
We need all levels of government to protect people from climate change… while also moving swiftly to end oil, gas and other fossil fuels forever.
18 Aug 2025
Together with allies we're getting the message to the ON gov: Heat is deadly and growing worse because of climate change.
We have solutions to protect the health of seniors, children, workers, tenants, unhoused people and others at an increased risk ➡️ loom.ly/KGSSO-o
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18 Aug 2025
I’m at the Ontario Legislative building right now supporting a province-wide coalition calling on a series of measures to provide cooling in indoor spaces.
While we cut emissions from sources like oil and gas, we need to protect everyone from extreme weather.
ALT Photo from press conference inside the Ontario Legislature. Media are filming and writing in the foreground while four people sit at a presentation table with an orange sign behind them that says ‘Extreme Heat is a Killer, Ontario Must Act Now!’
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18 Aug 2025
During heat events, more health effects, including deaths, happen indoors than outdoors.
When indoor cooling was first invented, it was marketed as a luxury.
That was over 120 years ago. With the changing climate, indoor cooling is no longer a luxury.
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