Cycling advocate; Rotarian; FCPA, FCA and Life Member and Fellow, CPA Ontario
Joined October 2013
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John G Patte retweeted
In Ontario, if you're involved in a motor vehicle collision but your injury isn't permanent & worth more than $46,053.20 (statutory deductible), you get ZERO. The province needs to readjust the scales between injured people & insurance companies cc @douglasdowney @fordnation
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John G Patte retweeted
28 Jul 2023
In 3 yrs this #solar installation at a high school in Arkansas turned the district budget from a $250K deficit to a $1.8 million surplus. They're using the surplus to increase teacher salaries.
We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#climate #renewables
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John G Patte retweeted
30 Jul 2023
In the Netherlands, bikes are transportation. It's more about function and offering an efficient, affordable, healthy way to get from A to B.
Cycling just 30 minutes every day is equal to the weekly recommended level of physical activity.
READ MORE: dutchcycling.nl/wp-content/u…
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John G Patte retweeted
13 Jul 2023
The discrepancy between large homes underpaying taxes and small homes over paying taxes is the issue, not the discrepancy between the assessment and the home value.
This *is* new data - and lower property taxes for wealthier households is regressive. Impossible to find a public policy justification for this. Needs a fix.
13 Jul 2023
Nothing new here, there has always been a multi-year lag between assessed values and what people actually pay. Fix is simple tie land registry records to MPAC, as soon as property changes hands provide the sale price to MPAC and next years tax bill reflects sale value
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John G Patte retweeted
13 Jul 2023
For better streets, we do not need more space.
We also do not need new technologies or tools.
What we need is imagination and courage.
-#Sheffield, via Biophylic Design
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John G Patte retweeted
13 Jul 2023
The bigger your home, the more likely the rest of Toronto is subsidizing you. Let that sink in.
If you have 4 fireplaces, you get a tax break. No fireplaces? Pay up.
Many of us suspected this but we never had a robust data set. Now we do.
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John G Patte retweeted
12 Jul 2023
You want to hog road space, which is at a premium in any thriving city? Paris has an answer to that: they are putting a price on parking based on the weight & size of vehicles. No more lugging the kids to school in an SUV without thinking twice about it.
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John G Patte retweeted
12 Jul 2023
🚨BREAKING🚨
#Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’: Size, weight & motor will be taken into account as councillors target ‘dangerous, cumbersome’ vehicles. lnkd.in/enjrishB
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John G Patte retweeted
11 Jul 2023
Volume of pedestrians ✔️ Amount of space allocated to pedestrians ❌ This is why the redesign of King Street was a critical next step in the pilot. What exactly are we waiting for?
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John G Patte retweeted
11 Jul 2023
Witness the 7-month transformation of Marnix Avenue, in Utrecht. The city converted the busy traffic road into a safe road with fewer lanes for cars, more greenery, and smart traffic lights for a better flow of bike, car and public transport. 🚲🌳
Video: utrechtonderweg
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John G Patte retweeted
11 Jul 2023
Good times: Canada has ridiculously cheap gas, an irrational fear of road tolls, and the world's least fuel-efficient cars. No wonder 75% of all new housing built in Canada over the past decade is in gas-guzzling suburbs. No wonder. What a trap!
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John G Patte retweeted
12 Jul 2023
Cyclists are now a greater proportion of traffic than cars and taxis on London UK streets. Yes, wet, damp London, home of the very pricey Congestion Charge. A sea change in a relatively short period of time.
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John G Patte retweeted
11 Jul 2023
New plan for Fifth Avenue unveiled: given there are already far more pedestrians than cars, the space is being ‘right-sized.’ Wide sidewalks! A safe, separated cycle track! Dedicated bus lanes! And then a little leftover space for cars. Putting cars in their place, finally.
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7 Jul 2023
Let’s apply this to Whitby too!
6 Jul 2023
NYC: narrowing streets taking back space from cars to create spaces for people. This is why transit matters. To apply this to Toronto, the more people arrive downtown by transit, the more viable this is for getting around in city. Ontario Line is golden to enable this. Gardiner rebuild is not.
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30 Jun 2023
I experienced this last week. Officer wearing a Vision Zero badge held back about 25 people despite the walk signal, to allow 2 cars to make a left hand turn. This garbage approach is not #VisionZero. This garbage approach prioritizing cars over people is...garbage.
29 Jun 2023
Why are police at York & Lakeshore stopping pedestrians, while they still have a valid walk countdown, to allow vehicles to turn right onto the Gardiner ramp?! Pedestrians have the RoW, but that is being overridden. #WalkTO
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John G Patte retweeted
30 Jun 2023
As part of our downtown plan when I was Chief Planner, we proposed 9.5 acres of new park - by transforming University Ave. Low cost, high impact. The community the @globeandmail championed it. City Hall? Crickets. Will @oliviachow run with it? It needs a political champion.
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John G Patte retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Cities get makeovers all the time. In the ‘80’s streets everywhere were widened street trees were removed. Today cities are going in the other direction, reclaiming space for people. New street designs proposed in Paris: amount of space reserved for cars will be roughly halved.
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John G Patte retweeted
24 Jun 2023
If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via @thediscourse study.
This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice.
#citymakingmath
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John G Patte retweeted
25 Jun 2023
The small town of Canmore, Canada (population 14,000) is officially 'Going Dutch', converting what was once a former highway into an urban street.
Central to that plan is their first protected intersection complete with red-tinted separated cycle tracks.
youtube.com/watch?v=2rdVsKwP…
ALT An aerial view of a protected intersection in suburban Canmore, Canada includes red-tinted separated cycle tracks.
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22 Jun 2023
Small changes, big results!
21 Jun 2023
No Cars? Lively Streets! greencityblog.com/lively-str…