Dave Ley

@daveley
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Dad. Usually found riding my #ternbicycle #cargobike around #Toronto, Canada. Against all the bad stuff, but my #adhd brain is easily overwhelmed so I try and focus on the good and possible.

Closely follow: #bikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #TTC #PublicTransit #ClimateChange #UkraineWar #Neurodivergent #Fediverse

Hobbies: #boardgames #backstabbr #ksp2 #folkTO #mcsweeneys #wikipedia

Recent / memorable travel: #azores #stockholm #copenhagen #netherlands #ghana

Work life: #UX #pegasystems #CSS #a11y

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead.

Me: Can it talk to my printer yet?

They: haha no

It's nuts to me that the only way we get news from Metrolinx plans are through leaks or freedom of information requests.

No timeline, not even clear goals of what they are buildling. We don't know shit. It's insane to run a transit system like that. No wonder everything is late, it seems they don't even know what they are buildling.

https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=891f688c-a717-4ade-8e31-51633ef23d21

#gotransit #metrolinx #ontario

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.

My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.

My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.

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(the IDE cables of March)

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.
Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
(Did I write this and forget to eat, and also have a meeting in 10 minutes? ADHD says yes!)

One year of congestion pricing in New York City:
- $700 million paid, and major subway upgrades in progress
- Broadway $ up since congestion pricing began
- Sales tax $ also up compared to other boroughs, and storefront vacancies down
- 22% drop in air pollution

More from Streetsblog: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/how-congestion-pricing-proved-the-haters-wrong-and-is-changing-new-york-for-the-better