Some statistics about Toronto:

50% of residents are renters.

More than 1 in 4 do not have access to a car.

More than 1 in 3 do not have a drivers license.

500,000 do not have air conditioning

13% of Toronto’s landmass is parks

25% of Toronto’s landmass is paved roads

Every time I drive and I see a change in the city that forces me to slow down, the first thing I *feel* is frustration.

… but the first thing I *think* is: Good. This is helping slowing me down and make it safer for me when I bike or walk around here.

If the culture of policing isn’t broken, then how did a police department get away with calling one of its units ‘Scorpion’ for this long?

That’s 80s Bond villain kind of bad.

I’ve visited plenty of places in the world where police walked around with assault rifles and every time I’ve seen it, it’s made me feel less safe.

No city should have patrol officers walking around with these kinds of rifles and I do not want them in mine.

The first sentence of this piece from @[email protected] columnist Andrew Clark says it all:

It’s ironic that pedestrians, who are the most vulnerable travellers, get the smallest amount of space. Automobiles get grand swathes of pavement…”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-sidewalks-are-not-for-cars-like-some-drivers-think-i-cant-believe-i/

Here’s an incomplete list of places that have a parking levy of some sort:

New York ✅
Chicago ✅
LA ✅
DC ✅
San Francisco ✅
Montréal ✅
Vancouver ✅
Melbourne ✅
Sydney ✅

Toronto 🚫

We need more funds for transit.
We need to pass a parking levy.

#TOpoli

I’m honestly surprised that the far right mob isn’t up in arms against the original Pink Floyd album art.

It’s basically an illustration of their worst fears.