Toronto hasn't ticketed a single motor vehicle driver for idling their engine for too long since 2019. why? because police leadership don't give a flying fuck about population health. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/no-idling-tickets-toronto-since-2019-1.7471953 #LungHealth #WalkTO #BikeTO

With this, and the repeated attacks on Parkside Drive: how committed to dangerous driving do you have to be to vandalize the enforcement cameras?

What’s next, speed camera cameras to spot the vandals?

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2025/01/09/another-speed-camera-sawed-down-in-toronto/

It should be a lot easier to report assault by motor vehicles in Toronto.

In any other circumstance, if I deliberately hit you with a two tonne object, with obvious intent to hurt you, I expect it would be taken more seriously.

Psychology Today: “Boring Cities Bore People”

By building car-centric neighborhoods …we force people to trek long distances to get what they need.

…the same with leisure, recreation, dining or connection to cultural events. By disconnecting these activities from where we live, making them only accessible by car, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to connect with each other. And a life without meaningful connection is a boring life.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-engaged-mind/202410/boring-cities-bore-people

Ten mins early. Hundreds of cyclists at Queen’s Park already for #CycleTO rally against downgrade streets and endangering the public. Remember, bike lanes reduce car crashes, cyclist fatalities, and pedestrian fatalities. They reduce road maintenance needs. They increase street-level retail. And they don’t slow down emergency services in Toronto, according to Toronto EMS.

We should learn from the UK, where many forces have done this for years.

To get to #VisionZero in Toronto, we must prosecute bad drivers based on evidence from the general public. I have many pictures & footage; I’d absolutely show up in court.

If the city may not, ON & CA should allow it.

When I’ve asked police and elected officials why we can’t do that here, they’ve been nonplussed.

Let’s do more, sooner, to stop people _before_ they kill and maim.

#walkTO #bikeTO https://rouge.eu.org/@jfparis/112667721475537676

Given this afternoon's #BikeTO death at Avenue & Elgin, we urgently need to call on Dianne Saxe - whose ward covers the crash site - to get the Avenue Road Study brought to IEC for approval NOW! Safety delayed is safety denied. #WalkTO #TOpoli #VisionZero http://www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2024/04/another-avenue-road-tragedy.html

Do you like trains and bikes and sidewalks and parks and public space and making things better for humans instead of SUVs? Have I got some #FollowFriday for you!

@BrentToderian

@humantransit

@mbonsma

@SeanYYZ

3 Reasons Why I Take the Stairs Instead of the Elevator: https://lydiaschoch.com/3-reasons-why-i-take-the-stairs-instead-of-the-elevator/ #FitFam #EverydayFitness #MondayBlogs #Fitness #Walking #WalkTO #WalkingIsGoodForYou

Why Walking in the Rain Is Underrated: https://lydiaschoch.com/why-walking-in-the-rain-is-underrated/ #MondayBlogs #BloggingCommunity #WalkingIsGoodForYou #WalkTO #Fitness #Walking #WritingCommunity

Disappointed that CARP's Toronto chapter has come out opposing the #HighPark motor vehicle closures (and eventual car-free plan). Those over 65 who support a car-free High Park ought to reach out to CARP ASAP. #BikeTO #BikeTooter #WalkTO #TOpoli #VisionZero https://carptorontochapter.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tthdhyhy-bdutltkhrk-r/?fbclid=IwAR2vIPC_5Fik3tJVp5nR9NIRptna4qBTc74YY3Cm4o2OvsGp6qEocbFgF4w

Any #Toronto folks interested in collaborating on an installation for Park(ing) Day 2023 on September 15? Let's dream big for the possibilities for a street parking spot!

#BikeTO #WalkTO #WalkableCities #Urbanism

https://www.myparkingday.org/

More of this please.

️ A fake soccer referee is issuing yellow cards and red cards to bad drivers in Toronto: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/the-hero-toronto-deserves-why-this-fake-soccer-referee-is-issuing-yellow-cards-to-bad/article_ea47d9ee-c443-5849-8e65-56213eeee67e.html

UPDATE: the govt killed it a month later: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-scraps-brossard-traffic-light-that-rewards-good-driving-says-it-wasn-t-consulted-1.6456678

This. Is. Amazing.

Montréal suburb has a school zone traffic light that only turns green when its camera detects a car driving under the speed limit.

The light is on a 90-day trial, on a 2-lane residential street. Similar signals are widespread in Europe.

Before installation, vehicles averaged 40 km/h. But in the past week, average speed has dropped to 29 km/h.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/