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Alex Mather

5 years

Uninformed commentators: “no one who works in the Financial District bikes to work.” People who work in the Financial District:

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

It is so very nice to be in a city that values and invests in a high quality public realm, and one that encourages people to be out in the streets and parks. Sit, sleep, play; stay a while.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

A colleague once asked me why people who often commute by bike are so quickly “radicalized” to advocate for safer streets. The answer is because if you commute by bike regularly, someone will literally deliberately try to kill you.

Tim Warman

@TimWarman

2 years

This happened on Dundas West this afternoon on my way home from my @thebikebrigade run. The guy (licence BR95664) deliberately tried to sideswipe me then jumped out and started chasing after me. Fortunately I managed to sprint away and lose him in traffic. #closepass

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

People love retail in neighbourhoods. We should allow way more of it.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Shade is actually good.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Toronto drivers crash into buildings on a semi-regular basis, but it’s a little on the nose to crash directly into a bike shop.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

4 years

Keep the pandemic patios forever.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

You can have a handful of spots dedicated exclusively to the storage of private vehicles, or you can have this:

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Montreal’s commitment to excellence in public realm design is really quite incredible. Everywhere you look, a new street or sidewalk or leftover nook that has been reclaimed — often from spaces previously designed primarily for cars — and reinvigorated.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Montreal’s commitment to sustainability and livability through widespread greening is lovely to behold — city is *lush*, much of it having come more recently from reclaiming space previously used for street parking or gained through road narrowing. All of this was space for cars.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

I once asked a former senior Toronto transportation staff member why they insisted on the flimsy plastic bollards to “protect” the bike lanes. His answer: “Well we don’t want cars damaged when they drive into them.”

Matt Elliott

@GraphicMatt

2 years

This city’s love affair with flexible bollards has got to end. Turns out “Trucks can drive over them!” is not a desirable feature for cycling infrastructure.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 months

A mayor leveraging her remarkably high approval rating to deliver on the promises she made during her election campaign by beginning to unwind more than a decade of dishonest fiscal management is good, actually.

Ben Spurr

@BenSpurr

5 months

Mayor Chow now speaking to reporters. Says she inherited “a huge financial mess.” City is failing to provide basic services, roads are crumbling, transit is inadequate.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

A city that values the lives of people riding bikes over the convenience of people driving cars.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Last week the City threatened to fine people $5,000 for not shovelling snow properly.

Colin D'Mello | Global News

@ColinDMello

2 years

There’s currently a barbeque in the middle of Avenue Road outside the ROM, where dozens of tractors have set up for the convoy demonstration in Toronto. #onpoli

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

If you live in Toronto, your tax dollars are paying the officer who hit a cyclist in High Park $281,031 a year to write tickets to people riding bikes in High Park.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Montreal has made such a strong commitment to *real* Vision Zero-adherent physical infrastructure improvements that we know save lives — bump-outs to reduce crossing distances, road narrowings, speed bumps, tightened corner radii, etc. It’s all there, everywhere.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

4 years

So much demand for small businesses located in neighbourhoods. Would love to see an expansion of zoning to permit them much more widely as part of covid recovery measures.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

1 year

Spectacular new bike lanes on Wellington. Toronto can have nice things as long as the anti-safety charlatans are kept at bay.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

6 years

@AlexpiersonAMP @ChrisLewisLLS @MooreintheAM If you can't safely manage to go around that cyclist, you most definitely should not be operating a motor vehicle.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

17 days

Pedestrianize Ossington.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Toronto has some gorgeous missing middle housing. We should make it possible to build it once again.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

4 years

Infuriating. People dying on the streets because of dangerous drivers flouting the law, emboldened by a police force that says it stopped enforcing traffic laws because it doesn’t have the resources to do so. But it has the resources to do this. Harmful negligence.

6ixBuzzTV

@6ixbuzztv

4 years

Bicycle paths in South Etobicoke have a speed limit, and police survey the area to make sure people aren't speeding.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

6 years

@TorontosMayor 1. Remove Mammoliti and Holyday from PWIC immediately. 2. Upgrade painted bike lanes to curb-protected. 3. Establish a new bike network plan with brand new bike routes. All more helpful than your thoughts. This is not difficult, and fewer people will die.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

I’ve now been sent this photo by people living in the US, UK, Japan, Switzerland, and Australia. This is the vision of Toronto that is being projected widely right now. 📸 @Lachancephoto

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Montreal’s contemporary attitude toward urban design rings of a city that loves people living and playing in it and wants to encourage more of it. It is to be emulated.

Glenn Castanheira

@CastanheiraG

3 years

So, we pedestrianized Canada’s largest commercial street and this happened…

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

10 months

Absolutely stunning new affordable housing project wrapping up in Toronto’s West Don Lands. You love to see it.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Today in “gentrification is whatever I define it as to make my point.” This development is replacing a massive discount store with literally hundreds of below-market rate homes, along with hundreds more market purpose built rental homes and new spaces for independent businesses.

Brice Sopher

@this_is_walmer

2 years

Wild that in Toronto we just let a developer buy an entire neighbourhood that was really successful and just destroy it

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

4 years

The Danforth is 1,000 times more enjoyable with bike lanes and patios. Makes you want to stay, shop, linger. Good for businesses and people. #DestinationDanforth

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Griffintown. New neighbourhood, big influx of density. What is Montreal doing in response? Right-sizing the streets, widening sidewalks, building protected bike lanes, and generally repairing the prevailing auto-centric form to respond to an influx of people. Managing growth.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

New missing middle housing? Not so missing in Montreal.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Let’s do it again.

More Neighbours Toronto

@MoreNeighbours

2 years

We once allowed four story apartments to be built on residential streets. And they’re beautiful. Exactly where they belong. Not confined to an avenue or transportation corridor, but in the community itself.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

1 year

Torontonians love a new park.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

“If pedestrians would just stay on the sidewalks and follow the rules, they’d stop dying in record numbers”, they say. #walkTO

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Another day, another Toronto driver plowing through sidewalks and into immovable objects.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Shaw Street feeling much safer for pedestrians a couple days after the @TorontoPolice spent all weekend harassing cyclists on the street…

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

7 years

Bloor bike lanes rush hour this morn. More cyclists than motorists at every intersection, again. Lots of kids using them. #bikeTO @JohnTory

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

More independent retail in neighbourhoods, please.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Every night there is street racing all over the city that the police refuse to enforce.

Mike Whitla

@WhitlaMike

3 years

Watch out riders. Police are ticketing cyclists for speeding above 20km/h in high park. #biketo

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

1 year

Imagine looking at this and thinking “what this place really needs is two thousand more parking spots.” That’s literally the current plan for Ontario Place.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

Narrowed roads Pedestrian crossovers Tightened curb radii Metal bollards Photo radar Protected bike lanes Actual enforcement Harsher penalties And so on and so on... THIS IS NOT HARD

André Picard

@picardonhealth

5 years

Toronto is trying to figure out how to stop drivers from killing pedestrians via @BlogTO @Walk_TO #VisionZero

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

…and not only do the offenders not typically go to jail, they don’t even lose their licenses. In fact, most often literally *nothing* happens in response to them trying to kill you.

The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)

@TheBikingLawyer

2 years

Road violence is real. Motorists like this should lose their license.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

-21C is #bikeTO weather.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

Nice to see towns like Belleville get on the “streets are for people” train.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Anyway, it seems no one on site was seriously injured, which is genuinely a miracle, but every single bike lane should be protected and there should be way more protection for people walking and sitting on patios. Cars are dangerous.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

The speed limit is 40km/h on both of these streets. This will keep happening until Toronto gets serious about making changes to its physical infrastructure. Most everything else is window dressing (which is why this epidemic persists).

7 pedestrians, 1 driver hospitalized after 2-vehicle collision sends car onto sidewalk in Toronto |...

Eight people are injured, including two under the age of 15, following a two-vehicle collision in downtown Toronto on Sunday afternoon that saw a vehicle roll over onto the sidewalk and hit a group...

www.cbc.ca

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 months

No one bikes in the winter in Toronto, they say…

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

This is directly across the street from the section of the city’s busiest bike lane, which it was decided couldn’t have physical protection for people on bikes because some car parking would be lost.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

@fordnation @Raptors your entire career is focused on screwing the city that has repeatedly and steadfastly rejected you

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

I came upon this scene yesterday, a tragically perfect illustration of why Vision Zero is failing in Toronto (and of the fact that unprotected bike lanes are horrible and dangerous). 1/x

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

7 months

As it now seems clear the police aren’t going to play ball here, it’s really on the TTC/Transportation Department to make changes to the King route that obviate the need for enforcement. That should be on the next Council agenda.

Tristan DowneDewdney

@TristanToronto

7 months

Earlier tonight my streetcar driver told us we’d be better off getting out and walking down King. He was right.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 months

Again, “luxury condos” are the most affordable option for most Canadians living in urban areas, and are also the primary source of housing that is secured at below-market rents. This rhetoric is , as ever, both deeply misleading and plainly unhelpful.

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

5 months

Justin Trudeau says one thing but does the other. I visited Edmonton Griesbach, where Justin Trudeau promised to build more affordable homes. Instead, he's building luxury condos you can’t afford. With his plan — developers get rich, you get gouged.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

4 years

Reminder that if even a small portion of these people choose to commute by car rather than by bike or transit, the city will come to a messy, grinding halt. Toronto needs a substantial, immediate build-out of a protected bike lane network.

CTV Toronto

@CTVToronto

4 years

HAPPENING NOW: Commuters wait for shuttle buses during the morning rush as the TTC suspends subway service between Jane and Ossington stations due to a partial derailment. For the latest:

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

7 years

This little orange helmet is the reason the Bloor bike lanes need to stay. #bikeTO

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

1 year

The CEOs of those hospitals literally wrote City Council to ask to have those bike lanes put in to help their healthcare workers get to work safely.

Anthony Furey

@anthonyfurey

1 year

Today I announced that if I’m elected Mayor of Toronto there will be no more bike lanes on major roads and we will tear up the dedicated lanes on University Avenue to not slow down access to hospitals.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

7 months

The problem is cars.

CityNews Toronto

@CityNewsTO

7 months

Streetcars along King Street are travelling slower than prior to a pilot project that was intended to make transit a priority, according to new data.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

Streets are for people, #WeTheNorth edition.

Sarah Jenkins

@sarahjenkinsxo

5 years

Front and University has turned into a complete mosh pit #RTZ

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

1 year

The CEOs of the hospitals that line the street where Saunders made this announcement wrote City Council to ask for those bike lanes to be installed so that the people who work at their hospitals could get to and from work safely.

Ben Spurr

@BenSpurr

1 year

Saunders says he’s not against bike lanes, and that they can be good things. But he’s against how they’re being implemented. Says there’s not enough consultation and they make traffic worse. Claims downtown politicians are forcing them where they don’t belong.

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@AlexDRMather

4 years

@6ixbuzztv Maybe they should have started with the dangerous drivers who are actually killing and maiming people every single week in Toronto. FFS.

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@AlexDRMather

10 months

Why ever reopen all the Yorkville streets to cars?

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@AlexDRMather

1 year

Did you know Toronto has had more than a decade of conservative mayors, including the most recent one who left office some fifteen weeks ago?

Brian Lilley

@brianlilley

1 year

Did you know major crime is up 20% in Toronto over last year’s record crime rate? We have a problem with crime in this city. The woman apparently in the lead to be mayor doesn’t talk about the issue. Read & RT #topoli

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

7 months

Streetcars get stuck on King Street because cops refuse to conduct the enforcement on which the King streetcar relies. Makes you think!

CityNews Toronto

@CityNewsTO

7 months

Toronto police say while they stand behind an officer's decision to ticket a TTC streetcar operator for blocking an intersection during rush hour, traffic congestion should have been considered.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

We should close down more streets to cars and open them to people on weekends in Toronto.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

7 years

Okay, I'm pissed off. So, there was a "cyclist blitz" on my street this morn: 2 officers in 2 cars, observing a stop sign. 1/

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

3 years

It is a fiction that Ontario Place has been “largely closed since 2012.” In reality, it is currently — and should remain — a well used public space.

David Rider

@dmrider

3 years

Inbox: Ford government should sell Ontario Place to developers, says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

2 years

Another day, another instance of getting called a “faggot fuck cyclist” by a Toronto driver. This is for some reason a common refrain.

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@AlexDRMather

4 years

Is there a better visualization of the efficiency and importance of rapid transit than the videos we see whenever even a part of a major line is shut down? Imagine if all these people drove cars everyday.

CTV Toronto

@CTVToronto

4 years

HAPPENING NOW: Commuters wait for shuttle buses during the morning rush as the TTC suspends subway service between Jane and Ossington stations due to a partial derailment. For the latest:

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@AlexDRMather

2 years

Here’s How…to block the sidewalk, crosswalk, and bike lane all at the same time.

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@AlexDRMather

2 years

This one in particular ran a stop sign, nearly hit me, then tried to swerve me off the road after I yelled at him. I’ll report him to the police, who will do nothing because they are literally too busy ticketing cyclists in High Park.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

Got married on the weekend, with a little help from @TTChelps .

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

Find someone who loves you the way Toronto politicians love ageing highways.

Alex Bozikovic

@alexbozikovic

5 years

Toronto could fully repair every one of its social housing units and every one of its parks facilities for less than it is spending ($2b) on repairing one elevated expressway. #topoli

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@AlexDRMather

2 months

Bloor-Gladstone @torontolibrary — one of the best.

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@AlexDRMather

2 years

So glad ⁦ @TrafficServices ⁩ are out ticketing cyclists in High Park again. Wouldn’t want to be caught *actually* serving or protecting vulnerable road users, now, would we?

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@AlexDRMather

6 years

Toronto’s version of the “thoughts and prayers” that accompany every US school shooting. This, from the Mayor who appointed the councillors most vociferously opposed to protecting cyclists to the committee in charge of protecting cyclists.

John Tory

@TorontosMayor

6 years

My thoughts are with the family and friends of the woman who died while cycling at Bloor and St. George Sts. today. The deaths of pedestrians & cyclists on our streets is deeply troubling to me. I am determined to do all we can to make our streets safer.

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Alex Mather

@AlexDRMather

5 years

University intersects literally every east-west protected bike lane in the city. Demand would *explode* if protected bike lanes were added to the expressway-like University; it’d be the first real step towards an actual (but small) safe cycling network in Toronto.

David Rider

@dmrider

5 years

Clr Holyday says some streets being studied for bike lanes show incredibly low cyclist use now, cites University Ave. Doubts predictions of rapid cyclist uptake if lanes built. (University is almost an inner city highway with some stop lights. Cars travel very fast)

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@AlexDRMather

5 years

The new Garrison Crossing pedestrian and cycle bridge, a treasure.

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@AlexDRMather

2 years

Mass timber construction on Toronto’s waterfront. Great to see it rising.

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@AlexDRMather

2 years

Density + plenty of public seating + nearby food and beverage offerings = busy parks.

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@AlexDRMather

3 years

The Toronto Police don't enforce dangerous driving because they say they don't have the resources to do so. Clearing encampments that exist partly because those living in them don't feel safe in the shelter system? Bring in the commandos.

Martin Reis

@BikeLaneDiary

3 years

Breaking: Huge Police force mass to confront protesters in support of encampments in Trinity-Bellwoods Park @ESN_TO @blogTO @nowtoronto @adequatehousing @leilanifarha @FredrikGertten @Push_TheFilm #encampment

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@AlexDRMather

2 years

I live on this street. Neighbours have been *begging* the police for *years* to enforce dangerous driving on this and literally every surrounding street. But instead they’re using their supposedly limited resources to harass cyclists again.

The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)

@TheBikingLawyer

2 years

The @TorontoPolice hate cyclists. @m_layton can we please know why this is happening? They have told community members they are doing this here all weekend.

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@AlexDRMather

5 years

On a 12-minute bike ride to a meeting this morn, I encountered: > A driver going the wrong way up a 1-way who honked at me for “not getting out of the way” > The driver stuck behind me, who rolled down his window to yell “faggot” at me as he sped by > 12 cars parked in bike lanes

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17 days

One of the most remarkable buildings in Toronto.

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@AlexDRMather

3 years

It would be absolutely insane not to make #cafeTO permanent.

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@AlexDRMather

5 years

When I think about how meekly Toronto politicians are responding to the road safety crisis, I often think about the comment that the US forever lost the gun control plot once politicians decided not to act after 20 schoolchildren were murdered at Sandy Hook.

CP24

@CP24

5 years

#BREAKING : A baby is in life-threatening condition after being involved in a hit-and-run at Ellesmere Road and Pharmacy Avenue. Three pedestrians were struck in total. Police are looking for a grey Dodge Journey driven by a white male.

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1 month

Always a good sign when you have to go to a different city from the one in which you are presently running for mayor to make a point you’re getting hammered for.

Dipika Damerla

@DipikaDamerla

1 month

It will be up to the residents to decide on who best represents the vision of the Mississauga they want. I will not be silenced in my opposition to remove two lanes from Bloor Street and create more gridlock in #Mississauga

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@AlexDRMather

5 years

Local paper again comes out in favour of traffic congestion.

AGAR: Former mayoral candidate driving war against car

torontosun.com

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@AlexDRMather

4 years

Wow, @BikeShareTO logged record January ridership last month, with a total of 102,148 rides. I thought no one bikes in the winter?!

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@AlexDRMather

5 years

Wow -- @BikeShareTO 's June ridership was *292,283.* That's twice the entire population of Barrie on a Bike Share bike.

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@AlexDRMather

8 months

@jfcampbellTO Looks like a great way to help keep people safe and support small businesses.

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@AlexDRMather

7 years

@TPS_ParkingPal @TPSOperations @m_layton @CycleToronto @PC_Hoppee Her answer? "I'm here to ticket cyclists, not drivers." I'm gobsmacked. Officer is admitting to willingly disregarding law enforcement. 7/

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@AlexDRMather

6 years

Hi, @JohnTory : in Winnipeg, they get that taking real action is more appropriate than defaulting to thoughts and prayers. They do this because it makes it less likely that more people will die. This is not difficult.