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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

you can drive up to killbear on freshly widened provincial roads, poop in a brand new comfort station and climb one of the most iconic rocks in Ontario to watch the sunset while legally cracking a beer you bought at a corner store 1/2

a beautiful sunset over Georgian Bay, taken from the top of Harolds Point in killbear provincial Park.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

supposedly the city of Hamilton is putting out an emergency contract to repave Dundurn in the fall. I know what you're thinking, the emergency is that kids have to bike like this, but it's only when the road starts affecting people's suspension that we act quickly

A child bikes southward on the Dundurn bike lane in Hamilton. the bike lane is offset from an empty parking lane, so the child is in the middle of the road.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've always thought a quick win for cycling would be to allow two-way cycling on one-way streets, but that it's too straightforward of an idea for the traffic ppl to get behind. turns out Hamilton literally did this for cars, "oh just drive the wrong way here"

A one way street with a contra-flow bike lane on it. Across the street we see a "no left turns, except if you're going into the driveway" sign.

The contra-flow bike lane on Pearl Street in Hamilton ON.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

hedge tomatoes are going so crazy

A 4-foot tall hedge with a pair of tomato plants sprawled atop it.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I absolutely need this pickup truck. how else could I fit a kayak and my entire family?

A Ford F150 with a kayak sticking 6 feet out the back.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

unfortunate that the City of Hamilton is planning to narrow this road to put trees, and not bicycle infrastructure. it's the only direct way to get to Westdale [Secondary School for everyone west of JAMES!] that does not involve crossing a highway ramp

A child bicycling on a sidewalk beside a 4 lane road; in the foreground we see a cargo bike.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

in Canada we can do 3 at a time because we are faster and stronger maps.app.goo.gl/piSepHWBQShN...

A roundabout in kitchener Ontario. The roundabout joins highway offramps with some 4-lane roads and contains 3 lanes of traffic in most quadrants; there are numerous pedestrian crossings where people must cross the 3-lane intake / outtake with no signals.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

my uncle upgraded his acoustic "take the dog to the beach" bike to an electric model and now he's entering the #carryshitolympics. bikes are contagious

My uncle riding a red trek box bike. In the front is a mini fridge and a number of plants

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

TIL that toronto has tiny bike-lane-sized ambulances 🥰(crosspost from reddit www.reddit.com/r/torontobik...)

A side-by-side sized ambulance vehicle driving in a multi-use path on Toronto waterfront. The vehicle looks like a box truck, and is narrow enough for cyclists to pass it in the opposite direction.

A Toronto Paramedic ambulance sized for bike-lanes; the vehicle is a 6-wheel side-by-side with a small ambulance box on the back, and is seen driving on one half of a two-way cycle track near Yonge and Queens Quay.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

there are options for this kind of work, and they are available in North America. my brother uses a flat-nosed landscape truck, it's just way more practical and maneuverable!

a crew-cabbed Hyundai porter, a work truck with a short nose, large windows and a dumping bed

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

they must have fallen off the "let's close all the bike routes this weekend" truck

a bike lane closed for construction on Locke street in Hamilton.

two bike riders, one a small child, ride on a cobbled cycling route. In the distance, the road is closed to allow a staging area for a construction project.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Aberdeen Rebuild consultation is HAPPENING! and there is... one week to plan to go to the meeting and provide comments in person. #BikeHamiltom unite!

a public consultation announcement regarding Aberdeen / Dundurn reconstruction and safety measures

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hamilton: committed to making the falseism "you can't buy groceries by bike" true

A cargo bike waits in traffic at Dundurn / Main in Hamilton ON, on its way to the notoriously inaccessible downtown supermarket on Dundurn Street. The bike is in the center lane, with two straaight-thru lanes and a left turn lane. Cars surround.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'm a truck route. I'm a cycling route. I'm a combination truck and cycle route 🤦

This road has been designated as both a truck route and rural cycle route in the City’s
Transportation Master Plan. The reconstruction will allow for vehicle lanes and cycle
lanes to be established that are in accordance with current municipal standards.
Reopening this road to through traffic will also allow for the removal of temporary
detours which divert trucks to less desirable adjacent areas

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

this week my kid realized you can bike in the rain. I honestly don't know who told her this is possible but my "never say no to biking" policy does not have an exception for rain

A child bikes down a quiet street in a purple rain jacket. In the foreground, another child sits in the front of a cargo bike.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

this is a new 30-storey building in Hamilton with underground parking, in-building trash management, and pad-mounted transformers because the engineers at @alectranews.bsky.social are hard to work with. this should be bog standard

The McMaster student housing project at Bay and King in Hamilton ON. A 30 storey building with a triple-wide driveway entrance accommodating a parking garage, loading / move-in zone and trash, but the electrical transformers and metering equipment are in green pad-mounted boxes out front blocking an access door.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"we should turn down the -- " nuclear power plant go brrr

A graph showing the power mix in Ontario. the bottom half is a flat orange block of nuclear, while other generation sources (hydro, gas, wind) make up the difference against the fluctuating demand curve.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

it's crazy how much good an hour of exercise in the sun can do for you

A Strava map showing a bike ride circumnavigating Cootes Paradise in Hamilton Ontario. The route climbs the Niagara escarpment, then cuts across a country road to the west before dropping back down into Dundas -- a total distance of 25.4 km.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

the national broadcaster running a daily broadcast about the Olympics called "petro-canada" is just a little too on the nose for me honestly

A banner for the CBC daily Olympic morning show; the title is "Petro-Canada Olympics Winter Games Morning: Day 14" and the hosts are superimposed in front of a mountain.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

these are great! so grippy, so supportive.

A cargo bike parked in a parking lot next to an old stone building. The bike is a dutch bakfiets with a brown front box, a black frame and colourful camo-pattern Look pedals.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

one of the gaps in cargo-bike ownership in NA is that it's not big enough to where we have ubiquitous "bring my bike to x" tools / services, which can make a flat tire pretty annoying. my solution is another cargo bike

A front loader cargo bike strapped to a flat bike trailer. The bike has a flat tire, and is being towed to a shop.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I like to periodically post about how inflexible our "base load" nuclear is in Ontario but it really is good compared to other possible arrangements

a graph showing generation mix in Ontario over the last few days. We see a waterfall graph with coloured bands; two afternoon peaks are visible at around 23 GW, with overnight lows of 20 GW. The bottom third of the graph is dominated by a flat band representing nuclear; above it we see a smaller band of Hydro producing 3-4 GW and taking up a lot of the daily cycle. Above that we see a fairly steady band of gas generation which comes close to nuclear at about 7-8 GW.

The chart is juxtaposed against a chart in another post about the supply mix in India, which is dominated by coal.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

did my first 100-mile ride this year, a race-against-the-ferry on Manitoulin Island. goal for 2026 is to get fit enough that it doesn't completely destroy me to ride this far 😅

A screenshot of a Strava ride on Manitoulin Island in Ontario. The ride snakes it's way in a figure+8 around the island and is annotated with "lifetime personal record" indicators for 100-kilometer and 100-mile distances.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

somewhat salvageable but I don't love it

A map view showing Dunsmure where it crosses King Street. A blue line shows a potential detour around the Dunsmure crossing of King, which is planned to be grade-separated; it travels on Glendale, Morris, across a non-existant freight track crossing, and on to East Bay before joining the pedestrian crossing of King.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

omg it breaks the Dunsmure Bicycle Boulevard I am 100% against this project. DO NOT TAKE THIS FROM ME

A map view showing King Street in Hamilton where it intersects with Dunsmure Rd, with an overlaid depiction of the proposed LRT. Dunsmure is shown with built-out curbs blocking access towards the east where it continues on the other side of King. The tramway is shown travelling underground to bypass the freight rail line.

A map view of Dunsmure where it intersects with the east/north side of King Street. Dunsmure is blocked from King by retaining walls as the LRT is intended to go underground to bypass the CP rail line that crosses King in this location.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

one thing I'm feeling pretty good about is that it seems like doing TSP would be a lot easier here than Finch LRT, for a few reasons: * more room for pedestrian islands * the planned space for cars is just way less (most intersections show 2-3 car lanes at most) * Hamilton loves timed lights

A map depicting the intersection of King with Bay in Hamilton, showing how the roadway will be configured. King retains only two lanes, and is one-way east of Bay, simplifying the signal phasing.

A map view of the intersection of University Ave with Main West in Hamilton, showing the proposed LRT alignment. The tramway is aligned to the north side of the street, limiting interactions with car lanes; existing staged pedestrian crossings are proposed to be retained.

A map view of the intersection of Wellington with King Street in Hamilton, showing the proposed LRT alignment. East of Wellington there are two lanes of traffic, while to the west there are no planned car lanes; Wellington remains a 3-lane one-way street.

A map view showing the intersection of Wentworth with King in Hamilton, with an overlay showing the proposed LRT alignment. This is one of the more complex intersections, with 3 lanes of traffic on each street and travel in both directions.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I would simply not make people cross a slip lane to access the rapid transit stop. or build a new slip lane in this day and age

A map of Queen/King intersection in Hamilton, showing the proposed LRT. A red band in the middle of King indicates the proposed transit stop starting west of Queen Street; newly proposed in the plan is a slip lane that attempts to guide right-turning-cars on to King.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

it's also pretty annoying to me how the design just assumes the existing fortinos plaza cannot be changed -- meanwhile, many other properties have been expropriated and demolished in case doing so would make LRT construction go smoother. this is what I would do if I was the urbanism god:

A map view of the Fortinos plaza at Dundurn / Main / King in Hamilton, with a conceptual drawing of the proposed LRT. As planned, the transitway turns from King onto Main and has a center stop along the plaza curb; squiggly annotations have been added showing an alternative where the LRT goes through the middle of the plaza, and the parking lot is replaced with mixed use buildings that could include housing, retail, and underground parking for the supermarket.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

thought I'd look over the Hamilton LRT conceptual plan for fun. I'm not having fun

A conceptual plan for the Hamilton LRT on main street West. A map shows Westdale High School and the Main/Longwood intersection with a transitway in the middle of a 4-lane road; a stop is outlined west of Longwood, and on the lower left a green bike-lane is shown approaching Longwood from the West and the stopping.

A conceptual plan for the Hamilton LRT on main street West. A map shows the Main Street urgent care facility and intersections of Main West with Paradise (to the west) and Macklin (to the east); a transitway is located in the middle of a 3-lane Main. On the lower right a green two-way bike track is shown approaching Macklin from the East and the stopping.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

today's weather was a good break

A Strava map showing a bike ride in Hamilton Ontario.

A sunny day on a road in an industrial parking Hamilton ON. In the foreground, we see a cyclists shadow on the road; the sky is bright blue with smears of thin clouds.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Wilson Street at emerald is a 3+ lane highway akin to Main or King, but for no reason and with none of the measures that have been taken on those roads to reduce danger a shocking but totally predictable and unnecessary death

Wilson Street at Emerald, the site of a child fatality in Hamilton ON. The street is 4 lanes wide one+way, with a parking lane on one side.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

here is a street map photo of the area east of ottawa where staff are recommending we have truck / bus lanes along the curbs

A street view of Barton Street east of Ottawa. The photo shows a residential area with churches, small shops, and a four lane road.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

tfw you make up an arbitrary scoring matrix to guide a design process and then you don't pick the top option

A scoring matrix for different street layout options, ranked across the categories of "technical [feasibility]", "user safety", "[alignment with existing] policies", "accessibility", "urban mobility", "roadway operations", "place making" and "climate change resilience".

A number of options are score, with the lowest at 800 points being. a 4-lane road with truck lanes along the sidewalk, and the top two at 1875 for a protected bike lane with 2-way traffic and one lane of parking narrowly followed by a 2-lane-with-2-lanes-parking at 1800. The difference between the top two is that the top option scores much higher on mobility, while the second option scores a bit more on climate resilience (it accommodates street trees).

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

the easiest way to take away space from cars in Hamilton

a half-collapsed building on King Street in Hamilton. Years after the façade fell off the front, a construction fence surrounds the property; a lane of traffic has been permanently blocked off with concrete barriers forming a temporary sidewalk.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hamilton is not much like NYC but between the HSR and our public waste department, by God, we're going to get there

A large pile of trash stored in a bus stop along one of Hamilton's busiest transit routes.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

everyone agrees this should be closed to cars for the safety of children walking to school, and yet the combined efforts of our traffic, fire and transit departments have resulted in... no action pathetic

The drop-off area in front of Strathcona Elementary in Hamilton. Most of the space is taken up by a 30 ft residential street; a narrow sidewalk on the right is filled with students trying to talk to the class entrances. A no-parking zone adjacent to the sidewalk is half-filled with cars, and a city bus drives past towards the intersection where 50% of students walk to get to the school.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

another question I have: who at city hall do you have to bribe to get *two* driveway accesses across a multi-use trail? this is a stupid design error; we need to learn that you can just say "no, that's unreasonable and it's too bad for you that living next to a multiuse trail has some compromises"

A driveway abutting a multiuse trail at Kenilworth mountain access, where the trail makes a gradual left turn around a corner lot. The placement of traffic signal and corner forced the driveway to shift over several feet, adding an s-bend to the driveway; to compensate for this, a second access was added so the homeowner can enter the intersection on either side of the traffic light.

A driveway access across a multi-use path.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I of course have some complaints: why does every. driveway. interrupt. the. grade?! this makes cycling uncomfortable and snow clearing difficult, for no measurable benefit; it's 100% using cycling infrastructure to serve drivers. in other spots, they have to bump over a curb:

A multiuse cycle track crosses a driveway. although it's typical for Hamilton driveways to bump over a curb, the entire path drops down to accomodate a perfectly smooth driveway for the homeowner.

A freshly repaved road with a driveway access; whereas in other cases driveways have been cut through a multiuse path making it bumpy and uneven, here there is no path or sidewalk and the driveway has a bigger curb at the end which the homeowner would have to bump up over.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I cycled the newly reduced Kenilworth / Mountainbrow. this is a big improvement for cycling, and I love how it makes it feel like a second waterfront

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

how to explain "15 minute cities": it's like, instead of every neighborhood just having a storm water runoff pond, they have *everything you drive to for errands*

A storm water runoff pond in Hamilton Ontario. A low marshy area with a gravel trail surrounds a pond with trees and plantings: the lot takes up as much space as a large urban park.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

really getting sick of this intersection on the Kent "Bicycle Boulevard" 1. it's simply not accessible 2. if I go on the sidewalk, it's illegal 3. then if I bike in the crosswalk, that's illegal 4. but I wouldn't have time to get back into position 5. there isn't room for my kids to come with me

the crosswalk at Kent and Aberdeen in Hamilton, viewed from the south travel lane of Kent. In the foreground we see the handlebars of a cargo bike with a kid on it. Further away, we can just make out the button that activates the crosswalk, which is on the sidewalk behind a service box and out of reach.

The intersection of Kent and Aberdeen in Hamilton, viewed from the Northbound travel lane on Kent. We see a dashed center line with Chevron arrows indicating for bicycles to cross Aberdeen to continue on the bicycle boulevard. Two vehicles cross the frame in opposite directions; in the foreground is the front of a cargo bike carrying a child and their bicycle.

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Anton Lodder @antonlodder.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I was in crystal beach last weekend and noted signs warning people not to walk in the sensitive dunes -- "without dunes, there would be no beaches". guess who won't be asked to vacate their private land to allow for dunes

A satellite view of Bay Beach Park in Crystal Beach, Ontario, which is comprised of a playground, a grassy commons, a washroom / beach access, and a half-acre of roped off dune grass under conservation.

A satellite view of crystal beach, Ontario, centered around Bay Beach Park. The beach spans around 2 km, with the public access and dune conservation spanning just 100m; the remainder of the waterfront is abutted by cottages and resorts.

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