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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

(haven't been to any of these places in my life) san francisco is hong kong, oakland is guangzhou, and san jose/sv is shenzhen

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

i unfortunately have the pleasure of knowing some of the people behind it, so i will never forget

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

i think the walking-back of the bathurst bus lane implicitly gave permission for councillors to suddenly express caution about dufferin north, despite far less opposition and far more justification for lanes. one councillor shows reluctance, and so another.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

no one understood this reference, the great bus lane battle of summer 2025 is already forgotten 🥲

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

some may say that the Bathurst bus lane caused this

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

i wasn't sure which one would be more constructable but that makes sense. the old cummer historical bridge is saved

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

i think it could develop into a multi-use corridor, unlike the scarborough RT route there's genuinely plenty of space to work with even considering the right of way for any kind of transit

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

line 6, more likely, but i don't think the city is so nefariously against busways and BRT like they might've been 10-15 years ago to think about this kind of optics

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

there is already has a piece of busway infrastructure along the finch hydro corridor, a relic of the bus operations to york before the subway extension. it's now only used by the 939 bus.

old photo showing a fishbowl bus on the york university busway, amid hydro towers.

Photo: Reaperexpress

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

finch east already carries some 50k+ daily transit riders in mixed traffic, and is the most popular crosstown route between scarborough and north york. a busway could disperse service via branches into underserved areas like malvern, acting as a fast portal to other parts of toronto

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 30/09/2026

the scarborough busway should inspire the city to look into longer, more permanent busways on available right-of-ways that can produce rapid transit speeds at cheaper cost and timelines. the one with greatest potential, i think, is finch east. this would transform east-west travel in scarborough.

Finch busway concept along the hydro corridor from finch west station to around Malvern. Various branches that leave the busway depicted, to Milliken, Scarborough Centre, and deeper into Malvern

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will never get over the absurd arguments people made regarding aesthetics and neighbourhoods to oppose the REM de l’Est. And how cancelling it did not bring about some hypothetical better project. The east end is languishing in long commutes and uncertainty more than four years later.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 29/09/2026

downtown traffic congestion? fix the streetcars and put transit first. that's the best solution. this should be among the top priorities for any city councillor running for election in old toronto. and yet i think i've only seen two high profile candidates put out a streetcar plan in detail 🫢

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 29/09/2026

There's a TTC survey about the experience of using the new platform fences at TMU station. great opportunity to tell them that you are dissatisfied with these fences and to push them to build real platform edge doors, be it half-height or full-height. www.surveymonkey.com/r/TTCxTMUPla...

platform edge fence along the yellow line at a subway platform

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28/09/2026

“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." —Bill Nye, Science Guy.

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As you fill out the Toronto Star Vote Compass, please remember that there are many ways to pay for transit that isn’t reliant on fare increases. Presenting this as a binary between better service and higher fares is disrespectful to transit advocates who work tirelessly to push for alternatives.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 27/09/2026

gonna confirm today as well, apparently some phase rotation was supposed to go live this weekend, maybe that's today

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 27/09/2026

we're like a half-year into "considering" a pedestrian scramble for yonge and eglinton, which is the busiest ped crossing outside downtown.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 27/09/2026

pedestrian scrambles for all of them, please. this mode share data is all the "traffic study" that you need to justify implementing them

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 26/09/2026

why are YOU in the starter pack 👀 something you tryna tell us

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've been shown around parts of Toronto by @auguststreet.ca and @fernkhahn.com so it was nice to reciprocate over one very fun week. This particular outing to downtown Dartmouth also included ice cream.

Fern and August, both visiting from Toronto, enjoying the ferry ride from Halifax to downtown Dartmouth. Fern is giving a peace sign hand gesture. August is smiling and wearing a Blue Jays ball cap. The office towers of downtown Halifax are in the background.

August and Fern stand on the footbridge over the outlet of Sullivan's Pond in Dartmouth on a nice day. They are gazing at the pond. An apartment building is under construction in the background.

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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of legitimizing the charade of electoralism, I’m Learning About Revolutionary Praxis (or LARPing), which mostly involves commenting on Instagram reels.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026

what happened instead is that the housing situation became so bad that more people just became more racist :( as some-sort-of-socialist myself, i do not want to selfishly push for things get even worse just to bank on a hypothetical revolution. better to fight for good policies & vote.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026

yea, and hence they do actually care about the fairly large voter base that takes transit and it is worth the effort to rile people up (and MPPs will listen if there's numbers, regardless of whether they're liberal or ndp)

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026

also, fighting to save your bus or train from cuts isn't counterproductive to building a movement. it's why a lot of socialist organizations engage or work in solidarity with public transit advocacy.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026

yea, there's more to it than funding, but also policy, staffing rules, the way metrolinx manages its contracts... not everything can be reduced purely and neatly into a funding issue

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026

i have a disdain for this kind of leftist-on-leftist behaviour. i understand the instinctive pressure that capitalism places towards austerity, but many progressives want to fight for better outcomes (in the near-term!) for people through issue-based advocacy, rather than just read theory all day

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 25/09/2026

my bad, I'll start the world socialist revolution this monday instead of petitioning against transit service cuts🥀

instagram reply: reversing budget cuts to go transit can't be done by appealing the same government carrying them out.

defending public transit is bound up with the defense of all social programs, public education, healthcare, disability benefits, etc against the capitalist policy of austerity, trade war, real war, privatization and for socialism i.e. power through world socialist revolution

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 24/09/2026

the best season has arrived in my beloved city

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 24/09/2026

about 1 month ago i timed a trip and it took me 45 min. it was very slow with little indicator of working phase rotation and an overly cautious operator, reminded me of line 6's early months. I'll be pleasantly surprised if trains are now consistently achieving 35-39 min trips.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 23/09/2026

evil conservative, who seems to be trying very hard to sell himself as a moderate

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 23/09/2026

no one pushes for transit lane expansion. chow pushes to advance TSP, better service, etc, but stops short of expressing support to expand transit lanes elsewhere. shame. none of the three candidates have bold transit service promises.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 23/09/2026

-chow preaches affordability wins, citing hundreds of dollars being saved for TTC-dependent households -alexander wants to surge-price the TTC to pay for transit improvements (which seems like an odd policy to run on) -bradford attacks the platform fences and pushes for platform edge doors

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 23/09/2026

tonight's toronto mayoral debate, a transit recap: -both chow and alexander support dedicated transit lanes -bradford seemingly comes out against dedicated lanes, downplaying the hard data that shows lanes on dufferin and bathurst have been working

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The environment can take another one for the team! We can always restore labour rights in the future once everything is better! I’m so tired.

Identity blacked out because I don’t think it’s worth piling on a normal BlueSky user. But it’s typical of a lot of what I’m seeing lately.

“I don't like any of these measures. But I guess dire times require dire decisions. Canada is in a fight for survival, and I can see that Carney is doing everything he can to make sure we survive. Once we are on the path to stability, the country can reestablish environmental and labour laws.”
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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 22/09/2026

yea they don't want it, and they're not curious at all in exploring how to refine the cost estimates and procurement processes to address the cost question

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 22/09/2026

unfortunate that anytime myself or other advocates push for a phased approach, councillors give us the same blank stare as when asking to implement them across the entire system. haunted by the money, they are

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 22/09/2026

this article vindicates what a lot of advocates have said in response to questions about cost and scale: a phased approach, starting with the busiest stations like bloor-yonge & tmu, will have the most impact. if the response to spiraling transit costs is to "wait it out", we'll have nothing.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 22/09/2026

subway service interruptions are a top TTC complaint. if there was an infrastructure fix available that could eliminate 85% of delays, it is one that would be popular with the transit-riding public, and leave a lasting legacy on the system. food for thought in the upcoming election.

pie chart: most common preventable delays in minutes

debris at track level (3%)
fire-related (25%)
train in contact with person (27%)
track intrusion (42%)

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21/09/2026

i see a cheese-cc 🧀🚋

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21/09/2026

someone needs to interview a bunch of vancouverites and then a bunch of torontonians on their thoughts on privatizing the airports' operations. i suspect you're very right and the torontonian tendency will be to privatize.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21/09/2026

these two cities are 100 kilometres apart. one of these is a large metropolis that has operated street rail continuously for over a century. the other is the smallest jurisdiction in north america with a light rail system, their first in recent history (opening in 2019).

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21/09/2026

44 seconds of "transit signal priority" on toronto's line 5 and kitchener-waterloo's ion LRT

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21/09/2026

to blow a hole in our budget for performative security, yes

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 20/09/2026

no polling yet about the conditions of airport workers (not a lot of buzz in general about this) or the actual experience of the public in using these airports under the proposed leasing plan. just the part about making a quick buck and "efficiency"

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 20/09/2026

i think the reality is most canadians don't care enough because they don't fly often. i don't fly often either. it'll be hard to get people riled up about this. at the same time, liberalism has sold the idea that the solution to perceived economic hardship is neoliberalism. biased poll, too.

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More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How much faster would GO trains be if they used electrical multiple unit (EMU) trains? Today, a 33.7km trip from Pickering to Union station makes 6 stops and takes 45 minutes Our proposed local EMU service would make 13 stops, and take only 36 minutes.

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 19/09/2026

90 seconds i assume! which is rush hour service. at night it's like 5-6 min

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