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🎙️🚌 Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast 🚊🚲 Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇭🇰

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 7h
The not-that-surprising skeleton key for Toronto politics.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 4h
Truth and Reconciliation means nothing without action. Grassy Narrows is still suffering from the effects of Mercury poisoning while our governments are drag their feet.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 22h
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Olivia Chow attack ad on Brad Bradford on Instagram, comment has picture of Johnny Sins
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Tri-Cities Transport Action Group @tritag.ca · 29/09/2026
Announcing our Waterloo Region election questionnaire for 2026! We have had 84 candidates respond so far to our questionnaire on key issues around walking, biking, and transit:
tritag.ca
Waterloo Region Election 2026
Municipal candidate responses to our top transportation policy questions
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love hearing support for the @fast-track.to plan!
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ward 13 Toronto Centre debate happening tonight at 7pm! You can watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/HWo4vcd... Front runners include incumbent @chrismoiseto.bsky.social and progressive challenger @curranstikuts.bsky.social
WARD 13
CANDIDATES DEBATE
Downtown East Priorities
Monday, September 28, 2026
Doors Open: 6:30 p.m.
Debate Starts: 7:00 p.m.
YMCA Community Room, 461 Cherry St.
HOSTED BY -
CORKTOWN
TORONTO EAST SINCE 1819
GOODERHAM & WORTS
NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION
Canary District Neighbourhood Association
Please register at cdna.to/debate
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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social
spacing.ca
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The concept of the Scarborough Busway opening on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Take the 10 proposals of @fast-track.to. The TTC CEO should be tasked with those proposals, and there should be regular reporting back to council … and if they’re not able to fulfil then I’m sure there’s someone else who can do it.” - @beynate.bsky.social on torontothepolitics.bsky.social
youtu.be
Nate Erskine-Smith Wants to Fix City Hall
YouTube video by Toronto the Politics the Show
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finch West LRT finally has real transit signal priority! Phase rotation is active at multiple intersections, such as Finch & Signet/Arrow. This means adjusting the car left-turn signal in real time based on predicted LRT arrivals to minimize transit delay. Video: @ontariotrafficman.bsky.social
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Transit priority phase rotation is active at Finch & Signet/Arrow!
YouTube video by Ontario Traffic Man Clips
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want soup
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026
This tool from @observingthecity.ca is fantastic. It shows the traffic mode share by intersection using City data. Many downtown areas are dominated by pedestrians (in green). Yet *we still give most of the space to cars on almost every street.* www.observingthecity.ca/intersection...
Map of downtown area of Toronto. Pie charts show the mode share at every intersection.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ive added many more candidates and now the starter pack has 26 people! Check back to see if you missed any.
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Kevin Rupasinghe @kevinrupasinghe.ca · 27/09/2026
Thanks for coming out @chanface.bsky.social! It was a fun day in Scarborough Southwest and I'm grateful for everyone who joined us. #TOPoli #Ward20
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Was so great to be a part of @kevinrupasinghe.ca’s energetic campaign office opening and then go flyering after! One part that really stuck with me is that the balance of power at City Hall hinges on the inner suburbs of Toronto. If we want change city-wide, it starts in places like Scarborough!
Crowd around KevinKevin Rupasinghe flyer frontKevin Rupasinghe flyer back
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally got Scarborough Bluffs checked off my Summer 2026 check list
Me standing in front of Scarborough bluffs
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trying to make a starter pack of Toronto 2026 Municipal Election candidates! Let me know the ones on bsky that I missed!
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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Ward 21 Scarborough Centre, @krissan4scarb.bsky.social walks the walk on public transit expansion. He helped get the Scarborough busway completed early, and I’m proud to join him for its inaugural ride 💛
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Kevin Rupasinghe @kevinrupasinghe.ca · 23/09/2026
Subway platform edge doors = saving the TTC millions of dollars, saving emergency response resources, saving everyone time, and saving lives. Join me, and we can get it done when I am at City Hall. www.KevinR.ca/betterTTC #Ward20 #TOPoli
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See you there tomorrow!
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Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) @ericlombardi.ca · 25/09/2026
It's time to end Ontario's era of "Tall and Sprawl". Our archaic building code rules have resulted in housing that is uglier, more expensive, and with fewer units that make sense for families. By changing the rules, we can build communities more beautifully and affordably.
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Chris McCray @mccraywx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vraiment heureux d’avoir pu rencontrer Rodney, un Torontois très engagé qui a travaillé extrêmement fort pour que la rue Church devienne piétonne cet été (et ce fut un énorme succès)!
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bike lanes on Adelaide yesterday morning. Over a dozen cyclists taking up the same space as one or two cars.
Over a dozen cyclists
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally got to meet Montréal Councillor @mccraywx.bsky.social of @projetmontreal.org today at Ontario Bike Summit! His knowledge sharing of pedestrianization logistics in Montréal has been invaluable for the Church Street pedestrianization pilot here in Toronto. We still have lots to learn!
Me next to Councillor McCray
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sir… a slow zone just hit Line 4 Sheppard
Slow zone map of TTC
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TorontoToday analyzed 12 years’ worth of subway data to see where preventable delays are most common — and where platform edge doors would deliver the biggest benefit 1. Bloor-Yonge (Line 1) 2. Bloor-Yonge (Line 2) 3. TMU 4. St. George (Line 2) 5. Union www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...
Where platform edge doors are needed most
Bloor-Yonge (Line 1)
Bloor-Yonge (Line 2)
TMU
St. George (Line 2)
Union
Warden
Victoria Park
St. George (Line 1)
Queen
Islington
Eglinton
Spadina (Line 2)
Broadview
Wellesley
College
Sheppard-Yonge (Line 1)
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29.6The most common preventable delays in minutes
Debris at - track level
(3%)
Fire-related
(25%)
Other (3%)
Track intrusion
(42%)
Train in
contact with
person (27%)
Chart: Aidan Chamandy/TorontoToday • Created with Datawrapper
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vancouver’s transit card (Compass) now works with their car share and bike share! (Modo and Mobi) buzzer.translink.ca/2026/09/comp...
buzzer.translink.ca
One card, more ways to go: tap your Compass Card to unlock Modo and Mobi services - The Buzzer blog
Navigating Metro Vancouver just got more seamless — your Compass Card can now be used to unlock shared cars and bikes.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The $48 million spent on removing bike lanes could be spent on much better things like affordable housing, healthcare, childcare, etc www.facebook.com/share/p/1DnL... Black and white sign also available in comments
Alex Bonenfant
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Got a new sign for you all to print for the next rally!
While we don't know when it is, I highly recommend printing it out today, so you'll be ready to go when it's announced.
Printing it will only take a couple minutes!
This kind of messaging will resonate with the 905 suburbs and people who drive but never cycle.
$48M
COULD FUND:
& Primary care for 61,000 people
505 Nurse Salaries (1 yr)
• 137 Affordable Housing Units
• 738 Paramedic Salaries (1 yr)
it 4,000 Childcare Spaces Funded (1 yr)
DON'T SPEND IT REMOVING BIKE LANES
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Tri-Cities Transport Action Group @tritag.ca · 11/09/2026
Our new article makes the case for extending GO trains to London, and talks about what's needed to make this service competitive:
tritag.ca
GOing from Kitchener to London
The case for GO regional rail service to London
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Adrian Harewood @caradrianh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
None of these words are in the bible “Drone-powered ad for PC Health chatbot slammed as 'dystopian' by some residents” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Drone-powered ad for PC Health chatbot slammed as 'dystopian' by some residents | CBC News
On Thursday night, more than a thousand drones lit up the sky above Toronto's waterfront displaying a list of health-related questions in what turned out to be an ad campaign for a new President's Cho...
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why the fuck does the sun set at almost 7:30 now I’m gonna kms I was still expecting like 8 or 7:50 maybe 😭😭
7:35PM
Sunset
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Lack of 'available crew' after World Cup to blame for temporary GO service changes, cuts, Metrolinx CEO says Paused vacations, training to increase World Cup service now causing operator shortage, CEO says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
FIFA World Cup to blame for temporary GO service changes, cuts: Metrolinx CEO | CBC News
Paused vacations and training to increase World Cup GO service are to blame for subsequent service changes and cuts that took effect this September, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay said Thursday.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Chow wants to introduce weekly fare capping, making the TTC free after 10 paid rides a week! This is after already implementing monthly fare capping after 47 trips, to be lowered to 40 trips next year. www.cp24.com/local/toront...
cp24.com
Olivia Chow wants to make the TTC free after 10 paid rides a week
Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow is promising to make the TTC free after 10 paid rides in a week, arguing that 'families shouldn’t have to choose between rent, food and getting around.'
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cyclists Aren't Secondary promotional poster
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Kevin Rupasinghe @kevinrupasinghe.ca · 10/09/2026
Thanks @chanface.bsky.social! #ICYMI, it's knocking on doors time: we have a mega canvass this Saturday - sign up at KevinR.ca/Shifts Want to help out in other ways? Sign up to drop flyers, make calls, or canvass on other days. We appreciate every hour you can give! #TOPoli
kevinr.ca
Volunteer Shifts
Kevin Rupasinghe for Toronto City Councillor in Scarborough Southwest, Ward 20. Sign up to volunteer with Kevin's campaign team: door-knocking, office work, phone banking. #VoteKevRup #TOPoli #Toronto...
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Come help out on Kevin’s campaign this Saturday! He’s been a great advocate on transit and housing, and will be a great addition to city council
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shocker: people love pedestrian spaces and want it to return next year—including residents, visitors, businesses, and councillors. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Vancouver wraps Granville Street pedestrian zone, with hopes it will return | CBC News
Labour Day marks the final day of Vancouver's Granville Street pedestrian zone, but the city is already facing calls to bring it back next summer.
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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 09/09/2026
reminder that our premier, who sees himself as an anti-congestion champion in greater toronto, is doing everything in his power to cause more traffic: -building highway 413 & widening highways -removing bike lanes, which will also bring construction mayhem -historic cuts to GO train service
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One tower, many small indie shops. The dream of Toronto urbanism, violating most of the city urban design post-2000 orthodoxy
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John Simpson @jsimpsondotca.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This statement is correct whether you're referring to the premier of Ontario or the car company.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looks like Bradford is in support of the Eglinton East LRT and promises to get it built faster than Olivia Chow www.instagram.com/reel/DdCv6-8...
instagram.com
Brad Bradford on Instagram: "Instead of putting shovels in the ground, Olivia Chow put a new name on a transit line you still can’t ride. It’s time to build the Eglinton East LRT. On October 26, cho...
21 likes, 5 comments - bradfordgrams on September 8, 2026: "Instead of putting shovels in the ground, Olivia Chow put a new name on a transit line you still can’t ride. It’s time to build the Eglinto...
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ford wants to make it unsafe for this family to bike.
Parents and children biking at bloor and Brunswick
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TEMU barriers for TMU Station @ttcdoors.bsky.social
Wonder if this is the intended use of these...

Youth leaning over fence
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sir… a second orange juice machine just hit the TTC 📍Finch Station Bus Terminal
Two women standing in front of OJ machine
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Western media still peddling problematic tropes in 2026 Got this economist article recommended on my Instagram and thought it looked strangely familiar to propoganda of the past…
The Economist
The long arm of the Chinese state
READ ARTICLEHolocaust Encyclopedia
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Nazi-era Antisemitic Propaganda Poster |
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
😺😸
Me and my cat
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A 2026 study by TMU examined~ 100,000 eviction filings in Toronto between 2016 - 2021. Eviction filings were highest in Black-majority neighbourhoods where corporate/ institutional owners treat housing as an investment asset. Some eviction rates were 36 for every 100 rental units.
thecaribbeancamera.com
Black Toronto Renters Face Disproportionate Risk of Eviction - The Caribbean Camera
Black renters in Toronto face disproportionately high eviction risks, with new research linking the disparity to financialized landlords and housing inequality.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I unfortunately couldn't host episode 8, as it was the last day of Church Street Pedestrianization, and I had to help with the teardown :( Thank you Emily for doing an amazing job filling in for me and to Anna @nondriver.bsky.social for coming on our podcast with her thoughtful insights!
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finally got to explore the new Humber Bay Park East boardwalk! It’s really nice; I just thought it would be longer. The rest of the park is a fun ride though!
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