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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Waterloo Regions Iron Horse Trail. A true bike highway with comprehensive wayfinding.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Compared to most of Ontario, Kitchener seems pretty well run. K/W seem to actually try things. Toronto could take notes!

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Along with less sprawl, this is one of the aspects differentiating Canadian and American suburbs.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Many suburbs across Canada seem to be doing this I’ve notice. GTA suburbs are notorious for these.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Windfields, Oshawa, ON. What any new suburb should look like. Still pretty car centric, but at least has a multi-use trail, sidewalk oriented development, and amazing streetscape. No where near perfect, but a nice way to make suburbia not soulless.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Oh so you were the one that posted this on Reddit, lol.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Miniature model of future Pickering City Centre

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

So many 905 neighbourhoods are wasted potential. In the last 20 years, we’ve built “better”/ more compact neighbourhoods than what we built between the 60s and 90s, but many of them are in the middle of no where.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Love my own bike and will be using it more as the weather gets nicer, but Bike Share (Toronto) is a little too good at times!

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’d even go as far to say that they may rival Old Toronto in terms of culture? Or is that pushing it. /2

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Many suburbs of Toronto are like this. Scarborough, Markham, Richmond Hill, heck even Brampton. To call them cultural wastelands just because they’re car dependent suburbia I think is fundamentally wrong. Of course, their car dependent built form is what’s holding them back. /1

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

You gotta give it to most small Ontario towns and even some 905 communities on their older downtowns.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

4. Ethnic suburbs (Scarborough, North York, Brampton, etc…). Car centric, but still full of culture (and frequent bus service) 5. Maybe search up the context of the Greenbelt /2

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

1. Ravine system 2. High rise-single detached ratio. On the topic of housing, search up both the Toronto Special and Toronto Slab 3. TTC/general transit: high frequency bus routes, overall integration slow zones on subway, infamous Eglinton situation, meh streetcars /1

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Idk if Waterloo Region has more of these compared to elsewhere in Ontario, but when I was there in November, I was impressed by

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Two things Toronto needs to bring back, the slab apartments, and the Toronto Special multiplexes.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

To elaborate, much of North York is too car centric, but tbf, that just speaks to the time period it was developed.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

But if we do this, we’re gonna need to do a feasibility study of a feasibility study to ensure this is feasible /s

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Error, I know Peterborough’s not a small town lol.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Even within Ontario, Kitchener/Waterloo is much better at this than Toronto. Heck, even a few small towns seem to be willing to try things. Fergus: thegrand101.com/2023/05/01/p... Peterborough: kawarthanow.com/2023/09/07/b...

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Provost Lane to Become “Provost Pavilion” in Downtown Fergus this Summer

FERGUS - Provost Lane in Downtown Fergus is now closed for the summer. The section of road between St. Andrew ...

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Montreal might as well be another planet to Toronto. 😔

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

That section southbound between Yorkdale and Lawrence West 😬😬

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. Seemed decent, definitely still has a a LOT to develop.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

All the proof you need that cycling is absolutely doable in the winter. This is in the Toronto suburbs (VMC, a development TOD area, still fairly car centric).

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Went there in November, and Gaukel Street in Kitchener was enough for me to say this region has better urbanism than Toronto (there’s many other reasons as well). Oh, and signal priority on the ION :)

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The City of Toronto and the TTC get the very basic fundamentals of transit right, but do one heck of a job at making sure user experience is the last priority.

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DanielMar Urbanist Reviews @danielmar1228.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

She’s been great from a financial perspective I guess. Everything else has been status quo. Look at the issues on the TTC everyday, crickets from everyone on city council including her.

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