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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2h

Metrolinx’s agreement with CN for CN Halton eliminates the need for the 407 bypass. The challenge is that for VIA to work without Alto, they need to reach that agreement over orders of magnitude more track that’s busier.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2h

That’s more around overbuilding and catering to every NIMBY under the sun. My fear is the same thing could happen with this approach if VIA needs to widen CN’s corridor in a dense area or build a grade separation or flyover. And unlike alto, there isn’t the option of realigning.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2h

It’s mostly that freight rail isn’t very cooperative around electrification and unlike the Northeast Corridor this is freight mainlines.

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Lilian Radovac @lilianradovac.bsky.social · 3h

The last thing Toronto needs is more “Big Dick Energy.” Advance polls are open today and tomorrow. It’s’ a sunny day. Go vote.

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There were times when Bradford would come back from having an argument at city council or a committee meeting and would perch at the edge of a staffer's desk in the main office, Tim says, and lead the office in a group discussion about how his opposition was wrong and he was right. Tim and Jessica both say that he was harsher about female councillors, and on occasion, that they heard Bradford use the word "bitch" to describe
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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2h

It’s just one poll, they can be off. It will be more interesting to see if other polls show similar results.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear, this plan is still less frequent than the 4tph planned by ALTO which could likely support better than 8 - 12 tph depending on intermediate station design and terminal capacity. I read this as a counter option to Alto to show that even a good intercity alternative would be expensive.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 14h

Not necessarily when you consider the negotiations required with CN and expanding the corridor to add the two tracks versus the opportunity cost of proper HSR which would be both faster and more frequent and more reliable.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 20h

Having just perused the Municipal Elections Act this very afternoon I will note that while journalists are generally protected from stuff like this, falsely stating someone is withdrawing from a race is actually illegal:

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 14h

A referendum is nicer than Canada’s based on passing in each legislature IMHO. Australia’s method is probably slightly easier to clear because the disproportionately large populations of Ontario and Quebec basically give them a veto since either is needed (yes provinces need at least 50% population)

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 15h

Is the Australian constitution easier to amend? Canada’s is basically impossible to amend. No amendments have been successfully made since patriation in 1982.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t know about the Australian constitution, but the Canadian one doesn’t allow for secession (as per the Supreme Court and the Clarity Act). So any separation from Canada requires a constitutional amendment which is really hard in Canada (7/10 provinces with at least 50% of population needed).

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 18h

I’m not so sure that is the case. The high point in disorder was around Tory’s resignation in early 2023. Offences against staff and customer have trended downwards since consistently.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 18h

I’m not sure if it’s so much a time or a security thing. bsky.app/profile/infe...

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 19h

It’s looking good on that in the polls. Without municipal political parties, the incumbent has a strong advantage.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 19h

Good point, I just think that she ought to have made the decision sooner. One should very easily be able to do the math that you are X years of age and will be X+4 years old by the next election and if you will have the health, family support, energy, and capability for that when you decide to run.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 20h

How is this fair to drop out when advance voting is halfway finished!? At this point the nomination deadline is almost meaningless.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 22h

It has to do with the design of early escalators.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 23h

Do you understand Danielle that you’re making that impossible for everyone younger? A young professional couple on a respectable salary each is hard pressed to afford a family home in any neighbourhood within the city.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If there are snakes in the van, then he is all set for a real-life game of Snakes and Ladders.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is it harm reduction? Gaza, Ukraine War, Iran War, none of that has been stopped or even mitigated by the UN. I understand that the chances are impossible. Russia, China, and USA will inevitably block anything that checks their control and Russia and China won’t support international order.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly, I think they should get rid of the unilateral veto of permanent security council members

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What does gridlock in a supposed decision making body (noting that the UN is notoriously handicapped in ways by the security council’s veto members and international disagreement) have to do with traffic congestion on streets? What do war zones have to do with public safety or cyclists?

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apple use to have a feature where in the messages app you could take actual photos in a cartoon or drawing style. That was lost with iOS 26. Does anyone running iOS 27 already know if it is back? Or an alternate way to get the same features free?

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The stop placement itself is off at Tara - Moorgate and Lawrence, with northbound bus stop shown on the wrong side of the tracks. Only the 154 Curran (which uses the busway as far as Lawrence only) has its stop in what looks to be the right location. This may be an issue with TTC’s GTFS not Maps.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t know him other than the signs. Is he wealthy?

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

First Apple Maps transit mess up I’ve seen. Apple Maps Transit shows express TTC bus routes but it can’t seem to register the Scarborough Busway so it has the vehicles doing a weird route via Midland, Tara, Arnott, Fitzgibbon, Prudential, Kiriakou, Mike Myers, and Kennedy. Is Google Maps also off?

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did he not? I saw him on Line 1 at St George a month after he resigned so maybe that was his first ride in years. I just don’t see why even if she needs a plainclothes cop or two as a bodyguard they can’t ride the subway with her. This isn’t the USA, the risk is much lower to our public officials.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He’s talking about performative safety. It’s not actually about catching criminals but about standing around looking like they’re there even while they have nothing to do but play on their phones. Actual foot patrols around the downtown and traffic enforcement work, not standing at every station.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This seems weird that the police won’t let her ride the subway. Tory did. Maple Leafs players do.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A parking ticket is $50. Which was what Metrolinx fines were for a second offence before September. So just restore that as first offence for TTC and we match.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And they got it. Chow is not exactly stingy with the police.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I saw those too! Where is he getting the money from?

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

MX Weston has only four tracks, two of which are needed for Pearson airport local services, so (assuming MX Weston is not redesigned in a fast-slow-slow-fast arrangement) it would not be possible to have Kitchener super expresses skipping Bloor & Mount Dennis to pass limited expresses at 4+tph.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What’s the difference between the travel times in the table (69 and 54 minutes) and called out in the text (55 and 44minutes)?

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your proposed all-stops service is over 20 minutes faster than the proposal in the 2021 Kitchener Extension Business Case that is being now implemented by Metrolinx (there have no been public updates on travel time plans since). That’s for hourly off-peak diesel service (wires only on MX Weston).

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not directly related but I live blocks from Bloor & Royal York. Why didn’t we get a notice like that in the mail? Metrolinx sent one at the beginning of the year for the start of excavation at Royal & Eglinton which is kilometres away! The city sent us notices about the bike lanes going in.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Even for unenumerated powers, the municipalities aren’t an option. Provinces do administration of justice, provincial commerce, education, resources. Feds do criminal law, foreign relations and national defence, banking and finance, interprovincial transport, and “peace order and good government”.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Basically the Constitution Act 1982 and the predecessor British North America Act 1867 do not mention municipalities as a level of government, only enumerating the powers of the federal government (Parliament) and the province (Legislatures) with municipalities listed under the provincial powers.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These are the still-temporary quick build design bike lanes, so no engineering required to remove.

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Notice of construction along Bloor Street West between Clissold and Royal York. Taken from Reddit user T-DogSwizle. The start of a colossal waste of $48M that will not address traffic congestion and will put people's lives at risk.

Notice of Construction Start for Bloor Street

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean direction doesn’t matter if you do a TTC-style free unlimited transfer for a certain amount of time (see also London Hopper fare). Because those fares are specifically designed to accommodate someone who say takes the bus, runs a short errand, and then hops back on the bus home.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My point is why not they change that policy so direction doesn’t matter. TTC use to have a similar rule for farecards (and still does for cash fare transfers) but scrapped it for customer convenience and simplicity.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fare inspectors can see your last tap. I believe that shows the last tap location or route.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An egg capturing omelette making machine.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Good thing they ended the ad campaign on the TTC about high wages and low taxes and low housing prices in Alberta.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You only have to tap at 3pm if you are transferring. If the ride takes 30minutes on a single vehicle then you’re fine for that return journey.

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