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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 18/05/2026

Today the STM launched its redesigned bus network. Modifying 80+ lines and impacting a zone of 600K+ residents, it is the STM's most significant network revision ever and among the top 3 in Canadian history. Among the benefits: more frequent lines. It was a privilege to contribute to planning it!

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 23/04/2026

The decline of Stack Overflow, presumably in favour or directing coding queries to LLMs, appears to be reversing rapidly (!!).

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Stop spacing is one of those things that most people don't think about. I probably think about it too much. This graph shows how totally out of whack Canadian stop spacing is compared to the places where transit is widely used. People like transit with wider stop spacing.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

See, I think so many of our problems in North America re transit come down to ignoring that speed is REALLY important. I *don't* think its hard to believe that *getting places quickly* is peoples top priority! This is especially true because most people have access to a car!

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 17/11/2025

I calculated change in access to jobs by transit before and after Winnipeg's bus network redesign. 🚍 The median resident experienced an increase of 4% in access to jobs within 45 minutes, according to my analysis in R. The redesigned network gets more people to more places within the same time.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem. It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project. It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

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How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 11/08/2025

TIL that St. John's is called "San Juan de Terranova" in Spanish

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mulo montréal @mulocargo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

C’est le grand jour du déménagement (et de la Fête du Canada 🇨🇦) Les mulos sont disponibles jusqu’à la fin de la journée pour vous vous aider avec le déménagement 📦🪴👕👗 Bonne route 🚲 Merci à @julian.city pour la superbe photo !

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 01/07/2025

Aujourd'hui j'ai pris un mulo pour récupérer les dernières choses qui traînaient dans mon ancien logement ! Déménagement terminé 😌😌 @mulocargo.bsky.social

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 06/06/2025

Took a mulo cargo bike out today for a costco run 🚲 Was quicker, cheaper and more pleasant than using car share which is how I usually go. Great initiative that just launched this month in Montreal @mulocargo.bsky.social

Rental cargo bike filled with costco groceries on the sidewalk next to a bike lane

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 22/03/2025

Ayant grandi à Windsor, je trouve encourageant que les journalistes au Québec s'intéressent à ce que cette ville vit actuellement. Je ressens l'unité de mon pays à ce moment critique de notre histoire commune. Merci @fanniearcand.bsky.social et Dominick Gravel de cet exposé ! lp.ca/4FIcL3?shari...

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Dossier | Élections et guerre commerciale | État de choc dans trois régions (3 articles)

L’hostilité de Donald Trump envers le Canada secoue le pays. Le bon voisin que nous avons toujours été se demande comment réagir. Sur son départ, Justin Trudeau a utilisé l’expression elbows up pour d...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Here's my latest reflection on a lesson I learned from a woman who was in the second tower on 9/11. When the world is turned upside down taking action is the only way to survive. Our democracy is under threat but politicians are still living in 2024. charlieangus.substack.com/p/no-return-...

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NO RETURN TO NORMAL

A Message To My Fellow Parliamentarians

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 13/02/2025

Si on dépasse une profondeur de neige de 54cm à Montréal, ce serait le montant le plus important de neige au sol qu'on aurait vu depuis plus de 50 ans !

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It’s time for Canada to import Japanese zoning, Korean and Spanish transit construction practices, Dutch road design, and Swiss building codes.

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Miguel A. Rodriguez, PhD @mroddc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I keep saying: Canada and Mexico (and EU) should go for a US talent grab.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 28/01/2025

Pretty funny how the company whose AI technology is considered a "black box" compared to the remarkable openness of DeepSeek is called "OpenAI" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 27/01/2025

I had some fun with the weathercan library today in R. Two illustrations of how much milder Canadian winters have gotten : days with sub-zero temps in Vancouver and maximum snow depth in Montreal.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 26/01/2025

Colombia es el corazón del mundo 💛💙❤️

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Not only do 17% of US coffee imports come from Colombia…Colombia is also the largest supplier of cut flowers to the United States. Valentine’s Day is in 18 days.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 22/01/2025

"For there is always light If only we are brave enough to see it If only we are brave enough to be it"

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mashdash @mashdash.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Gare Centrale’s signage is a mess: still says AMT (it’s exo now), no signs for REM or exo from outside, a single bad sign to the métro, and nothing to help navigate the RÉSO. So I fixed it—installed 7 signs myself. They’ve been up 3 months, and Cominar hasn’t noticed. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

Large plastic placed on false door, pointing to the left to Gare Centrale with connections (REM, exo train, VIA, Amtrak, Métro, and Terminus Centre-ville) and outside to the right, to the hotel, and connecting buses

Small sign pointing down to the left towards an escalator, to Gare Centrale, with connecting trains and bus services

Large sign on tiled pillar, pointing to Place Ville Marie, Eaton Centre and connecting buses and local streets

Detailed sign pointing to Gare Centrale, and trains such as the REM, exo Train, and Train Interubrain, each wth the names as services under each. Additional connections to the Métro, and Terminus Centre-Ville with bus agencies like RTL, exo and SJSR.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Most of the solutions to climate change actually make life better, not worse. So we should be moving towards that better future with great joy and haste.

Boulevard Anspach in Brussels, photo by me. It is a wide pedestrian street with people and greenery.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 21/01/2025

In the good old days of Twitter, I made sassy commentary on the misplaced values of political leaders in Windsor, Ontario (my hometown).

tweet: "All you need to know about the municipal politics in Windsor is that the people in charge today believe that spending $7M to put an old streetcar in a glass box in a park is essential but investing in an actual public transit system is a "fairy tale".

tweet: Windsor is a city run by people who believe $500K for a planned & well-needed express bus route is "nice to have" but essential are $7M for a bizarre monument to public transportation, $4M for a golf course club house, and $1.9M extra for police.

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 21/01/2025

I just deactivated my account on X. Before departing that space forever, I wanted to return to a tweet by @qagggy.bsky.social from a few years ago that really stuck with me:

tweet : "Most of the solutions to climate change actually make life better, not worse. So we should be moving towards that better future with great joy and haste."

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Julian Villafuerte @julian.city · 23/12/2024

Took a trip with Metro Connect today, Greater Portland Metro's new on-demand transit service that they launched this month. Pretty neat!!

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