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Trevor Heywood

@metroscapes.ca
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Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide. 🌐 metroscapes.ca ▶️ youtube.com/@metroscapes

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Transit Toronto @transittoronto.bsky.social · 24m
Scarborough Busway Opening Day Photos. #TTC #Scarborough #TakeTheTTC #Toronto #Transit #ScarboroughBusway
903A Bus arrives at the Lawrence East stop with northbound buses on the opposite side waiting to depart. 903A Bus at Tara Mooregate Station with the platform in the background. Two TTC Buses about to leave the busway at Kennedy Station with a GO train in the background. 133 Bus passes through the old Scarborough RT Station at Lawerence East to arrive at the new busway stop.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 20m
The bus latch has Spanish labelling below English. Obvious American design on Canadian infrastructure.
Emergency exit roof hatch on a Guelph Transit Nova LFS.
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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 1h
The built form fighting gentle-density infill creates.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 55m
Oh, I might like this angle better.
OpenStreetMap (Humanitarian Theme) - Tilted Projection
* Underlain by the Ontario Digital Terrain Model (LIDAR derived) in hillshade.
* Overlain by watercourses (linear) and waterbody (polygon) data from Ontario Hydro Network data

Open Database License – OpenStreetMap, Open Government Licence – Ontario
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2h
Side note: Do you know why people still use Google Maps instead of OpenStreetMaps? Because it still does some basic functions correctly. Like searching a feature by its ID and getting a correct result. It should be an obvious, sharable, trustworthy tag, and not easy to get a wrong result. #OSM
Google search result for "osm 7519889" returning a correct result, referring you directly to Six Nations of the Grand River.Going to https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/7519889 points you to an unintended result: Rainbow Court, San Bernardino, ISO 3166-2:US

34.132608 -117.200454 [WGS84(G2139) @ 2010.0]
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 2h
I wanted to go walk by the water and pick up garbage today, but my knee is giving me a lot of grief, so that's axed that plan. I guess it's appropriate to help correct the administrative boundaries that are least undisputed by the Crown. Particularly the parts that aren't as well known
OpenStreetMap Boundary for Six Nations of the Grand River, specifically the smaller portions on either side of Mohawk Canal, Eagles Nest Tract, Ontario Canada

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 5h
Looks like two of the main Toronto radio stations I listen to from Toronto - Q107 (CILQ) and The Edge (CFNY), both owned by Corus Entertainment - are not participating in A Day To Listen. Very unfortunate.
A list of Toronto radio stations participating in A Day To Listen 2026:

CFRB-AM
CFTR-AM
CHFI-FM
CHUM-FM
CKFM-FM
CKIS-FM
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 23h
I'm sure an AI assistant confidently produced this as evidence, and then after being prompted afterwards, fully conceded that the Hawks and the Hawkeyes were different teams.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 29/09/2026
I am in favour of fewer stops for our national train service. But with or without with a stop at Malton, there is a lingering gap for higher-order transit service between Waterloo / Wellington / north Halton and Pearson Airport.
insauga.com
VIA Rail train service eliminated at Mississauga station | INsauga
In a move intended to “improve overall travel times,” VIA Rail says it’s eliminating train service at a station in the north end of Mississauga starting late next month. The Crown corporation and Cana...
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Vidman 📺 Dan Lauckner @vidman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
David Marsden, Broadcaster Behind CFNY-FM’s Spirit of Radio Era, Dies at 85 www.thatericalper.com/2026/09/28/d...
thatericalper.com
David Marsden, Broadcaster Behind CFNY-FM's Spirit of Radio Era, Dies at 85 - That Eric Alper
For nearly four decades, a signal out of Brampton carried Canadian music that mainstream radio wouldn’t touch, and the broadcaster who built that signal has died. David Marsden, the voice and programm...
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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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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 27/09/2026
"Niagara Parks Police received reports of a man acting erratically in the Niagara Glen area, where...[they] found the man scaling the escarpment. [...] At 9 a.m. the next day, the Parks police received a report from a hiker who was allegedly assaulted by a male dressed in a superhero costume."
niagarathisweek.com
Man arrested after 2-day search in Niagara Glen
Multiple police agencies were involved in the search, which resumed after a hiker reported being assaulted by a man in a superhero costume.
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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Under aerial attack.. Well more like under the flight path, but close. A helicopter comes into the heliport at the mouth of the Don. If you could only feel the down wash of that thing #paddleTO #Biidaasige #Helicopter
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Toronto Railway Museum @torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sep 25, 1987: the City of Toronto and Canadian National Railway win approval to build a pedestrian bridge over the Toronto Terminals Railway at the foot of John Street. The bridge provided direct access from Front Street to the new domed stadium under construction just south of the tracks. 1/3
The new John Street pedestrian bridge over the Union Station Rail Corridor as seen by night looking east, circa 1990. The tracks below the bridge are highlighted by numerous red signals restricting train movements. At right, the north end of the SkyDome with its famous Michael Snow sculpture "The Audience" is also brightly illuminated while at left are the tall buildings between Front Street and the rail corridor. City of Toronto Archives Photo.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today was a good day.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 26/09/2026
I'm trying to appreciate this, but I still think it would be better without.
Joseph Wolfond Park Weir, Guelph Ontario Canada 

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 25/09/2026
A stack of railway ties was set on fire near The Delta in Cambridge this morning. It made a huge plume of smoke that hit an atmospheric inversion and drifted in a straight line south, I saw it from a ridge on the east side of town.
reddit.com
From the cambridgeont community on Reddit: Fire by the Delta?
Explore this post and more from the cambridgeont community
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 24/09/2026
Turns out those major flight disruptions around New York were caused by an NJ Transit contractor cutting an important fibe optic line feeding the Philadelphia TRACON facility, which feeds radar approach control and air traffic control data, triggering ground stops at JFK, EWR, and LGA.
cnn.com
Airport operations resume after technical problems caused travel meltdown at major Northeast travel hubs | CNN
Hours after telecom lines were severed by a construction crew in New Jersey, leading to a travel nightmare at five major Northeast airports Monday, repairs have been completed and operations have resu...
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 24/09/2026
We're on the opposite end of the white light colour temperature spectrum from the warm lights that illuminated early 20th century transit.
Bluish interior lighting in the rear of Guelph Transit Nova LFS.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 23/09/2026
Isn't this from Elysium?
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 22/09/2026
Outrage is justified. That is more than enough water to sweep someone away.
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George Meanwell @meanwell.ca · 22/09/2026
this is absolutely extraordinary med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
so uh even if Trump somehow got Belarus to send its entire annual production to US (doubtful) it would amount to about half of what Canada sends to the US every year?
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
okay but potash is currently tariff-free no?
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Twice as many stops but 20pc faster end-to-end. Pity GO electrification is a goal being pushed ever farther into the ephemeral future
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 20/09/2026
Holy cow. This Nature of Things vid is talking about the snow's acoustic bending properties, and how owls have to overcome that while hunting. Includes a visualization of it too. Wild wilderness.
youtube.com
Incredible footage shows how owl uses sound to hunt under snow
YouTube video by The Nature of Things
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 20/09/2026
Looks better drawn down, even at night.
Looking upstream along the Speed River, Heffernan Pedestrian Bridge, Guelph Ontario Canada 

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 19/09/2026
Fascinating!
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 19/09/2026
We debate the voting age, but never thought about it this way.
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I wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I will be contributing to the #TOPhoto feed as much as possible. My first entry is my attempt to capture morning #TorontoHenge that didn’t work because the sky had other ideas.
The CN Tower and downtown buildings as seen from the Bathurst bridge over the rail yard at dawn. An UP train is leaving Union Station. The sky is full of orange clouds in a ruffle pattern that looks purple in the areas not lit up by the sun.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 18/09/2026
“Part of their rationale was you can take a GO train either way, and I use VIA all the time to go to Ottawa for meetings. To say to me ‘we want you to take a train on another service...is ludicrous.” Strongly disagree. We must be better users and providers of intermodal and interservice travel.
toronto.citynews.ca
'Ludicrous': VIA Rail stopping service at Guildwood, Malton stations
VIA Rail trains will no longer stop at Guildwood and Malton stations starting next month, with the Crown corporation saying the elimination will improve travel times. But passengers in Scarborough say...
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuine Q: when does the UN decide to leave New York?
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Vidman 📺 Dan Lauckner @vidman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I shouldn't have to install X on my phone in order to see critical messages from Waterloo Regional Police.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 15/09/2026
Oh dear, if only we could re-use glass bottles or something to avoid these shocks...
cbc.ca
Local brewery battered by trade war as cost of aluminum cans continues to rise | CBC News
Marc Plante, co-owner of Stray Dog Brewing Company, worries about the effects of new tariffs and counter-tariffs as the price of aluminum rises.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I periodically try to pitch a kind of normie urbanism where we just get to "one car per household" instead of "one car per adult"
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 14/09/2026
Dave is a top-tier rock star, and now has raised some serious talent.
THUM
Violet Grohl
THUM [Single] (2026)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=A3s-CgcfKUA
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Name something that Canadians love more than filling out the census.
canada.ca
Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their exceptional participation in the 2026 Census - Canada.ca
Thanks to outstanding participation across the country, the final response rate for the Canadian census is among the highest ever recorded.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 14/09/2026
Don't leave your kids in the car!
guelphtoday.com
Guelph woman arrested after child, 2, found unconscious in parked vehicle
The child was taken to hospital for assessment
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 14/09/2026
Plain truth.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13/09/2026
I have to say I was irritated to find as much trash as I did, near the fire circle and women/children memorial. Is expecting them to be immaculate too high of an expectation? Not if it's cigarette butts and beer cans. Do better.
River view from the Sacred Fire, Between the Lakes Treaty No. 3 (1792), Kanata

UTM: 17T 561154 4820815Riverview from Marianne's Park, 176 Gordon Street, Guelph Ontario Canada 

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13/09/2026
This is literally an infrastructure with serious community and social cohesion benefits. A public unity project. Even keeping it scoped to the Windsor-Quebec City corridor is limiting its benefits. lfg already
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13/09/2026
Good afternoon to soak up some September Sunday sun.
St George's Square under improvements, Guelph Ontario Canada 

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13/09/2026
If this ushers in more euro-style vehicles and standards for automobiles and trains, it could unlock a new era in sustainable transport here in Canada.
ctvnews.ca
Carney pushes idea of making Canada ‘associate member’ of EU, WSJ reports
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney wants closer links with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an “associate member” of the bloc, The Wall Street Journal reported on ...
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 12/09/2026
Great day for a game with the dome open.
Looking at the Baltimore Orioles playing against Toronto Blue Jays at the SkyDome, Toronto Ontario Canada 

UTM: 17T 629936 4833325
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 12/09/2026
This is why I like using social media for my niche hobby. Bots aren't going to springboard off of random spouting off about walking along a shoreline.
reddit.com
From the SipsTea community on Reddit: This is scary when you think about it
Explore this post and more from the SipsTea community
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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
MapQuest posts billboard in Chicago with directions to Lake Ontario in response to Trump’s executive order - MapQuest is doubling down on its decision to continue to keep Lake Ontario on its map with a six-foot billboard in Chicago.
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MapQuest posts billboard in Chicago with directions to Lake Ontario in response to Trump’s executive order
MapQuest is doubling down on its decision to continue to keep Lake Ontario on its map with a six-foot billboard in Chicago.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 11/09/2026
Electrification of streetcars on Yonge Street began in 1891. In reality, streetcar service began 30 years prior. Toronto was already doing higher-order transit pre-confederation. Wild.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Look at this photo. Look at where children leaving school have to enter from a blind high-fenced area into the crosswalk. Now look at the top speed cars were doing here when there were speed cameras. Now keep in mind that dangerous speeding has QUADRUPLED where speed cameras were removed.
A crosswalk at Humber Boulevard and Louvain Street is partially obstructed by fencing over a covered waterway, making it difficult to see pedestrians emerging from the fencing. A speed camera nearby was removed in November.

Lance McMillan Toronto Star
The speed camera was located by the TTC stop directly across from the school, steps away from the end of the crosswalk, where the boy was hit. In the 10-month period it was in place, the top speed ticketed was 107 km/h. Among the top 10 were two drivers ticketed for travelling at 82 km/h. The limit in the school zone is 40 km/h.
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