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鉾流橋 | Bridge by eneerhut on Fotoshi - 鉾流橋 is a bridge with brick paving, decorative railings, overpass, pathway, and railings. 📍 Ōsaka, Japan fto.sh/i/4GzhTe8D #Fotoshi #OpenStreetMap #GIS #StreetPhotography #CityLife

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Flying over uptown Toronto (North York), with its corridor of towers along the Yonge Street subway, and density that sharply drops off one or two streets back.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 23h

I appreciate that he is endorsing the Liberal critic for hospitals, mental health, and addictions and homelessness.

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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wab Kinew: “It takes strength to be able to look in the mirror.”

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time to ride a brand new busway

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

The built form fighting gentle-density infill creates.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Well, this is a day to amplify voices. Am I taking this too literally?

Powerful
Reuben and the Bullhorn Singers
Powerful [Single] (2024)

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kPbMUG0R-t2dU1Cj3yCqSkcCkNLRGcAkc

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 30/09/2026

Long story short I want the ability to use Leaflet but with less code, and build a tool others could use too.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 30/09/2026

I dream of building a client that integrates OSM into the ATmosphere, but one whole subproject of that will be ensure basic functions like this and other features limited to power users (e.g. symbology and drawing) cater to lighter abilities via simple web interface (e.g. a better, open MyMaps).

OpenStreetMap (Humanitarian Theme)
* 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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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

UTM: 17T 561986 4776033

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 30/09/2026

I stand corrected. I must have tuned in at the wrong time.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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

Maybe extensions of Line 5/6 can address it. Maybe a reconfigured LINK Train. Heck, a new wye onto the UP Express guideway would be top-tier. But I'm not convinced a new hub *detached* from the Kitchener corridor is the answer. Malton Station itself can and should be that hub.

Arrows shoing connections from the GO Transit Kitchener Line, as well as TTC Lines 6 (Finch West) and 5 (Eglinton) converging on a new proposed Regional Transit Centre between Terminals 1 and 3 at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Graphic by WW+P Architects: https://www.wwparchitects.com/projects/toronto-pearson-international-airport-regional-transit-centre/

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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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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

youtube.com

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

Pretty edge-of-fall scene. I'm already missing the light, it could be a long, mild, dry, dark winter.

River crossing south of Mile 31.28, Guelph Junction Railway Goderich Subdivision, Guelph Ontario Canada

UTM: 17T 561140 4821841

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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

UTM: 17T 560222 4822373

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 26/09/2026

Location: Joseph Wolfond Park East, Downtown Trail, rear of Wellington Plaza Quantity: 1 bag + pile of cans and bottles Notable finds: Feminine hygiene products, lighter, nail paint, sunscreen, so many cans and bottles

Garbage bag and picker next to a public park garbage can.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 25/09/2026

I had to have heard this lyric over 3 dozen times and I'm just getting it.

Song lyric: "Under vacant towers..."

I Feel the Transition
The Zolas
Come Back to Life (2021)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=s8pZfYOjtgQ

Song lyric: "...of the well-financed"

I Feel the Transition
The Zolas
Come Back to Life (2021)

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=s8pZfYOjtgQ

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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

Maybe plain white isn't all that bad. Strip the rear ad space and never put anything on it again and it'd be perfect.

Guelph Transit 297 sits at Platform 12 while Guelph Transit 302 sits at Platform 10, Guelph Central Station, Guelph Ontario Canada

UTM: 17T 560876 4821593

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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

Just came here to point that out lol

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 23/09/2026

I'm not sure insurers shouldn't be responsible for flood forecasting, but there should have been some clause about monitoring the weather?

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 23/09/2026

My bad, typical 'should have read the article first', but glad my initial instinct was right.

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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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