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Baja is about to get just the tip.

Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And that wasn't the only plan that would have had expressways all over the place in Toronto. I did a video last year covering not only the ones we built but the ones we didn't: youtu.be/PklfDLHxcWU

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Toronto's Unbuilt Expressways: Way or No Way?

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe she should take a page out of the Gong Show book and put her candidate number on her signs.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ranked ballots were legal in Ontario for municipal elections. Then Doug Ford made them illegal.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Having mastered slow trains through the Union Station Rail Corridor, they're now expanding into the Slow TV genre.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Official statement from Kremlin on plague.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very approximately, here's the first Windmill Line:

Current map of Toronto with the approximate extent of the first Windmill Line marked

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And yet, despite being relatively quick to implement, it's taken 10 months since the opening of Line 6 for this to happen - and we're still waiting for it on Line 5, 8 months after opening. Grrrrrr.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As we continued extending the shoreline south by reclaiming land, new "windmill lines" kept being needed, each one farther south than the last.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This windmill became a landmark along the waterfront and was the namesake of the Windmill Line - a line from there to Fort Rouillé (on today's Exhibition grounds) marking the farthest south into the harbour that docks were allowed to extend.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think I already told you we have the same cat.

A beautiful black cat named Nera, who mostly appears to be a black object with eyes

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's an outrage! Somebody must do something! Seriously, yes, we need to bite the bullet, because the current situation is lousy and the way we're handling it, it seems to be getting worse faster than we are fixing it.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've heard they can march faster than a subway train in a reduced speed zone.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My good sir, where might one even acquire a dead horse in that vicinity for the purpose of dragging? Does the merchant known as Amazon vend such goods? I thank thee in advance for thy most excellent advice. Huzzah!

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does Sydney confusingly have both a Mayor and a Lord Mayor like London does (with very different jobs, and only one of them elected by the general public)?

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Another candidate" is at 2.7%. I wonder how much of that is Gong? 😆

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Toronto at least, it's a municipal by-law as to when signs can go up (25 days for local, from the day of the writ for provincial or federal) and must be removed (72 hours after polls close).

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yup - that's southbound approaching Davisville. Some of the eleventy slow zones are horribly slow.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He may be a superhero but apparently he's not the superhero Toronto needs. www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...

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Blue Jays reliever Joe Mantiply elects free agency

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In four years will he be candidate #11? And then what will he do four years later?

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is that a general comment or specific to election signs? (I'm gonna guess both.)

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be fair, how could he possibly remove that many signs in just three days? 😆

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The late councillor Howard Moscoe had a sign company and would happily do business with his political opponents.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Turns out it's illegal to put up ejection signs before today. Haven't seen any Gong signs yet but I expect they'll soon be so plentiful that you can't sneeze anywhere in Toronto without hitting one.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Bike Share Toronto wants one thing to get right first, for me it wouldn't be this. It would be fixing the distribution of bikes and empty docks so that you can actually rely on whichever of those you need being available where you need it, when you need it. Cuz they're not good at that.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even the sky is participating in Orange Shirt Day. Another lovely photo by Francesca!

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Q107 is participating - in place of their morning show hosts they've been running the Indigenous stories just as they have done in previous years. (Dunno about during the day as I'm not listening right now.)

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I received a piece of literature for the imcumbent trustee in my area. No idea why anyone would want the job when Dougie doesn't let them do it. (The only other literature so far is from the incumbent councillor.) As for signs, I haven't seen any signs for anything yet. Not even Gong!

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Thanks for reminding me of this.

A short history of traffic engineering show walk, cycle, transit and car routes over time with cycling and walking getting worse.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But unlike Pat Venditte, he didn't get a rule about what happens when a switch pitcher and a switch hitter face off!

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Lindsay Jays Haynes @lindsayjhaynes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everybody shout at your boss tomorrow in Max Scherzer’s honour

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I put up with all that just to shoot about a one-minute segment for an upcoming video 😐

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How disappointing. I'll be seeing my councillor at a residents' association meeting in October and will press him on why almost nothing has been done. If any council/mayor candidates knock on my door I'll press them, too - though I doubt any of the actual mayoral candidates themselves will.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Go home, electronic ad device on a Line 5 station platform, you're drunk.

An electronic advertising display in a Line 5 station, displaying vendor information as it tries and fails to connect to its controller so that it can display ads.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, and it's not even close. Though to be fair most of the at-grade Line 5 I experience is around Leslie and just a couple of stops beyond Don Mills, not the section in Scarborough with eleventy intersections and stops.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Small sample size: Top speed I saw was 55. Most of the time 35-40. Slowed to 25 for many intersections but not all. Station approach speed seems to be 25. We hit a lot of red lights. If this is what they call TSP I'd like some of whatever they're smoking.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Currently heading east along the whole line. Early in the trip, no better. I'm not expecting any different for the rest of the trip.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Based on a trip west from Jane to Humber College, the vehicles rarely approach traffic speed and when they do it's only brief. Most of the time I'd guess they're only doing 30-40 km/h tops (I'm not peering into the cab). Intersections and approach to stops are slow.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am, though it's my first time since opening day last December so it's hard to compare with that. Compared with Line 5, though, I have only one word: slow.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I still wonder why the French announcements on Line 6 about which side's doors will open are phrased differently for left vs. right (left is present tense while right is future tense).

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It would be so impolite to disturb the dust.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You'd be surprised. And obviously they don't even remove them when they tear out the ceiling.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm listening to another passenger texting on a flip phone. Beep beep, beep, beep beep beep, beep beep, beep beep beep beep, beep, beep, beep beep beep, beep beep, beep beep beep.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Maybe ... let me know what you have in mind. My Gmail is the same as my handle here and on YouTube.

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Not Smooth Steve 🍁 @notsmoothsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This sign at Lawrence station is almost a decade out of date. But the ceiling with its finishes removed is timeless TTC.

A sign on the ceiling at Lawrence station said that the next train is to Downsview via downtown

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