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Ottawa has so much potential for its transit network to be excellent.

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I mean there are multiple redundant signs which are blocking one another!

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I'm the wrong person to test this stuff on

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We should address sign pollution

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this is the exact type of thing I’d like to see from Toronto politicians, who frankly should be ahead of the curve on this stuff compared to Vancouver given how much bigger Toronto is

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see I don’t think that’s true at all, I’m watching the Vancouver municipal election happening and there’s really substantive discussions about all kinds of things, including Transit signal priority

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My political position is to support politicians and policies that make a Transit better. I think FasttrackTO he is doing great work and I’m going to try to continue to push that forward.

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I really appreciate anyone who runs for public office, it’s really not easy and I think everyone should try to treat others with grace and kindness.

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I like some of Brad’s ideas, legitimately, but the issue for me just comes down to being quite clearly disingenuous about one’s viewpoint. I’m 100% sympathetic and appreciating of people changing their views, but it needs to be a sincere thing.

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I really am not a partisan, which can sometimes make life hard. I think different political movements get different things right and wrong and obviously progressives are usually better on Transit, but not always!

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My goal is to be critical, but never to be a jerk. Being mayor is obviously not easy, but we also legitimately do need to sort out the Transit network because it’s not getting better at the moment.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know I’ve been hard on Chow in the lead up to the election. This is because I think she’s the most likely winner and I am truly not happy with the state of transit in the city. I know she has her heart in the right place. I hope she will make Transit a bigger focus.

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This has essentially not come up at all despite a municipal election this month. It makes me want to bang my head against a wall.

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A train every 30 minutes lol? But for real if Bart was overlaid on Los Angeles and covered sort of a long north-south and a long East-West corridor and ran every 4 minutes then I think it would be more comparable (also probably like 70% underground to follow super direct alignments)

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean not really because if you look at the GTX train it looks like a metro train with bench seats and the end-to-end journey really isn't that long so I wouldn't call it similar to original train in really any way

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Not an interconnected suburban line, but a very fast metro.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the condemned tells jokes about the hanging, it's gallows humor. When the executioner does, it's part of the humiliation of execution.

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I don't think she wants it to happen but there is some element of acceptance in joking about this. Especially when the person doing the joking is not the person whose country is under threat.

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My personal view has less to do with intent and more with the lack of intent. Casually talking about or joking about this makes it feel less absurd and like it is in some sense real. It's hard to describe exactly what I'm feeling.

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I think it's best to not try to decide where other people's lines for humor on stuff like this is I don't think I'd ever joke about 9/11

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It's not that I think someone's a maga supporter because they joke about this stuff, it's that I think joking about someone's country being disappeared is in poor taste

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I think the problem is that even this rubs people the wrong way and I think for good reason

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Very good if a very improbable way of acting.

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

It's remarkable that "this isn't funny" itself isn't even well understood.

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I started watching that video but stopped when she made jokes about "Lake America" and referred to "Toronto, America"

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Most things taken to their extreme are bad

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This is very good to see but I remain extremely concerned. From Bill Gates interview with Ezra Klein

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Well, at one point the design had the new tunnels serving a new southern stub end facility, idk what the plan currently is

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Sad to see hundreds of workers laid off in a single tariff driven swoop.

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For obvious reasons I haven't been talking a lot about Transit issues stateside but good to see gateway tunnels progressing. Do we know if the Penn Station design is one of the ones that prevents through running?

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Thomas something @thomassomething.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be clear we don't even have enough signs for the amount of slow zones we have

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I asked ALTO people during consultation if they would take up other Canada HSR projects or even extensions to the Toronto-Quebec city line, & got an extremely strong "NO"

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Absolutely but it seems unlikely at this point

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The one notable policy is trivial Fare freezes that ultimately starve the system of one of its big sources of funding

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I saw a progress Toronto ad today that was talking about how things are going really well in the city and I just felt gaslit given the state of the transit network. Transit should be a key part of a progressive vision of Toronto and it doesn't feel like it currently is getting much attention.

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