Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 28/09/2026I absolutely love that Gord Perks got to do the voiceover for this Olivia Chow ad. His last swan song against Ford/Tory municipal politics. 042
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 24/09/2026It's weird how accessibility on the TTC is somehow a user problem, not an institutional problem. @ttcriders.bsky.social 010
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 21/09/2026It doesn't help these things' credibility when I saw two staff and a supervisor leaning on one and laughing at how stupid they were. $2 million is no small cost and would've paid for 1/25th of PEDs at TMU. 000
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 22/08/2026Winner gets their provincial government to leave them alone 022
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 17/08/2026I can't watch Law and Order Toronto like a normal person because the entire time I'm just like 050
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 16/08/2026Surely CTV/TSN don't *have* to get the feed for an event a few km from their headquarters from FOX, right? 030
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 01/08/2026Yonge Street has been pedestrianised, we did it lads! (For about 30m during construction of Yonge/College) 1223
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 10/07/2026Ideally this would be accompanied via a long floor decal stretching from one end of the "line" to the other, and obviously more nuanced direction would be on signage rather than on the map such as accessible routes. 271
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 10/07/2026Finally finished my redesign of the PATH map. I redid the current spaghetti-like map into one closer resembling a subway map with numbered buildings à la the Tokyo Metro Map. I've often seen tourists (or even longtime residents) try to use the PATH and just end up going back upstairs. 3239
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 01/07/2026Nothing more Canadian than canoeing. Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦🇨🇦 061
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 28/06/2026I absolutely love how they were put under a massive and looming "PROGRESS" @progresstoronto.bsky.social 020
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 27/06/2026Christie Pits completely filled up two hours prior to the start of Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie. Shout out to the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show. Community is good. 021
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 20/06/2026It's not just a win for Toronto, but also a huge win for the chronically online to policy influencer pipeline. 06411
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 06/06/2026If you're wondering where the Toronto Police budget is going, it's to send one cop per person attending this chud rally led by an inflatable Donald Trump. 121
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 06/06/2026There are orders of magnitudes more pedestrians and transit riders in this photo than drivers. Any argument that cars belong here is complete nonsense. 063
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 31/05/2026500 & 530 Keele Street, former CPR bi-level warehouse complex, now home to a dozen different manufacturing companies and a few artists' spaces. 011
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 26/05/2026Is it a recession indicator when McDonalds skimps on the Windows license? 020
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 23/05/2026It's increasingly likely YRT will manage to put in bus lanes on Jane well before Toronto does. Despite triple the current ridership and several rounds of consultations in the past six years. 1172
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 21/05/2026Typo aside, saying the TTC will run is probably a better advertisement for transit than it being free. 010
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 18/05/2026As mayor, I would give everyone a free puppy, fully funded by putting one (1) parking enforcement officer at Yonge and Dundas. 082
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 17/05/2026IM SOBBING 😭😭 BANGARANGA BANGARANGA IMABANGARANG 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬 Bulgaria was a lightyear away from any sort of winner conversation, but God is it a banger (pun). 110
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 10/05/2026It's obvious which demographics Bezos thinks deserves mobility 030
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 09/05/2026Took this on my way back from Lima. If I didn't know it was Detroit/Windsor, I could have very easily mistook it for one city. 1165
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 01/05/2026Guy who has only seen one white paneled, single tunnel subway system: "I'm getting a lot of WMATA vibes from this" 020
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 01/05/2026My favourite, and the most wholesome, band of all time is from Norway and they're visiting Little Norway Park before their first ever Canadian concert tomorrow :D (I swear to God, nobody tell them about Doug Ford, it'll crush their hearts) 120
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 27/04/2026Right??? Everytime I bring this up, people look at me like I'm insane. 010
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 21/04/2026But I'm very happy my fellow neighbours feel the same way. 020
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 15/04/2026That's him! He is him! THE transit advocate Congrats, Rodney! 2241
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 14/04/2026We keep talking about floor crossings and Doly Begum running for the federal Liberals, but the real party turmoil is the former leader of the Rhinoceros Party not running as the Rhinoceros Party candidate in Terrebonne. 072
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 12/04/2026This lad (1965–) watched authoritarianism get dismantled once, and by god it will do so again. 000
Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 12/04/2026This is actually how people are introduced to me when they google my name 😭😭 030
![Chat with TTC Transit Control via the SafeTTC app:
Me: "Doors to the elevator [at TMU] to NB platform/Green P parking garage locked from the underpass level (level 4). Thankfully I am able bodied so I could check that it's locked from both sides, but those in a mobility device would be trapped there."
TTC: "TTC does not manage Green P Parking, you would need to contact the Toronto Parking Authority"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7gpysuccuf33qqokhpldqvo2/bafkreic77rp27iixcc4s45kgwb5z5rhirx5e3ovlddy5u4qopcu657kjja)
