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@AlexDRMather

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I build housing at Collecdev Markee. Formerly: progressive politics in #ONPoli , #TOPoli , and abroad @BSD and the Office of the Premier of Ontario.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined May 2011
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5 years
Uninformed commentators: “no one who works in the Financial District bikes to work.” People who work in the Financial District:
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It is so very nice to be in a city that values and invests in a high quality public realm, and one that encourages people to be out in the streets and parks. Sit, sleep, play; stay a while.
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A colleague once asked me why people who often commute by bike are so quickly “radicalized” to advocate for safer streets. The answer is because if you commute by bike regularly, someone will literally deliberately try to kill you.
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Tim Warman
2 years
This happened on Dundas West this afternoon on my way home from my @thebikebrigade run. The guy (licence BR95664) deliberately tried to sideswipe me then jumped out and started chasing after me. Fortunately I managed to sprint away and lose him in traffic. #closepass
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2 years
People love retail in neighbourhoods. We should allow way more of it.
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2 years
Shade is actually good.
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2 years
Toronto drivers crash into buildings on a semi-regular basis, but it’s a little on the nose to crash directly into a bike shop.
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4 years
Keep the pandemic patios forever.
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3 years
You can have a handful of spots dedicated exclusively to the storage of private vehicles, or you can have this:
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3 years
Montreal’s commitment to excellence in public realm design is really quite incredible. Everywhere you look, a new street or sidewalk or leftover nook that has been reclaimed — often from spaces previously designed primarily for cars — and reinvigorated.
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2 months
Morning rush hour, a literal Brinks truck blocking the same bike lane in which a person was killed last week because the bike lane was blocked. The City’s data shows something like 5,000 people will use this bike lane today.
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3 years
Montreal’s commitment to sustainability and livability through widespread greening is lovely to behold — city is *lush*, much of it having come more recently from reclaiming space previously used for street parking or gained through road narrowing. All of this was space for cars.
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2 years
I once asked a former senior Toronto transportation staff member why they insisted on the flimsy plastic bollards to “protect” the bike lanes. His answer: “Well we don’t want cars damaged when they drive into them.”
@GraphicMatt
Matt Elliott
2 years
This city’s love affair with flexible bollards has got to end. Turns out “Trucks can drive over them!” is not a desirable feature for cycling infrastructure.
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9 months
A mayor leveraging her remarkably high approval rating to deliver on the promises she made during her election campaign by beginning to unwind more than a decade of dishonest fiscal management is good, actually.
@BenSpurr
Ben Spurr
9 months
Mayor Chow now speaking to reporters. Says she inherited “a huge financial mess.” City is failing to provide basic services, roads are crumbling, transit is inadequate.
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3 years
A city that values the lives of people riding bikes over the convenience of people driving cars.
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3 years
Last week the City threatened to fine people $5,000 for not shovelling snow properly.
@ColinDMello
Colin D'Mello | Global News
3 years
There’s currently a barbeque in the middle of Avenue Road outside the ROM, where dozens of tractors have set up for the convoy demonstration in Toronto. #onpoli
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2 years
If you live in Toronto, your tax dollars are paying the officer who hit a cyclist in High Park $281,031 a year to write tickets to people riding bikes in High Park.
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3 years
Montreal has made such a strong commitment to *real* Vision Zero-adherent physical infrastructure improvements that we know save lives — bump-outs to reduce crossing distances, road narrowings, speed bumps, tightened corner radii, etc. It’s all there, everywhere.
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4 years
So much demand for small businesses located in neighbourhoods. Would love to see an expansion of zoning to permit them much more widely as part of covid recovery measures.
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1 year
Spectacular new bike lanes on Wellington. Toronto can have nice things as long as the anti-safety charlatans are kept at bay.
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7 years
@AlexpiersonAMP @ChrisLewisLLS @MooreintheAM If you can't safely manage to go around that cyclist, you most definitely should not be operating a motor vehicle.
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4 months
Pedestrianize Ossington.
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2 years
Toronto has some gorgeous missing middle housing. We should make it possible to build it once again.
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4 years
Infuriating. People dying on the streets because of dangerous drivers flouting the law, emboldened by a police force that says it stopped enforcing traffic laws because it doesn’t have the resources to do so. But it has the resources to do this. Harmful negligence.
@6ixbuzztv
6ixBuzzTV
4 years
Bicycle paths in South Etobicoke have a speed limit, and police survey the area to make sure people aren't speeding.
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6 years
@TorontosMayor 1. Remove Mammoliti and Holyday from PWIC immediately. 2. Upgrade painted bike lanes to curb-protected. 3. Establish a new bike network plan with brand new bike routes. All more helpful than your thoughts. This is not difficult, and fewer people will die.
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3 years
I’ve now been sent this photo by people living in the US, UK, Japan, Switzerland, and Australia. This is the vision of Toronto that is being projected widely right now. 📸 @Lachancephoto
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3 years
Montreal’s contemporary attitude toward urban design rings of a city that loves people living and playing in it and wants to encourage more of it. It is to be emulated.
@CastanheiraG
Glenn Castanheira
3 years
So, we pedestrianized Canada’s largest commercial street and this happened…
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1 year
Absolutely stunning new affordable housing project wrapping up in Toronto’s West Don Lands. You love to see it.
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2 years
Today in “gentrification is whatever I define it as to make my point.” This development is replacing a massive discount store with literally hundreds of below-market rate homes, along with hundreds more market purpose built rental homes and new spaces for independent businesses.
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Brice Sopher
2 years
Wild that in Toronto we just let a developer buy an entire neighbourhood that was really successful and just destroy it
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3 years
Griffintown. New neighbourhood, big influx of density. What is Montreal doing in response? Right-sizing the streets, widening sidewalks, building protected bike lanes, and generally repairing the prevailing auto-centric form to respond to an influx of people. Managing growth.
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4 years
The Danforth is 1,000 times more enjoyable with bike lanes and patios. Makes you want to stay, shop, linger. Good for businesses and people. #DestinationDanforth
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3 years
New missing middle housing? Not so missing in Montreal.
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3 years
Let’s do it again.
@MoreNeighbours
More Neighbours Toronto
3 years
We once allowed four story apartments to be built on residential streets. And they’re beautiful. Exactly where they belong. Not confined to an avenue or transportation corridor, but in the community itself.
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1 year
Torontonians love a new park.
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2 months
Regular reminder that the @BloorYorkville has actively campaigned against road safety measures on this very stretch of road.
@ZeroVision416
Zero Vision Toronto
2 months
Horrible scene on Bloor in yorkville this morning. 3 scattered bikes, a truck driver wearing headphones, blood on the road.
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5 years
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6 years
“If pedestrians would just stay on the sidewalks and follow the rules, they’d stop dying in record numbers”, they say. #walkTO
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3 years
Another day, another Toronto driver plowing through sidewalks and into immovable objects.
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2 years
Shaw Street feeling much safer for pedestrians a couple days after the @TorontoPolice spent all weekend harassing cyclists on the street…
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7 years
Bloor bike lanes rush hour this morn. More cyclists than motorists at every intersection, again. Lots of kids using them. #bikeTO @JohnTory
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Alex Mather
3 years
Every night there is street racing all over the city that the police refuse to enforce.
@WhitlaMike
Mike Whitla
3 years
Watch out riders. Police are ticketing cyclists for speeding above 20km/h in high park. #biketo
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2 years
More independent retail in neighbourhoods, please.
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4 months
It’s the absolute best how there’s zero congestion every time one of these politicians does one of these posts.
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1 year
Imagine looking at this and thinking “what this place really needs is two thousand more parking spots.” That’s literally the current plan for Ontario Place.
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5 years
Narrowed roads Pedestrian crossovers Tightened curb radii Metal bollards Photo radar Protected bike lanes Actual enforcement Harsher penalties And so on and so on... THIS IS NOT HARD
@picardonhealth
André Picard
5 years
Toronto is trying to figure out how to stop drivers from killing pedestrians via @BlogTO @Walk_TO #VisionZero
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2 years
…and not only do the offenders not typically go to jail, they don’t even lose their licenses. In fact, most often literally *nothing* happens in response to them trying to kill you.
@TheBikingLawyer
The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)
2 years
Road violence is real. Motorists like this should lose their license.
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Alex Mather
6 years
-21C is #bikeTO weather.
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Alex Mather
2 years
Anyway, it seems no one on site was seriously injured, which is genuinely a miracle, but every single bike lane should be protected and there should be way more protection for people walking and sitting on patios. Cars are dangerous.
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3 years
The speed limit is 40km/h on both of these streets. This will keep happening until Toronto gets serious about making changes to its physical infrastructure. Most everything else is window dressing (which is why this epidemic persists).
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3 years
Nice to see towns like Belleville get on the “streets are for people” train.
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8 months
No one bikes in the winter in Toronto, they say…
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2 years
This is directly across the street from the section of the city’s busiest bike lane, which it was decided couldn’t have physical protection for people on bikes because some car parking would be lost.
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5 years
@fordnation @Raptors your entire career is focused on screwing the city that has repeatedly and steadfastly rejected you
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5 years
I came upon this scene yesterday, a tragically perfect illustration of why Vision Zero is failing in Toronto (and of the fact that unprotected bike lanes are horrible and dangerous). 1/x
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10 months
As it now seems clear the police aren’t going to play ball here, it’s really on the TTC/Transportation Department to make changes to the King route that obviate the need for enforcement. That should be on the next Council agenda.
@TristanToronto
Tristan DowneDewdney
10 months
Earlier tonight my streetcar driver told us we’d be better off getting out and walking down King. He was right.
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Alex Mather
9 months
Again, “luxury condos” are the most affordable option for most Canadians living in urban areas, and are also the primary source of housing that is secured at below-market rents. This rhetoric is , as ever, both deeply misleading and plainly unhelpful.
@theJagmeetSingh
Jagmeet Singh
9 months
Justin Trudeau says one thing but does the other. I visited Edmonton Griesbach, where Justin Trudeau promised to build more affordable homes. Instead, he's building luxury condos you can’t afford. With his plan — developers get rich, you get gouged.
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4 years
Reminder that if even a small portion of these people choose to commute by car rather than by bike or transit, the city will come to a messy, grinding halt. Toronto needs a substantial, immediate build-out of a protected bike lane network.
@CTVToronto
CTV Toronto
5 years
HAPPENING NOW: Commuters wait for shuttle buses during the morning rush as the TTC suspends subway service between Jane and Ossington stations due to a partial derailment. For the latest:
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Alex Mather
7 years
This little orange helmet is the reason the Bloor bike lanes need to stay. #bikeTO
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Alex Mather
1 year
The CEOs of those hospitals literally wrote City Council to ask to have those bike lanes put in to help their healthcare workers get to work safely.
@anthonyfurey
Anthony Furey
1 year
Today I announced that if I’m elected Mayor of Toronto there will be no more bike lanes on major roads and we will tear up the dedicated lanes on University Avenue to not slow down access to hospitals.
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11 months
The problem is cars.
@CityNewsTO
CityNews Toronto
11 months
Streetcars along King Street are travelling slower than prior to a pilot project that was intended to make transit a priority, according to new data.
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Alex Mather
5 years
Streets are for people, #WeTheNorth edition.
@sarahjenkinsxo
Sarah Jenkins
5 years
Front and University has turned into a complete mosh pit #RTZ
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Alex Mather
1 year
The CEOs of the hospitals that line the street where Saunders made this announcement wrote City Council to ask for those bike lanes to be installed so that the people who work at their hospitals could get to and from work safely.
@BenSpurr
Ben Spurr
1 year
Saunders says he’s not against bike lanes, and that they can be good things. But he’s against how they’re being implemented. Says there’s not enough consultation and they make traffic worse. Claims downtown politicians are forcing them where they don’t belong.
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Alex Mather
1 year
Why ever reopen all the Yorkville streets to cars?
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Alex Mather
4 years
@6ixbuzztv Maybe they should have started with the dangerous drivers who are actually killing and maiming people every single week in Toronto. FFS.
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Alex Mather
1 year
Did you know Toronto has had more than a decade of conservative mayors, including the most recent one who left office some fifteen weeks ago?
@brianlilley
Brian Lilley
1 year
Did you know major crime is up 20% in Toronto over last year’s record crime rate? We have a problem with crime in this city. The woman apparently in the lead to be mayor doesn’t talk about the issue. Read & RT #topoli
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Alex Mather
11 months
Streetcars get stuck on King Street because cops refuse to conduct the enforcement on which the King streetcar relies. Makes you think!
@CityNewsTO
CityNews Toronto
11 months
Toronto police say while they stand behind an officer's decision to ticket a TTC streetcar operator for blocking an intersection during rush hour, traffic congestion should have been considered.
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3 months
George Brown’s new mass timber building wrapping up.
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Alex Mather
7 years
Okay, I'm pissed off. So, there was a "cyclist blitz" on my street this morn: 2 officers in 2 cars, observing a stop sign. 1/
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Alex Mather
2 years
We should close down more streets to cars and open them to people on weekends in Toronto.
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Alex Mather
3 years
It is a fiction that Ontario Place has been “largely closed since 2012.” In reality, it is currently — and should remain — a well used public space.
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@dmrider
David Rider
3 years
Inbox: Ford government should sell Ontario Place to developers, says the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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Alex Mather
2 years
Another day, another instance of getting called a “faggot fuck cyclist” by a Toronto driver. This is for some reason a common refrain.
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Alex Mather
5 years
Is there a better visualization of the efficiency and importance of rapid transit than the videos we see whenever even a part of a major line is shut down? Imagine if all these people drove cars everyday.
@CTVToronto
CTV Toronto
5 years
HAPPENING NOW: Commuters wait for shuttle buses during the morning rush as the TTC suspends subway service between Jane and Ossington stations due to a partial derailment. For the latest:
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Alex Mather
2 months
Folks is it a nuisance when you get fined for breaking the law?
@MacLeodLisa
Lisa MacLeod
2 months
In 2006 I warned at Queen’s Park that photo radar was a slippery slope. While well intentioned to reduce speeding they would ultimately become a cash cow for municipalities. Case in point 👇 and in addition, as with any revenue to any government at any given time, the proceeds go
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Alex Mather
2 years
Here’s How…to block the sidewalk, crosswalk, and bike lane all at the same time.
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2 years
This one in particular ran a stop sign, nearly hit me, then tried to swerve me off the road after I yelled at him. I’ll report him to the police, who will do nothing because they are literally too busy ticketing cyclists in High Park.
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Alex Mather
5 years
Got married on the weekend, with a little help from @TTChelps .
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Alex Mather
6 years
Find someone who loves you the way Toronto politicians love ageing highways.
@alexbozikovic
Alex Bozikovic
6 years
Toronto could fully repair every one of its social housing units and every one of its parks facilities for less than it is spending ($2b) on repairing one elevated expressway. #topoli
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Alex Mather
2 years
So glad ⁦ @TrafficServices ⁩ are out ticketing cyclists in High Park again. Wouldn’t want to be caught *actually* serving or protecting vulnerable road users, now, would we?
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Alex Mather
5 months
Bloor-Gladstone @torontolibrary — one of the best.
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6 years
Toronto’s version of the “thoughts and prayers” that accompany every US school shooting. This, from the Mayor who appointed the councillors most vociferously opposed to protecting cyclists to the committee in charge of protecting cyclists.
@TorontosMayor
John Tory
6 years
My thoughts are with the family and friends of the woman who died while cycling at Bloor and St. George Sts. today. The deaths of pedestrians & cyclists on our streets is deeply troubling to me. I am determined to do all we can to make our streets safer.
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Alex Mather
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1. This is very well trodden ground for mayoral hopefuls—more often than not it hasn’t ended well for them (including in the last election) 2. This work is tied to water main replacement & isn’t changing the # of lanes 3. Filming stuff with your phone while driving is illegal
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Alex Mather
5 years
University intersects literally every east-west protected bike lane in the city. Demand would *explode* if protected bike lanes were added to the expressway-like University; it’d be the first real step towards an actual (but small) safe cycling network in Toronto.
@dmrider
David Rider
5 years
Clr Holyday says some streets being studied for bike lanes show incredibly low cyclist use now, cites University Ave. Doubts predictions of rapid cyclist uptake if lanes built. (University is almost an inner city highway with some stop lights. Cars travel very fast)
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Alex Mather
5 years
The new Garrison Crossing pedestrian and cycle bridge, a treasure.
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Alex Mather
3 years
Mass timber construction on Toronto’s waterfront. Great to see it rising.
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Alex Mather
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Danish invasion on Toronto’s waterfront.
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Alex Mather
2 years
Density + plenty of public seating + nearby food and beverage offerings = busy parks.
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Alex Mather
3 years
The Toronto Police don't enforce dangerous driving because they say they don't have the resources to do so. Clearing encampments that exist partly because those living in them don't feel safe in the shelter system? Bring in the commandos.
@BikeLaneDiary
Martin Reis
3 years
Breaking: Huge Police force mass to confront protesters in support of encampments in Trinity-Bellwoods Park @ESN_TO @blogTO @nowtoronto @adequatehousing @leilanifarha @FredrikGertten @Push_TheFilm #encampment
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Alex Mather
2 years
I live on this street. Neighbours have been *begging* the police for *years* to enforce dangerous driving on this and literally every surrounding street. But instead they’re using their supposedly limited resources to harass cyclists again.
@TheBikingLawyer
The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)
2 years
The @TorontoPolice hate cyclists. @m_layton can we please know why this is happening? They have told community members they are doing this here all weekend.
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Alex Mather
4 months
One of the most remarkable buildings in Toronto.
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Alex Mather
5 years
On a 12-minute bike ride to a meeting this morn, I encountered: > A driver going the wrong way up a 1-way who honked at me for “not getting out of the way” > The driver stuck behind me, who rolled down his window to yell “faggot” at me as he sped by > 12 cars parked in bike lanes
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Alex Mather
3 years
It would be absolutely insane not to make #cafeTO permanent.
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Alex Mather
5 years
When I think about how meekly Toronto politicians are responding to the road safety crisis, I often think about the comment that the US forever lost the gun control plot once politicians decided not to act after 20 schoolchildren were murdered at Sandy Hook.
@CP24
CP24
5 years
#BREAKING : A baby is in life-threatening condition after being involved in a hit-and-run at Ellesmere Road and Pharmacy Avenue. Three pedestrians were struck in total. Police are looking for a grey Dodge Journey driven by a white male.
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@AlexDRMather
Alex Mather
11 months
@jfcampbellTO Looks like a great way to help keep people safe and support small businesses.
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Alex Mather
5 months
Always a good sign when you have to go to a different city from the one in which you are presently running for mayor to make a point you’re getting hammered for.
@DipikaDamerla
Dipika Damerla
5 months
It will be up to the residents to decide on who best represents the vision of the Mississauga they want. I will not be silenced in my opposition to remove two lanes from Bloor Street and create more gridlock in #Mississauga
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Alex Mather
6 years
Hi, @JohnTory : in Winnipeg, they get that taking real action is more appropriate than defaulting to thoughts and prayers. They do this because it makes it less likely that more people will die. This is not difficult.
@brent_bellamy
Brent Bellamy
6 years
One full block of protected bike lane installed by two guys in one day today in Winnipeg. A great system of precast curbs. Fast and inexpensive.
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Alex Mather
5 years
Wow, @BikeShareTO logged record January ridership last month, with a total of 102,148 rides. I thought no one bikes in the winter?!
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Alex Mather
5 years
Wow -- @BikeShareTO 's June ridership was *292,283.* That's twice the entire population of Barrie on a Bike Share bike.
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Alex Mather
5 years
Local paper again comes out in favour of traffic congestion.
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Alex Mather
7 years
@TPS_ParkingPal @TPSOperations @m_layton @CycleToronto @PC_Hoppee Her answer? "I'm here to ticket cyclists, not drivers." I'm gobsmacked. Officer is admitting to willingly disregarding law enforcement. 7/
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Alex Mather
5 years
@DenzilMW celebrating the removal of infrastructure that is proven to make it less likely Torontonians die — keeping it classy, as usual.
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Alex Mather
7 years
@TPS_ParkingPal @TPSOperations @m_layton @CycleToronto @PC_Hoppee There can't be any real progress in making streets safer for #walkTO / #bikeTO until police are better educated abt vulnerable road users /end
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