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Each of those trees took 30-50 years to get to that height. We need to plant more trees. And we need to protect the ones we already have. And not just because they look nice. Because they reduce urban heat and protect from floodwaters as well.

Here's Richard Florida spinning for his clients PortsToronto as they bully the City of Toronto 🇨🇦 into giving up a central piece of the waterfront for 40 years. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

New from me at TVO: If the Therme lease is the government's best spin on their Ontario Place spa, this is gonna be a fiasco. tvo.org/article/opinio…

The Ontario Place spa is a costly extravagance we’ll be subsidizing forever — by John Michael McGrath #onpoli tvo.org/article/opinio…

"To receive this $3.8-$5.2 million per year in rent and park maintenance, the Province has committed to spending over half a billion dollars in public dollars now." Canadian Architect's damning analysis of the Ontario Place deal: canadianarchitect.com/amid-837-trees…

A visual reminder of the over 100 hundred streams and rivers that would be polluted and made more flood prone by Highway 413. #onpoli #Stopthe413

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Today in The Globe and Mail we reimagine the Toronto Island airport as a grand park. theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto… Toronto: we could have this.

This might be the most goddamn stupidest example of Provincial blue tape micro managing I have seen in a while.

So when forbidding bike lanes doesn’t work to reduce congestion, what will Ford do next? Rip out the sidewalks? Ban buses and streetcars? Make walking illegal? 🙄

340,000 trips along Bloor this year that Prabmeet Sarkaria and Doug Ford would rather have happened in cars.

The University bike lanes that Ford says he’s ripping out were specifically requested by the CEOs of the hospitals they front so that their nurses, doctors, and staff could get to and from work safely.

Doug Ford Doug Ford wants to kill Toronto’s University Avenue bike lanes to attack congestion. The reality: The street was below capacity for cars before the pandemic. 2020: theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

This is aggressively stupid. It will accomplish nothing but to get people killed.

Polling Ontarians broadly about locally-specific infrastructure that most will never encounter kind of speaks to how this is about good politics, not good policy.

1/ This might be the most dishonest use of a 5-point likert scale I have ever seen. Holy shit this is bad. Don't know if it s Robert Benzie's interpretation or David Coletto 🇨🇦's but it should be punishable by incarceration.

Now that Bill 212 has been passed, the 2022 TTS results have been made available. For the record, bike share for trips between home/work by Toronto households: Total: 4.3% Ward 11: 16.3% Ward 9: 15.1% Ward 13: 10.8% Ward 4: 10.4% Ward 14: 10.1% Ward 10: 7.7% Ward 19: 7.5%