Rodney 🚧🚇
@chanface.bsky.social
🎙️🚌 Co-host of @dwelltime.ca, a transit podcast 🚊🚲 Co-lead at @TriTAG.ca Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | @uwaterloo.ca Planning | Toronto/Waterloo | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🇭🇰
All the data points to the evergreen sign:
Jacob Loo Dawang@jacobdawang.com · yesterday🧵 NEW POST: Edmonton’s $15M infill property tax dividend Matching permits to assessment data shows that small-scale infill from just 2024-26 will grow the tax base by $1.8B, and revenues by $15M. That's equivalent to a 0.7% property tax rate increase! #yegcc www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/pr...
Had a great chat on the Church St grass with @beckykatz.bsky.social about all things pedestrian and city planning! She’s been such an inspiring positive force in Transportation at the City of Toronto, literally changing the way we move.
He tall on my sprawl 📍Danforth GO / Main Street TTC Subway Station
This week is the last (real) city council meeting of the term. Here is a🧵reflecting on the policy and program changes Toronto did (and didn't do) to get new housing built this term. 1/
Bradford looks at the vehicle congestion on Richmond/Adelaide and thinks the bike lane barriers are the problem This is the guy who just made a video about how his urban planning background makes him a knowledgeable candidate… Video at 2x speed
Councillor Lily Cheng wants to rename Yonge St to BTS Blvd She better make parking free along it as well 😍😍 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Excited to share a series of maps reconstructing how property moved from the first patentees to a local gentry in Toronto's west end and the first subdivisions along the major western roads (Queen, Dundas, and Davenport). See the maps and the story behind them: brockton-history.ca/2026/07/27/w...
Come join us for a Queer Picnic Sat, Aug 1, 2-6pm on Church St to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Gay Picnic Day—Canada’s first Pride! There will be grass, sandboxes, and even my mini inflatable pool! Bring your picnic blankets, camping chairs, and most importantly, your friends! (1/2)
On Tuesday, I unveiled my plan for more homes and lower rents. This plan, provides both immediate relief and long-term systemic change for renters in the City of Toronto. Learn about ending the tenant tax markup, fixing the family-size unit penalty, and taxing vacant lots 🏘️
Toronto says it wants more affordable homes. But everywhere you look, the incentives are backwards. Renters pay higher property taxes. Family apartments cost more to build than shoeboxes. Vacant land sits untaxed. A fair deal for housing can deliver more homes and lower rents 🏘️
I just donated and you should too we need to get real leadership back in this ward, as it’s clear that Saxe is not cut out to be our councillor
Rodney 🚧🚇@chanface.bsky.social · 2w agoHeavily encourage you to donate to candidates you believe in and take full advantage of the 75% city rebate on donations between $25.01 and $300. A donation of $40 will only cost you $10 post-rebate!! Can't donate? Volunteer your time! We can't let only wealthy connected candidates dominate.
What an unhinged & unprofessional way to treat a deputant. Dianne Saxe puts a motion to speed up the 506 streetcar 8 days after Gabe launches his #FixThe506 campaign and physically brings a copy. Then she wastes precious TTC board time to attack Gabe for her own political gain and ego. (1/2)
Gabe Blanc@gabeblanc.bsky.social · 2w agoI went to City Hall to speak in support of speeding up streetcars.
MARK CARNEY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: union
The Carney government cut about 50 positions from the federal nerve centre responsible for managing forest fires, the union says.
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Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh...
Wish this was about as-of-right height/storey permissions for housing www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Lk...
Ontario is Getting Taller
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Our housing policy launch will take place in two days on Tuesday, July 21st at 6:30pm at Rosa Branca in Little Italy. Join me, MPP Aislinn Clancy, Ken Yang, Liam Gill, and Samantha Eby for a discussion on policies that can bring rents down. RSVP at gabeforunirose.ca/housing-event
Maybe I won’t go to Montreal this summer… who needs Rue Ste. Catherine when we have pedestrianized Church Street now… Plus someone has to hold it down in Toronto
Gabe Blanc is already sparking change at City Hall even before being elected! 8 days after Gabe launched his #FixThe506 campaign with policy to speed up the Carlton streetcar & received hundreds of petition signatures, Councillor Dianne Saxe is putting forward a motion to do the same.
Gabe Blanc@gabeblanc.bsky.social · 3w agoThanks to your support, City Councillors are paying attention to our plan to #FixThe506. But without continued pressure, they might settle for little more than lip service to prioritizing public transit. 1/2
Thanks Aidan from Toronto Today for this great rundown of the big ticket action items that could speed up streetcar service.
Toronto’s streetcars are the slowest in the world. Could removing stops up the speed?
A decades-long debate is coming to a head as the TTC ponders ways to speed up its notoriously slow streetcars
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Love how none of the current Eglinton Crosstown average travel time dots are meeting the scheduled transit times 😭😭
More Transit Southern Ontario@moretransitso.bsky.social · 3w agoToronto's new LRT lines are significantly faster than when they opened. Line 5 riders are saving 8 minutes on average for trips from Mount Dennis -> Kennedy compared to opening. Finch LRT riders are saving 15 minutes on average for trips from Finch West -> Humber College. 1/2
Building more planters on Church Street! More flowers to come. Public space deserves to be beautiful!
I need to get “peanut allergy” tattooed on my forehead because I always forget to mention it
