Susan Chapelle
@torontosusan.bsky.social
Toronto–Danforth | Researcher | City-builder | Musician | Door-knocker | Policy geek | Independent | Usually out talking with neighbours 🇨🇦
Walk Toronto has sent out a municipal election action alert with 5 questions to ask your councillor and mayoral candidates about making Toronto a better city for walking. #walkTO #TOpoli mailchi.mp/61d95a9691f8/walk-toronto-news-winter-10598788?e=500c665649
In September 1948, Alderman Allan Lamport commissioned a series of photographs along Yonge Street documenting existing conditions as the city considered widening the street, providing a fascinating snapshot of the streetscape pre-subway. Read more about it here: https://ow.ly/sQuq50ZOLy5
@modacitylife.com shows how EuroVelo - a 90,000km cycling network - encourages cycling by providing high-quality, reliable #cycling infrastructure across borders, supporting sustainable travel, tourism and everyday mobility. youtu.be/XQ7-cQjjwas #UMX #UrbanMobility
The 90,000 km cycling network connecting Europe
YouTube video by Urban Mobility Explained
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The Ford government says bike lanes in Toronto don't belong on main streets. But experts (along with documents from the City of Toronto) say that a cycling network purely on secondary routes doesn't work in the city. Here's why:
Ford's bike lane removal likely to make Toronto traffic worse, more dangerous: analysis
A clearer picture of Toronto’s cycling network, shaped by expert interviews and a Canada’s National Observer analysis of City of Toronto documents, suggests the Ford government’s move to rip bike lane...
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Put a little love in your heart ❤️ www.instagram.com/reel/Dcq--KR...
The Danforth Tripper In an alleyway south of Danforth and Woodbine an ode to the venerable maroon and cream PCC streetcar that plied these streets in the days before the subway. As always this is a streetcar city. #LanewayTO #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto #Danforth #AlleywayTO
You'd think a story about public consultation on a subway station exit would be dullsville. But no, friends, no. This is @alisonmotluk.bsky.social. 🔥
The Local Magazine@thelocal.to · 2mo ago@alisonmotluk.bsky.social spent a year helping the TTC rethink a subway exit. That was seven years ago. What the hyper-local story of an unfinished TTC exit tells us about the purpose of public consultation. thelocal.to/second-exit-...
Good morning my Bluest Sky family. Hate has no home here. On running for office: torontosusan.substack.com/p/being-jewi...
Being Jewish in Canada Should Not Require Courage
I have been thinking a lot about what it means to be Jewish in Canada right now.
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We’re back with a new @spacingradio.bsky.social podcast! We have the co-editors of the book “Saving Toronto,” Anne Golden and Ken Greenberg. Plus, @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social tells us about the double standard cops apply to cyclists vs. motorists: spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 95, Saving Toronto - Spacing Toronto
First: a little rant about Doug Ford’s island airport expansion plans, which have (at least for now) been grounded. Next, the book Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How is available now. It’s a...
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Tariffs affect municipalities. We can’t build housing without a supply chain. We can’t build a domestic supply chain if we keep rezoning away our employment lands. In a trade war, protecting the land where we can actually build things matters. www.electsusanchapelle.com/post/the-50-...
The 50% Surtax Reality: Trade Gridlock Is Making Housing and Infrastructure Impossible.
Canada is facing a compounding housing and infrastructure crisis. Senior governments announce ambitious targets, demand rapid municipal approvals, and champion economic growth.Yet almost no one in lea...
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About That Laneway House. #Ward14 #torontodanforth #Torontourbanism #tinyhome #housingishealthcare www.electsusanchapelle.com/post/about-t...
About That Laneway House.
Today was a great day. 17 candidates signed up to run for Ward 14. Some of them actually live in the neighbourhood. Then the news about it. Party games. Literally. Then someone on Reddit decided to ...
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“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.” Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities
Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community
Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...
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I’m officially running City Council in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth. I believe this ward is ready for practical leadership, better planning, stronger local services, and a councillor who gets things Healthy communities. Solid urbanism. Experience that delivers. Vote Susan Chapelle ✅ October 26.
Yes, we need density. And we need a plan. Homes with the services that make a neighbourhood work: healthcare, mental health care, childcare, schools, parks, employment land, local businesses and reliable infrastructure. Density should build communities, not just units. Ward 14 can grow better.
This is BAD NEWS for public safety & mobility in Ontario. Make no mistake what this ruling means—the lower court decision established that ripping out protected bike-lanes WILL cost lives & that was unconstitutional. This Appeal decision says Doug Ford is constitutionally allowed to ENDANGER LIVES.
Ontario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m...
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Friday: Courts rule Doug Ford can rip out bike lanes Saturday: Bike Share Toronto sets daily ridership record
TOBikeShareBot@toronto.raccoon.bike · 2mo agoYesterday there were approximately 48,196 Toronto Bikeshare trips Most used station: Centre Island Ferry Dock (570 trips) Least used station: Grenoble Dr / Gateway Blvd and 110 others (0 trips) Active stations: 1058 #bikeTO
Finally abandoned X. So overjoyed to see excellent urbanism, politics and science on @bsky.app
We are breaking ground at 275 Merton, a partnership with CreateTO, the Housing Secretariat, + Priority Development Review. 30% affordable + deeply affordable Rent-Geared-to-Income units. Using a “checkerboard” approach, affordable homes are integrated throughout! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
There’s a way to build affordable housing in Toronto — and we’re doing it right now
We can either entrench the systems that failed us in the past, or use this moment to create a housing model that creates a more sustainable future, Jennifer Keesmaat writes.
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I grew up riding bikes with my family in downtown Toronto. The Danforth bike lane is how my 86 year old dad gets to his favourite coffee shop. Every single day. Regardless of weather. Thank you @jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social Doug Ford wants my dad to drive a car instead. Idiot.
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
I’ve created a handful of them, but this might still be my most unusual STARTER PACK! A team-up with world famous climate scientist @katharinehayhoe.com, these are folks connecting the dots on climate action via better cities! Please follow these great folks and share the pack! go.bsky.app/7Wh2uvp
Saskia Sassen discusses the globalization issues of large corporations purchasing low income housing, and displacing the occupants. This reminds me of Regent Park.
From the vaults: two years ago, as Ontario's premier officially began his war on bike lanes, I wrote a piece for TVO @therundowntvo.bsky.social on the early years of bike lanes in Ontario. #onpoli #TOpoli www.tvo.org/article/no-p...
‘No place on busy main streets’: Looking back at Toronto’s original bike-lane wars | TVO Today
Doug Ford’s crusade against cycling infrastructure proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same wasn’t the first politician.
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Car-free streets are not synonymous with culturally rich streets. Removing cars creates possibility, but it does not automatically create a vibrant place. A truly vibrant public space is not only defined by what is absent; it is defined by what is present—who and what is able to flourish there.
Great piece by Cllr Matlow that lays out the impossibility of 10 million passengers flying through Billy Bishop without a huge expansion of the airport footprint. Also rightly says huge public costs - both public funds & degrading the public waterfront - would not be offset by any public benefit.
Josh Matlow@joshmatlow.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlease read my latest in today’s Toronto Star about why we must prepare for what comes next for Billy Bishop Airport and our city’s waterfront. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Read part 2 of cycling columnist Sabat Ismail's interview with the creators of the "Journey Lines" zine that gives space to unheard cycling voices #bikeTO spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
Zine gives space to unheard cycling voices (part 2) - Spacing Toronto
Read part 1 of this conversation. Sabat Ismail (SI) met with Rachel Wang, Sylver Sterling, and Jess Nachman, creators and editors of the Journey Lines zine, to discuss the zine and its launch. The zin...
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