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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · Sep 6

the most gender euphoria i have experienced recently is from this conservative reply guy affirming my nonbinary-ness

love an unexpected ally

a screenshot of a news video with August wearing blue. A comment in the comment section reads "What gender is that thing in blue?"

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

that's very cool, didn't realize that's why these areas are stone dust! i like the intentional "sponginess" of this park

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

biidaasage in the evening is absolutely dreamy 💛🧡

sunset skyline photo, with the skyline centered on a path between vegetation in the foreground. a tree on the left obscures the sun, giving a glowy effect

skyline at sunset between out of focus vegetation

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 1d

Biidaasage Park evening with @auguststreet.ca

August taking a picture of the Toronto skyline

Me and August in front of Toronto skyline

Me and August in front of an owl structure

View of river in Biidaasage park

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 2d

TTCriders volunteers were chatting with riders about fare capping and petitioning this evening at Broadview Station!

What we heard: riders aren't really buying the monthly pass anymore, and they find that taking the TTC can really add up over the course of a month!

group of people standing in front of a station entrance holding flyers

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 2d

Transit riders win for safety! City Council voted today to approve the expansion of Toronto Community Crisis Workers in the subway for a safer, more inclusive TTC - after over 500 people wrote-in to their councillor with our email tool!

Thanks to all who emailed their councillor!

Graphic of a rally for safer transit

Text on graphic is same as post text

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

and conservatives are scared of public transportation 🥀

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 2d

(on my bus ride home)

4-year girl on the bus is telling her mom that she's mewing. the mom is like "meowing?"

dad: "don't entertain her"

mom poorly imitates her daughter, and then the dad was like "you've gotta accentuate the jawline by making the hand motion slower" and proceeds to demonstrate

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

america

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

also, cities with high parking minimums

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

they're also pretty prevalent in most US cities on the west coast, but yea I haven't seen these in canada or any of the bigger NE cities. new urbanism thing

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

oh, so it gets worse 😭

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

5-over-1 in allentown, pa, with 3 storeys of parking plopped on top.

never seen such a thing

red, white, and black midrise with a concrete parkade on its roof. taken from a small residential, urban, tree-lined street in a city centre

3d satellite imagery of the aforementioned building, within downtown allentown

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

given the number of high-profile incidents in this city (& every other city) of cops beating up people on transit, it's fair to say that police aren't the answer to safe transit.

community crisis workers help people - no matter what they're going through. send an email before council votes tmrw!

Headline: Video shows police officers beating man on TTC subway, Toronto police investigating (CityNews)

Global News - Sammy Yatim: Toronto cop guilty of attempted murder in streetcar shooting

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Crossing Lights @crossing-lights.bsky.social · 21d

A map in my style showing the late 2040s Sydney network, based on the recent leaked TfNSW diagram!

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

particularly happy* !!

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

my deputation was just an annotated slidedeck of images to walk through the experience of taking transit, and i'm particularly with this one particular slide i cooked up this morning on my commute:

a slide deck as a photo of a next train screen in a toronto subway station. it is annotated - "some show I won't watch" to an ad for a TV show, "the weather" to a 3-day forecast, "news from the government of france" on the bottom, and a caption: what is going on

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

the fact that 19 people took significant time out of their day to come speak on this, many of whom lugged around big homemade wayfinding signs to city hall, is a testament to how much torontonians care for + want to see a better city

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

shoutout to all the talented designers (including fern) who made these cool little signs back in april, and brought them today - this sparked the convo about wayfinding in the first place!

really exciting win fully owed to @ttcriders.bsky.social volunteers passionate about wayfinding 😊

two people in front of a subway station. one person is holding a large streetcar stop information sign that they made

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 5d

i made a rare city hall appearance today to talk about the value of wayfinding and to shine light on the lacking state of TTC bus stop signs.

a group of us successfully pushed the TTC board to advance the agency's first-ever wayfinding strategy! 🚏

TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 6d

Fern up next with their amazing sign (that they helped design!!). Joins the call for better way finding system-wide.

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 6d

We’re at the TTC board meeting to speak in favour of their wayfinding strategy! Signage on transit isn’t the best and we are thrilled to see a complete overhaul of the system being considered. Follow along here for updates.

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 7d

TTCriders volunteers were out Thursday night at Spadina Station to talk to riders about the TTC's proposal for fare capping and our fight for more affordable transit!

Keep an eye on www.ttcriders.ca/shifts to volunteer with us for better transit.

group of people holding fare capping flyers in front of a subway entrance

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 9d

i don't think those systems scale well for any cost comparison, none of them have significant length to be comparable to a light rail network (so $/km will be off), and all of them are built for tiny streetcars with far lighter infrastructure, all in a paved lane

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 10d

consultation in this day and age seeks to appease a selection of a few selfish residents, drivers, business owners, and ultimately are a channel to water down good transport projects (in my experience).

so transit riders don't deserve a consultation for their benefit, i guess. we've to fight for it

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 10d

fun how it takes months and years of advocacy, hundreds of riders advocating, and many hours of consultation to get in a bus lane in the average US/canadian city.

then all it takes to remove is a phonecall from, like, 3 business owners - without any consultation at all.

broken system.

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 11d

NEW STORY // What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One
www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/01/w...

What’s Easier than Adding a Bus Lane in Seattle? Deleting One » The Urbanist

# The City of Seattle will be removing an East Union Street bus only lane set aside for the Route 2 this weekend, ceding to requests from nearby property owners who have complained about traffic chang...

www.theurbanist.org

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 11d

A rider sent us this video of six Eglinton West buses bunched together! Somewhere along Eglinton, a transit user is waiting a really long time for their bus 🥀😔

Bunching isn't inevitable! Measures like bus lanes + transit priority signals help - we've also called for more route supervisors and -

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