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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 17h

I'm sorry, folks, but it's not by replicating the service pattern of the 1950s that we are going to make rail service succeed in the 21st century.

800 million is probably enough to subsidy a great province-wide regional bus service for a decade or more.

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 16h

so did you make the train?

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 16h

well, you can't get your nachos and eat them too

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 2d

they've really out-portmanteaued themselves with "bakerloop"

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 4d

thanks for your comment! it's nice when people notice the mask in a positive way

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 4d

i feel ridiculous eating them, but those blue takis have quite the hold on me at the moment

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 4d

i was going to say that i'd like one whose branding really commits to black and white. then i realized there's one prominent example of that, and we don't like it. so… green?

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 10d

the lack of a walk signal parallel to yonge street during that phase manages to be the least annoying thing about this intersection

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 13d

at one point today, we were at humber college for over 15 minutes and a train never showed up.

revenue service demonstration is 1 week in. not looking good. thanks to crappy operations, i question if there's even enough trains to consistently run frequent <10 min service

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Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com · 19d

So glad to be featured in @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social excellent video!

High costs in Canada have been accepted as an inevitability - as projects are descoped & cancelled.

ION & REM show that another way is possible…

…given the humility to abandon our Anglo roots & learn from global best practice.

Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19d

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem.

It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.

It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 19d

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem.

It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.

It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

youtu.be

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · Sep 5

it takes a lot of audacity from the TTC chair to tell a transit advocacy group to muzzle basic asks we hear from riders.

these councillors failed to advance new revenue tools we ask for, cry that there isn't money *every* budget cycle, then call basic transit upgrades "unrealistic".

rinse+repeat.

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 30

¿quién les va a decir?

Google Maps satellite screenshot of an octagonal plaza labelled "Pentágono"

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 27

i won't stand for this

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 15

watching this space

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 15

what gif pops up when you type your name?

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 15

i've enrolled in six courses for fall term, and by miracle i've managed to arrange a four-day week and pack most of the synchronous commitments into the mornings. what's to be determined is whether i can handle the workload, lol

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · Aug 2

The Problem With Left-Wing NIMBYism

YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 11

can't be beicested

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 11

cloucestrophobia: a fear of enclosed places named by the english

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · Aug 8

finch west LRT is currently being tested ahead of opening. like its counterpart, the eglinton crosstown, it's stuck behind left-turning traffic.

note the transit signal showing red while lines of left turning cars advance.

40,000 people are projected to use this line daily when it opens.

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 8

got blue right off the bat and then got lost

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · Aug 8

63°N before any southern hemisphere is kind of funny

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