Daniel Reynolds
@akareynolds.bsky.social
Concerned citizen. Torontonian. akareynolds.com
Happy (early) Festivus from Little Portugal!
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Happy (early) Festivus from Little Portugal!
Cheers to everyone discovering north Etobicoke this week.
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cheers to everyone discovering north Etobicoke this week.
A Marty Supreme-style movie but it's about competitive Smash Bros.
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A Marty Supreme-style movie but it's about competitive Smash Bros.
So now that it's built, the questions to ask are:
- how do we rework the signals via TS/TSO input?
- how does the TTC get comfortable with the idea of removing slow zones?
- how do we rework the signals via TS/TSO input?
- how does the TTC get comfortable with the idea of removing slow zones?
Slow zones are TTC's fault, signals are Toronto Transportation Services' fault (confirmed by Metrolinx), and the design issues are Metrolinx's/ North American engineering profession's fault.
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So now that it's built, the questions to ask are:
- how do we rework the signals via TS/TSO input?
- how does the TTC get comfortable with the idea of removing slow zones?
- how do we rework the signals via TS/TSO input?
- how does the TTC get comfortable with the idea of removing slow zones?
There has GOT to be a way to fix this -- is it Traffic Systems Operations or the TTC that is unable to respond? If we want to be a serious transit city the answer cannot be "nothing can be done."
Good news: Today is opening day for first new transit line to open in #Toronto in a decade. The Finch West LRT has 18 stops, runs 11 kms.
Bad: It was expensive, and it's actually slower than the buses that served the route before. That's not a great look for new rail transit projects in Canada.
Bad: It was expensive, and it's actually slower than the buses that served the route before. That's not a great look for new rail transit projects in Canada.
Huzzah! The Finch LRT is finally opening! Now here’s the bad news
Years of waiting and billions spent. Shouldn't it be faster than the bus it replaces?
www.thestar.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There has GOT to be a way to fix this -- is it Traffic Systems Operations or the TTC that is unable to respond? If we want to be a serious transit city the answer cannot be "nothing can be done."
Reposted by Daniel Reynolds
Paris does it! Helsinki does it! Florence does it! So many places figured out how to run fast and reliable light rail lines - Toronto can too by giving transit riders the green light.
Transit signal priority is such an obvious, cost-free way of increasing speed (hence capacity) of LRTs & streetcars. I took the circum-Peripherique LRT in Paris & never encountered a red light. Just took a Florence tram from centre to airport: only one red light, which immediately changed to green.
Toronto's will have a new transit line starting tomorrow! Exciting!
While this is a long-overdue & much needed replacement for the overcrowded 36 bus, this community deserves to see a Line 6 that is meaningfully faster & more frequent than the bus. We're calling for transit signal priority.
While this is a long-overdue & much needed replacement for the overcrowded 36 bus, this community deserves to see a Line 6 that is meaningfully faster & more frequent than the bus. We're calling for transit signal priority.
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Paris does it! Helsinki does it! Florence does it! So many places figured out how to run fast and reliable light rail lines - Toronto can too by giving transit riders the green light.
Definitely do not measure the distance between the Gladstone and Dufferin stops.
What are we doing here? 170m between streetcar stops. It makes the service borderline unusable.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Definitely do not measure the distance between the Gladstone and Dufferin stops.
Fortunately, it's easier to imagine the end of Netflix than the end of movie theatres.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fortunately, it's easier to imagine the end of Netflix than the end of movie theatres.
We finally got him.
LeBron James put up eight points in the Lakers 123-120 win over the Raptors.
It's the first time since 2007 he hasn't reached 10 points in a regular season game.
It's the first time since 2007 he hasn't reached 10 points in a regular season game.
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We finally got him.
Reposted by Daniel Reynolds
Down one brother, Marty Supreme is still a "Safdie Brothers film" (complimentary). My review of a fun time at the movies: brieftake.com/marty-suprem...
Marty Supreme Review - Brief Take
With the same energy of director Josh Safdie's previous work, and a stellar performance from Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme reaches rarified air.
brieftake.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Down one brother, Marty Supreme is still a "Safdie Brothers film" (complimentary). My review of a fun time at the movies: brieftake.com/marty-suprem...
Down one brother, Marty Supreme is still a "Safdie Brothers film" (complimentary). My review of a fun time at the movies: brieftake.com/marty-suprem...
Marty Supreme Review - Brief Take
With the same energy of director Josh Safdie's previous work, and a stellar performance from Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme reaches rarified air.
brieftake.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Down one brother, Marty Supreme is still a "Safdie Brothers film" (complimentary). My review of a fun time at the movies: brieftake.com/marty-suprem...
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"The chair of this committee frequently says that in Ontario, we zone for buildings, not for people. But when we have a report that says adding new buildings will create complete communities and we couldn't possibly do that in Rosedale, I wonder if that's true."
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Watching an episode of King of Kensington with Eugene Levy as an ex-con trying to get a halfway house built in the market. Air date: Nov. 13, 1975.
"It would be better in another neighbourhood."
"Yeah, it always is."
"It would be better in another neighbourhood."
"Yeah, it always is."
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Watching an episode of King of Kensington with Eugene Levy as an ex-con trying to get a halfway house built in the market. Air date: Nov. 13, 1975.
"It would be better in another neighbourhood."
"Yeah, it always is."
"It would be better in another neighbourhood."
"Yeah, it always is."
Exciting but also a confusing choice. The movie needs a young Hanna and McCauley, and Leo does not fit the bill. Is he going to play "present day" Shiherlis (younger Kilmer)? That seems like a stretch too.
Leonardo DiCaprio confirms he will star in 'Heat 2'
(via DEADLINE)
(via DEADLINE)
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Exciting but also a confusing choice. The movie needs a young Hanna and McCauley, and Leo does not fit the bill. Is he going to play "present day" Shiherlis (younger Kilmer)? That seems like a stretch too.
It's kind of sad how totally shook Quentin Tarantino is. Seems more than likely he'll never make that "final" film.
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It's kind of sad how totally shook Quentin Tarantino is. Seems more than likely he'll never make that "final" film.
Report from my sister-in-law: apparently my 2.5-year-old nephew asks semi-daily "did the Blue Jays win?" The kid is ready to be a Toronto sports fan.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Report from my sister-in-law: apparently my 2.5-year-old nephew asks semi-daily "did the Blue Jays win?" The kid is ready to be a Toronto sports fan.
Take a Hot Wheel, Leave a Hot Wheel.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Take a Hot Wheel, Leave a Hot Wheel.
Hearing reports the Federal NDP may be out of touch and setting themselves up to be losers.
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hearing reports the Federal NDP may be out of touch and setting themselves up to be losers.
Watched Wake Up Dead Man in a theatre last night and it sort of put me to sleep. BUT: Josh O'Connor is for real. Just an incredible actor to watch.
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Watched Wake Up Dead Man in a theatre last night and it sort of put me to sleep. BUT: Josh O'Connor is for real. Just an incredible actor to watch.
Very sincere and non-rhetorical question: when the TTC sees numbers like these, showing new LRT service running slower than the existing buses, what do they think? stevemunro.ca/2025/11/28/6...
6 Finch West: Schedules, Travel Times & Speeds
Correction November 29, 2025 at 7:45am: As some readers have noted in the comments, the times shown at Martin Grove Station eastbound on weekdays were the same as those at Humber College. This was …
stevemunro.ca
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Very sincere and non-rhetorical question: when the TTC sees numbers like these, showing new LRT service running slower than the existing buses, what do they think? stevemunro.ca/2025/11/28/6...
Elbows up (to keep them dry after the polar ice caps melt)
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Elbows up (to keep them dry after the polar ice caps melt)