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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?"

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 7h

america

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 7h

also, cities with high parking minimums

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 7h

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 7h

oh, so it gets worse 😭

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 19h

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21h

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 · 17d

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

particularly happy* !!

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 4d

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 5d

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

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 8d

On Truth & Reconciliation Day, we must act on ongoing harms.

Grassy Narrows still suffers from mercury contamination after 60 + years.

Sign the petition for Mercury Justice

you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...

#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 8d

that's true if looking at the top 3 alone (which i highlighted), but overall among all candidates who got over 1k votes, bus lanes still have a majority support with reza, shean.

could go down the full list and calculate the split overall! but a lot of the minor candidates had no public position.

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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations to Neethan Shan! We look forward to working with him to improve transit in Scarborough Rouge Park.

Several prominent candidates campaigned on removing bus lanes. Transit riders pay attention. We vote. Opposing transit priorities is not a winning strategy.

Ben Spurr @benspurr.bsky.social · 8d

Neethan Shan wins Scarborough-Rouge Park byelection www.thestar.com/news/gta/sca...

Scarborough—Rouge Park byelection results: Neethan Shan wins

Monday’s byelection in Ward 25 Scarborough—Rouge Park was held to replace former councillor Jennifer McKelvie.

www.thestar.com

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 8d

scarborough-rouge park just elected neethan shan - adding to a progressive wave of councillors in scarborough.

bus lanes were a key election issue.
the two runner-ups campaigned to rip out bus lanes. they lost.

lesson: don't mess with scarborough's bus lanes. suburban transit riders vote, too.

election polling. Neethan Shan - 5174 votes, 26.86%
Anu Sriskandarajah - 3374 votes, 17.52%
Shawn Allen - 2934 votes, 15.23%

photo of person in a suit holding a hockey stick with a bus lane in the background. headline: Business Leader has idea for bus lanes.

Link to article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scarborough-rouge-park-byelection-1.7621668

photo of a person holding a flyer

My priorities for West Hill

1. Red Bus Lanes: These lanes on Kingston and Morningside have created traffic backups and frustrations for drivers. I will push to make these into carpool lanes open to cars during rush hour and on weekends, easing traffic congestion

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 9d

much more frequent than finch west for sure. last i heard, 3-10 minutes depending on time of day

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 9d

i walked home this weekend after getting off at eglinton. not even trying to take shuttle buses 🙄

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 9d

the city has been deploying traffic cops to help move subway shuttle buses along yonge street, but as long as we prioritize curb parking, right and left turns at nearly every single intersection, and the simple free existence of cars in the way of buses, the shuttle experience is still hell.

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