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Trevor Heywood

@metroscapes.ca

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Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide. 🌐 https://metroscapes.ca ▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · Aug 19

3,000 km of walking #metroscapes across Greater #Toronto, , #Hamilton, #Niagara, the #Tri-Cities, #Guelph and #Ottawa. Roughly the driving distance from Charlottetown to Dryden. #hiking #cities

Map of Metroscapes walks in the Greater Toronto Area.

Map of Metroscapes walks in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Guelph.

Map of Metroscapes walks in Hamilton and Niagara.

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 4h

a blue jay mascot is standing in front of a crowd of people .

Alt: a blue jay mascot doing a little dance

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 11h

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . ''

Alt: Captain America "I understood that reference'' meme gif

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13h

It's a small piece, but a step in the direction I advocate for.

Screenshot of the Metroscapes Toronto Shoreline page with the Water's Edge Promenade extension highlighted.
https://metroscapes.ca/toronto/projects/shoreline/

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13h

OOhhhh, my Toronto shoreline data needs to be updated! Last time I took a walk here, it was still fenced off at Sherbourne Common.

Toronto's waterfront promenade just got a stunning new extension

Toronto just reclaimed a little more waterfront with the opening of an extension to the popular granite-paved promenade that stretches across the cit…

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 13h

Yes, it includes the "GO Subdivision" (Lakeshore East line from Pickering to Oshawa). It doesn't include the Union Pearson Express Spur to the airport yet, that's part of QA/QC. It should be noted that these are just corridor lengths, and not a breakdown of individual tracks.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 14h

I have more thoughts on how the GTHA rail network (for all owners and operators) has significantly changed over the last 75 years, and ignoring the bypass is ignoring that history. This graph is incomplete and will require QA/QC, but it's a hint at the trajectory we should be maintaining.

Incomplete graph of GTHA railways by owner and passenger operation, 1960-2025 (with an errant bit that will be future targets)

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

This is educational, but also depressing at the same time. It's not just slop hurting @kurzgesagt.org, but like, the whole web.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

No doubt it would take a long time. I'd expect it to take at least 50% more time than the CN (Halton/York) bypass. But that's why we gotta stop kicking the can down the road and start today.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

And not just for rail service. That would make an excellent rail trail...

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

User feels like GTHA Bypass is not getting any love. Of course not. Wynne carved away at it, Ford killed it, and the feds haven't tried to revive it with their participation.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Good bot.

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 1d

LEGENDARY slide by Vladdy 😭

#ALDS

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Day 1324. I had to go pick up a couple items tonight, but I tacked on a trip to the library (for myself!) and a public transit trip. Not bad for a Tuesday.

Blue lights in the interior of a Guelph Transit Nova LFS, Guelph Ontario Canada

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

What a sick capture

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Yeah, it was a side thought that fell out while pondering the parental weight on Millenial Canadian parents' social lives.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Is it possible why some of us here band together here online is because we're simultaneously digital / professional extroverts and casual social introverts?

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

"Fourteen properties on Fadear Creek Road were placed on evacuation alert on Monday evening 'due to the potential imminent failure of the Fadear Creek dam.'"

"[The Thompson-Nicola Regional District] said the Fadear Lake dam is considered an unauthorized structure and has no permits in place."

Ministry officials worry dam could fail at small lake, cause flooding in Lower North Thompson - Kamloops News

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

It's the art of public sector wordsmithing.

Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 1d

Metrolinx's attempt to puff up adding 1 train to the 3 round trips to/from Niagara Falls backfired. Original news release said "8 trips *in each direction*" instead of "8 trips each day". Maybe we should avoid word inflation. H/T @wb62.bsky.social for catching this. urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...

Original Metrolinx statement about a train service increase to Niagara Falls:

"Beginning Nov. 1, weekend service to Niagara Falls will increase, with eight trips in each direction on Saturdays and Sundays — making weekend travel more consistent and flexible."

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Dan Seljak @anotherglassbox.bsky.social · 3d

Annex mornings in autumn sun 💛💚🧡

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 3d

Day 1322. It's such a wild fall day. 25°C, not a cloud in the sky, still a ton of foliage that's green or at least hanging on.

Speed River looking downstream from Joseph Wolfond Memorial Park, Guelph Ontario

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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 4d

When Ontarians think of how stunning nature can be in this country, our minds too easily shift to the Rockies, or the BC/Maritimes coasts. They're incomparable, but there's nowhere else on this planet like the Great Lakes. The fact our greatest city has one as a coastline? Unreal.

Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 4d

The SkyDome is open & its 10-1 Jays

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 4d

Day 1321. Seeing some old friends at a beer festival.

Hollerado playing live at Because Beer Festival in Guelph, Ontario

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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 4d

Location: Downtown Trail, west bank of Speed River, Guelph

Quantity: 2 bags

Notable finds: Multiple broken pipes and needles, hook end of umbrella

Bag of garbage and garbage picker beside trash can.