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Rodney

@_ChanFace

Host of Dwell Time, a transit podcast | Lead at @TriTAG | Transit Politics & Planning | Housing | Cities | 24 | UW Planning | 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇭🇰

Toronto/Waterloo انضم Mart 2016
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Rodney@_ChanFace·
Thought I'd make a pinned thread of all my transit timelines for any newcomers and to just to keep it all in one place! Folder with them in High Resolution: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Toronto/TTC twitter.com/_ChanFace/stat…
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I made a TTC construction timeline! We're all familiar with those "evolution of the TTC map" videos, but I always wondered how long each project took, from construction starting to opening, instead of just a timeline of opening dates. Below will be a thread of takeaways:

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And regarding the strange Canada Post -98% cut, it's based on the included billions of bailout money from previous years so it's misleading it still has the same operating funding as previous years #toc6-7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canada.ca/en/treasury-bo…
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Some really concerning funding cuts in Carney's budget (CRA, Indigenous relations, Canada Post, Public Works, CBC) but what stuck out to me as a transit nerd is: -50.2% cuts to "VIA Rail Canada Inc." +19% boost to "VIA HFR - VIA TGF Inc" (High Frequency Rail)
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National Newswatch@natnewswatch

To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs, @davidakin reports globalnews.ca/news/11737460/… Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

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@BiniIrl So looks like there was a 1 billion budget surge that year. Did they only pay for the chargers in 2025/26? #toc6-132" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canada.ca/en/treasury-bo…
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@BiniIrl Wait the contract worth almost a billion was awarded in 2018, with deliveries beginning 2022. Would that have been part of the 2025/2026 budget? Cuz this is probably comparing to the year before
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@VETTE____ Most of VIA's routes will never be profitable outside the Windsor-Quebec city corridor. If you look at the subsidy per passenger on some of these routes it's eye watering–up to over $1000 per passenger!! media.viarail.ca/sites/default/…
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Diana Chan McNally
Diana Chan McNally@DianaCMcNally·
It serves a political purpose to create the problem of open air drug use, especially in an urban centre like Toronto. Conservatives can claim that "crime is everywhere!" and weaponize the public's fear. No matter that they created the problem. No matter that thousands will die.
Toronto Star@TorontoStar

Ford government to end funding for supervised consumption sites — including two in Toronto trib.al/ZZs8kyU

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Observing The City
Observing The City@observinthecity·
This just in, biking is growing as a revenue source *far* faster than parking. 30% growth in revenue for bike share vs only 5% for parking. It's growth is also consistently underestimated in forecasts vs parking which is overestimated.
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stephen@stephenattong·
idk why ppl complain when line 2 is down because you can always just do this to get from st george to christie
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Ben Maple Glaze Singer
Ben Maple Glaze Singer@benFsinger·
Riding on Eglinton West bikeway tonight these guardrail panels have been knocked loose and are posing a hazard. I found the same issue far on The Martin Goodman Trail later. Clearly poor design or install. I'll provide locations for both in the thread @311Toronto @TO_Cycling_Ped
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TTC Platform Doors
TTC Platform Doors@ttcdoors·
We've taken the TTC Business case for doors (blue) and applied a 10 cent surcharge for 3 years (green). This would allow for 500m$/debt on 120m$ of cash flow over the three years) - after which it would be covered by the benefits from platform doors (which would be more than 40m$/yr by yr 5)
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@donnelly_b Would send Toronto transportation services and city planning into a coma
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Brandon Donnelly@donnelly_b·
Building height > width of the right of way
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Not to mention his tone deaf comment that it only took him a few months to pay off his loans because “he worked” As if there wasn’t an exponential cost of living increase since his graduation days & that youth unemployment is the highest it’s been in part due to his gov’s fault
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@ScandalousRags The “Indian exchange students” are actually the one paying for our education. Universities have relied on exploiting int’l students with absurd tuition rates 3-4x higher than domestic to subsidize us, but that got out of control so the feds capped it, sending us into fund crisis
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@_ChanFace All the money has to go to pay for Indian exchange students brother — just like it went to whoever in your bloodline moved here. Welcome to the game.
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@Nyc12Ed @Mchuck16 @biz_socks Me when I have no clue what building and maintaining infrastructure actually costs and what negative externalities are
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Matt@Mchuck16·
@biz_socks So anyone that locks their bike on the sidewalk should also pay a meter, right? Or you guys just get to use all the infrastructure without paying towards it?
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