Jennifer Keesmaat

@jen_keesmaat @TorontoStar I’m so grateful for your planning of lanes in Toronto. Here’s my 84 year old father utilizing active transit every day. Traffic is moving well for the increase in density. Bike lanes are a 6-60 essential mode of healthcare and transport.

@jen_keesmaat Until you re-migrate all of the violent foreigners who make these communities unlivable you'll never get your courtyard urbanism. The whole reason the car culture emerged was to get away from the consequences of diversity in urban communities. You should know this.

@jen_keesmaat Being able to walk to a park or the local school is a huge quality of life boost.

@GoodAtBingo @jen_keesmaat People prefer detached homes but they also prefer short commutes and to be able to walk to restaurants and bars. Lots of trade-offs.

If Toronto truly cared about noise, the environment, housing, and traffic, we'd tear down the elevated portion of the Gardiner downtown. The drivers are terrible and the infrastructure condition is even worse. City would be better off without it. #TOpoli

@jen_keesmaat Update, from a friend anonymously to me over text: "It is not just the VP’s … and I completely agree - we joke that the entry position is VP. The bigger issue is governance and total confusion as to accountability and who makes the decision!"

What if the person next to you is paying a different price for the same thing? An algorithm decided that. 🏷️💵 Watch to the end to find out how – then go to BanPredatoryPricing.ca and tell every Conservative MPP to vote YES to banning predatory pricing.

This morning my wife was driving down Eglinton and I had SolveTO camera ready, hunting potholes like it's a sport now. Found a massive one. Deep enough to hide multiple shoeboxes in there, with one click, I reported it in 3 seconds solveto.ca/reports/397 While I know I built this thing from scratch. I know every wire, every line of code. And I still caught myself going "wait... did I actually build this?" 🤪 That smile doesn't go away. Every single time. A lot of you found SolveTO from that post back in March, 112k views, still blows my mind. Wanted to share what's happened since, because you're part of this story. Reporting went from 30 seconds to 10, then 5, then 3. Photo, snap, done. Report goes to 311 before the light turns green. That's the whole idea, remove every bit of friction between you and your city. Then I kept going. Because I couldn't stop. Over 500,000 city assets now live on one map. Potholes, power outages, road closures, TTC stops, bike lanes, your catch basins, your fire hydrants, everything in your neighbourhood, one click away. Toronto's open data made that possible. I just connected the dots. Then, I built a Council page because I wanted to actually understand how this city works, not just file complaints at it. Active citizen, not just a frustrated one. And for fun, I built a 3D map so BIA managers can virtually walk their street. Then I got a little carried away and rebuilt it in Minecraft 🧱. Best 2AM work in months. Absolutely no regrets 🙌🏼 Then a few days ago, I built a voice feature, one click and the map talks to you. What's around you, what's broken, what's being tracked. English, French, Spanish, and Mandarin. When it first worked I just sat there for a minute. I might need to learn a new language, one focused entirely on catch basins and potholes 😄 Next up: something for Earth Day focused on littering in your neighbourhood. Simple, community-driven. Still cooking it, almost there. 400+ reports. Less than 2 months. Every single one filed by someone who cares about this city. I'm grateful for every one of you, the Torontonians who used this, shared it, believed in it early. You didn't have to. You did anyway. That means everything. And Toronto open data, without you, none of this exists. Truly. SolveTO is fully Canadian, built by me, committed to staying that way. I love this city. I'm not done building for it. DMs are always open. 💚

@jen_keesmaat Interesting how @fordnation wants reduced councils even regional but not when it comes to the public sector management. They should be reviewing upper management to see if it is REALLY necessary to have all these VP’s. Answer, No.