Anthony Smith

Bikes don't have airbags - we need safer roads! @TorontoPolice data shows since 2014, 26 cyclists have been killed & 376 were seriously injured in #BikeTO. This map shows: 1. Injuries sustained 2. Crash circumstances 3. Crash heat map 4. Where people died arcg.is/0CTKXL0

@PlannerSean @HaydenPoon Maybe worse than true length is that the See photo on the second page is literally a sprawling suburb with a giant empty parking lot. What's the message? Just drive to transit and park for free - that's really transit supportive!

The province put out a Transit Supportive Guidelines draft. It is 367 pages long. That is absolutely ridiculous. ero.ontario.ca/public/2026-05…

@ronmortgageguy Units with a glass wall internal bedroom are just a bachelor unit, not really a 1 bedroom. That’s not a city planning failure, is a marketing trickery by developers.

When The Company That's Buying Half A BILLION Worth Of Unsold Condos Says Some Dog Crate Are Awful: Pay Attention Jesta Group's Boss says some Dog Crate Condos are Unliveable Yeah, that bad Hey City of Toronto Planning Department WTF were you thinking when you approved them?

🚨🏥🧑‍⚕️Your Choice: A. Park a car for 25$/day plus gas $ OR B. Ride a bike for free? Obviously many smart doctors, nurses and patients (who can) bike to Hospital Row along University Ave. Biking is affordable, fast, more reliable & HEALTHIER! #bikeTO

@VoiceInThe6ix @NEWSTALK1010 @raghu_venugopal @MooreintheAM This is just one small building at a hospital this morning / clearly LOTs of doctors and staff are biking to hospitals

@NEWSTALK1010 @raghu_venugopal @MooreintheAM He means some small group within the hospitals. Note: the ratio of doctors who drive Mercedes to those that ride a bike is 100:1.

Toronto ER doctor @Raghu_Venugopal tells @MooreintheAM that the major hospitals disagree with activist group ABC Toronto on whether bike lanes on University Avenue impede emergency vehicles from reaching hospitals. ihr.fm/4urfUWd

Nothing says “low aspirations” more than this tiny, temporary pedestrian project. Pedestrianized streets and public realm investments have become defining features elsewhere. Rapidly over the past five years: Paris has removed more than 70,000 on-street parking spaces and created lush pedestrian streets with community gardens, everywhere. Barcelona is aggressively scaling its superblocks with pedestrian spaces and no-drive zones. Where cars once idled, children now play. London has accelerated low-traffic neighbourhoods and is even pedestrianizing Oxford St. Montreal is now defined by pedestrian streets, that have become a tourism magnet. Every one of these cities has thrived as it has tamed cars and focused on a pedestrian realm for urban life. Toronto remains provincial. We must do better.

@abctoronto_ How about giving health care workers a safe place to ride bikes to their workplace? Or giving patients who can bike an affordable option that doesn’t require expensive parking? Bike lanes do that.

#NEW: University Ave. should be a hospital corridor first, not a traffic experiment. We are calling for removal of bike lanes that slow ambulance access to Canada’s busiest hospitals. Sign the petition. Share this post. abctoronto.org/petitions/bike… #TOpoli #Toronto

@abctoronto_ Most of the hospitals don’t use University Ave as their emergency route. They generally use the side streets - and always have - because they work better for local access to ERs.

Thanks @MoreNeighbours for hosting an interesting discussion on family friendly MURB housing tonight! Good people and nice views from above the Well 👌 just wish there was a bit more audience directed Q&A. Still 😊

Toronto provides a lot of data on bicycle counts at different intersections, but no visualization. I set out to change that. I present a comparator tool for tracking all the bicycle counters around Toronto. I have also included (unofficial) Bike Share Toronto trip data.

@abctoronto_ @LiaisonCanada Annual Road Maintenance is not optional - there was no better weekend. You could have taken Transit.

#NEW: Toronto drivers are fed up. A new @LiaisonCanada poll confirms what commuters already know: •⁠ ⁠88% say traffic is a serious problem •⁠ ⁠72% say City Hall is failing to coordinate construction and closures Gridlock is no longer an inconvenience. It’s a quality-of-life crisis. Toronto deserves better. Keep Toronto moving. Do you think traffic in Toronto is getting worse? Weigh in below. Like, share, and follow @abctoronto_ #TOpoli

@Drake #iceman drop is 🔥 and he should 💯 % buy $open today!

Cool new indigenous inspired art is being applied to the previous yellow block #bollards at #unionstation in Toronto.

@markevans Soo, you're saying more higher property taxes too, right? I'm cool with that

I'm not sure Toronto needs Brad Bradford, but it definitely needs: - More green space - More community centres - More libraries - Better garbage cans - More bike lanes (maybe not on major thoroughfares) - More recreational facilities (courts, rinks) - More trees - Better transit

Hey #bikeTO hive mind: I’m gathering  examples of post install cycling / road safety project impact reporting, and was wondering if anyone knows of any particularly interesting examples of reports from other municipalities? Any leads would be appreciated! @fietsprofessor thanks!

@EmilyFarina5 That's what was done on Harbord for the patio at Piano Piano 🎹

Spring is coming and outdoor dining and drinking is returning! CafeTO is setting up on St Clair West at Yonge. But I wish the makeshift concrete blocks could be upgraded to the permanent closure of the curb lane with wider sidewalks and a café society.

@carlrivera @Shopify Say you're joining @nejatian at @Opendoor without saying it out loud. Just like this tweet to confirm. 👏

I'm moving on from @Shopify. When I joined 7.5 years ago, friends were literally taking bets on whether I'd last a year. The idea of me thriving inside a large company (and Shopify was a lot smaller back then!) felt unlikely. Most people assumed I'd be itching to start my next thing. Instead, Shopify became my company. I wasn't a founder, but @tobi always made me feel like one. It wasn't a startup, but Shopify moves like one. And the mission isn't just words — it shows up in the decisions, every day. I got to wear a lot of hats. Introducing Shop to the world. Going deep on the rails of how money moves on the internet. Reimagining Shopify for the age of AI through design. Leaving is hard. Shopify changed my life in more ways than I can recount. It taught me how to build for the long term, gave me a bar for craft and ambition I'll carry into everything that comes next, and showed me what it looks like when a company lives its mission. In my next chapter, I'm getting the opportunity to bring together all the things I've obsessed over the past decade — consumer mobile, finance and money movement, design, AI — into a single role. More on that soon.

Underrated key feature of the new @BikeShareTO e-bikes in #BikeTO: 🔔 DUAL BELLS 🔔 That are easy to use without taking hand off the bars. Let's all ride safe and keep other riders alert when passing - especially in narrow cycle tracks. #BikeShareTO

@TheValueTrade I'm here

$OPEN what I don't understand... When the price was tanking, $OPEN bulls were all over X. Now its starting to look ok, and setup for a breakout, there's no bulls lfet. Where have you all gone. Its your time.

@ahmednadar @eddrass @311Toronto Fill was just not compacted into hole. Likely settled with time. The idea is when mistakes happen they double be fixed, but need ticket 🎫 hilarious your AI knew what it was that's fantastic!

Interesting. Initial classification of AI Agent was "a hydro pole covered with asphalt". But I doubted that and changed it manually to make sure or to match the image. SolveTO AI agent seems knew better based on data in that area. Never doubt data. Unfortunately, who ever covered this area, didn't do a good job. What is baffling me, is why we reach this level of carelessness about where we live?

@311toronto 405 church street

Ok - I think the new e-bike rules proposed by @ONtransport / @fordnation are pretty good! TLDR: e-bikes need REAL working pedals. Everything else is a moped or motorcycle and requires a license. Simple! Plus lots of other cleanups. Bravo. @CycleToronto regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/proposal/53917