Chris DeGroot 🚲

This account is currently dormant. At the present time I do not plan to delete the account but will not be posting or checking messages for the foreseeable future. Thanks for the connections and conversations over the years.

@eyeonthefly Honestly I think it would be pretty straightforward to phase out plastic packaging. However, people still continue to whine about not having plastic grocery bags, so I don’t have high hopes of any major retailer actually doing it, unless forced. And there will be so much whining.

@PalestinianPoo @pedromiguel13 Really? People still think you can’t bike when it snows? I do it every day, all winter.

@ct_degroot @pedromiguel13 Take the train 😂, are you going to use the road or bike lanes when it snows?

Wow. Less than 40% of people drive in the core areas, yet they occupy 80% of the space. What a terribly inefficient transport mode for cities.

@PalestinianPoo @pedromiguel13 Yeah it sucks when people on bikes have a safe ride to work but it’s a “hassle” for some other people.

@pedromiguel13 @ct_degroot Stay in Montreal buddy. Unlike Montreal banning big commercial trucks on residential streets . Toronto has too much of them, it’s a hassle to mingle with bikers and slow moving trucks trying to make a left turn at the same time.

@AlexDRMather Would he rather them be in cars like before?

John Tory doesn’t think the people who ferry his Uber Eats order from the Yonge Street Terroni to his Yorkville condo deserve to be safe while doing it.

@David_Moscrop Hope they like their new PM basically just as bad as Trump.

Hope you like your milk in bags and your butter really hard.

Interesting article by @mrmoneymustache — most of it applies to the next election in Canada as well. mrmoneymustache.com/2024/10/13/eco…

This seems particularly relevant right now.

@MWMacKenzie Exactly! If that is the case, shouldn’t he be doing something about it still? Unless…

To be very clear, I think the election results are entirely legitimate. However it is very odd that republicans were taking about “massive” voter fraud just yesterday… but now they are silent about it. I wonder if they can even admit to themselves they made it all up.

Americans made a poor choice yesterday that will have major negative consequences for themselves and the world. I suggest Canadians planning to vote for Poilievre not get too smug about it.

“The world view of the party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it.” George Orwell - 1984

@PHealthGnome And the polling stations in Canada are generally walking distance (within cities anyways)

I’m amazed at how hard it is to vote on the US. I’ve never had to wait more than 5 minutes to vote in Canada. This whole “stay in line” thing is insane to me. Why don’t they have more polling stations?

@FrostGroup1 @tpcanoe Agreed

@ct_degroot @tpcanoe Bike lanes...death gutters protected by a line of paint...are dangerous, and there are always zealots who argue against better cuz it's not perfect.

This is my take too. The Colborne bike lane in #ldnont is a critical piece of infrastructure for biking with my family. It will also be important for my kids once they start high school. The politicization of #bikelanes demonstrates all that is wrong with #cdnpoli.

@FrostGroup1 @tpcanoe Generally this is true. I have met a few gems that believe fully in vehicular cycling and claim that bike lanes are dangerous. But by and large, most “avid” cyclists recognize the need, even if they wouldn’t necessarily use them.

@ct_degroot @tpcanoe The opposition mainly stems from gettoization, placing cyclists on unusable routes that take us nowhere. No rider objects to proper infrastructure even if they don't need to use it.

@ZeroVision416 “Congestion”. We have more traffic than this in #ldnont at rush hour!

Bloor and St George at 830am on a workday. Where is the car congestion that is the pretext for Doug Ford’s death sentence to Torontonians who cycle?

@smartassnishnaw Yup

@smartassnishnaw I got something on the weekend delivered to the neighbour’s house… with their incorrect house number in the photo. These delivery people seem pushed to their limits by their employer and do not do a good job. Also see them driving while on their phones very often