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Neil Loewen
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Neil Loewen
@neilloewen
Urbanist | Designer | Planner at Urban Strategies Opinions are my own
Toronto + Winnipeg Katılım Ocak 2009
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The day has arrived.
45 years after pedestrians were first barricaded from crossing the street at Winnipeg’s storied Portage and Main intersection, the concrete walls have finally started coming down.
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@damienmoule After decades of “making all modes work” they’ve started changing course to adopt “car-lite”, recognizing that a great environment for cars is a bad environment for everyone else.
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@damienmoule Walking at-grade in most of Singapore has a lot of long waits at intersections and circuitous routing to limit traffic disruption. Cycling is extremely limited in the city centre and only really found within HBD towns in the heartland or recreationally between parks.
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Congestion pricing is fine but it's one piece of Singapore's approach:
-a much larger and better transit system with double the transit mode share of Toronto
-a car registration fee of over $100,000
-land use that supports much more walking
-many more urban highways
Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩@acoyne
My latest: Singapore (pop. 6 million) has the same level of traffic congestion as Halifax (pop. 480,000). Toronto could, too, if its political leaders would take off their blinkers. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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One of the things we kept hearing about the County is that the seasonal nature of employment and shortage of adequate housing makes it hard to attract workers so many places like Wander the Resort provide worker lodgings on-site.
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All of this was better in its original format posted on BlueSky follow me there @neilloewen.bsky.social
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Today’s Day 2/2 ULI tour of the County included learning about biz that celebrates PEC at the Royal Hotel, Wander the Resort, the Drake Devonshire, and of course Closson Chase Vineyards!
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Learning so much about culture-led regeneration, leveraging development pressure, and selling stories+storeys on @ULIToronto’s tour of Prince Edward County.
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Hey there um a few of us are hanging out over at this other spot and it would be cool if you stopped by
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The problem isn’t that tickets need to be $450 instead of $90. It’s that no one gets ticketed for box-blocking. Automated enforcement is necessary and good to see the City is exploring the legal ability to do this too. It will either fix our intersections or our finances.
City of Toronto 🇨🇦@cityoftoronto
City of Toronto increases fines as part of Don’t Block the Box program to help combat congestion and enhance road safety News release: toronto.ca/news/city-of-t…
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I got to chat with Steve Paikin and three incredible co-panelists with important perspectives about 1) the serious need for transit expansion currently being addressed and 2) the on-the-ground disturbance its construction has on those living and working nearby
The Rundown@therundowntvo
Are major infrastructure projects worth the pain homeowners, businesses, and commuters are feeling? @spaikin asked @JohnLorinc (@Spacing), @neilloewen (@UrbStrat), @shoshannasaxe (@civmin), and Jason McDonald (@YorkEglintonBIA) #onpoli #topoli youtu.be/EoPZ2B5QRMY?si…
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"Nobody has figured out how to build a subway line secretly, without anybody noticing. There's going to be impacts." — @neilloewen (@UrbStrat), at 8/11pm with @shoshannasaxe (@civmin), Jason McDonald (@YorkEglintonBIA), @JohnLorinc (@Spacing) & @spaikin | Producer: @carrletta
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My favourite version of a double-double.
Jean-François Rheault@jfrheault
Double bidirectionnelle !!!
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@neilloewen Are Singaporean 7-11s more like “kombini” or instead the dreary sort we have in N. America?
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Singapore knows not to let the spaces under bridges and expressways go to waste, and instead designs comfortable and well-used public spaces and a critical reprieve from the heat. Canadian cities need to need to take notes - we already crave shade nearly half the year.
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@causerie @TekSavvyCSR That’s unfortunate! I typically don’t have to wait on-hold, and just had a modem sent to me two days after calling.
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Can I just say that TekSavvy customer service is a dream? We come to dread having to interact with our big Canadian telecoms and banks but honestly Teksavvy is a joy and fixes things with such ease I may just start calling them whenever I have a bad day
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What’s more Toronto than the Total Eclipse of the CN Tower we got this morning?
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