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🧵 NEW POST: Edmonton’s $15M infill property tax dividend Matching permits to assessment data shows that small-scale infill from just 2024-26 will grow the tax base by $1.8B, and revenues by $15M. That's equivalent to a 0.7% property tax rate increase! #yegcc www.jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/pr...

Edmonton’s $15M infill property tax dividend – Jacob DawangEvery single-detached home that becomes a rowhome, plex, or backyard home multiplies its assessed value. Matching 2024–2026 building permits to City assessment data, I measure that uplift directly, al...www.jacobdawang.com

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut OffIn 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.www.bloomberg.com

Meanwhile, Toronto hasn't held #OpenStreetsTO - their equivalent to NYC's Summer Streets - since 2022. If Toronto were to bring it back, it needs to be every Sunday from May to September. Not just two Sundays a year as what happened in past years. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli

(addendum: if you want to read the book, it's called "the lost subways of north america". if you get a copy directly from me, i'll sign it for you)

The Lost Subways of North AmericaOfficial website for Jake Berman's book, "The Lost Subways of North America," containing transit maps and his writings on cities.lostsubways.com

Anytime I feel even vaguely ashamed of my cable management I look at a Bell pole.

We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

When you look globally, there are many more countries that consistently abandoned street-running railways in the postwar years than ones that retained them. The simpler answer is that technology, decaying infras and the zeitgeist killed streetcars everywhere but in a bunch of countries.

something is very wrong with a transit system if it forces many people to take slower, more indirect transit trips to avoid paying high fares. and it's a glaring inequity to the people of weston, largely working class & low-income. UPX should be part of this region's fare integration scheme. 3/3

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Not to suggest that a single bus is the solution to this issue but the Dupont bus runs on a ~30 minute schedule... The area needs better options, not permit restrictions.

How multiplexes meant to ease Toronto's housing crisis are creasing a crunch for parking spaces | CBC NewsAs more multiplexes sprout around the Dovercourt area of Toronto, some residents are increasingly finding they need to drive blocks away from their home to find a parking space.www.cbc.ca

A new bike share station utility map has been making the rounds lately which shows a potential problem for Bike Share Toronto. Many stations north of Bloor routinely see no bikes while many downtown or close to the Waterfront see no docks. #BikeTO #TOpoli jdstrapp.pythonanywhere.com/BikeShareUti...

The only parts of Toronto's transit system that are "at capacity" are pieces of the bus network in suburban areas where they feed into the subway and where the solutions to the capacity problem are the easiest. There's nowhere in Toronto that should turn away development because of transit.

Toronto Rocks, what other city would have such dogshit land use policy. Fuck it put the 50 story residential highrise on the 20 lane freeway Condo dwellers aren’t human so them having asthma doesn’t matter

The west Toronto rail path is open. It’s really open! Just the other day. Closed since 2022, Metrolinx said it would be a year. Ford Math. Anyway the artwork that outlined (space w out paint) the trees is now a memorial to those trees.

Mood. (This picture is from early Thurs. evening, just ahead of the long weekend, in Ottawa.)

#HearThis Emancipation Month recognizes the struggle for human rights and the rich contributions made by Peoples of African descent. Recognizing.. acknowledges an abhorrent period in our history and our ongoing commitment to eliminate discrimination in all forms. www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...

Emancipation MonthBrowse Emancipation Month events across the City.   Emancipation Month recognizes the struggle for human rights and the rich contributions made by Peoples of African descent. Recognizing Emancipation ...www.toronto.ca

The way to “harden” a home against fire is to build it out of noncombustible materials, close to other noncombustible structures. But the timber and sprawl industries dominate code development and most others involved have a very suburban (even rural) mentality too, so we don’t do that.

After living in Europe for a while, it really is appalling how few bus shelters there are in the US or Canada. Most stops are just a pole, how sad

'When it comes to Black history & slavery, many Canadians believe our country's story begins with the Underground Railroad, Canada acting as a benevolent safe haven for enslaved Africans escaping the bitter bondage of the American South...there's more to the story...' @shellenedrakestull.bsky.social

Hi, I'm Brad Bradford. I'm running for mayor because Toronto is a terrifying lawless hellscape where crime is higher than ever — no no, don't read the stats on this, listen to your feelings! Be afraid! Be very afraid! Have 1000 more cops! Also if you disagree I am more than willing to say otherwise!

BikeShareTO is arguably the single greatest Canadian public services success of the 21st century, and I really can't think of another obvious contender that comes even close.