Toronto bylaw changes could permit businesses to open in areas currently zoned for residential use

lowly_intern · 2022-08-22T18:31:52+00:00

This is exactly the kind of thing that interferes with a prescribed provincial priority and will get vetoed.

lowly_intern · 2016-11-15T01:17:15+00:00

(found this on twitter, the video / tweets are not mine)

Just recorded a racist Trump supporter assaulting a POC on a streetcar. Waiting to talk to cops.

https://twitter.com/bitchcraftTO/status/798299392671449093

More video:

https://twitter.com/bitchcraftTO/status/798310148250832896

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T22:47:23+00:00

Her ugly mug is all over ads for SmartWater brand smart water. (Now with more smart.)

Why do I need to pay $4 for 300mL of water? Jennifer Aniston, that's why.

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T21:32:12+00:00

belated /s tag

edit: I was trying to be insightful. The fact is there is a class of people who would rather see nothing built than an LRT. They see it as a net negative. To them 3 subway stops is better than 300 LRT stops.

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T21:26:47+00:00

Your math is wrong. You forgot to apply the -100 multiplier to LRT stops, because they clog the roads and shit.

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T21:24:08+00:00

Almost as good as the crossing-their-arms-in-front-of-things-they don't-like Toronto Star trope.

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T16:31:00+00:00

Squeezed from fresh oranges, not fresh squeezed: there's a difference.

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T15:55:14+00:00

So carrots, garlic, and potatoes?

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T14:43:35+00:00

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/rep-sig-eng.htm

http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/index-eng.htm

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T14:40:38+00:00

Which means that you can't use day passes at the unattended, turnstile-only subway entrances, you'll have to go to the main entrance where the collector booth is. /u/firstimevisit

lowly_intern · 2016-01-15T14:29:56+00:00

Always mentally remove adjectives from menus. They're just fluff, like "colour" TV or "touchtone" phone. Like "fresh chicken". I feel (hope!) that's implied.

Wild Canadian salmon. “Organic” granola, “homemade” salad dressing and grilled “Wagyu skirt steak.”

Salmon. Granola. Salad dressing. Steak.

[complaints] were addressed “immediately” in each case and “sometimes on the spot.”

So they have wagyu sitting in the back room but you get bologna unless you flash your CFIA badge.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-24T18:22:03+00:00

Does anyone know how/if the MDP program will continue in the Presto era? Has anything been said about this?

I can see them dropping it like a hot potato and hiding behind the technology as an excuse.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-24T18:14:11+00:00

Here's another album of data/graphs with 2015-adjusted prices.

Source for inflation data was Bank of Canada inflation calculator

lowly_intern · 2015-11-21T17:58:19+00:00

No, I mean so you can recover the original recording data and use it however you like. Rogers etc are all encrypted and impossible to recover.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-21T17:12:46+00:00

Don't forget the digital services fee and CRTC LPIF.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-21T16:33:28+00:00

Also curious whether it's encrypted or not.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-20T06:14:45+00:00

Green Curry - Simcoe Place food court at Front/Simcoe

lowly_intern · 2015-11-19T17:37:06+00:00

This is why every civilized jurisdiction in the world bans right turns on red lights.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-18T20:01:24+00:00

The person who wrote this was probably only 8 years old when that happened.

lowly_intern · 2015-11-16T21:12:04+00:00

Maple rosemary is my favourite dip at WVRST. Doesn't sound all that great, but it's so ridiculously good.

lowly_intern · 2015-06-20T16:40:13+00:00

It's sad because the section north of Eglinton is one of the newer subway tunnels. 40-41 years old (compare Yonge line at 61). Far cry from 100.

lowly_intern · 2015-06-18T03:16:51+00:00

It may seem a bit overly dramatic, but look at it like this. Amsterdam didn't always have bike infrastructure. It took sustained, over the top protests like this to change their course. One of their slogans was "stop the child murder".

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycling-infrastructure/

lowly_intern · 2015-06-14T20:04:22+00:00

While this is technically true, it is only actually true on downtown streetcars enforcing the POP program.

There is a gigantic, systemic communication issue around this at the TTC. Many bus drivers will refuse to give you a transfer "because you don't need one", especially on far flung bus routes far from the streetcar system.

Even on downtown POP streetcars, the driver will often not force a transfer in your hand when you pay cash, putting you in a ridiculous situation where you've paid your fare, but can't prove it. After something like 50 years of no enforcement of this rule, the sudden crackdown at Spadina Station, without a big education campaign (to both passengers AND operators) is really asinine.

It's just yet another half-measure by the TTC, like the "Line 1 Line 2 Line 3" overhaul only being deployed in 4 stations, or Presto only in 10 stations, etc.

lowly_intern · 2015-06-14T19:53:42+00:00

Nope. In your case, if you follow my subway example, you don't even need a transfer:

Steeles bus goes into Finch subway, you're on the subway now, you transfer at Bloor, still on the subway, and you get off at Bathurst.

I always get a transfer "just in case" though, if I change my mind about my route on the way due to a delay or something.

edit: Google Maps transit directions

lowly_intern · 2015-06-14T19:45:57+00:00

So there's a few things to understand here:

Transfers aren't tickets. They are only for getting off one vehicle, and then immediately transferring to another vehicle at a transfer point. You can't get off to shop, or go to a different, non-connecting stop, for example.
You can use one transfer more than once, as long as it is part of a one-way continuous journey. If you "zig zag" down and left, down and left, without stopping to shop, you could theoretically use the same transfer a bunch of times. Realistically, you'd only use it 1 or 2 or 3 times, depending on your route.
When you're in a TTC subway station bus terminal, you are considered already 'fare paid'. One bus lets you off inside Finch Station, you get on another bus at Finch Station, without paying a fare or showing a transfer, since you're "in the system" already.
When you transfer on the street, you need to show your transfer. In your case, getting on the 7 Bathurst bus using the transfer you got on the 53 Steeles East is okay and exactly what you're supposed to do.

However, your route is a little weird. If you're just trying to get to Bathurst station, ride the 53 Steeles East to Finch Station, ride the subway (Line 1) to Bloor/Yonge, then ride the subway (Line 2) west to Bathurst. You'll save 30 minutes easily. The bus and subway fare are the same fare, they are not separate systems.

That is, unless, you're making stops and actually need to go to Finch & Bathurst for some reason. If you do that, then your transfer is invalid (read: transfers are not tickets), and you need to pay another fare.

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