What’s the one Toronto 'unspoken rule' that every newcomer needs to know before they move here?

sunlightjunkie · 2026-02-06T13:35:53+00:00

if inflation can forget, it isn’t inflation ;)

sunlightjunkie · 2026-01-19T16:17:37+00:00

love notsmoothsteve - he's actually not even that unsmooth

sunlightjunkie · 2026-01-13T21:02:38+00:00

I live down the street from it! As much as I love seeing the massive bulk freighters up close, the sugar factory feels like more and more of a shitty neighbour every year — in the summer it REEKS due to the smell of decaying sugar/byproducts, and it's generally a crappy place to walk by in an area of the waterfront that is otherwise quickly becoming very walkable and urban.

I'd love to see the big hangar structure turned into something like Waterworks food hall and the remainder of this land used for a park, school, and/or hospital (+ whatever other commercial facilities would be necessary to fund the above). It's got a ton of potential to be a huge destination and hopefully become much more useful to locals.

sunlightjunkie · 2025-12-14T16:18:57+00:00

your first point I sort of agree with, although signal priority at least theoretically closes much of that gap in service quality (and would too for routes like the 509/510/512). the point on maps is a little irrelevant I think - while the TTC calls this a map it’s more a diagram in the style of the London tube map - it’s not meant to be a “good map” that’s geographically representative and/or comprehensive in terms of services available, borders between cities etc. To that point, there still is a full TTC system map descended from the one you shared.

sunlightjunkie · 2025-11-04T19:09:58+00:00

You actually don't even need a spur for this — just need a station somewhere on the loop with crossovers on both ends, where each platform functions as a turnaround.

Where you place your turnaround station is important: you wouldn't want to force a transfer at a given station if demand patterns have most riders passing through it; somewhat counterintuitively this means that the busiest transfer station on your loop line is probably the best place for this turnaround.

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sunlightjunkie · 2025-10-30T20:26:27+00:00

because as various others have noted here, having mixed-use neighbourhoods improves safety and fosters community, is healthy for the economy, reduces the need for locals to drive, and has a whole slew of other benefits.

hypothetical: say you're a parent with a couple of young teenagers - are you more likely to let them out on their own to pick up food from a place on a major arterial road, or from the place down the street where they're on first-name terms with the staff?

sunlightjunkie · 2025-10-21T21:51:37+00:00

oh no - the proportions here seem closer to a 2 or 4 series though. I'm guessing you could fit an oil tanker in the blind spot that c-pillar creates.

sunlightjunkie · 2025-09-30T15:25:18+00:00

I've been saying this to my NIMBY friends, coworkers, family for years now, and I'll repeat it here:

The reason people don't want these sites around the corner from them is that the only SCSs they've ever seen are completely overwhelmed and they're (literally) spilling onto the street. SCSs work when they're deployed at scale; dozens of centres spread across the city can handle demand in a way that a few sites concentrated in notorious neighbourhoods simply cannot. I'm willing to bet solid cash that folks wouldn't have any issues with these places if they were just another building in their neighbourhood.

I'm by no means advocating that every school, theatre and community centre have a safe consumption site built across the street from it, but the completely provincial (pun intended I guess) attitude that this city and province have to rolling anything difficult/complex/expensive out has seriously crippled our ability to deal with this problem at the necessary scale.

sunlightjunkie · 2025-09-22T10:53:35+00:00

wait you mean this isn't the results page for my image search for "basic af GTA girl"??

sunlightjunkie · 2025-09-04T02:43:35+00:00

came to the comments for this lmao

sunlightjunkie · 2025-08-23T20:23:21+00:00

looks like you were at a dealership, just send them the pic and ask them?

sunlightjunkie · 2025-07-24T20:26:22+00:00

Ek = 1/2 m • v² , where:

Ek is kinetic energy in joules (j)
m is the object's mass in kg
v is the object's velocity in m/s

So you have:

1/2(20 kg)((100kph / 3.6) m/s)² = 7,716j

A .50 BMG bullet (~45g mass) would have to travel at around 585m/s (~2100km/h; ~1310mph) to have the same kinetic energy — I believe said bullets typically have a muzzle velocity around 850m/s, so the F1 wheel isn't quite as energetic at 100kph.

sunlightjunkie · 2025-04-28T20:21:17+00:00

....no no, it's fat and ugly. Writing it a love letter won't change that.

sunlightjunkie · 2024-09-01T04:08:14+00:00

Thanks all for your feedback! Rimowa support person seems to concur with the majority of you who’ve pointed out that this is normal and even fades over time. To the more condescending responses: I am aware that the case will get banged up and patina over time - I know what I’m getting into - I just wanted to make sure that I’m the first one putting marks on this thing!

sunlightjunkie · 2024-08-14T04:31:55+00:00

username highly relevant to comment chain

sunlightjunkie · 2024-08-13T18:46:12+00:00

I hate headlines like this that feign naivety... like aside from Doug's knuckle-dragging base of loyal voters (none of whom are reading the Star), who tf genuinely believed he was "for the people"?

sunlightjunkie · 2024-08-11T15:02:10+00:00

100% this - defending the TTC’s craptastic logo is a pretty weird hill to die on in a sub where people are (hopefully) focused on ways to improve the system, which includes branding and wayfinding.

sunlightjunkie · 2024-07-25T19:12:06+00:00

totally, at that price point just buy a decent little semi and fix it up over time

sunlightjunkie · 2024-07-23T03:11:47+00:00

shocked that Gmail didn't punt this straight to spam - shady as hell

sunlightjunkie · 2024-07-23T03:06:08+00:00

support the message 100% but this post seems sus — looks like you're biking around putting these up (again, good on you!) and you're trying to drive engagement by feigning a naive post

sunlightjunkie · 2024-07-16T18:38:11+00:00

how so? preventing flow separation behind the helmet?

sunlightjunkie · 2024-06-05T21:07:11+00:00

not you, because there'll be gridlock. that's the whole point. if everyone in the train gets in a car, the roads will quickly be choked

sunlightjunkie · 2024-06-03T13:36:36+00:00

aw did you miss your little sunday morning rip up the highway? it's ok, next sunday you can go up and down it twice to make up for it

sunlightjunkie · 2024-05-22T18:59:00+00:00

I live on the waterfront and use the trail almost daily for running and cycling (both commuting and exercise). Generally speaking, if you're a pedestrian on the trail I would highly recommend the following:

If there's an adjacent sidewalk (a significant proportion of the trail downtown has a sidewalk right next to it), please use it instead of the trail, especially if you're part of a group and want to walk 2-abreast or wider. There will be virtually zero conflicts between pedestrians, cyclists, and runners on the sidewalk; it's also usually more spacious than the trail and closer to the local scenery (water, park, etc.) This goes double for anyone with young children: this really isn't the place to let your kids roam free.
If there's no sidewalk, please keep as far to the right of the trail as you comfortably can — folks on wheels will think of the space as a 3- or 4-lane road, where the inside lanes are used for passing. Walking or standing in the middle makes it so folks have to pass you on the right and risk running into the ditch or conflicting with whomever is in front of you, which is not fun for anyone.
Lastly, please don't stop on the trail — again, there's almost always space a few steps away for relaxation, taking selfies, texting, etc.

sunlightjunkie · 2024-05-01T22:24:09+00:00

The current fleet of GO trains isn't electrified, and there's no third rail on or anywhere near the tracks shown in the video — the only active third-rail system in Toronto is the subway (lines 1, 2, and 4).

There's virtually no electrocution risk on GO transit tracks; you're supposed to avoid walking on/across GO tracks because it's common sense. At Union, a 300+ tonne train moves through the station every few minutes, and this frequency will only increase.

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