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Nerd since the 90's. Lead teams by day, read transit reports by night, curl/bike on weekends. 🗳️👨‍👨‍👦🚉🚲🏳️‍🌈 advocate. Anti-fascist, anti-racist, feminist. Trans women = women, trans men = men. I try to amplify better voices. Opinions my own. #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #PublicTransit #Acadian #FrancoOntarien #GayDad

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."

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🚨 Doug Ford killed the Science Centre but made a mistake: he forgot to hide the engineer’s report he’s using as an excuse. Which says it’s mostly ok.

Report: https://www.infrastructureontario.ca/en/news-and-media/third-party-reports/

Alex Bozikovic in the Globe: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-doug-ford-killed-the-ontario-science-centre/
“report does not say [immediate roof replacement] …replaced over a 10-year period, and all “high risk” and “critical risk” areas be reinforced and replaced before Oct. 31. Those areas [in 🔵blue & 🔴red] make up 7%, 6% and 3% of the centre’s 3 buildings”

Floor plan of Building B, the three-sided triangle with three large halls at each corner. This is the KidsSpark section and the Space section. The overwhelming majority of the roof is marked as low risk and nothing to worry about. Panels that are of greater concern are spread evenly across all sections of the building.
Floor plan of Building C, the largest and most-downhill hall, with the overwhelming majority of the roof marked as low risk and nothing to worry about. Panels that are of greater concern are scattered across the building with some clusters in one area.
A table describing four classifications of risk and recommended measures for protecting the Science Centre roof. Blue - Critical Risk Immediate restriction of access to occupied spaces below the RAAC panels followed by installation of shoring or replacement/reinforcement of the affected panels. Amber - High Risk Replacement or secondary support prior to the next major loading event. In Ontario, gravity snow loading is the governing load for most roof systems. As such, a date of October 31st in the same calendar year of assessment has been suggested as a target for completion of the work. Yellow - Medium Risk Annual reassessment required. Green - Low Risk Reassessment at three-year intervals.

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"we have developed the habit of just leaving our most valuable assets to rot and crumble. Look at the state of our hospitals, our transit system, our roads. And now look at the site of some of our most beloved childhood memories. Another victim of penny-pinching neglect."

Edward Keenan on the Ontario Science Centre, a wonderful valuable place, which was left to rot by multiple governments, and is now gone:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/ontario-science-centre-has-one-last-hard-lesson-to-teach-us-all/article_89e23d6c-2fec-11ef-b3e1-6f7edf7e32a2.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share

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Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021 and turns out they use way more fuel, and generate way more CO2, than anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.

This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.


https://mastodon.ie/@sinabhfuil/112138746226813931

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From @momentummagazine:

Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it’s not stopping.
https://momentummag.com/paris-cycling-numbers-double/

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This piece about Uber by @pluralistic contains just about the tightest and clearest description of how Toronto got where it is today.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/29/geometry-hates-uber/#toronto-the-gullible

For decades, Toronto has been clobbered by the misrule of a series of far-right, clownish mayors. This was the result of former Ontario Premier Mike Harris's great gerrymander of 1998, when the city of Toronto was amalgamated with its car-dependent suburbs. This set the tone for the next quarter-century, as these outlying regions – utterly dependent on Toronto for core economic activity and massive subsidies to pay the unsustainable utility and infrastructure bills for sprawling neighborhoods of single-family homes – proceeded to gut the city they relied on. These "conservative" mayors – the philanderer, the crackhead, the sexual predator – turned the city into a corporate playground, swapping public housing and rent controls for out-of-control real-estate speculation and trading out some of the world's best transit for total car-dependency. As part of that decay, the city rolled out the red carpet for Uber, allowing the company to put as many unlicensed taxis as they wanted on the city's streets. Now, it's hard to overstate the dire traffic situation in Toronto. Years of neglect and underinvestment in both the roads and the transit system have left both in a state of near collapse and it's not uncommon for multiple, consecutive main arteries to shut down without notice for weeks, months, or, in a few cases, years. The proliferation of Ubers on the road – driven by desperate people trying to survive the city's cost-of-living catastrophe – has only exacerbated this problem.
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    The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger - Charlotte Cowles, in The Cut

    https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html

    Wow. Worth a read, especially if you think you would know if someone was scamming you. @pluralistic is exempted from this homework ( https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security )

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