Leslie Sinclair

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One city knows it's a city, the other actively revolts against reality by pretending to be a sleepy midwestern city circa 1962 at every turn: bus lanes, bike lanes, multiplexes, pickleball courts...

Absurd. @lesliesinclair.bsky.social wrote about the wild campaign against a 475-metre bike lane on a secondary street that removes no traffic for @thelocal.to. thelocal.to/marlee-avenu...

Update: Colle just got the two-thirds vote needed to re-open and amend Item 2024.IE14.4. Bad day for cyclists (and pedestrians, I'd argue) on Marlee Avenue.

one starts asking, after 24 hours of news, "what is value of living in Toronto?"

If you liked this story, you'll be interested to know that area Councillor Mike Colle (who previously voted for this project) has requested to reopen and delete it from Item IE14.4 which was approved last June. This will be considered by City Council next week secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Thank you, Peter! 💖

And if you missed it, check out this excellent @lesliesinclair.bsky.social story on a community's fight over bike lanes in a tucked-away corner of the city that actually says everything about the battle for our city roads and the reactionary, often misinformed thinking behind it.

A photo of a uniform clothing store on Eglinton Ave, with a giant banner on the second story reading "Keep Marlee Avenue Safe! No Lane Reductions! No Bidirectional Bike Lanes!"

This is a new development in the Marlee bike lane saga (a building on Eglinton in front of Marlee). I just don't get why businesses would want to be so hostile to all the pedestrians and cyclists going by. I'm getting shades of the King St pilot project middle finger guy.

Heavy sigh

Just a great piece from @lesliesinclair.bsky.social. I heard this all the time when I worked at city hall. People will make up whatever facts they want about a project that they don’t like. Idk if it’s a lack of trust in govt or ppl genuinely living different realities, either way, it’s not good.

Ahh! I almost posted my own flyer to try to find you!

Prison Can Be A Hostile Place. Then the Birds Came. The birds quickly became the talk of the unit. Suddenly, everyone an ornithologist, claiming to know whether barn swallows were endangered.

"Having this personal connection to nature felt special," Christopher Blackwell writes of his chance encounter with a family of nesting barn swallows. "For a few minutes, I could feel like a part of something much bigger than the closed world of this penitentiary."

Devil in the Details — West End Phoenix Last June, Ontario brought Doug Ford’s Conservative government back for a second term. In this issue, WEP looks at the 7 key ways his party’s policies have put the squeeze on neighbourhoods acro...

Pleased to be part of this package looking at how Ford has harmed Toronto and the folks pushing back. I spoke to Councillor Ausma Malik about spreading councillors too thin and try to parse where the Province is at re Indigenous curriculum.
https://www.westendphoenix.com/stories/devil-in-the-details