Bike Walk Bus Toronto

  Hey pals! This blog post is kind of an essay? I'm super open to having discussions about this, so if you're interested, hit me up! Recently, I've seen a few Twitter threads talking about how city-building and good planning are concept foreign to North America: we admire them, we desire them, yet we never actually make these ideas reality. The focus of these threads tends to be walkability. For those unfamiliar, walkability is defined as how friendly an area is for walking, and it is very subjective. The end goal are broad health benefits on both individual and societal levels.  Those who live in North America are very familiar to how automobility is entrenched within our urban landscapes, so much so that walking in many cities is viewed as being impossible. Walking is not the norm, and occurs in mass only in a few select locations. In addition, the North American political landscape is so devolved into perpetuating capitalist structures that the financial wants of automob...

Hey besties! This blog post is a short one, concerning my findings of taking Durham Region's new overnight routes.  Recently, Durham Region Transit introduced two overnight routes. Route N1 operates throughout the night, between Centennial Circle and Harmony Terminal, and route N2 operates for a few hours between ONTech and Wentworth. Additionally, Dial-a-Bus service was instituted covering most of the urban part of Durham Region. On Monday, December 13th, I went out to take the two routes. I have a few comments concerning them and a few suggestions for how service could be improved. Route N1 Centennial Circle <--> Harmony Terminal This route duplicates the 900 Pulse Highway 2 route that operates during the day, as well as parts of route 901 Pulse Simcoe and 915 Taunton routes. Obviously, as urban Durham region is much longer than it is tall, this route covers a lot of distance. It also makes direct connections to two overnight TTC routes near UofT Scarborough.  From rid...