Eric McElroy

In light of the current @toronto.ca Mayoral Race, @mayoroliviachow.ca's announcement she's running again, and @thestar.com's "If I were Mayor" series, I finally sat down and wrote out what I believe is needed to keep Toronto growing: world.hey.com/esmcelroy/we...

Wouldn't be surprised if some of this is just anti-establishment backlash aimed at the wrong level of government. Probably a lot of negative sentiment against incumbents because of Ford-driven decline.

Yesterday's municipal elections show the public wants change. I can't recall ever seeing so many incumbent Mayors lose (see below), including in Sarnia and Milton, where the Mayors had been in place since the 1980s.

Tate is going to be even angrier now and, for a while at least, it's important to laugh and laugh loudly at him & his mini edge lord chat room. Same w S'ad in Danforth. She got her angry-man endorsements with Kinsella, but she was a blip at the box. The internet is not real. Keep it that way.

Municipal election signs must be removed by Thursday, October 29 News release: https://www.toronto.ca/news/municipal-election-signs-must-be-removed-by-thursday-october-29/

Canada buys more in digitally deliverable services from the U.S. than what we sell in autos, steel, aluminum, softwood lumber, potash and electricity. Read our full analysis here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...

Olivia Chow now has a strong mandate to pursue Toronto separatism.

Huge congratulations to @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social, so excited to have your voice on council

BRING ME THE TEARS OF TOBI LUTKE

IntegrityTO lost. The edge lord poverty porn make fun of a Chinese accent posts didn’t work. The internet is not reality. Thank god.

Toronto, ON gets about 335 rideable days a year by my rules: 246 green and 89 yellow. I set green above 0°C and red below −10°C. Find your number with Bike-Rideable Days by Shifter. #BikeTO

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

King & Bay Henge.

Bald man unemployed. News at 11.

OK old council heads will understand when I say: I don't even know what it's going to be like watching council livestreams and not hearing Nunziata's voice presiding.

Over on The Other Site, the City is being attacked for posting two men pushing a stroller. Tobi and suggested that a Bradford mayoralty would result in a city wouldn’t post that kind of content I dared to ask why and have been getting bombarded, but nothing compared to what City staff is getting.

The protected bike lanes along Bloor Street West between Islington and Royal York are gone, but we want to ensure folks in Etobicoke-Lakeshore can safely bike to the polls on Monday. Cycle Toronto will be leading a complimentary bike bus on Election Day through this new gap in our cycling network.

I want in Ontario what BC has right now: a disorganized opposition taking out an entitled, tired, yet cocky government.

And remember...

Don't like seeing bikes on the road OR the sidewalk? Try this One Weird Trick: ✨Separated Cycling Infrastructure✨ Source: www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

I'm biking down this hill with my kid in the back and a truck slows down beside me. Driver leans over and says, "Are you insane? You should be riding on the sidewalk!" I say, "That's illegal. Did you know that?" Wild idea, should drivers have to know the rules in order to drive?

Why does freedom, when it involves cars, always look like congestion personified? “Invisible values are the most dangerous kind, because no one questions them. How urban streets are often discussed on social media.” - Marco Te Brömmelstroet h/t @tomflood.bsky.social @urbancyclinginstitute.org

*Gestures wildly to the Artist Formerly Known As The Etobicoke Bike Lanes*

Child mortality.

Urban Repair Squad's latest installation commemorates the people killed in car collisions along Bloor, Yonge and University. It is a protest against Doug Ford’s bike lane removals via @thestar.com

Crime is down. Toronto is objectively a safe place. Why does Bradford want us scared? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The election of our discontent, final column. Hardest one to wrote. Had to rewrite it from scratch to get the argument clear. City elections are a catch-all for angst that isn’t directed to the place where change can actually happen. It’s a kind of dysfunction. I hope you’ll read & share it.

Truly shocking case of car brain at Durham Regional Police on display regarding the horrific case of a motorist and her vehicle striking a daycare teacher and five young children in Oshawa on Wednesday. www.cp24.com/local/durham...

Promising to oppose shelters if the “community” isn’t onside is a promise to oppose all shelters.

Not surprised Bradford pulled a #FlipFlopford with regard to AI data centres. He will say anything to get elected which is why Toronto must #ReElectChow to #StopBradford in four days. #TOpoli

Maybe he's on to something. High-vis vests will make it easier for the image of you flopping over the hood to be seared into the memory of the driver for the rest of their life.

As Toronto’s bike-lane debate gets nastier, cyclists are being lumped together as one big tribe. But we’re not all the same—and we’re not the enemy #BikeTO #OnPoli cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/new...

Since 2016, London’s cycling network has grown fivefold, from 90 to 450 kilometres. The results? 1.5 million daily cycle journeys—a 43% increase since 2019—twice as many bikes as cars on City of London streets during the day, and motor traffic in steady decline—having fallen 25% in the same period.

Looking forward to my 20 minute ride to work every day on University turn into an hour+ trek in order to include the ravine when the University Ave bike lanes are gone.

✅ “Our new home at Queen and Yonge is where the city’s commercial, cultural, and civic lives meet. Museum of Toronto extends that tradition by remaking a landmark street front into a modern place of encounter…” - @museumoftoronto.bsky.social #FridayFlex museumoftoronto.com/new-location...

Brads commute to/from city hall is mostly on protected cycling infrastructure. As for having a plan, that's the responsibility of the transportation divisions cycling unit and the professionals who work there, not the mayor. Ravine MUTs cost at least 10x more per 100m than building on-road infra.

This is like a cliche. The fit middle aged guy with a Pinarello on a roof rack who thinks that makes him qualified to speak for people who want to ride to the grocery story or pedal with their kids to school.

Did he ride his 10,000K in the ravines? If not, unclear what his fitness cycling bona fides have to do with his urban transportation plan

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Whenever someone says we “don’t need any more shoebox condos, we need real housing for families”, ask them about the needs of single people who’d like their own place but are forced by the housing shortage to live with roommates.

Bradford says the Bloor West data suggest the city "allocated 50% of the road space for half a percentage of road users. And that doesn't work." (By this logic, there are several streets downtown where pedestrians should get MUCH wider sidewalks)

Honestly hilarious. He's so close

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started

Something to keep in mind when we read “x amount of Ontario/Toronto/x doesn’t approve of bike lanes”. When bad faith leadership gins up a culture war issue that has nothing to do w most people & barely affects others.

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

Bike lanes save lives. Original photo @cycletoronto.bsky.social

Folks will say it's lead exposure or whatever, but let's be real about Gen X. They were always gonna go fash once cultural liberalism became mainstream.