Andrew Dodds

🎵...smilin at me, nothing but...🎶

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

I heard #TOpoli council needed to hear from people before their July 14th vote, which should be as easy as your support now.

Toronto City Council: Tell Toronto Council To Make Safe, Accessible Housing By Legalizing Multi-Tenant Homes! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/FFfNCUDAS2

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@BlueJays Lookino forward to it! But surprised that woth a giveaway, on a Friday, and with more activations and things to see and do than almost any other Friday... you're only opening 90 minutes before first pitch, not 120 like many weekend and bigger draw/unique days?

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@GOtransit could you look at the lower level washroom on car 2635? I don't imagine the fellow inside it using it appreciates that it doesn't close any less than we on the outside appreciate that it doesn't close while he's using it.

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@noahsshere How's that shady side line looking now that lunch is upon us?

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@DavidSalituro How's it looking in this, the off-at-lunch hour?

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@alexadamsBTP_ How's a re-draw not changing odds? Imagine: 50/50 coin flip, but you eliminate heads as a legal winner, & re-flip instead. That's only a way to pretend you haven't changed tails' odds to 100%. 1,000 draft balls, Ottawa's all gone, is the honest reality, vs NHL seeing fans as dumb

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@311Toronto Is the Davenport bike lane going to be cleared any time soon? From Caledonia to Yonge, this is my main way to access the city. I notice my alternative routes of Bloor, Harbord, Wellesley, and College also seem not passable.

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@cheeseonearth @NotSafe4BikesTO @311Toronto Fines are not common, but speed of clearing is a bit more subjective, whereas dumping snow into public rights of way is not. Only a $610 fine, per Municipal Code Chapter 719.

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@gregorrobertson @MattSpoke Sell someone a home valued at $1M market, for just $250k?
You've given them $750k while seeing no change in the affordability of homes. I know, for in TO, I applied to rent a place, later found out the affordable buyer used the free equity to become a LL of many homes as a result

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

So if an arena directly adjacent a highway, with the first privately financed interchange in the province, cannot do the one job it had (move a few thousand families in cars during pre-game-rush hour), how could we expect roads to be the answer *anywhere*?
https://t.co/1586lhB5mX

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

Sens EBUG Zach Dietz was caught running to the arena with all his gear after backup goalie Anton Forsberg was injured in warmups 😭😂

(via @muggers_hockey)

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

You do this well, and emergency vehicles can use it far more rapidly than any roadway with cars needing to pull out of the way.

[StreetARToronto @StART_Toronto]

We’re excited to share that vibrant cycle track barriers have been installed along Ferrand Drive as part of the City’s growing cycling network! 🚴‍♂️

This colourful barrier art was designed by local artists through a collaboration with StART & @to_cycling_ped 🎨

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

I can see what kind of "cutting" the local councillor gets most excited about. More than two thirds removed from an affordable co-op proposal. Filing this away for whenever progressives or their anointed council champions talk about their affordability priorities for folk in need

[HousingNowTO @HousingNowTO]

@CityPlanTO On #NationalHousingDay, it is worthwhile to note that this 26-Unit #AffordableHousing site in Riverdale started at 80 units back in 2018, which was cut to 32 units, which was cut to 26 units - mostly due to City Planning policy & "Heritage" preferences...
https://t.co/xtwZfsZGvR

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

It's going to be quite something for Ford to discover reality:
When you remove 1 key portion of a biker's route, they drive.
For ALL their trip. All roads where no extra car lanes can be added? The bikers now need to drive there, too. Prepare for REAL traffic.

[Joel Harden @JoelDHardenNDP]

"People don't want bike lanes"

Every committee deputant on Bill 212 supported bike lanes.

19,000 ppl submitted public comments - the vast majority in opposition to the bill.

Hundreds of residents gathered outside QP Thursday in support of bike lanes.

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

Kinda wild Doug makes drivers think that <1 car lane on 1 East-West or North-South final short stretch is what'll slow drivers down.

As opposed to his focus on sprawl, shoving a 2x 401 or 413 highway's worth of SUVs onto his voters' full route before they even hit the on-ramp

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

He wasn't elected Premier, yet @StevenDelDuca has in 1 move done more for affordability this week than Ford has done in his entire 6 years, I think? Doing more for you. Whereas given greenbelt, Therme, family stag & doe & fundraiser pay for access, Doug's still in it for himself

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

It looks like Vaughan under @StevenDelDuca just made a major reduction in Development Charges for low rise housing.

They appear to role back rates to 2018 levels? If so - may be one of the biggest reductions anywhere in Ontario (from a high level)!

Cc @MikePMoffatt

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

The "idiocy" is the point. If you sold fax machines, killing the internet before it happened would be the best business plan. For all its boosters, capitalism's businesses eventually get so big that status quo is preferred to real improvements, which gov't needs to fight against.

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

"we're spending $1 million in taxpayer money so professors can mail each other little notes?? we have a post office—these toys for academics are emblems of waste"

—DOGE, 1969, killing arpanet

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@fordnation I guess at least they're consistently doing the opposite of their brand?
https://t.co/DxH4DPHNpj

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

At QP, PC MPPs are voting down a private member bill from @stephaniebowman that would lower the effective tax rate on small businesses. https://t.co/vj0kYI8Lur

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

Really awkward when @fordnation's "Open for business" pitch instead reveals a Premier drowning it worth micromanaging and red tape. All this to stir up a base while distracting from an absolute shambles of housing crisis inaction. Failing the businesses and employees both.

[ARC @RespectTO]

Toronto bike lanes in the Guardian this morning https://t.co/YnOAU6TiQC

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@ZorkG110 @MikePMoffatt Since EMS is healthcare, and most fire service calls are their newer medical aid variety, you'd really think municipalities would bill the province for their jurisdictional responsibility, in what otherwise feels like a stealth downloading.

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

@MikePMoffatt If you bought your home in a suburb one month, then a twin sold just after a big DC boost, that new price would certainly get baked into at least all other comparable homes, less so but mostly into all others as well. So a DC boost raises home prices much more than city revenues.

[Andrew Dodds @AndrewJDodds]

More than 1/4 personal mobility trips starting/ending in downtown (vehicle/bike/scooter/etc) are bikes.

Not 1.2%, @PrabSarkaria: 26%+, per your own stats.

I won't even ask for 26% of the space, just, justifiably, 26% of the lanes.

Save congestion, save lives: save our lanes.

[Mahdis Habibinia @mahdishabibinia]

From @BenSpurr: A major survey led by the province and not yet made public suggests cycling rates in Toronto are higher than Premier Doug Ford’s government has asserted, according to a confidential city staff report seen by the @TorontoStar ⬇️
https://t.co/67DxTRPkzA