Deborah Pink

Nova Scotia raised. Toronto based psychiatrist. Inner City medicine. Social justice. Safe, inclusive streets. 🚲 @ICHA_Toronto Faculty @uoftmedicine

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

Parenting (& cycling) highlight! #ActiveTO ⁦@Docs4Cycling⁩ ⁦@FFSafeStreets⁩

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre Yes! Yes!

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre For sure!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

BREAKING: Removing bike -lanes from busy city streets will increase traffic congestion, according to a government document leaked amid a furious row over urban infrastructure.

The findings undercut claims the dedicated routes contribute to urban gridlock. https://t.co/ukriNqJrEX

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre !!!

[Mike Layton @m_layton]

An admission of the significant financial and safety costs. The city regularly looks at alternative routes and puts lanes on side streets. Shaw (instead of Ossington), Palmerston (Bathurst), Brunswick (Spadina). Yonge, University and Bloor don't have equivalent options.

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre Yes! Yes!

[Friends and Families for Safe Streets @FFSafeStreets]

An honour to ride w everyone tonight. Thanks to @RespectTO @thebikinglawyer these ghost bikes were installed outside Queen's Park, in honour of 2 people on bikes recently killed in Ontario.
#YouNeverRideAlone #Bill212 #SafeStreetsSaveLives #TODeadlyStreets #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre Yes please!

[Friends and Families for Safe Streets @FFSafeStreets]

This is devastating. If #ONpoli gets someone killed when they rip out #SafeStreets, their family can't sue for directly causing the death. #ONpoli did same thing to protect negligent long term care homes after the mass tragedies, horrific conditions during the pandemic.
#Bill212

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre Yes please!

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre @taylorswift13 Yes please!

[Deborah Pink @d_a_pink]

@erastourticks @RogersCentre I’m in!

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

In summary, Ford's bike lane removals will, according to a new City Hall report:

- Cost $75 million in direct costs and sunk costs.
- Make traffic much, much worse for at least nine months during construction to remove lanes
- Have minimal long-term impact on car travel times.

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

And here are new and updated ridership numbers for Bloor, University and Yonge bike lanes. Increases as high as 600%.

[Kristyn Wong-Tam 🇨🇦 @kristynwongtam]

City Council should tear up Tory’s budget, open up 24/7 warming centres immediately and declare homelessness a humanitarian crisis. It's time to go way beyond plugging potholes and start permanently fixing Toronto’s structural problems.

[Andrew Boozary MD @drandrewb]

Waking home tonight right by City Hall there is a human being sleeping on a grate in this cold/wind. There is nowhere for people to go. We need better solutions in place ASAP to keep people alive in our city.

[Jeff Burch @JeffBurch_]

In typical Ford fashion, last night he announced controversial news in the hopes that people wouldn't notice.

Here’s a recap;
(1/4)

[Michael Warner @drmwarner]

-Resume masking in school/grocery stores/pharmacies.
-narrow the shot 2->3 gap
-make PCR testing more widely available, advertise inclusion criteria for Paxlovid & make it easier to get
-communicate with the public

None of these actions harm the economy and will save lives.

[Irfan Dhalla @IrfanDhalla]

If someone had told us in March 2020 that 2+ years into the pandemic, we'd know so much and be doing so little, would we have believed them?

[Andrew Boozary MD @drandrewb]

a reminder: you can both support the people of ukraine and call out the racism/orientalism that values refugees based on the colour of their skin/religion.