Peter Sinclair

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Mathematician, teacher, all-around nerd. He/his.

[Peter Sinclair @ptrsinclair]

I want a shot-for-shot remake of I Want It That Way starring @AaronRAshmore, @LeoDiCaprio, @RobertDowneyJr, Christian Bale, and @Lin_Manuel.

[Peter Sinclair @ptrsinclair]

@AlexFGoldberg If you've still got some available, I'd love one!

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

how about the province release a business case on the existence of the newly-acquired gardiner expressway and how demolishing it can save 'ontario taxpayers' a few hundred million per year?

let's have a talk about provincial assets that are actually draining money, maybe?

[Damien Moule @damienmoule]

Since the Gardiner is in the news I get to reiterate why it sucks:
-even pre-pandemic it didn't carry high volumes of people
-it's still big enough to completely overwhelm the street grid at every exit
-it takes up a huge amount of the most valuable land in the country

[Tri-City News @TriCityNews]

Province provides boost for plan to build more homes near Port Moody SkyTrain station https://t.co/vtLlMJmcls

[More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso]

The lack of useable transit between Kitchener and Guelph on weekends Is unacceptable. It should not take 3 hours on transit for a 30 minute drive. We will continue to advocate to work towards reliable transit between Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Cambridge 7 days a week.

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

doctor who spoilers//
also, this is sci fi doing *exactly* what it does best - using a peculiar premise (eg. you meet a non-human alien) to make a point about real life (the fastest and most reliable way to figure out how someone would prefer to be addressed is to ask them)

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

Heres Translink advertising ON ITS WEBSITE that it needs to do various things to speed up its buses (https://t.co/StTeIHtHLM), TTC should do this with the streetcars!

[Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok]

The same dynamic exists in the North American context.

Toronto’s suburban tower boom of the 60s and 70s produced countless modernist high rises - many of which were “luxury condos.”

Today, they serve as critical low-income rental stock for the city’s most vulnerable minorities.

[Mayor Linda Buchanan @LindaCBuchanan]

Curbside patios just make economic sense ⬇️ Good for people even better for business!

[Brian Doucet @bmdoucet]

Standing (most seats were already taken) on the LRT last night at 9:45pm, I couldn’t help thinking that all these passengers won’t fit on the 7 bus.

It’s absolutely bonkers to cut evening service to 30 min but a great way to kill ridership & a transit culture @RegionWaterloo

[Tri-City News @TriCityNews]

Opinion: Canadian cities continue to over-invest in policing https://t.co/q2MH8Ax7HH

[Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan]

#TransLink's Mayors' Council announces the first 3 #BRT routes.

Bus Rapid Transit:
- Prioritized: North Shore - Park Royal to Metrotown via 2nd Narrows
- King George Blvd: Guildford, Surrey City Centre & White Rock
- 200 St: Langley, Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge
#vanpoli #vanre

[Naqiy Mcmullen @NaqiyNY]

@augustAP12 Disregarding buses as transit is exactly why transit ridership is so lackluster in the US.

Massive underutilized light rail networks like Dallas or Denver would have way better ridership if they had frequent bus service feeding them

[august 🍂 @augustAP12]

indianapolis is no transit bastion, but these posts are not telling about the actual state of transit in cities - indianapolis built a single 21-km brt line that costs less than many other US cities' much shorter streetcar systems, carries more ridership than them, and provides

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

the comic which is just calvin hammering nails into a table and his mother bursts in like WHAT are you DOING and he stares at her, and then at the table and back at her like 'is this a trick question'
changed my life

[KizzyPhD @KizzyPhD]

Science communication is treated like DEI (no funding, not respected by the boys’ club) and it’s a hugeeeee mistake we will all regret in 20 years.

[Denis Agar 🚌🕸️ @denisagar]

To observers outside BC, you might be tempted to say that "of course Vancouver's on the cutting edge of this" but I can't tell you how hard-fought it was, and how uncertain it still is. So much room for shenanigans. It is not easy to do this here.

[GRIDS Vancouver @GRIDSVancouver]

If you're in BC, write your MLA and tell them you love the transit zoning bill. It's the most ambitious proposal we've seen in years, and I think the government's going to be under pressure to water it down https://t.co/PtDJl3h8W6