Nate Wallace
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Program Manager, Clean Transportation @envirodefence . Public transit, EVs & sustainable cities. Formerly @CanadianTransit , @RiddellMPM . Views my own. (He/him)
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📢New report from
@envirodefence
&
@equiterre
:
Canada can DOUBLE public transit ridership by 2035 & cut emissions by 65 million tonnes.
But it will take:
💸operations funding
🚊dedicated transit lanes
🚎fleet electrification
🌇more homes near transit
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You do not improve congestion by forcing more transit riders and cyclists to drive.
What a ridiculous pledge to make traffic worse.
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I feel like I will be forever begging the TTC to put this vintage poster back in stock on their online store
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It’s not cars, it’s not gas and oil, it’s not heavy industry that’s challenging our planet…it is the choices each one of us make every day. Let’s make good choices! Happy Earth Day!
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“Imagine being faced with one of the gravest crises of all times, with accelerating impacts on the population you are running to serve, and saying: I'm going to do less. That is the gist of Mr. Poilievre's climate proposition." -
@carobrouillette
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I have to admit, the use of this photo of a now shuttered abortion clinic in my home town of Fredericton, after the federal govt did not lift a finger to save it once it was defunded by the province, (after repeatedly promising to save it during elections) is a bit insulting.
2/2 In Canada, I will always stand up for the rights of women to control their own bodies. Full of stop. Because control of our reproductive choice is the foundation of women’s rights.
Photo: Clinic 554, Fredericton, NB
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In Ontario, using a phone while driving is illegal and subject to a minimum $615 fine for the first infraction.
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82% of dealerships in Canada have no ZEVs in stock. What an incredibly biased hit piece. It relies entirely on Cox automotive reporting of inventory denied by the automakers themselves as inaccurate when asked by Reuters journalists.
Unsold electric vehicles are piling up – people like the idea but are not buying them
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I really can’t state enough how awful an idea allowing electric cars to drive in bus lanes is. You’re undermining one form of sustainable mobility (that is carrying far more people BTW) with another. As EVs come to dominate the roads good luck ever reclaiming that lost city space
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"We have the GTA – a population of around 7 mil. people trying to get around by car. Tokyo hit 7 mil. in the mid-1970s. They realized that past 2 mil. people, if most of the trips are being made by car, then you are in big trouble. It stops working.”
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@GovTimWalz
as a VP pick is great news for Public Transit.
As Governor of Minnesota, he delivered a game-changing investment in public transit operations by signing a bill to create a transit-dedicated 0.75% sales tax in the Twin Cities.
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Great to see
@JoshMatlow
pledge to reverse TTC cuts and get back to 100% service levels.
It is absolutely correct that better transit service brings back riders and makes transit finances more sustainable.
A pledge like this is the price of entry for credibility on transit.
Matlow promising to improve TTC service, in his first year using $50 million from his City Works Fund, which would be funded by a 2 per cent property tax
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US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb.’
New analysis finds money from Biden’s $1.2tn infrastructure bill has overwhelmingly been spent on widening highways for cars.
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When faced with deficits in the 1990s, the TTC had the same playbook: cut service & hike fares. Ridership dramatically declined. It took 17 years for ridership to return to 1990 levels, and only after a ridership growth strategy with investment in service.
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Low-priced Chinese EVs are only a significant economic threat because legacy automakers have refused to bring affordable EV models to market. If Canada plans on shutting out competition, we need alternative policy pressure to ensure Canadians can get affordable electric vehicles.
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The costs of building transit is rising rapidly in the English-speaking world. One thing in common - lack of in-house expertise and excessive reliance on the P3 model, among other issues.
We need to learn best practices from low-cost countries.
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Saying 'no' to funding transit because ridership needs to grow first has everything backwards. Ridership will never grow as a result of cuts and under-funding of the system. It reinforces a downward spiral.
No further funding is coming to OC Transpo out of todays announcement. Premier Doug Ford said ridership needs to go up first. He noted previous investments in LRT. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said we need to boost the downtown core
#ottnews
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Priority lanes make transit faster, help bring back transit riders, and makes operating the system more cost-efficient.
With the TTC in a fiscal crisis, anything less than accelerating the implementation of RapidTO is simply fiscally irresponsible.
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TransLink is moving forward with a plan to increase bus service by 130 percent over the next 10 years.
This is a real vision for a post-pandemic transit recovery that addresses the urgency of the climate crisis. Every City should be following their lead
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Huge cut to Ottawa transit budget. Less frequent, less reliable bus network incoming.
If the Mayor is trying to destroy any potential for ridership recovery - this is the way to do it.
#OttPoli
The 2023 city of Ottawa budget includes $53 million in efficiencies - $47 million from transit.
$42.7 million from Transit capital program alignment.
$4.3 million from OC Transpo bus fleet optimization.
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Privatizing the operation of VIA Rail’s high frequency rail project and potentially handing it over to their direct competitor - Air Canada is extremely concerning.
The idea that rail service is multimodal with air travel makes a joke out of its potential to reduce emissions.
After contacting Public Services and Procurement Canada for clarification, we still have concerns about fairness and transparency. We are urge
@AirCanada
to step back from direct involvement in the High Frequency Rail
@tgfhfr
procurement.
#viarail
#travel
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@s_guilbeault
is absolutely right - EVs alone are not a panacea for solving transport emissions. We also need a shift towards public and active transportation - and that means not building new highways.
via
@mtlgazette
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See that yellow line right at the bottom? That’s Canada’s investment in passenger rail compared to our G7 peers.
#CdnPoli
@TransportAction
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What’s the point of buying transit capacity we don’t use?
The entire troubled project was designed to meet the unique demands from the City for a light rail system with metro capacity (which didn’t exist anywhere).
Now, we’re cutting service in half for most of the day?
City of Ottawa announces further cuts to O-Train service on weekday evenings
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They say things like this can’t be done. Montréal proves not only that it can - but it is also overwhelmingly popular. 👇
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"Canada is one of the most auto-dependent countries on Earth. We have almost as many motor vehicles as people, and we have given over an inordinate amount of public space to accommodate them, leaving mere scraps to everyone else.” -
@picardonhealth
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The way Canada funds public transit is broken. If we want to tackle the climate crisis - we need to fix it.
Check out my op-ed in the
@globeandmail
:
#CdnPoli
#OnPoli
#CdnTransit
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Some cities are faring FAR BETTER at ridership recovery than Ottawa. That’s because they didn’t cut service and have instead focused on improving reliability to bring riders back. The last thing OC should do is make further cuts and drive more riders away
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The province of New Brunswick is currently being sued by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for restricting abortion access in the province. The federal government should be suing, too.
This is not true in New Brunswick - 90% of New Brunswickers do not have adequate access to abortion services. NB's gov has restricted abortion services to three hospitals in two cities - CCLA is currently in court to restore access to abortion services to all New Brunswickers.
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Cutting LRT service is the worst way to deal with an operating deficit. You do not rebuild ridership by making service worse. It is only one step further down the downward spiral OC Transpo is currently in.
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Every park and ride is a policy failure. Both a failure of land use planning - creating a dead zone near a transit hub where people could live or attractive destinations could be clustered. And a testament to failure to solve the last mile problem with an effective bus network.
Whether you’re back at the office full-time or once a week, finding parking can be difficult & expensive. Save yourself the headache and ride with us instead. We’ve got thousands of free parking spaces at Park & Ride lots across Ottawa. More info:
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We have a Premier who is in clear violation of the Canada Health Act, openly speaks at anti-choice rallies, and the federal govt only clawed back a measly sum from the Health transfer only to give the money back. No backbone to stand up to this man restricting abortion access.
Blaine Higgs speaking to an anti-abortion rally:
He states that anti abortion campaigners “have a conviction that I too, agree with”.
He is then joined by most of his cabinet ministers behind the microphone, including the Minister of Health.
#NBpoli
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Imagine the outrage if cities just decided that plowing roads of snow just wasn't worth it and erected barriers like this.
Ottawa-Gatineau edition: build the bridge, block the bridge.
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Hate that this still has to be said, but expanding highways does not reduce gridlock. Highway 413 will add 17 million tonnes of GHG emissions to the atmosphere and is a climate bomb waiting to happen.
#OnPoli
Asked what he's doing to prevent climate change, Doug Ford mentions electric vehicle production & transit, but also claims building highways is a climate change solution "to get people home quicker, that they don't have to sit in gridlock and smell someone else's fumes."
#onpoli
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A bit rich to hear this from a candidate that has two city councillors that voted against holding a public inquiry into the LRT debacle as his campaign co-chairs (El-Chantiry & Cloutier).
#OttPoli
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Growth in service = Growth in ridership.
GRT added 18,000 new service hours in September last year, now ridership is 20% above pre-pandemic levels.
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Where’s Canada’s zeal to invest in VIA Rail? Sorely missing.
Big News: Today, President Biden announced funding to build the first high-speed rail projects in our nation’s history.
These investments will get people and goods where they need to go more quickly, reduce emissions, increase passenger safety, and create good-paying union jobs.
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What does the Premier mean by ‘regular housing’? 🤨
Premier Doug Ford is clarifying his comments on fourplexes across the province, even as his government shuts down the idea of allowing four-storey buildings to be constructed in residential neighbourhoods without prior municipal approval.
#onpoli
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Trading 413 for the battery plant while letting transit systems fall into a death spiral would signal that the federal govt has signed onto the Ford govt’s car dependent sprawl agenda & further blow up chances of meeting 2030 transport sector GHG targets.
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When higher orders of government download services without giving cities the revenue tools they need, they eat a free lunch.
They shouldn’t be surprised when cities start handing them the bill.
'Outrageous': Privately, Justin Trudeau's Toronto MPs are furious at Olivia Chow over her property tax gambit
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What an incredibly bad, short sighted, regressive and environmentally out-to-lunch policy.
A NDP government would cut the provincial gas tax, worth 14 cents a litre, for as long as inflation remains high, leader Wab Kinew promises.
#mbpoli
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Confirmed: The Federal Government has hit the pause button on public transit funding until after the next election. In the middle of a climate crisis.
Will the 2024 Federal Budget leave public transit behind? Read our Backgrounder by
@ClimateNate
, Clean Transportation Program Manager, to learn why this matters and what we need in the Federal Budget to unlock public transit as a climate solution. 🔗
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Q: How does Canada’s public transit performance stack up to our global peers?
A: Pretty badly, actually.
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It doesn’t matter if a bus is electric if nobody is riding it, because operating budget shortfalls forced deep service cutbacks.
The federal govt. must stop ignoring the transit operating budget crisis. A transit death spiral puts climate goals at risk.
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This clip is incredible.
A 16 foot blind spot in front of an SUV where you can’t see children.
We need to seriously address how much car sizes have grown in recent decades. It’s not just bad for the planet - but for street safety too.
#CdnPoli
You've heard of blind spots on the sides of cars. But experts say BLIND ZONES in front are growing as Americans buy larger vehicles potentially putting kids at risk. Our eye-opening
@NBC4ITeam
demonstration TODAY at 4:30p.
@susanhogantv
@nbcwashington
#Working4You
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Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees
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What’s even worse is that R1 service is only being run every 20 minutes.
That is a HORRENDOUS headway time for something supposed to replace ~5 minute LRT frequency.
It’s time to start asking - did the decision to scrap 117 buses from the fleet have something to do with it?
All the crisis comms in the world can’t fix a system that doesn’t work.
Imagine being reliant on transit because you work in a job where you don’t have the luxury of work from home and can’t afford to drive.
Today was horrendous for you. And who was there for you?
#ottnews
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We support the idea of establishing a level playing field. But setting tariffs at 100% without any investigation or evidence is not about levelling the playing field - it’s about shutting out competition entirely. So incumbents can keep EV prices high and sell gas cars instead.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that Canada will impose punitive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles — copying a similar initiative that the U.S. is already pursuing. .
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Transit systems across the country are facing significant operating deficits and the threat of a downward spiral is real. Not a single cent of the $30 billion dollars announced today is going towards solving this problem.
The Canada Public Transit Fund is the biggest investment in public transit Canada’s ever seen.
We’re building up subways, light rail, and bus routes across the country — getting people where they need to go, faster. It’s a game changer.
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@EmilieTaman
@cmckenney
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation. ― Gustavo Petro.
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Maybe it’s time we started a conversation about a frequent flyers tax here in Canada.
When it comes to highly-polluting air travel, the planet can’t afford the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
#CdnPoli
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Congratulations to Mayor-elect
@oliviachow
! I’m looking forward to working with
@cityoftoronto
to fight for a fair deal for public transit funding and much-needed climate action!
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🚨Climate Groups Sound Alarm on Public Transit Death Spiral🚨
Today, a coalition of 15 ENGOs, including
@envirodefence
@equiterre
@DavidSuzukiFDN
@CANRacCanada
&
@GreenpeaceCA
signed an open letter calling on
@cafreeland
to save public transit
#CdnPoli
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The federal budget seems to have found the money to provide transportation on the moon, while not finding money to ensure critical public transportation services here on planet earth don’t fall apart.
#CdnPoli
#Budget2023
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Excellent story from CBC highlighting how conveniently ignoring the emissions impacts of burning the fossil fuels we export means ignoring an emissions source larger than all domestic emissions from all sectors combined.
The Canadian government doesn't count emissions from oil and gas exports.
So we did.
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The country is on fire
Pleased to host with my colleague
@JonathanWNV
@Shell
’s first global Board of Directors meeting in Canada.
With a strong and historic presence in our country, Shell is our reliable partner. Together, we can and will pave the way for tomorrow's green economy.
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✂️Bus service cut by 50%
✂️145 Bus Routes cancelled
✂️Skytrain service cut by 30%
✂️Some regions see a 90% service cut
These are the dire consequences of a broken transit funding model.
The Federal and BC govts must work together to save TransLink 👇
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Trans Mountain pipeline expansion: $34 billion
Federal 12-year cost-share needed to double public transit ridership by 2035 & cut emissions by 65 million tonnes: $35 billion
We should be investing in transportation projects that move people, not oil.
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@DavidHillWard3
@_MarkSutcliffe
David, can you tell me what percentage of city space is currently allocated exclusively to cars? Include roads and surface parking lots.
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Nonsense from the National Post using the discredited argument that Canada doesn't have the density for high-speed rail. Population density between Toronto and Quebec City is higher than many existing high-speed rail corridors in Spain, Germany & Sweden.
#CdnPoli
@TransportAction
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Just truly classic NIMBY talking points coming out one after the other. It feels like the dam has finally broken.
The Premier is finally telling everyone exactly what he thinks about his own Housing Affordability Task Force’s recommendations. And it’s not pretty.
Ford says it would be a parking "disaster" if fourplexes were allowed as-of-right across the province.
Ford says the strong mayor powers gives municipalities direct say over 4 units as of right.
#onpoli
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Great piece from the Globe and Mail's editorial board calling on federal & provincial governments to not just support transit capital - but operations too, while calling attention on the need to address rising construction costs relative to peer countries.
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This is the first time I’ve seen a column so successfully translate the nerdy discussions from transit twitter onto the pages of the
@TorontoStar
.
Bottom line, the TTC performs MUCH better than US equivalents because its frequent bus network, why cut it?
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"You are losing money because there aren’t enough fare-paying customers to fill the coffers. You need more riders to generate more revenue.
Your solution is to cut services and increase fares, potentially losing more riders?
How does that make sense?"
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@grahamctv
So we get a permanently reduced service capacity? Do we start paying RTG less now too?
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In a climate emergency, we can’t afford another generation of lost progress.
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This is the major red flag in the Premier's announcement. Passenger rail is sorely needed. But experimenting with hydrogen is the wrong move. People need proven rail technology that works.
Premier Smith says she’s interested in the use of hydrogen powered trains, which is something the proposed Calgary-Banff rail project has been exploring.
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Penalosa had lots of great ideas.
Maybe more candidates should be plagiarizing his platform? 🤔
Inbox: Bailao campaign alleges that Matlow plagiarizing Penalosa policies from last fall. Some of their cited examples, which I have not independently verified, look pretty damning
Perhaps worth noting that Matlow’s comms person worked on Penalosa campaign
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Stellantis made a profit of €16.8 billion ($24.7 billion Canadian) last year, up 26% from the year before.
#StarExclusive
: Ottawa is being forced to renegotiate with Stellantis amid concerns the auto giant will scrap a new EV battery plant unless the federal and provincial governments match hefty subsidies given to Volkswagen, the Star has learned.
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Is it actually reckless to increase investment in transit operations when “the buses are empty”?
The evidence indicates that investing in public transit operations is actually the most effective policy tool to increase ridership.
Here is a study on it:
We're in an affordability crisis. Families are feeling the pinch of inflation. We can't be reckless with spending on expensive promises like $250M on bike lanes, free transit and ⬆️ spending on transit by 20% when buses drive through our neighbourhoods almost empty.
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VIA Rail has never recovered from the axe that the Mulroney Govt took to it. Its constrained from delivering better service because the track it runs on is privatized. Privatizing the delivery and operation of the largest expansion project in decades (HFR) is not the solution.
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Public transit fare increases have consistently outpaced general rises in the consumer price index.
This is a result of public transit operating funding not keeping pace with service needs, leaving riders to pay more of the bill.
(Statistics Canada Table 18-10-0005-01)
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For context, Canada is spending $14.9 billion on public transit capital projects this decade.
BREAKING: To secure the massive new VW battery plant, Canada signed an unprecedented contract with the company to offer up to $13 billion in production subsidies over 10 years, effectively matching the U.S. incentives on offer
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Tired of longer wait times? Its time to fix transit funding.
@envirodefence
&
@equiterre
have partnered with
@transitapp
to make it easy for transit riders across the country to contact policymakers & tell them to make transit a priority in the next federal budget!
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As the expert quoted in this article rightly notes, other countries manage to build high speed rail at much cheaper costs per kilometre than we do, and we need to seriously tackle this problem if we’re ever going to get one built.
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Wow! Kudos to
@theJagmeetSingh
and the
@NDP
for supporting our call to accelerate the Permanent Public Transit Fund and expand it to include operations funding!
That’s transit leadership 🙌
Now it’s time for all political parties to pledge their support too 👇
We're inviting federal party leaders and Toronto MPs to sign a transit pledge to support new
#TTC
subway trains and speed up the Permanent Public Transit Fund!
Thank you to federal NDP leader
@theJagmeetSingh
for signing on today at Keele Station!
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For everyone losing their minds about this - there is a distinction between fed funding for new highways (which the federal government does not do), and local roads in urban and rural areas (which the feds are funding).
This has been the case since 2016.
I’m gobsmacked.
A federal minister said they won’t invest in new roads or highways.
He doesn’t care that you’re stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. I do. We’re building roads and highways, with or without a cent from the feds.
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Did Grand Theft Auto 6 get bike lanes before your town or city? Time to e-mail your city councillor.
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In my latest piece in the Hill Times, I wrote about how the federal government was once a leader on public transit, and why it needs to find that courage once again if we are to meet the challenge posed by the climate crisis.
via
@thehilltimes
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The King Street transit priority corridor was an incredible success that showed how great transit can be - but lack of care and enforcement has made it fall apart. Good to see advocates like
@ausmalik
stand up for it!
#TOPoli
@ttcriders
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According to Mainstreet research, 80% of
#OttPoli
voters want the City to prioritize investments in transit infrastructure. Only a minority of 20% want to prioritize roads.
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.
@TorontoStar
Editorial Board writes that cutting transit service and hiking fares is the last thing we should be doing to fix Toronto’s budget woes.
#CdnPoli
#TOpoli
#OnPoli
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The beatings will continue until morale improves
Afternoon Ottawa,
In the coming weeks, we are making a change to the frequency of Line 1.
Here's what you need to know.
🧵
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Great to meet with Minister
@s_guilbeault
to discuss
@envirodefence
’s priorities for ZEV Sales Regulation!
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It seems like the City of Ottawa’s plan to get more riders on transit is to make their experience of waiting in the cold for their next bus far more miserable.
#OttPoli
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We need to stop confusing car dependency created by urban sprawl and a lack of investment in alternatives like transit as a love affair that Canadians have with cars. There is a reason why we see limited behavioural changes from the increased cost of gas.
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@_llebrun
Gatineau-connected Tramway on Wellington, pedestrian, active and public modes only. Connect it to a Tram down Bank street all the way to Lansdowne, car traffic replaced by public and active modes. Turn Lansdowne and Somerset east of Bank into pedestrian malls.
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@augustAP12
Why are there 7 flights of stairs to get up to an entirely useless secondary underground level? Is this a subway or a nuclear fallout shelter?
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@CanadianPolling
"total ban on the use" is highly misleading because it isn't a policy anyone is proposing
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The response from the city of Ottawa misses the point of the criticism entirely. The point is that road safety rests on building SAFE SYSTEMS rather than focusing on personal responsibility.
NEW: Graphic city of Ottawa jaywalking ad part of a 'behaviour change campaign' on city roads, staff say
#ottnews
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OC Transpo buses suffer from bad on-time performance. This makes it very difficult to rebuild ridership when riders can’t count on their bus to show up on time. One simple cost effective solution is more dedicated bus lanes.
#OttPoli
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Potential leaks aside, you have to respect Minister Guilbeault’s commitment to travelling by VIA Rail
“I know the inside story of the Liberal revolt against Justin Trudeau. How? I overheard it in a train station.”
Story by Justin Ling:
via
@torontostar
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“If the same windfall tax currently paid by Canadian banks and insurance companies was paid by the largest Canadian oil and gas companies, proceeds would reach $4.2 billion in just five years. That would buy a lot of heat pumps.”
-
@cathmckenna
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Great shift in message from the federal government. The loss of federal leadership in housing was a mistake and it should never have happened.
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Truly heartbreaking what the Ottawa LRT has done to confidence in transit service in our nation’s capital.
Once the choice of taking transit becomes a consistent gamble of whether or not it will get you where you need to go on time, a death spiral soon follows.
#OttPoli
If I were regularly relying on this service to get to work I would be pulling my hair out and considering buying a car. This city is facing a transit crisis that, at this rate, will take a generation to fix.
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The city of Ottawa’s transit plan: 1) Cut service, 2) Raise fares, 3) Raid reserves and 4) Count on permanently reduced payments to RTG for a permanent service reduction on light rail.
The system is bleeding riders. This is what a death spiral looks like.
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@yfreemark
Is this a refundable tax credit? As in - it will pay you the benefit even if you have no tax liability?
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