Jedwin Mok

@jedwinmok

Creative Director @uxforcities | Research Lead http://infrastoryinsights.com | fmr: @Metrolinx, @fietsprofessor, @cityoftoronto, CompSci @UofT

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Toronto, Ontario

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Joined September 2021

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Jedwin Mok

@jedwinmok

Apr 16, 2023

How did European cities get their human-centric streets and public spaces? Why could they escape the car-dependent status quo, while North America seemingly can’t? There's one EASY trick planners and engineers don't want you to know about: Street Experiments. 🧵 1/

jedwinmok's tweet image. How did European cities get their human-centric streets and public spaces? Why could they escape the car-dependent status quo, while North America seemingly can’t?

There's one EASY trick planners and engineers don't want you to know about: Street Experiments. 🧵 1/

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Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀🏗️

@EricDLombardi

Nov 12

You had to use AI to make this because not 1 of the existing 1400 neighborhood retail establishments looks like this. You oppose a figment of your imagination, not reality.

IntegrityTO

@integrity_to

Nov 12

This week City Council will vote on the proposed Neighbourhood Retail Plan which is the most transformative zoning change in 70 years. It will allow retail businesses to open on interior residential streets across Toronto. Gord Perks and Josh Matlow are big proponents of this…

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Alex Glista 🇨🇦

@AlexanderGlista

Nov 7

All it takes is paint to speed up transit. Great to see #RapidTO taking shape on Bathurst street in Toronto.

Anthony Smith

@SafeStreetsTO

Nov 7

First look 👀 at new #RapidTO transit priority installation on Bathurst south of Fort York. More white line painting to come, but a great start! What do you think?

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

Nov 4

What 30 trains per hour at 99.9% reliability looks like.

Declan Martin

@declanmartin75

Nov 4

Decided to deliberately miss two trains on the MTR and time the duration between the doors closing and then opening on the following service. Gap between the first and second train was 65 seconds and the gap between the second and third train was 56 seconds. The gold standard 🚇

declanmartin75's tweet image. Decided to deliberately miss two trains on the MTR and time the duration between the doors closing and then opening on the following service. Gap between the first and second train was 65 seconds and the gap between the second and third train was 56 seconds. The gold standard 🚇

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Alex Glista 🇨🇦

@AlexanderGlista

Nov 4

Pictures like this underscore why it’s essential Metrolinx and the Government of Ontario successfully pull off GO Expansion. Regional express rail on all seven GO Lines would be transformative. It’s essentially building a surface subway for the entire GTHA.

Brandon Donnelly

@donnelly_b

Nov 4

People like regional express rail

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Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀🏗️

@EricDLombardi

Oct 31

It is incredible how much money Toronto and Ontario will spend on building “new” transit that is among the world’s worst services when it opens. Yes, it is still better than what came before. But the bar called “standards” is on the floor.

Euro transit & urbanism

@euro_projects

Oct 30

1/7 Not just that: 🇨🇦Toronto Finch West LRT: ➡️ CA$2.5B ($243M/km) ➡️ 16 km/h avg. speed ➡️ 46,000 passengers/day 🚗 Stroad alignment 🇫🇷 Tours Tram Line A: ➡️ €433M (€29M/km) ➡️ 19 km/h avg. speed ➡️ 75,000 passengers/day 🏰 Dense urban alignment I'll let you judge the look👇

euro_projects's tweet image. 1/7
Not just that:
🇨🇦Toronto Finch West LRT:
➡️ CA$2.5B ($243M/km)
➡️ 16 km/h avg. speed
➡️ 46,000 passengers/day
🚗 Stroad alignment

🇫🇷 Tours Tram Line A:
➡️ €433M (€29M/km)
➡️ 19 km/h avg. speed
➡️ 75,000 passengers/day
🏰 Dense urban alignment

I'll let you judge the look👇

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Euro transit & urbanism

@euro_projects

Oct 30

Reece Martin

@RM_Transit

Oct 30

Went up to Finch Avenue and I think there’s a pretty good chance that the new light rail is actually slower than the buses

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Jonathan English

@EnglishRail

Oct 29

Here's a video of the impossible. The UP Express has high platforms and level boarding for passengers. That's supposed to make it impossible for mainline North American freight trains to pass. Yet CN freight trains roll past the high platform at Weston multiple times per week.

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Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀🏗️

@EricDLombardi

Oct 29

I find this stuff absolutely enraging. Like so many on this platform, I want to see Canada (and Canadians) succeed. I want to see Toronto thrive, the fabric of our communities improve, and the opportunities for all of us become more abundant and easier to grasp. That’s a…

EricDLombardi's tweet image. I find this stuff absolutely enraging.

Like so many on this platform, I want to see Canada (and Canadians) succeed.

I want to see Toronto thrive, the fabric of our communities improve, and the opportunities for all of us become more abundant and easier to grasp. That’s a…

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Brandon Donnelly

@donnelly_b

Oct 28

Small but impactful urban moves.

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Brandon Donnelly

@donnelly_b

Oct 27

Harsh truth: To solve Toronto’s traffic congestion problem, you’re going to have to drive less.

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

Oct 28

The transformation of Japan's interurbans (see original streetrunning single track Oimachi Line on the right). Large parts of Tokyu's network started out as low grade interurban tramways, even using Japan's legacy tramway gauge 1372mm Scotch gauge....

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@urakutenism

Oct 22

清水建設のカタログより、高架化間もない1966(昭和41)年の東急・二子玉川園駅。高架化以前は並行する国道246号に合流し、併用軌道で多摩川を渡っていました。

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Reece Martin

@RM_Transit

Oct 26

Theres nothing more Toronto than thinking that a six lane highway is the transport infrastructure to be focused on with a 8-10 track rail corridor next door

Jeremiah Shamess | Toronto Land & Building Sales

@JShamess

Oct 25

There’s nothing more Toronto than refusing to finish the main highway into the Rogers centre when the world is visiting Toronto. PS it’s scheduled to open in 3 days

JShamess's tweet image. There’s nothing more Toronto than refusing

to finish the main highway into the Rogers

centre when the world is visiting Toronto.

PS it’s scheduled to open in 3 days

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Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇺🇦

@JakeLandauTO

Oct 22

This is worth emphasizing: Bike Lanes in Toronto are wide enough for emergency vehicles, giving them a super express lane to save people faster.

The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt)

@TheBikingLawyer

Oct 22

Last weekend saw a lot of road closures in Toronto. Great to see ambulances using bike lanes to get people in distress where they need to go quickly. The trope touted by Ford that bike lanes delay EMS response times has been proven false repeatedly. #bikelanessavelives

TheBikingLawyer's tweet image. Last weekend saw a lot of road closures in Toronto. Great to see ambulances using bike lanes to get people in distress where they need to go quickly.

The trope touted by Ford that bike lanes delay EMS response times has been proven false repeatedly.

#bikelanessavelives

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Eric Lombardi 🇨🇦🚀🏗️

@EricDLombardi

Oct 23

The worst part of the Eglinton LRT fiasco is yet to come. Not only has this project blown past every timeline and seen its budget triple. But it’s going to be a deeply insufficient service and far slower than any modern transit build has any right to be. And it will be a…

Tina Yazdani

@TinaYazdani

Oct 23

Absolutely zero accountability on yet another Eglinton Crosstown LRT delay. We couldn’t get answers from Premier Ford, his transportation minister or Metrolinx on why testing stopped, when it will resume, and whether or not this puts a 2025 opening in jeopardy:

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Jarjoh 🟥🚰🌇

@jarjoh

Oct 21

We don't even need to look that far to find best practices on controlling costs!

Jonathan Berk

@berkie1

Oct 21

The next phase of Montreal’s Réseau express métropolitain (REM) rail expansion will open in November. The Deux-Montagnes branch is the second phase of a 42mi, $9bil transit expansion. 🇨🇦🚊

berkie1's tweet image. The next phase of Montreal’s Réseau express métropolitain (REM) rail expansion will open in November. The Deux-Montagnes branch is the second phase of a 42mi, $9bil transit expansion. 🇨🇦🚊

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

Oct 21

Japan started planning for a bullet train system decades before the real deal and what the Shinkansen looks like today is quite different from what was originally planned. But what does that have to do with China. Find out in the link in next post.

JRUrbaneNetwork's tweet image. Japan started planning for a bullet train system decades before the real deal and what the Shinkansen looks like today is quite different from what was originally planned. But what does that have to do with China. Find out in the link in next post.

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Zoë Coombes

@ZoeCoombes

Oct 20

The very public desire to BuildToronto™️, expressed by young engineers and tech creatives rn, feels so much deeper than ElbowsUp patriotism. Anxious and thin anti-Trumpism is reaction where negation stands in for civic imagination. One culture critiques, the other wants to build.

Chris Samra

@crsamra

Oct 20

Being bullish on Canada is not anti-memetic or anti-signal if the trend of more people desiring to be here continues. This is your friendly reminder that the bay is an echo chamber. Money, Talent, and Customers are solvable problems. What you can't solve for is a culture that…

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brayden petersen ⁂

@bmptrsn

Oct 20

montreal opening a fully-automated metro with GO train-level reach, funded by the pension plan in like half the time it has taken toronto to build one single glorified streetcar is all you need to know about how deeply unserious toronto is about becoming a great city

bmptrsn's tweet image. montreal opening a fully-automated metro with GO train-level reach, funded by the pension plan in like half the time it has taken toronto to build one single glorified streetcar is all you need to know about how deeply unserious toronto is about becoming a great city

REM - Réseau express métropolitain

@REMgrandmtl

Oct 20

À la lumière des essais tenus ces dernières semaines et si tout se déroule comme prévu, l'antenne Deux-Montagnes sera mise en service le 17 novembre prochain. 👉Le service débutera vers 5h30 à partir de Brossard et de Deux-Montagnes. 👉Le dernier départ vers la station…

REMgrandmtl's tweet image. À la lumière des essais tenus ces dernières semaines et si tout se déroule comme prévu, l'antenne Deux-Montagnes sera mise en service le 17 novembre prochain.

👉Le service débutera vers 5h30 à partir de Brossard et de Deux-Montagnes.
👉Le dernier départ vers la station…

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JR Urbane Network

@JRUrbaneNetwork

Oct 17

Being that Brightline West is 350km long the mew price works out to just about 60 million USD per km which actually only a bit above the global average for HSR projects. Tho this project is not very technically difficult compared to other global HSR projects.

Hayden

@the_transit_guy

Oct 16

Tough day for the "only the private sector should build rail" constituency.

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Reece Martin

@RM_Transit

Oct 17

The agreement that Metrolinx has made with CN to allow much more train service by building new infrastructure in their right of ways is basically the best solution imaginable short of a total change in how railways work in North America. Should be doing in far more places.