elderly pedestrian
@EdithSinclair
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walking all over Toronto! - active aging | pedestrian/transit/cycling issues | carfree | nonprofit HR | dance/fitness facilitator
Toronto, Ontario
Joined September 2011
Milan to reallocate streets to pedestrians and cyclists in bid to reduce air pollution https://t.co/oOVhbMIsqF via @IrishTimesWorld
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35km of streets to be transformed as traffic congestion drops significantly during Covid-19 crisis
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beg buttons, but instead of giving the ped crossing light they activate tire spikes protecting the crosswalk
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"Singh also made a point of naming a critic for democratic reform, which isn't a defined minister's role in the Liberal cabinet anymore. The NDP has long pushed to replace Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system." CBC News
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh unveiled his shadow cabinet in Ottawa this morning, giving himself two portfolios that are expected to loom large in the upcoming Parliamentary session: addressing intensif...
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"He knew I had the right of way. But he sped up and shot through the light anyway. That’s the problem. And like another kind of predator, it doesn’t care what you’re wearing." Dangerous drivers don’t care about your fluorescent armband https://t.co/esDiBVpQDO via @torontostar
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Fluorescent armbands cannot be the solution — short-term or long-term — to a problem that doesn’t live in the dark, Emma Teitel writes.
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@NormanHermant @danielbowen @cityofmelbourne @VicRoads @victoriawalks Pedestrian disdain extends beyond the CBD. Check out this one, spotted in Collingwood last week... granted not as busy a street (and now sorted thanks to council intervention) but er which footpath was I supposed to use here?
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Electoral reform revival? Support for changing voting systems skyrockets post election
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Electoral Reform Trend in Canada – Angus Reid explores shifts in Canadian public opinion on electoral reform and support for changing the voting system.
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Partly inspired by @albrgr's tweets, I dug a little more into recent findings on the relationship between air pollution and cognition. The effects seem rather amazingly large: https://t.co/gC24nfXLuC.
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Snow storms are always good at revealing how many people get around on foot and how little they are prioritized.
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Drivers are not bothered by roadside memorials to car crash victims or ghost bikes. They think it will never happen to them. What if we placed a ghost car at every fatal car accident location? At a minimum they would be inconvenienced by all of the white cars parked everywhere.
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Healthy City Design: Are We Designing for Utopia or Dystopia? - Blue Zones
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This @OPBTOL episode with @schmangee is a recommendation for traffic signal 🚦retiming & street lighting investment for 🚶♂️🚶🏾♀️to combat the pedestrian fatality epidemic #equity #VisionZero @ITEhq @apbp
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Attawapiskat singer releases protest song with Justin Trudeau in mind | CBC News
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Attawapiskat singer Adrian Sutherland says he was thinking of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau when he wrote a protest song ahead of the federal election about broken political promises.
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After working as a kite maker for over 30 years, Feng Tsan Huang of Taiwan has created his masterpiece: the bike kite. It's 2 meters tall and weighs just 0.8 kg, thanks to carbon fiber beam and polyester panels https://t.co/yIxWTfTsHB
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After her surprise Princess Tiana makeover to celebrate her 8th birthday at Disney World, this baby girl (Sydney) was ready for her moment! It’s safe to say she danced like no one was watching! cc @AnikaNoniRose #becauseofthemwecan
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Well deserved - I enjoyed and was inspired by this book!
Congrats to “I am a Pedestrian” - 2019 Book #HTawards nominee! The result of a 42-hour, 159-kilometre #TOwalk, this book is a collection of under-explored places, stories of people encountered, and lost histories rediscovered along the way. https://t.co/PljeyHMJhE
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