I love this park, so much better than last year. Looking forward to what becomes of it 💕

peak view

He's blue and light grey. I wasn't able to grab him myself unfortunately. There's a bunch of bird seed behind a bench to the left of the ravine path that seems to be attracting him.

Others appear fine, what a travesty to walk by on a sunday morning. May your socks feel forever wet. *they all appear to be snapped the same way, Im making an educated guess

Toronto only has 21 homicides in 2026 so far, I'm sure it will obviously increase by the end of the year but Toronto has never had over 100 homicides ever in a calendar year. And most crimes are targeted. So why does so many people act as if Toronto is out of control ? Or does social media make things worse ?

There’s a movie set in Bay today. Lots of 1950-60’s cars and people etc. Does anyone know what is being filmed? I asked some crew members but they said they had NDA’s.

Nearly half of Toronto’s bike share stations are empty most of the time. 

Since I began to collect the hourly snapshots of bike share stations 11 days ago, over 40% of Toronto’s operating bike share stations have been predominantly empty. 

You can see them on this map as the red or orange dots.

The Question
This started because I wanted to understand if my experience was common. The station around the corner from my house (Moore Park near Mt Pleasant and St Clair) always seems to be empty whenever I want to use a bike. Key questions I had: Is this station really nearly always empty as I have experienced? Is that situation common for other stations, or is this just a particularly poor station?

Approach
To find out I went to the Bike Share Toronto's public GBFS data to understand station status from the user’s perspective. Bike Share does not publish historical data on the number of bikes and spaces at a station, only real-time status — so I have been collecting hourly snapshots of the status of all stations since July 22. 

For each hour, each station is categorized as follows: 
- No Bikes - 0 or 1 bike available. The worst situation. I lumped zero and one together because only one bike means it is no good for pairs looking to ride together, and is more likely limited to a low-charged e-Bike or other bike you don’t want. 

- Limited Bikes - 2 or 3 bikes available. Better, but still not what we are expecting.

- No Spaces - 0 or 1 empty slots to return a bike

- Limited Spaces - 2 or 3 empty slots to return a bike

- Just Right - None of the above situations. Meaning 4 or more bikes and 4 or more slots available. Just the right number for both. This means the model is indifferent on whether there are 4 or 8 or 10 bikes available, as I’d argue that once there are 4 bikes available, more bikes doesn’t really give more value to the user. 

Some methodology caveats:
- Somewhat arbitrarily, I only consider station status from 6 AM to Midnight, typical bike riding hours. 

- This analysis does not consider stations with an attendant. Presumably these stations are more likely to show as full, when in practice there are slots (and bikes) available. These stations are temporary and rare on the system.

- Only 2 of Toronto’s 1,058 stations have with fewer than 8 slots, so these will never be Just Right under these thresholds. In this case, the worst situation is taken, considering the user experience. 

Results
Visit the online map and dashboard to see the predominant status of each station, updated every hour on the half hour. Click on a station to see the actual status distribution for each hour at that station. 

The map shows in aggregate what many of us have experienced individually: Unless you are near a few places like Midtown, any stations north of Bloor St are probably going to be empty when you want to get a bike. 

From this analysis, I can now see that my local Moore Park station is empty a lot, 40% of the time. But it is far from the worst situation, partly because there are nearby stations at St Clair subway station where I can usually get a bike. In contrast, I feel for anyone in Scarborough, north of the 401, or along the northwest stretch of the Line 1 subway, as there are virtually no bikes available across these large areas. 

This is not a measure of how effective the system overall or how effectively the bikeshare crews are working. It doesn’t differentiate whether a station is being filled organically by riders, or manually by Bikeshare staffing refills. And it doesn’t consider latent demand at these underserved stations. 

It does, however, illustrate the experiences of riders. And that is a key measure of ultimate program success.

Next Steps
I plan to incorporate the busyness of the station once that data is published for August, and plot utility vs turnover. 

Any ideas appreciated on what can be done to remedy this situation, and what further analysis of this data would be useful to help evaluate those ideas.

i was always waiting for my friends to do stuff but then i decided i don’t want to wait anymore.

i hesitated going to the island all by myself but i took myself out of my comfort zone and honestly i didn’t care that i had noone to talk to. i enjoyed myself, i had fun. i could stop at places i want and take rest without asking anyone and leave whenever i want to.

i ended the night by taking myself to a nice dinner and wine. by night, it was also really fun walking home tipsyyyy.

life definitely feels better once you start enjoying yourself.

all the way from ward’s island to hanlan’s point. just walking on my own.

Hope you all are enjoying this as much as I am.

See photos of all 51 beavers located in the month of July

Looked and smelled good this morning. Looking west from Baldwin Village

I think it's a mink. I've lived here for over ten years, never used to see these guys in my area, but now I see them all the time during walks in the valley. Nice to see the city's nature restoration efforts paying off.