Jedwin Mok
Transport Planner & Researcher
Creative Director | cityux.com
Research Lead | infrastoryinsights.com
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- The most frustrating thing about the sanctimonious nature of a lot of the transit city and surface "light rail" talk in Toronto is that it is distinctly not *light rail* that we built, but the St. Clair streetcar with nicer stops.
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- America: where the alignments of $100B transportation projects are chosen based on whether a chain store would have to be relocated.
- Very happy to have collaborated with CSA Group on this report examining successes and challenges in transit project construction in Canada and the lessons we can learn for future projects. www.csagroup.org/article/publ...
- "Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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- From a pure operation expenditure efficiency perspective, making only the buses free means pushing users into a mode with higher marginal costs of production. If really free transit should be, it's definetly better to have it mode-neutral.
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- A pair of notable presentations set for next week’s TTC Board: @englishrail.bsky.social on speeding up streetcar/LRT lines, and Narayan Donaldson from @mobycon.bsky.social on better signal priority. They (with @rmtransit.bsky.social) wrote this Star op-ed last year: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
- Doing the good work. We also are spinning up a little group to advocate for changes @fasttracktoronto.bsky.social
- A pair of notable presentations set for next week’s TTC Board: @englishrail.bsky.social on speeding up streetcar/LRT lines, and Narayan Donaldson from @mobycon.bsky.social on better signal priority. They (with @rmtransit.bsky.social) wrote this Star op-ed last year: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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- I was in Shantou two days ago, the heart of arguably the largest metro region (with +10 million people) in China without urban rail. However, they are constructing a Regional S Bahn system connecting the region's airport, high speed railway stations and 3 major centers. A 🧵
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- We're proud to present A Better Billion: how New York should be spending an extra $1b a year on subway expansion, in lieu of Zohran Mamdani's free bus proposal. transitcosts.com/a-better-bil... See gift article for a New York Times writeup here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
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- 41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...
- I’m stepping down as President and Board Member of More Neighbours Toronto, and as Chair of Build Toronto. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who’s helped build these communities. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and excited for what lies ahead. (1/3)
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- We have a consultation problem. I write about a Toronto rec centre that will have taken 14 years to plan, cost at least three times the original budget - and be a bad building. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- What if better cities require short-term sacrifices? 🤔 In our new #UMX video podcast, experts unpack why urban change often meets resistance and how it leads to healthier, more liveable cities. ▶️ Watch now & join the debate 👇 youtu.be/LQ_hg2LI1X4?...
- “Thousands of crashes reported as winter storm pounds the Toronto area” Sorry, cars just aren’t practical here. We’re not California or Texas. We have winter.
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- BREAKING: The TTC is getting new Line 2 subway trains (55 trains), manufactured right here in Ontario in Thunder Bay. They’re based on Alstom’s Metropolis platform, and look extremely modern. More here: news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
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- A ton of interesting stuff in here: The Lenox Ave and Broadway station structures look ~rightly sized. The box looks to be about 20% bigger than the platforms, which is a *huge improvement* from the SAS 1 and SAS 2 designs. They're just massively expensive because they're 100+ feet deep. BUT...
- Preliminary data about NYC Subway's 125th St extension from report released yesterday from @mta.info: www.mta.info/document/196... —Project would attract ~164,000 daily boardings —Stations would be deep to get under existing lines —Project estimated at $7.7 b (2027$) —Earliest revenue service 2032
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View full threadFWIW: The reworked 125th/Lenox station squeezes a 30'-wide platform into a 63'-wide box. The doc released today is very preliminary work. But the difference between boxes at 75' and 65' wide is about 14% of everything to follow (digging, concrete, steel, etc). MTA should push AECOM hard on this.
- And tbqh/IMO: These consultancies need to have a duty of care that professionally obligates them to draw up a best fit proposal and not do stuff like '75-foot box' and see if they get pushback. Enough.
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