We are a long way away from making a new, good internet that's a worthy successor to the old, good internet, and at least as far from a new, good Toronto that the people of the old, good Toronto would have built but for Tory wreckers and the Christmas-voting turkeys who elevated them to office. But both are possible - and both demand that we fight for them.
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Steele's beautiful photodocumentary of one slice of that old, good city doesn't just memorialize the world we lost - it is inspiration for a world that is ours to win.
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@b92dcc07 Winnipeg has suffered from a similar gerrymandering nightmare from a failed municipal unification process combined with an automobile apocalypse. This image from the same vantage point (looking north up Main Street from Portage Avenue) shows a street built for people & transit taken over by cars
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Wow! In the 1915 photo, you can clearly see how all the pedestrians and streetcars prevented people from driving downtown, parking, and spending money at local businesses. It's no wonder downtown businesses collapsed without all the customers you see in the modern photo
Much progress!
@53471647 @4ac54945 @b92dcc07 It's insane that we were able to build massive networks of rail cars in the early 20th century but can't possibly afford a single line connecting a few different cities
@b92dcc07 Awwww hey thanks for sharing, and hello from the Flickr Foundation. 👋
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