Wondering what it takes to be a Toronto green flag? Check out this list

Have you ever spent a day out and about in Toronto and given a stranger their flowers for being a total “green flag?”

Maybe it’s just me. But whenever I’m out and someone does something so right, I can’t help but think that they know ball.

We should all aspire to be this good. So, here’s a list of Toronto green flags that you should implement in your day-to-day behaviour.

1. Standing on the right side of the escalator to let people who need to move fast on the left. 
2. Letting people with disabilities, older adults and people with children onto the subway first. Check out The Green Line’s’s Editor-in-Chief Anita Li’s hot take on Toronto accessibility as a mother. 
3. Similarly to number two, giving up your seat to let those with disabilities, older adults and people with children sit on the TTC. 
4. Meeting someone who lives on the opposite side of the city halfway instead of forcing your date to go all the way to the East End or West End.
5. Merging onto the Gardiner without making it everyone else’s problem.
6. Actually tapping on the TTC. 
7. Not blocking the PRESTO reader on the streetcar — no matter how busy it is. 
8. Not taking up the entire freaking sidewalk at Yonge Street, forcing others to walk on the street to pass you. 
9. Shouting out local businesses as your favourite spot in the city (I like Darvish Restaurant, which serves authentic Persian food.) 
10. Not cheating the red light by swerving right and almost hitting pedestrians — that’s especially true for delivery drivers on motorcycles.
11. Actually freaking moving to the middle of the subway car instead of gathering at the doors and inevitably stopping the flow of traffic. (I hate you people). 
12. Taking off your freaking backpack on public transit instead of hitting people with it the whole freaking time. (I also hate you).
13. Walking your friends home so they don’t have to walk through King Street West or College around Bathurst and Ossington, stumbling past a bunch of drunk 20-year-olds. 
14. Not joking that Scarborough isn’t part of Toronto.
15. Taking your friends to Mimico for a waterfront date rather than saying everything good is downtown.

Did we miss one? Let us know and we can add it to our next round-up.