We have a lot of catching-up to do. It won't be enough to just start building cycling infrastructure again, let's build it faster and cheaper to create connected networks and spread the benefits to every neighbourhood.

As of the 2021 census, there were over 8 million Canadians older than this gas station. Even the BowMac sign, one of the most embarrassing examples of "heritage" in Vancouver, is older. Better yet, the BowMac sign isn't sitting on toxic waste! We're just giving heritage status to anything now huh

Dying of laughter at the fact that Assad was too busy playing Candy Crush and cucking his generals to stop the rebels

NEW VIDEO: The Bikeshare Dilemma Bikeshares and scootershares (also known as “Shared Micromobility) is one of the fastest growing forms of transportation on the planet today, but cities appear deeply divided on how to manage them. youtu.be/qfz6AsYycA8

The Canadian fascination with municipal amalgamation after it's made a mess of things nearly* everywhere it's been tried should be studied for science * idk maybe it worked out for saguenay

We're so accustomed in Vancouver to begging to cross the street that when a proper traffic light is put in, a sign has to be put up to explain it

Great opportunity for anyone who's been curious about walking or biking across the Pattullo but been scared off by the awful infrastructure! I did it when it closed for the weekend last June, and it was oddly serene. Lots of families exploring the bridge for their first time ever.

I took Lougheed yesterday to get around the CVG closure, and being passed by 90 km/h traffic wasn't even the worst part. It's having nowhere to turn off and being forced to awkwardly manoeuvre to the front of a car lane with a bunch of angry right turning drivers behind you. Turn boxes would help!

Remember the kerfuffle about the Olympic Village Save-on More grocery store putting up a display in support of an organization opposing the OV school? Well this public hearing 🙄 is the battle ground. Please let council know that a school must be built here and it must not be over-capacity on day 1!

In 2020, Vancouver Council voted to protect kids by making 30 km/h zones all day around schools. All the city had to do was swap out the old signs. Nearly six years later, they're still not done. Drop pictures of old 8-5 signs in the replies, so we can show council that they need to step it up!

man even when I'm playing a video game someone is parked in the bike lane

I was curious whether Oakridge was the name of the mall or the neighbourhood first, and it's neither? Both were named for the old bus depot??

Can we take a moment to acknowledge how insane it is that the narrator of the song Boston by Augustana decides to move from California to Boston for the weather?

And now for a Vancouver bus route in the style of a Toronto bus map:

It's always struck me as bad that we have pedestrian-actuated traffic lights in Downtown Vancouver that never turn red until the beg button is pressed. We build a six-lane road with a practically guaranteed green wave at night and then wonder why people drive so fast.

One thing I tried to do last year is to get out and see more of Metro Vancouver by bike. Tri-Cities and Surrey/Langley is still looking pretty empty, but the inner suburbs are starting to fill in!

The advent of Quebec nationalism makes a lot more sense when you learn that the former Canadian anthem is about how cool it was that General Wolfe kicked the shit out of the French and how Canada is a cultural union of the English, Scots and Ulster Protestants

We need to stop the Danes from naming bodies of water

If Bell and Telus are going to create an anti-competitive cartel together, can they at least throw up a cell tower at Edmonds

"We're going to get away with this cultural centre" -Mike Klassen, while comparing opponents of the project to poison darts and the boulder trying to crush Indiana Jones

Inclusionary zoning is deeply flawed but Sarah Kirby-Yung directing staff to consider getting rid of it *to pay for keeping DCCs high* is just really weird stuff. Like come on, what are we even doing here?

Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver just killed the Social Housing Initiative. A program that could have actually gotten people off the streets and into homes? Dead.

Staff recommended that Council zone for social housing outright. ABC just voted to use federal HAF (Housing Affordability Fund) money not to enable more social housing, but to pay for staff time to develop a slower, more expensive alternative. @gregorrobertson.bsky.social

I think this line from the 'Vancouver Liberals' platform is really gross. Triangulating against the municipal public service is exactly what Ken Sim and ABC did in this austerity budget, and we shouldn't normalize this. I hope this won't be a theme of the campaign.

A bunch of zombie hands bursting out of the ground to snatch the Earth seems like a good encapsulation of 2025

We worked with @lucymaloney.bsky.social on a motion coming to council on December 10 to ban right turns on red at high-risk intersections. This is a low-cost, common-sense measure that will save lives. We need your help to tell council this matters! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/d...

As we feared, we are hearing that transportation staff were hit hard by today's layoffs. The loss of expertise and capacity will reverberate for years. In its last year in office, Vancouver council is using scorched earth tactics to derail progress on road safety and lock in the deadly status quo.

Ahead of the French parliamentary election, the conservative party expelled its leader who barricaded himself inside the party HQ and refused to come out until an MP with spare keys showed up to unlock the door for the cops Just a fun story I wanted to share that is unrelated to any ongoing events

Genuine question: Is there any reason to think the reports of steep federal housing cuts aren't just a rehash of the 80% cut to WAGE thing? It kinda just looks like older budget authorities expiring and government finance reporting not being allowed to predict what future budgets may or may not fund

By splitting the musical in two, the Wicked movie people really made the jarring transition at the intermission between high school teen drama parody to extremely unsubtle allegory for the Bush administration 1000x worse. Anyways Michelle Yeoh as Dick Cheney is kinda funny

Guy at public hearing right now opposes social housing because it might shadow solar panels and destroy our power grid. Can't make this up

At public hearing, Sarah Kirby-Yung just compared making it easier to build social housing across the city to "boiling the ocean to get 10 glasses of desalinated water" Interesting claim from the self-described 'only pro-housing party in Vancouver'

My report on what seems to be (for now) the last word on Sarah Kirby-Yung's plan to tear out the Beach Avenue bike lane

It's been an incredibly frustrating day with Vancouver passing an austerity budget that will cut funding for important public services and infrastructure and fire hundreds of staff, even after over 600 speakers, including myself, speaking out against the harm that this budget will do to our city.

Adjusting the property tax increase for inflation, we can see that the zero-percent budget represents a 2% tax cut in real terms, the largest in the last 16 years.

As you may have heard, Vancouver’s proposed 2026 budget will mean over $120 million in service cuts, and our most vulnerable populations will bear the burden of these cuts, including women - one of the cuts that have been proposed is removing change tables and period product dispensers!

Moving things around the capital plan when you're slashing and laying off the teams that would deliver them feels a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Who will design sidewalk repairs when exempt engineering staff are actively being pushed out and union staff will be bumped off?

Provincial guidelines: Dismount signs should only be used when the reason is immediately apparent to cyclists City of Vancouver:

So I've been giving this some thought and cooked up a wacky idea that would calm the intersection, add more public space and expand the cycling network, while sidestepping issues with Kingsway regional movement. I think the key is to make Main St a complete street and reject its arterial status.

If your human rights can be stripped away by the "notwithstanding clause" then they weren't rights to begin with. The notwithstanding clause should be dropped or modified so that it cannot be used to suppress human rights. Electeds should not be able to decide you are less of a person.

Eastern Canada arguably has the worst combination restaurant concept ever: the Thai Express-Sushi Shop. "I'm in the mood for sushi made by the guy at Thai Express," said no one ever

This was me! I think bumping is one of the most underrated threats that this budget poses to city operations, and mass layoffs will spread chaos across the public service:

Exciting news - I’m seeking the mayoral nomination with @OneCityVan! 1 / 5 youtu.be/2MTf7QmcEpc

proposed new rule: if you're over 0.8 David Ebys tall, you must stand at the back of the concert

The Sun seems to have run out of old people staring sternly in front of rezoning signs so we're getting this instead

We discovered that Cascadia gets earthquakes in 1987. There are tens of thousands of renters in Vancouver living in apartments built before that. Yet our seismic code is hell-bent on barring anything that's not perfect, even if it means keeping more renters in deathtraps for longer. What gives?

The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can't afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected. 👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...

Vancouver staff when they're told to simply spend money more efficiently

Sure gunpowder and the compass and paper are nice, but the greatest invention in Chinese history is surely this spoon

pub-fvrd.escribemeetings.com/FileStream.a... Despite record ridership growth, and chronic overcrowding affecting virtually all time periods, the FVRD is considering withholding proposed expansion for the 66 Fraser Valley Express for FY26-27, deferring it to FY27-28.