No matter what kind of day you are having, this👇 will make it better. 🥹 🚲 ❤️

Your friendly neighborhood car dependency researcher here. If we want to get people out of car dependency, we need to let people who are car dependent talk to us about what's keeping them in car dependency. It's really not enough to say, "you should be less dependent on your car" I've tried.

UCP minister Devin Dreeshen's resume includes: - campaigning for Trump - drinking on the job - mocking worker safety, before workers died - refusing to oppose separatism This is the top-notch guy Danielle Smith handpicked to ban bike lanes in Alberta

At least 65 people showed up to our ride on 50st. People want safe infrastructure, and we want the minister to stop causing division to distract from the UCP's various scandals. Separation from traffic, not separation from Canada. I #yegbike

I love bike lanes. I love them when I ride my bike. But I also love them when I drive my car; they reduce my stress as a driver, and make the automobile traffic flow more smoothly. (Proper divided lanes are best - sharrows worse than useless.)

Biking should be considered a Third Place. It’s very social. Taxiing my eldest to D&D in the bakfiets, I yelled “you’re parked in a bike lane” at a driver and said hi to the mayor, who was biking the other direction. Didn’t react fast enough to offer the mayor an ice cream. @andrewknack.bsky.social

Hear our two-parter on John Forrester and his book, "Effective Cycling," the bible of vehicular cycling. While we've come a long way, cities are still feeling the effects of his movement. thewaroncars.org/2024/07/09/1...

Something tells me they will count the volume of submissions, and ignore the content, at least when it's convenient for their narrative.

Gosh. I thought the Montreal bike survey (version #2) was biased. Alberta is not even trying to seem neutral. This is purely “tell us which bike lane you want us to beat up”.

Snitch line is now up. There is no way to report good active transport lanes but there is an email on their website. www.alberta.ca/report-conce...

Great weather last night for a bike ride. Good on @ashleysalvador.bsky.social for coming along, knowing she’d face a group of advocates, 30 in the end, who are all much less than happy a protected bike lane is being delayed and likely won’t be built.

Scramble funeral is off! We still have one more summer of scramblin'. Removal of Whyte Ave scrambles delayed until 2027 edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2026/...

Specifically for Rutherford, pointing out that now other residents are going to ABSOLUTELY ask to get this done for their infrastructure installs. We could have seen this coming a mile away with Delton and Grovenor complaints. I bet those Ward offices are about to get a flood of inquiries.

This week we launch Canadian Civil Conversations, if you’ve been looking to form a parasocial connection with minor Canadian internet personalities, now is your chance! https://site.canadiancivil.com/civil-convo-1/

No one else thought my labelling of this evening’s dinner was a bad attempt at a math joke. It was my daughter who told me which buns were pastrami and not pastrami

Someone moved one of the Toronto barriers in my favourite modal filter to make the gap for drivers even wider. Wouldn’t want to hurt drivers’ feelings by preventing them from driving everywhere

My research finds that conventional traffic congestion cost studies are highway industry propaganda. I want help finalizing this research. Please review the following report and send me your comments ([email protected]). "Congestion Costing Best Practices" (www.vtpi.org/ITED_congestion.pdf).

Place your bets! After resurfacing is finished, how long until the bike lane is repainted? What per cent of trips before the bike lane is painted will I encounter vehicles parked where the lane should be? #yegbike

Baking cookies this morning nearly went horribly wrong. I’m well aware nutmeg isn’t white but I put a lot of trust in the label.

Not sure if this is a hot take, but 🤷🏻‍♀️. Public input can provide valuable insight about behaviors and challenges in a neighborhood. Lived experience greatly enhances understanding of the context. But public input should not get to decide the solutions, not for transportation safety.

I'm hosting a municipal trivia night at Earth's Refillery Coop & Cafe on June 23! Come test your knowledge of the best municipality ever. www.instagram.com/earthsrefill...

CBC’s This is Edmonton interviews Murchiza Haider, the Executive Director of the Cities Institute at the University of Alberta… …is he paid by the car dependent sprawl society, b/c does he ever push that message! 🤦‍♂️ #edmonton #cbc

Here’s the This is Edmonton podcast in case they correct the link… 😂 But I think they should rename it “This is Car dependent Edmonton” because that’s all they talk about. 🙄 #edmonton

Look for/be the helpers

We are at Urban Planning Committee today to support safe streets and ensure that the City prioritizes the safety of all road users, not just the ones primarily causing the harms. You can watch here: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6m... #yeg #yegbike #visionzero

Some people say I have an “educational” channel. It kind of makes me cringe, so I occasionally have to make content that has zero educational value whatsoever youtu.be/UY86N4Q6V8Q?...

I was one of those counted. It was wet and somewhat miserable; rain is by far my least favourite weather to bike in. But, cycling in Edmonton is still more fun than being stuck in traffic.

Edmonton represent!

At the #FightBackRally in #Edmonton. The crowd is huge, the signs clever, the mood unified: •no authoritarianism •no 2-tier health care •no book-banning •no separatists ✓Yes public education ✓Yes living wage ✓Yes municipal autonomy "citizens work is never done; the fight goes on for what was won"

Part of me is shocked the new mobility lane on Victoria Park Hill is open when it’s not complete. Part of me is not shocked that the new mobility lane on Victoria Park Hill is open with some major design flaws that make it unsafe. #yegbike

Hey, #Alberta, are you going to this tomorrow (in any city)?

"One clear lesson emerged: Urban planning projects that get rid of cars pay dividends." '“The solution was easy: We needed to have less cars in the city.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@skipischris.bsky.social There’s an alumni band and we weren’t invited!

At my daughter’s high school band concert and the guitar club does Highway To Hell. But it’s Jewell and a bunch of hippies in a 60s VW van driving that highway

Just biked past Odd Company on 121St. Looks their they’re doubling the size of their patio. They’re taking over the bit of grass on the 102Ave side. No SUV parking was harmed. #yegbike

*disclaimer, the cargo bike is meant to replace every trip for every person in every situation, in every place for all of time.

Last night, I saw a driver coming the wrong way down a single one way road. I thought their tires were particularly noisy. Turns out, both front tires were completely flat. They passed by me and turned onto a main road and kept going. They must have been running from something

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that there are no stupid questions.

The one history book every car technology fetishist should read ... and that the rest of us should read to better defend ourselves. My review of Peter Norton's excellent "Autonorama". humantransit.org/2023/06/the-...

New Bike Day! I needed another bike to carry one of my other bikes. Actually, it’s mostly for 老婆 or my daughters to carry me in the future or ride further with me for groceries in the present. @ternbicycles.com

Researchers are smart people. Most of us have advanced degrees, often multiple of them. We are experts not only in our field, but also in research design and research methods. We're not just blindly, naively googling shit, regardless of what the "tech" industry wants to believe

Captured some enemy territory in @thewaroncars.bsky.social with this sweet parallel parking right in front of the ice cream shop. The ice cream was sweet too.

Two rides down 105Ave, driver parked in the bike lane each ride RIGHT BESIDE WHERE THEY COULD LEGALLY PARK ON THE SIDEWALK. Whoda thunk drivers would be confused by the only legal sidewalk parking in the city?

New published research: results from a statewide analysis we did in 2023 of charitable food locations in Georgia to identify areas of highest and lowest proximity. Part of a collective effort with Feeding Georgia and regional food banks. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"If you don't see bicylces as part of the solution.. then you're part of the problem." MCA was interviewed on Jespersen this morning: buff.ly/fAntkq8 For more hot takes, join us tonight: bit.ly/3P2Q5MG

Can City Council force every admin who researched/wrote/approved this take an introductory modern transportation planning course? At least they mention public transit and not just the flow of private SUVs.

My new video that explores how a counterintuitive traffic measure makes it safer and easier to get around a city by bike. youtu.be/KCs5nDEZpoM?...

I’m not super impressed with the city turning service roads into bike ways. Hopefully they actually make the intersections safe. #yegbike are there recent examples of this design?

It's so nice to see the sun out and the snow melt! It'll be even nicer this weekend, why not join us for a bike ride! Glow Bike Ride - Friday! buff.ly/zF7FakW Best of YEG - Saturday! buff.ly/xBmaC4R #yeg #yegevents #yegbike