Two older adults hit by drivers in separate incidents in separate *parking lots* in #NewWest in the same week; one killed, one seriously injured. Families devastated, lives alerted, because of momentary mistakes. Mistakes we all make every day driving or walking. How do we end this? 🧵

Wow. Higher than Alberta. Weird. www.newsweek.com/california-i...

Here's my two-step plan for saving the world: a) give TransLink jurisdiction to build bus lanes wherever the hell they want b) bus lane enforcement cameras every 100 m.

It's been almost 1,000 days since @sarahkirby.bsky.social brought forward an excellent motion the bring in some bus lanes where they're needed most. TransLink even agreed to fund it all. So where are they? 🧐🤷 @movementyvr.bsky.social dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

Let’s talk about trams, and specifically what I believe to be the platonic ideal of them: Swiss trams. open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

The City of Port Moody is the latest in a long list of institutions to flee the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Read more in the Tri-Cities Dispatch: buff.ly/c1CgQXZ #PortMoody #TriCitiesDispatch

Consider: Because of its cheap housing, Houston is often seen as a beacon of affordability. But sprawl inflates residents’ transportation costs. In dense New York City, transportation consumes half as much of residents’ income as in Houston.

Granville Island - when?

"Last month, a report from Clean Energy Canada found a province-wide switch to heat pumps for space heating would cut B.C.’s collective electricity bill by $675 million a year." #bcpoli

Annual Electrification update: In '22 we swapped a worn out gas range for induction. In '23 we replaced a 30-yr old AC with banned refrigerant for a 3-season HP & in '24 a gas water heater for a HP water heater when the gas one failed. How are things going? 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵

Burnaby Mountain - SFU Gondola - when? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqP4...

in the east kootenay town of invermere for the largest lake curling bonspiel in the province and let me tell you, yes

I’m at a lunch for landlords (yknow, for research) and the speaker is predicting that rents in Portland will start heading up again in 2026 “as new supply remains constrained” To the people who do this for a living, cause and effect couldn’t be clearer

YIMBYs want to make it easier to build housing, which is sometimes portrayed as "deregulation". Here's the reality: doing good things is good! Government has an important role in fostering that and supporting people do good things. And housing is good! Small biz is good!

State legislature: cities have to plan for housing growth but we will let them decide where it goes. Local gov’t: ok we will rezone some land that we know will never actually get redeveloped. State: alright we will directly preempt your zoning. Local: why are you taking away our local control???

Before (2024) / After (2025) the pedestrianization of Pont d'Iéna, Paris 16. Before that, tourists taking selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower had to go in the middle of the wide lanes of general traffic. Now they are in a pedestrian zone and just have to cross a slow bus lane (20 kph = 12 mph).

I’m really happy to say that #portmoody council voted last night to get off X. Governments should not be participating in a platform that makes and distributes CSAM and NCII. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

The @ndp.ca (or other parties) could do more than delete X They could push for rules requiring government accounts only operate on platforms that meet higher standards around moderation, security and transparency Lead by example. Governments implicitly endorse these platforms with their presence

I am committing to Childcare By Right. We will make childcare a permitted use in every residential and commercial zone. If you pass your safety and provincial licensing checks, you open. No hearings and no neighbor vetoes. We are building a city where families actually belong.

Daily reminder that the primary benefit of railway electrification is not to reduce railway emissions. It is to enable faster acceleration which reduces travel time and thereby increases frequency without adding operating cost. That then attracts more riders and thereby more revenue.

We all know the media (mostly) sucks, but it is still nice to see someone like Justin call them out for their utter inability/unwillingness to actually inform their readers

We would be in a lot better position today if this kind of thinking about infrastructure was more common over the last 60 years.

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

Inch by inch, elevators in North America have become 85% bigger than the global baseline to fit at least two people, w one in a wheelchair. It’s part of the reason why the US and Canada now represent less than 3% of new installations. @andersem.bsky.social www.sightline.org/2026/01/11/v...

Many of us left the 60,000 or so followers who read & spread the work that is our livelihood (freelancers often drive their own traffic) because we won’t write the content that fuels a hate site. Yet my MP & Prime Minister still post on Musk’s Stormfront lite with integrated CSAM generator platform.

Canberra Light Rail 2A works are in full swing, with Alinga St terminus being excavated along with the big intersection at Northbourne to get ready to lay track down to London Circuit. This week sees the start of a month of light rail bustitution & every CDC bus across NSW is involved.

Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X? I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets 34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs 3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement

Just learned that the office of my Victoria MP, Will Greaves, @willgreavesmp.bsky.social will no longer be posting on X/Twitter. It would be interesting to hear which other MP's are boycotting X/Twitter.

VERY interesting aside in Avi's housing platform, released today:

Introducing CanViz, my little side project over the break to make StatCan tables more accessible.

Seems like just yesterday that I was wishing Ontario well on its SMR nuclear adventure while noting I was glad I am not an Ontario ratepayer…

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte

Before and after: 5 years ago, Utrecht restored the Catharijnesingel. Once filled in during the 1970s to make way for traffic, the historic canal now flows again around the old city, lined with pedestrian paths, bike lanes, and a park-like landscape. 📸 @filmendefietser.bsky.social (#DCEnetwork)

Good news: • Over 1/4 of all world's vehicle sales are now EVs! • Last months more than 1/2 all sales in China and 1/3 Europe EVs. • Over 20% Turkey, Thailand, and Vietnam. Not perfect but much better than fossil-fuel. Even better: proximity to walk, bike, use public transit.

If you are interested in knowing the status of all SkyTrain Mark I trains, I have compiled some data and put them into this page. cariad.keigher.ca/skytraintrac... I plan to make it prettier, but enjoy the numbers. If the data is wrong, let me know and I'll correct it!

For a decade, home prices, rent prices, assaults and overdose deaths generally went up in Vancouver, at a fairly rapid rate. But that's no longer the case, and it's an overall trendline that's really worth monitoring. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’ll say it once again, the government needs strict media foreign ownership laws. Chatham Asset Media (aka Post News) has no business in the Canadian media landscape. And let’s just outright ban Twitter. They are both pure foreign interference.

There is 2016 job data in cansim and there's this table for 2021 www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/t... Removing ALR, provincial and regional parks, Metro Vancouver sensitive ecosystems, and water Along with population dot density, I used this to compare a bunch of crayons in R5R

it's kinda bizzare if you think about the response here. Like the primary response to someone starting up an automated CSAM-on-demand service shouldn't be a boycott it should be prosecutions.

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

Nationalize postmedia

It's time for Canadian governments to assert sovereignty in the vitally important digital sphere, which is dominated by the United States. From the latest edition of the Monitor: No sovereignty without digital sovereignty by Jon Milton @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This is a great read on how bike lanes have transformed Victoria for the better...

Delightful work by @bryce.lol:

I'm not as down on the M-Line as Brendan is, but this thread is still well worth reading for anyone interested in Vancouver transit

Takes a few seconds to understand this graph but once you get it, it's aaaawesome

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

One of my biggest takeaways from living in Tokyo was that the city is incredible in spite of the fact that 95% of the architecture is unremarkable. It makes the years-long design review process for a single apartment building in the U.S. seem all the more frivolous.

Mayor Mamdani said over the weekend that he wants the Department of Transportation to add daylighting before someone has been killed rather than wait to ban parking at intersections after a completely avoidable tragedy. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/05/m...