Comedy isn't legal anymore. 😭

via @cbcnews.ca "A 23-year-old cyclist remains in critical but stable condition after he was hurt in a crash involving a truck early Wednesday. #Winnipeg 's bike mayor, @pattybikes.com , says there needs to be a culture shift among drivers to help prevent future accidents." www.cbc.ca/9.7189321

Go Habs

The average Canadian can consume less fuel too. Walk, bike, use transit. Maybe trip chain a bit more. We don't all need to be addicted to consuming fossil fuels.

They're so close to getting it but all they know is "one more lane bro".

Nature is healing

Hmm maybe uncontrolled, unregulated development of AI models coinciding with worldwide personal and commercial adoption has some serious risks after all.

Label that should come with every stroller.

The Minister allowing this needs to resign.

We are watching in real time what human-accelerated climate change is doing to our planet and then we have this war on renewables happening. These evil people don't want to leave the planet without taking the rest of humanity with it. #WarOnRenewables www.esgtoday.com/trump-admini...

On point Steve. @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social needs to reevaluate their priorities. #Winnipeg #SafeStreets #ActiveTransportation

My understanding is that this particular collision wouldn’t have been physically possible if the pilot project had been installed last summer as planned. The bike lane isn’t just about making Wellington safer for bikes, but for all users.

God bless Afroman

Public service says a pilot is best, residents say a pilot is best, the price of a pilot is way cheaper and the timeline is faster. AND YET the City council says no,. let's wait and do the permanent solution... in 2027. What could be the reason? #winnipeg www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Putting the cart before the planning horse. "From a city perspective, there is a good tool to enhance awareness — a pilot project. If city council wants to pursue a strategy for Wellington that can engage in robust discussion....the best way to do that is by reinstating the pilot. t.ly/qaE7N

I gotta say. This moment was jarring. And just absolutely tasteless considering we’re talking about this because a 61 year old on a bike was killed by a 19 year old with a car.

"These reductions translate into dramatic improvements in survival rates, with the chance of a pedestrian surviving a collision rising from about 10 per cent at 50 km/h, to 60 per cent at 40 km/h, and 90 per cent at 30 km/h." 30% increase in survival is more than enough to consider 30 not 40 kph.

Excellent op-ed: The city and ‘extremists’ www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Feels a little on the nose for #Winnipeg right now. 😬

Proposal to reduce Winnipeg’s default 50 km/h speed limit advances. We need to keep our eye on the prize. 30 kph is the true "safe speed." It is true that “it takes… seconds more to go 40 versus 50." Is also only takes seconds to go 30 as well. @safespeedswpg.bsky.social t.ly/-1Etq

Gutless moves from some of our councilor's at Public Works day. The inconvenience of drivers is more important to them than the lives of vulnerable road users. 30 seconds is more important than one soul. This really hurts. Wellington cr. pilot could have happened in a few months but oh no.

Advocating for safer streets is characterized as "radical" from two #winnipeg city councillors who are both well beyond the Best Before Date. you know this council isn't used to an engaged and informed segment of the citizenry, holding them accountable, when they resort to name calling.

If only our controlled news media could frame incorrect statements from either ignorant or willingly incompetent City Councillors like this, maybe we could actually get traction on changes for the greater good

These bike lanes are ready to install. They were ready to install *LAST YEAR*. Any further delay is unconscionable.

I hope whenever Jack “just an athlete” Hughes or any other Team USA player goes to charitable events or engages in their own advocacy (in Jack’s case, LGBTQ+ and Pride campaigns), that someone follows them around with a picture of them shaking hands with Trump and his tiny little thumbs up pose

When Kyle Connor does his charity work for Parkinson’s, someone should ask how the Trump Administration’s 40% decrease in funding, cutting or freezing thousands of research grants to universities, hospitals, and laboratories, has affected the community around the disease

The same people who didn’t want to answer questions on the record about events in Minnesota because they don’t want to add fuel to the fire and want privacy, are the same ones willingly detouring from returning to their NHL clubs just to be used as political props for an administration of imbeciles

Hopefully this is the last 3v3 elimination game was ever see in Olympic hockey. Essentially a coinflip of if a puck bounce creates an 2on1, cheapens the gravity of the game and the medal.

Sad

They do not care about our safety. It is more important to them that drivers are not inconvenienced than it is that people get around safely. This is the evidence.

Creating a city where kids can safely walk, bike to school www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

My heart hurts for those only 8 hrs south of us. Two people executed by US gestapo. Fascism levels increasing. It's terrible.

They are so far gone.

At this point I wonder if these old evil people running the world want to burn all the fossil fuels as quickly as possible to bring about the end of us.

if you've ever met a kid then you know they are predictably unpredictable so expecting them to behave perfectly is the most ridiculous approach to road safety - honestly just think about it.

This is currently the only car parked on all of Wellington Cres between Academy and Stradbrook, in case you’re wondering how well-used is the parking we’re currently afraid will be sacrificed to make sure cyclists aren’t.

This weekend is the @bikewinnipeg.bsky.social town hall on Saturday November 1st at 3 pm at the Big Red Church in Elmwood. Anyone interested in the state of cycling should attend and help shape what Bike #Winnipeg should do in the future.

Failed state.

Gonna be a sleepy day tomorrow. Go Jays.

Very interesting that Trump generally saves his "low IQ" insults for certain types of people. Really makes you wonder.

Maryland (on the left) and Westminster allows cyclists and pedestrians to cross first; Sherbrook does not. Why? #BikeWpg

In this era of hyperlocal, artisanal everything - never mind renewed Canadian patriotism - the failure of MLSE to sell this unique game in Canada’s largest market suggests they should bow out. Not the Canadian rules in a Canadian game.

The fact that the CEO on live television said they didn't really have a plan since they assumed the government would force the striking workers back to work tells you all you need to know about the bad faith management had in this negotiation.

I don't like Newsom but this is well said.

Oh what’s this, an excellent letter in today’s Free Press?

"Perhaps after our next election, we will have councillors who can sit through a meeting." As someone who always has the councillor leave the room during my delegation, I ask you, is it bullying or is it a sign of respect?

Did nobody at the Free Press think to ask mayor Gillingham why he voted down an amendment extending the same protections to people who live on and around Wellington Cres on a similar timeline?

Also please watch Aro's delegation where she recounts the councils own words back to them to showcase how the council is using all mechanisms to delay what should be a non political decision: to install an isolated bike that's be called for, for 15 years. youtu.be/URqmCMIcFd4?...