My thoughts about the success story the City of Victoria bike lanes have been #yyj #bikelanes open.substack.com/pub/bern99/p...

Leftists can learn a lot from Mamdani, lesson #2039383

Indeed. Words not found in this article: walk, bike, cycling, transit, bus, pedestrian

Horrific read. Also good to remember that letting regular cops get away with hiding their identity is pretty common north of the border too & absolutely needs to be stopped to prevent normalizing much worse

Milwaukee Road is a spectacular trail & one day I'd love to ride more of it. When the insanity south of the border ends...

Hmm

Locally Oak Bay has lots of these too. They aren't affordable in any way, shape or form but often get held up as such

“Bikelash is not something to resist or be afraid of, but rather to be embraced. …a sign your City is doing something right”. Amen. #LifeAfterCars @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Real cities (in this case the Victoria suburb of Esquimalt) clear their bike lanes, they don't need volunteers to do it (Looking at you Portland)

One of Victoria's biking success factors has been great support from several business groups for bike lanes. Seems that has come to an end. Wilson is Chamber CEO (and owner of Wilson's Transportation, a bus company)

Right wing parties imploding due to infighting will never not be funny Also, would any of this have happened if Rustad had eeked out a narrow win in the last election?

New book day is a good day. Three new books from @wesmars.bsky.social @humantransit.bsky.social @holz-bau.bsky.social courtesy of @islandpress.bsky.social sale

Paint is not infrastructure. "Vancouver’s painted lanes were associated with higher cyclist KSI; Calgary’s cycle tracks with fewer KSI." KSI = Killed or seriously injured doi.org/10.1016/j.aa...

Good thread, with one huge problem: cities can & do regulate scooters. They are mostly not allowed to regulate cars (although I wish they could)

OpenAI themselves know it's mathematically impossible to stop hallucinations from their own research with the technology and modeling approach in use, so that's definitely out: www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch doesn't fucking work Just ask the last person who tried.

I just *love* how all the yelling about banning bad actors like these is solving the housing problem Yes, we should ban RealPage. We also need more housing

I like Avi. I usually vote NDP. But OMG, please stop with the one-sided housing takes. We need huge amounts of public housing, but we also need market housing too, and lots of it.

Inclusionary zoning is not just terrible policy. It’s also extremely neoliberal policy that outsources a key state function—providing subsidized housing for poor people—to private, market-based actors and shifts the financial burden for the subsidies from wealthy homeowners to middle class renters.

If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: Carter Lavin on Better Streets, Transit, and Communities. momentummag.com/if-you-want-...

"the federal government could consider nationalizing production to ensure supply meets demand and shore up the supply chain, so Canadian parents aren't at the mercy of U.S. production stoppages, recalls or shipping delays." PM Carney should make this a national priority. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Imagine being mayor of West Vancouver and thinking, yep, other munis will join me in my crusade against the province, instead of seeing me as a cartoon villain www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Not the first bike roundabout, but I'd love to see some research into how well they work, remove conflicts, etc

This is a really interesting case if muni liability with who-knows what sorts of side effects based on how it gets decided

Ugh. This failure is 100% on our public health leadership & politicians for failing to confront anti-vaxxers & their lies during the pandemic

QR codes are a security nightmare & should not be used

David Horsey, Seattle Times

DULF did what safe supply should've been. So of course they got punished for it (And before you come at me with "drugs are bad" garbage, alcohol is fully legal, gov makes lots of money on it & it ruins lives, including direct family members of mine)

What's striking is those are bridges vs streets. Bridges usually have big traffic due to being pinch points. Streets have alternatives

Oak Bay mayor Kevin Murdoch says he hasn’t decided to seek a third term as mayor. “My focus now is on advancing key initiatives.” We have a team of reporters and researchers trying to figure out what those initiatives are. So far, nothing. But stay tuned.

But how could this bus possibly be delayed? There's no bike lanes into sight.

This is a good decision, but as a former non-profit board member, turning down that kind of money must have sucked

Our governments & their functions have been under relentless RW attack almost my entire life. Leftists need to defend & celebrate it more, especially boring & expensive stuff like sewage. And why a sewage district needs comms people - to tell these stories

last month, we spent 4 hours with Chad’s night crew. it was worth every minute. here is just 6 of them. give it a watch—because keeping watch is exactly what these crews do every single day for all of us after dark.

Charging for parking at hospitals sucks. But free parking is just so much worse (BC went to back to charging for parking in many urban hospitals because of this)

This is a hard but fair point. A lot of people are dunking on Anna but reality is sometimes volunteer programs can do more harm (especially if they prevent/replace government action)

OMG this article is bad. Quotes a single person who says "Yep, Canada Post can be replaced by email". How about actually talking to people for whom mail is still an essential service @thetyee.ca ?

HEY BURNABY, NEW WEST AND TRICITIES!!!!! My former colleagues have launched a non-profit, co-op community news outlet! These four are real pros and have been wonderful mentors to me. Can’t wait to see where this goes. Read and share 🗞️🗞️🗞️ www.freshetnews.ca

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a staggering read and the parallels to Rob Ford are obvious (I'd actually argue Ford was a more successful mayor, and certainly more popular)

Here's Hansard's draft transcript of the exchange www.leg.bc.ca/hansard-cont...

This makes me feel crazy. Being aware of the speed limit is like step 1 for driving! "Stealing is illegal, sure, but how are people supposed to know which stores they can steal from without getting caught if the camera ones don't have giant 'NO STEALING' signs??" www.thestar.com/news/gta/20-...

Imagine failing to understand your mission this badly. Seriously, coding a social media site is trivial. Moderating is not & here's hoping they don't keep failing here

I get a lot of stuff wrong but my early call on all of this was that it's simply wrong to engage in this as an argument over congestion policy. I said on the podcast that it is, instead, an argument over who has the right to public space — and the Premier has decided the allocation.

I didn't think I could hate Excel more, but here we are

Keeping increasingly nuts suburban voters out of city politics must be a core goal of urbanists in the next decade

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.