Deep gratitude for the activists and political leaders advancing a Vision Zero agenda. Traffic violence is not inevitable. Stopping it is possible and necessary.

Get ready for a lot more of this

"Establish eye contact" have the people who made these PSAs ever tried walking at night?

A story in 3 parts

Our event with @thewaroncars.bsky.social is ONE WEEK AWAY! 😱 Tickets are still available. This is going to be a super fun night, and also a fundraiser for us. If you support the work we do, and if you want to be part of a discussion on the future of transportation in Vancouver, get tickets now!

Begging publications to stop treating existential threats as if they're fun hypotheticals. "What would it mean for Canada to become the 51st State?" "What's the path to a Trump 3rd term?" This isn't a college term paper. Do your jobs

Over the past few years, I've frequently criticized Brian Montague for living in North Vancouver. Today I'd like to formally issue an apology. It turns out he actually lives in Kelowna.

In voting down this motion, Clr Montague indignantly claimed that the VPD "puts out a message telling drivers to avoid non-essential travel every year" and that to suggest otherwise is "outright false." Can anyone find evidence of this? Here's their PSA for this year:

Maybe the reason Brian Montague brought forward the amendment to kill this Halloween safe streets motion is that he's still recovering from the time children "intimidated" him with their climate change art. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/11/27/v...

This is a pretty hilarious take given that Sim didn't engage with the City or First Nations at all when he decided to spontaneously get rid of the park board over a personal upset

New billboard in town 👀

Bitcoin fans (including unfortunately our own mayor) love talking about how two of Bitcoin's greatest assets are that it isn't used for crime and that it's outside government control. Both of which are consistently shown to be untrue.

This budget is reckless. Our infrastructure is crumbling, our amenities are quite literally falling apart. A 0% increase combined with a raise for the VPD means big cuts to already struggling services and infrastructure, no matter how ABC wants to spin it.

I'm realizing that I don't know the name of a single judge on Canada's Supreme Court and how that's probably a good thing

Stumbled on the grand opening of the new public plaza in uptown New West, complete with wider bollard protected sidewalks along 6th. Looks awesome!

Our "progressive" government will bend over backwards to make driving slightly cheaper (gas prices didn't even go down btw good job lining the pockets of the oil & gas industry) but won't do anything to prevent about one death per day on our roads.

What if, hear me out, our transportation system didn't result in this every single day of the year

Montague doesn't even live in Vancouver, has brought forward zero good ideas in 3 years on council, and only made it into the chamber because the VPD endorsed Sim and wanted their personal spokesperson at the table. He's a bully and actively makes our city worse.

I love google maps for cycling directions. "I see you're already on Point Grey Road, one of the best bike routes in the city, and it takes you directly to your destination. But have you considered rerouting to the alley between 2nd and 3rd ave instead?"

On a walking tour of $tens-of-millions mega mansions in Point Grey (no sidewalks), which areq the only properties legally allowed to be built under the local zoning, @pwaldkirch.bsky.social asks "is this really the best thing we could be doing with this land?"

If you're wondering why our facilities our crumbling, our infrastructure projects are half-built, our arts & culture sector is struggling, it's simple. Our current government is committed to keeping property taxes artificially low, while handing a blank cheque to the police. (1/3)

Ah finally, Stanley Park getting what everyone has been clamoring for... a multi year study 😑 (jk this is a good result... But seriously can't wait for this saga to conclude)

Why are "nation building projects" always things that accelerate the destruction of the planet largely to the benefit of multinational corporations, and never things that would benefit millions of Canadians like, say, high speed passenger rail? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As usual Ford is wrong on the basics. “Eighty-five per cent of people who have been issued one ticket have only been issued [that] one ticket” People are caught speeding once, get the message, and change their behaviour. It's incredibly effective & saves lives. www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

one of these vehicles is perfectly street legal and the other will get you arrested smh

There's a reason why the US leads the world in chronic illnesses, and why kids are having a harder time making social connections these days, and it's not vaccines. It's that their built environment looks like this. Of course neither Oz nor RFK have any interest in fixing it.

Main St is so annoying to cross around 6th-7th Ave that on more than one occasion I saw Cartems and found myself craving a donut, but couldn't be bothered to cross to the other side of the street. My dumb hot take is that it's one of the reasons they closed. Anyway please go vote in this

A lot of Canadian businesses are going to lose a huge chunk of their customer base and are going to struggle to survive. A reminder to buy local, including online, and especially if you can make the switch from an American vendor to a Canadian one. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Looks like the new path connecting the Granville Connector to the Arbutus Greenway is about to be finished any day. Nice!

His refusal to cooperate with the investigation probably tells you exactly what he was like as a cop. Always thinking he's above any rules and too arrogant to ever self reflect. No wonder the VPD wanted this guy on council.

The judge found that the driver, who drove through a 20-second-stale red light and killed an infant, was "not guilty of dangerous driving causing death" 🤯 because it was just a "momentary lapse of attention." Just a single lapse, in addition to these other momentary lapses:

Without reading, who wants to guess the one councillor who didn't cooperate with the investigation? As a hint, it was the same councillor that tried to suspend the integrity commissioner

All the new housing at the "Amazing Brentwood" is genuinely great but the streetscape is brutal. Exit your building and your options are: bake on the pavement, try not to get hit crossing a 7 lane arterial, admire the gas stations and car lots, and... uh that's about it

We're so excited to be hosting @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast hosts Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear for a conversation about their new book, Life After Cars! 6:30pm, Sat Nov 8th, Downtown Vancouver visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/01/life-after-cars/

There was one building on the corner of the future Burrard Slopes Park site that refused to sell to the city, creating this awkward carve-out. But recently it looks like it's for sale. Could the City buy it now? It'd be awesome for the entire block to be a park!

I find this "grok imagine" (and equivalent) stuff extremely off-putting. Surely I'm not alone? These moments didn't actually happen, creating these alternate realities is weird and creepy. Not to mention how hard it'll be to believe anything we see pretty soon.

*Taps sign* This is a hypothetical pipedream almost as stupid as "let's burn down Stanley Park to heat Second Beach Pool". In no scenario is it "actually going to help the environment." It's frankly embarrassing.

So tired of all the cyclists causing traffic jams in Stanley Park!!

Heating Kits Pool with bitcoin mining isn't some cool, edgy, eco-friendly genius move. It's more equivalent to burning down a forest to generate some useless gambling tokens and hoping that a bit of the radiant heat warms the pool. This is barely a metaphor.

I keep seeing stories about how AI and Crypto might be good for the environment and they all basically boil down to "these industries are SO energy intensive that they might force countries to invest more in renewables." Sorry no, that logic doesn't follow.

Cambie & 7th is currently in a dead heat with Main & 2nd. Everyone who crosses Cambie & 7th knows this is the experience every single time. This was 4 consecutive light cycles! Please go vote for it.

Cutting arts funding and asking them to find money in the private sector is a double whammy, because ABC also opened city assets to corporate sponsorship. Now small festivals and theatres not only get less city money, they also have to compete with the city itself for corporate dollars.

At No Frills I constantly see "Canadian" labels with produce that is extremely obviously American. It doesn't even seem like they're trying to hide it.

“The sentiment has changed. [Councillors] know that if they fail to pass these common-sense things, they’re going to take a lot of heat for it.” Great to hear from our own @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social about the impacts of @lucymaloney.bsky.social’s Vision Zero motion!

I love the fireworks, but the fact that we allow people to drive through crowds like this after the show is outrageous. We're not even 3 months out from the horrific Lapu Lapu Day tragedy. It's maddening and unacceptable.

Pro tip, don't try and stream the fireworks music on your phone. It's about 45 seconds delayed and it won't match at all. You need a real radio, I got this on marketplace for $10. Tune in at 101.1 FM

Also important to note the code of conduct complaints were for: revealing that she voted to keep the living wage in Vancouver, and calling Sim's bully comms director a bully. Both very petty complaints. The story arc is beautiful

On Monday, a driver in North Van got confused and slammed into a building, fortunately hurting no one. The RCMP's reply: "Sometimes things happen." Today, a driver nearly killed someone in a parking lot. If your attitude towards road safety is "oops, things happen" then yes, things will happen.

Khats was awesome yesterday. The one day of the year that it's genuinely fun to hang out on 4th.

Surrey has a big transit defect and huge road safety problem, so of course it makes perfect sense that our very cash-strapped transit organization should fund a bunch of road widenings across the city 😒