the exact same arguments i heard against bus lanes in toronto repeat themselves in vancouver: ✅ "i want better transit, BUT..." ✅ "businesses die without street parking" (despite an abundance of off street parking) ✅ bus lane turns car sewer into an "unsafe highway" ✅ "accessibility worsens"

When you finally finish The Power Broker and there is no more Robert Moses in your life 😢 How did that last chapter make me feel so sorry for a man that did so many terrible, short-sighted things?

the four busiest bus routes in metro vancouver (99, R4, 49, 25) are all parallel crosstown routes to UBC really makes the case for broadway subway, but i wonder why translink isn't pursuing BRT on their busiest rapid (R4) or the 49. will the subway really soak up that much citywide E-W demand?

Development fees don't "come out of the land" if you're an existing family redeveloping your home into a multigenerational plex. City and Metro fees just add straight into the cost.

I narrated this timely new @communitytransit.bsky.social video about transit and equality. MLK Day and Rosa Parks Day are coming up!

Community First was excited to hear the announcement made by BC Housing to make Purpose Society's shelter operate 24/7. This is the kind of investment that's is made possible when you lead with compassion, bring others to the table, and meaningfully work with them.

These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.

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.

To be clear, he suggested that basketball courts attract the wrong "demographic" to our parks, and that pickleball would attract people *who look more like him*. And asked us to consider *who we want to attract* to our parks and public spaces. That wasn't a dogwhistle, that was a foghorn.

Hey #NewWest I am in council chambers and I will live skeet a bit again!

Maybe the Broadway Subway Project should have just been cut and cover from the very beginning! >>> After the initial four-month closure, traffic will return to East Broadway with only one lane open in each direction for a further four months. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW VIDEO: North America’s Elevator’s Problem Elevators are absolutely essential to modern cities..... and it turns out North America kind of sucks at them. We partnered with @sightline.org to look into the many issues plaguing our elevator industry, and what it might take to fix it.

The concept of posting “Canada is not considering a ban of X” as a QUOTE of your post condemning deepfake sexual abuse happening **ON X** of women and kids………….

Driver Perfectly Describes Pedestrian They Couldn't See.

When I get to the utterly nightmarish sections of The Power Broker that talk about public transit, I accidentally stay up reading until 1 AM 😮‍💨 Ahhhhh, what could have been. It's also crazy to read a book from 1974, talk about a period in the 50s and 60s, and have it so scarily relevant to today.

Spotify? Apple Podcasts?? Regardless of the podcast-conduit you use, you need to tune into @chanface.bsky.social & @denisagar.bsky.social's new podcast, Dwell Time! Have these two in your ears on your next commute 🚌⏳https://zencastr.com/z/qhTvgQKp open.spotify.com/show/7mgTQAy...

Transit riders!! It's time for our 2026 INs and OUTs! 🚌✨ We asked our volunteers on Movement's volunteer Discord server what their INs and OUTs are for 2026. Did we miss any? 🤔

Had a blast checking out the "new" Park Theatre after The Rio was able to take it over with helpful investments from Vancouverite and Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, and others ♥️🎬 #goodnews

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Congestion pricing is working. The cameras are staying on.

Canada’s junior hockey team and its unsportsmanlike captain, Porter Martone, behaved like spoiled brats during this tournament Congratulations Czechia

I dare you to justify to me why this is the correct road space allocation

mamdani spending literally the first minutes of his mayoralty announcing mike flynn as dot commish, and talking abt the importance of public transit and streetscapes. smiling through it all like i cant believe this is my life

Did you catch how Mayor Mamdani put DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn center stage at his own inauguration? That's a real symbol of his commitment to livable streets: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/31/m...

“After just having taken my oath to become the mayor of the city of New York, I do so also here in the old City Hall subway station – a testament to the importance of public transit to the vitality, the health, the legacy of our city.”

"Making it easier to own fewer cars can have a big impact, with New York City car owners typically spending $8,000 more per year on transportation than those solely using transit"

Here is the last (but not least!) of my Top 10 List for #NewWest for 2025: boosting support for non-profits & community partners who make the city thrive. Arts, culture, festivals, sports & everything that brings New West together. Happy New Year everyone, let’s make 2026 the best year it can be!

And with that run I’ve run on every single street in #NewWest in 2025!

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Number 9 on my #NewWest Top 10 for 2025 is the reduction in crime we have seen over the last year. The Crime Severity Index is a national statistic, and ours is lower than it’s been since pre-COVID and now much lower than the provincial average. www.nwpolice.org/blog/2025/07...

Number 7 on my list of Top 2025 #NewWest accomplishments is a small one when it comes to budget, but big in community impact. The Youth Climate Action Team created and implemented a project to daylight Glen Brook & create a legacy toward a stronger future. www.newwestcity.ca/mayors-youth...

This New West project checks all the boxes: ✅ Fully protected bike lane ✅ Vehicle access maintained ✅ No lost parking (I don't care about this but it's often the main concern) ✅ One-way orientation reduces rat running on this residential street Should be the standard for all local bikeways!

An (embarrassing) mastery of the passive voice, here.

#4 on my 2025 list is our progress on one of the region’s biggest issues: affordable housing. We need more investment here from all levels of government, but here in #Newwest we are saying yes to affordable housing, and it is getting built.

One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by 1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information 2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials 3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government

Just saw 18 people waiting at a bus stop in Uptown #NewWest 😵

Cold and wet out there folks but so glad for @translink.ca @movementyvr.bsky.social and all the great folks making it easy to get around. #postthegood

Here’s where you can pick up the first Freshet newspaper in New West: Zesty Lemon Clothing Yum Donuts New West City Hall Queensborough CC təməsew̓txʷ CC Moody Park Arena New West Public Library Tourism New West Goodway’s Specialty Foods Groove Cat Books and Records Greens and Beans Deli #newwest

In March @movementyvr.bsky.social put on a huge rally to Save the Bus. The following month, Mayors and province came together and transit in Metro Van was saved from service cuts and a death spiral. Soon, we will finally have service levels that go above and beyond what we haven't had since 2019🥳🙏🚍

Hey @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social thanks for asking the Minister about the Federal government commitments to Public Transit. The funding support is going the wrong direction: (extracts from the Dec 11 Mayor's Council meeting)

It's been 509 days since @christineboyle.bsky.social 's bus lane motion passed in Vancouver. Maybe 365 additional days since the previous ABC one did. Do we have anything to show for it? Nope. Nothing. Dude where's our bus lanes? 🚍🤷

Access to opportunity should be what drives all discussions of transit expansion.

A significant move Vancouver made this week was moving forward with enabling novel Single Egress & Space Efficient Stairs. Led by the great team in Development, Buildings & Licensing, supported closely by Vancouver Fire Rescue Service; and Planning this will be transformative for low-rise apartments

Is Toronto finally having a reckoning over streetspace allocation and the fact that their extensive surface transit network is slow as hell? Stay tuned.

Staff recommended that Council zone for social housing outright. ABC just voted to use federal HAF (Housing Affordability Fund) money not to enable more social housing, but to pay for staff time to develop a slower, more expensive alternative. @gregorrobertson.bsky.social

Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver just killed the Social Housing Initiative. A program that could have actually gotten people off the streets and into homes? Dead.

Thanks queen

5 people have been killed on the roads in Metro Vancouver in the last week, including a driver, a cyclist, and 3 pedestrians, one of whom was a young child. Each of them had lives, families and friends, aspirations and potential that will not be realized. Each of them could have been me, or you.

Sometimes you come across a stat that stops you in your tracks. Today I learned that TransLink's 555 has the 8th highest rate of boardings per hour, which is mindblowing. Why? Highway express routes like this aren't supposed to do well on that metric. They usually don't have a lot of ons and offs

quite bold for Vancouver to keep this on some of their council letterhead after essentially voting to lay off 400 staff last week