Gabe Beardy should still be here for his kids. Vigil this Friday at 6. Ride over from Central Park at 5:30 with Critical Mass.

Lukes grilling Steve on the wide lanes on Wellington - what about poly posts? Steve looks skeptical and says, as an interim measure? Steve says slowing down along with poly posts would have some psychological impact on driver speed but should only be a temporary measure.

Agreed, permanent would be better, but it will likely delay changes for a few more years. I am not a fan of pilots that are only testing out what are already proven approaches elsewhere. In this case it might allow for adjustments based on how effective the temporary changes are.

We've sure gone a long way from Lukes & Public Works saying we could get something temporary up for Spring 2025. Then we couldn't do that, because we needed to consult first. Then we couldn't do that, because we should have permanent. What's going to cause the next 2 year delay?

Two big issues that street safety advocates have been working on for years. Reports that we’ve been waiting on after a year or more of delay. And the “biggest friend of active transportation”, Janice Lukes, is proposing that we all wait at least another year for action on both of them.

Mayor's inner circle votes unanimously to cut $2.5 million from the Roadway Safety Budget #winnipeg #wpgpoli youtube.com/shorts/pT1G_...

The broadest restriction on Charter rights to free expression in Canada

Hey I’m just some guy, though. Let’s ask some experts

DEMONSTRATIONS ARE DEMOCRATIC - Rally against "ANTI-PROTEST" Bylaw proposed by Councillor Evan Duncan to the City of Winnipeg's Executive Policy Committee on TUESDAY, FEB 17 @ CITY HALL @ 8:45 AM

Some fine bike folks of Winnipeg were on the river trail fat biking this morning for a kid’s birthday party which is probably the coolest January birthday party idea ever

The sidewalk snow clearing effort downtown (and outside of downtown by the looks of it) this year has been atrocious and the people that run this city should be ashamed of themselves. But instead, they’ll tell us we’re spoiled by the level of sidewalk snow clearing we have in Winnipeg.

Tonight in Winnipeg, Osborne & Roslyn 6:30

fuck you the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh

A 10-year-old boy needed seven stitches and suffered a chipped tooth after a vehicle collided with his bike and sent him flying at a South Osborne intersection.

WHO IS THIS CITY FOR?

This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.

The City has known for years that the library needs safer infrastructure on the 4th floor. They know Community Connections and safety hosts have a proven record of improved safety and deescalation. They are consciously withholding funding for adequate maintenance and staffing of the library.

This is Scott Gillingham's fault, and councillors, press, and residents need to treat it like it's his fault. He let DCSP walk on a motion to take over Connections and then let it sit inaccessible. He let redesign plans go unfunded. We deserve a safe accessible library for everyone. He doesn't care.

If Janice Lukes or Scott Gillingham had wanted to make Wellington Cres safe, they clearly could have done so. This is a good program! These changes are good ones! But they do not care about our lives or those of our loved ones.

Every neighborhood deserves safer streets, except where someone has already died. Gillingham and Lukes are first class weasels!

Hey #Winnipeg This 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Mayor Gillingham and (most of) @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social council don't care about the safety of active transportation users.

Organizing really is mostly follow up. Oomph

Vigilante bike lane on Wellington Crescent. Love it.

Wendy, Rob’s widow, was IN THE ROOM when Janice Lukes promised this. We’re having a block party TODAY at Rob’s ghost bike to celebrate Rob. We hoped we could celebrate safe infrastructure coming in his name, too.

Rob Jenner was killed by a driver one year ago TODAY. Councillor Janice Lukes hasn’t delivered on safety measures that she promised the community would be implemented THIS YEAR. And now she’s pushing back even LOOKING at the proposal into JULY.

Blaming the “funding model” for the budget choices is a cop out. The funding model is the same as other Canadian municipalities, yet those councils make better choices for road safety #winnipeg #wpgpoli

Janice Lukes’s answer for why we can’t move faster is we don’t have the money, but she’s 100% behind billion-dollar road widening projects that are estimated to save drivers 12 seconds on their commutes, and wants us to celebrate $7m/year for active transportation, much of which is just for studies

Personally I would be embarrassed, as a city leader, to solicit praise for setting a five-year target for reducing road death that doesn’t even meet levels we experienced three years ago.

She very clearly wants credit for being an advocate for active transportation without committing to build any infrastructure that will inconvenience her suburban driver constituents.

I'm looking forward to gathering again in a few weeks <3 Join us for collective community reflection & growing connections that can sustain our work around Queerness & Learning. I'd love to see you!

Lisa: “I don’t know if I can say this strongly enough. I am *livid* about what happened last Wednesday.” People following process carefully, and nobody know during entire day that mayor Gillingham had called DCSP and had them throw in proposal that day

Mayor Gillingham is the most opaque, corrupt city leader I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived in fucking Chicago.

And it was the very last fucking thing of the day, so councillors and the mayor got to ask all their rhetorical questions and then adjourn, with no follow-up rebuttal from any of the many people who spoke about funding community connections

Goes directly against the assertions from Duncan et al that the lobby space should not be for social services, but that doesn’t matter, because this is (1) free and (2) part of removing, not serving, unhoused people.

Proposal is for DCSP to take over community connections space - which is a library service space with added services to serve additional needs - and make it an office for “service connection” - but without librarians.

DCSP delegate not on the agenda. Gets to talk on and BRING A PRESENTATION, also usually not allowed. Santos, Lukes, and Gillingham look over it eagerly and make references to it in questions, also not done in the rest of the meeting. Document is not accessible to public because it wasn’t submitted.

Greg from the Downtown Community Safety Partnership is proposing DCSP take over Connections space for security shit? DON'T LIKE.

Just so everyone understands how shady this is. Santos has been resisting information from dozens of community orgs about how essential it is to fund Community Connections, been talking about compromise. Suddenly a walk-on from our downtown homeless removal service to take over and she’s all ears 🧵

Community Connections' yearly budget is less than 5% of this.

They closed Community Connections over like $600k and wring their hands about where they’re supposed to get the money when we demand they reopen it.

Direct city governance of libraries, rather than an independent board is a HUGE problem. These cowards don't accept that poor people and immigrants have legit information needs that deserve specialized services and want to play jurisdiction chicken with the province instead of listening to experts

Total failure of leadership from Santos. Uses wanting to compromise and not being within the scope of the budget working group as an excuse to not even refer it for further discussion, which is... not a compromise. Also forcing data and research to compromise with ignorance is... not compromise.

Over the next three years, Scott Gillingham and city council plan to spend the same amount in operating funding on the WPS as all of the following COMBINED: - Public transit - Recreation - Parks and natural areas - Libraries - Urban forestry - Active transportation - Arts, entertainment, & culture

So tonight, on this sixth month semi-anniversary of Rob’s killing at the hands of a violent driver, abetted by a mayor who refuses to address the dangerous road with the immediacy it requires, we will meet to remember Rob, and mourn a lack of action from our city’s highest leader

Join our 3-part online series on Queerness & Learning hosted by the Network of the Learning Sciences in Canada. We’ll start with an informal Meet & Greet poster session on Nov. 21. Submit your abstract by Nov. 14 to share your work & connect with others! bit.ly/3Uk3AXT

Come out to this barbecue and discussion on the future of Pride Winnipeg Sunday, September 8 4:30p to 7:30 Dufferin Park 605 Alexander