YIMBYs (like @ahvancouver.bsky.social) often say, "legalize apartments", or "end the apartment ban". I don't want to speak for anyone else. But when I say that--things like this is what I'm talking about. No street, no neighbourhood, is too good for housing like this. Housing is good!

Ah yes. The core principle of science that says one should start with the conclusion and then construct the evidence to support it.

It is a BUSY week at City Council. On top of ABC's Zero Sense motion that threatens deep cuts, there are a bunch of good and important motions on the agenda. Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social has summarized it all here: www.votecope.ca/news/sean-or... #vanpoli #StopTheCuts #FightForVancouver

One Way Street. I made this using a victim blaming PSA that the RCMP created a couple of years back.

Tax dollars folks. Tax dollars well managed?

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Great explanation of the shortcomings of this proposed bike infrastructure project

Parking minimums are an enormous strain on the financial viability of housing development projects. Parking is often not necessary in transit corridors.

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups. Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

In the byelection, Ken Sim was served an eviction notice. Rather than change direction, he & his billionaire-backed party have doubled down. While ABC pushes a 0% election-year gimmick, we're building a movement to stop the cuts & demand fully-funded public services. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The thing about oilsands companies is that over the past decade they have focused on cutting as many jobs as possible in the name of efficiency while paying as little as possible for the pollution they cause.

America: More guns than people 🔫🔫🔫 The Netherlands: LOL we would rather just pleasantly get around town with our friends and family. 🚲🚲🚲

Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

Taking the whole ROAD ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ Textbook radical anti-car cyclists.

I think a lot of people's anger and anxieties could be calmed by more face to face time with nature, away from the rat race and sterilized grind. Imagine if we made that easier to do.

Tenant protections mater! Every time a tenant is evicted, there is this risk that people will fall into homelessness. Is it landowner's responsibility then to prevent homelessness? No... BUT if you allow landowners to raise rents without limits you will get more homelessness. That much is clear.

It’s good to stop and think sometimes. Like in this case, why would speed limits apply to road and streets like they do now? Why? To preserve lives of road users both in and out of cars. Is it not cool anymore to preserve lives?

Today we launch our 13th public-interest database — with more than 175K appointments across the country, from judges and ambassadors to the heads of Crown corporations. Find out more. theijf.org/new-ijf-data... #cdnpoli #democracy

Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloney’s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Vaccines not only save lives, they save money. Paying a hospital bill for what should have been an avoidable illness could bankrupt families and cost the government billions. Vaccines work and are a cost-effective investment.

Our society has been conditioned by marketing that is essentially a straight up lie. And by straight up I mean the most obvious lie. For example: “This shampoo takes care of dandruff!”

Lots of good news around the world about vision zero implementation. Not in North America. Wonder why? Why we tolerate thousands of injuries and deaths every year just to get around. How much are we spending on healthcare, car repairs and roads? Too much! There are other options.

All avoidable injuries are bad, but context is essential. Alongside this story, it's surely essential to say that there were 133,000 car-related injuries in 2024 in the UK, including 1624 fatalities & 28k "serious" injuries. E-bikes aren't the major problem. Data: www.chas.co.uk/blog/uk-car-...

Apartments (including rentals and below market homes!) are banned from most of the city's nice side streets. That sucks! @lucymaloney.bsky.social's motion to legalize 6 floor apts by parks and bike routes could help change that. Here's how you can show support: pwaldkirch.ca/2025/09/12/s...

Another street devastated after being closed to cars.

Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today. In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others. The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.

I’ve been saying for years but who cares what I’m saying… look at those numbers!!

Finally viewed this Vancouver landmark IRL @tomflood.bsky.social Couldn’t resist the lean as well

C’est le temps de remettre en question ce qui est et ce qui n’est pas un crime au volant d’une voiture ou d’un camion. On voit depuis quelques années certains camionneur être accusé de crime suite a un accident. Très souvent des conducteurs racise. Pas souvent d’autre gens que des camionneurs.

Notre ville change ! Nos rues sont peu à peu rendues aux habitants, de nouveaux arbres sont plantés et les promenades facilitées et sécurisées. C'est le cas de la rue Chaptal dans le 9e ou celle du Docteur-Lecène dans le 13e !

The vancouver squeeze in action. Where Vancouverites take the most risk all year.

Obviously this policy will not yield the same results in vancouver because the mayor’s plan is to only include a subset of smaller streets. Cars tend to go fast in larger, more lanes kinda roads. larger = faster Unencumbered = faster Straight = faster More lanes = faster Pretty simple.

Yesterday, I was riding my bike when I came across this "die-in" protest, a block from our #Montreal apartment. Height of rush hour; police held back vehicular traffic. For context, a 31-year-old woman on a bike was killed by the driver of a truck on Sunday morning. (la version française suit) 🧵

This is the kind gaslighting by politicians we’re seeing more of lately. If it WERE about “building a city that makes sense for everyone” then actual EVIDENCE supports building MORE safe infrastructure that would provide MORE choices. Instead he’s lying to try to make people resent people on bikes.

Is zoning an important part of the housing crisis? Yes! Yes it is.

Freedom?

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

We have the same thing here in vancouver. The true nature of the density policies are inequitable in essence. Systemic grift from the rich impacting the poor. Constant reinvestments in rich neighborhoods while dense, poorer neighborhoods have the worst services.

Ohio, with an economy the size of Switzerland, runs just 48 trains a week. Switzerland runs 77,000. Over the next four years, Ohio will spend $2.45 million on trains, against $6.7 billion for roads and highways. Meanwhile, here’s what became of Dayton’s train station: Dayton Daily News Archive

Helsinki went a full year without a single traffic death #UrbanDesign #yyj www.politico.eu/article/hels...

Since it’s Labor Day, you know I’ve got to post the chart.

Speed is the central problem, solutions exists, political will does not.

Data! Yeah… data.

Vancouver skytrain does this very well.

Tilburg's project team wanted something unmistakable in the streetscape. The choice of red—a unifying colour for the new main cycle route—was deliberate; intended to make it both comfortable and instantly recognisable. This chromatic clarity would become the hallmark of Dutch cycling infrastructure.

Quand votre population vulnerable roule a vélo, vous savez que votre réseau de pistes cyclable fait quelque chose de bien. Une voiture de moins!

Beeindruckende Transformation. #Paris

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Regional transportation is much needed in Canada.