Building on this thread with a visual to show how much more uncommon roundabouts are in the Netherlands than many people assume (it sure surprised me when I visited!)

always find it incredible how the visuals of LPC events are incredibly regime-coded

New Burnaby Lake overpass looks fantastic (also saw a beaver)

PHOTOS: Colwood officially opens Galloping Goose pedestrian, cycling bridge. Read more at: goldstreamgazette.com/2026/04/10/p...

The official version of Washington, DC's laws are also stored on Github. It's a good idea! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!

surrey is at the current terminal of the expo line (20+ km away from downtown vancouver) and you'll see trains running every few minutes, lots of people getting on/off. makes you really think what a grade-separated rail line from toronto to mississauga city centre, for example, could do.

Coun. Rebecca Bligh's motion to un-freeze supportive housing in Vancouver finally went ahead yesterday, after being delayed by Mayor Ken Sim's false allegation against Coun. Sean Orr a few weeks ago. #vanpoli @kehyslop.bsky.social reports on how that went: thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

This is really quite good. Short and to the point.

Visited Port Moody for the first time

Look at this (120mm is shorter than the common "standard" in the US of 6"): - the scare quotes! - "It is difficult to create accessible dropped kerbs associated with 120mm kerbs as associated gradients will usually be too steep" (so in the US we contort ourself with ramp design-fu) - bollards!

new vancouver special?

The news that YVR is raising its transit fee yet again has me really annoyed. While full-on road pricing is a political non-starter for the moment, tolls (as @bushfield.ca suggested) into Sea Island would be a great start. So here's a little dashboard to play with how it could work. A short 🧵

traffic circles make for good stump speeches (this was very fun, learned a ton)

I want to add I think these surveys are not useful. Where do we see the highest housing prices (especially per sq ft or per acre?) it’s urban cores not the suburbs. Other factors (prestige, office park access) can distort that but it’s a surprisingly clear picture over dozens of metro areas.

Never really sunk in that the city of vancouver expects people to bike between general traffic on the left and buses on the right Seems safe

Oddly NIMBY-coded sign for something put up by local government

New FOI release: This document is a summary of Briefing Notes for the Ministry of Transportation and Transit for the time period of December 2025. View on Open Gov

while I am fanatically in favour of quick-build safety improvements, it's nice when cities spend a few extra bucks to buy nicer bollards that _look_ more permanent, or use precast concrete components for traffic calming examples from victoria + new west

601 Cordova has been labelled many things during its decade long review process, but this week the Urban Design Panel simply call it something worthy of their support, albeit with a couple recommendations. #VanRe #VanCre #Vancouver - www.shapeyourcity.ca/601-w-cordov...

Vancouver (opened 1968), by Thompson, Berwick and Pratt. 📷 City of Vancouver Archives. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/DV3ySqfkd_...

> Arrive at terminal at 6:55pm > Can't board because walk-on boarding closes at 6:50pm > Ferry is delayed by 30 minutes > BC Ferries still doesn't let you board and makes you wait outside

Another big NIMBY victory thanks to ABC--twice in one week. A big thank you to Councilor Maloney for once again standing up and doing the right thing and voting for these nonsense procedural games ABC are pulling to kill housing and hotels.

There’s so much interesting research and innovation in Europe around sustainable materials. But unfortunately since US and Canadian codes don’t reference (essentially, trust!) the Eurocodes or other international standards, everything has to be retested at great expense for the North American market

Don Shoup's intimate knowledge of UCLA's parking system yielded one of my favorite research articles of all time. Serving on a planning commission may yield an equally memorable article on from you!😊 shoup.bol.ucla.edu/PoliticsAndE...

I’m convinced the American public would tolerate a 4 fold increase in the price of gas if we converted to liters.

not really the top issue in the city right now, but it would sure be nice if there was a separated bike route through Jericho that was: - separated from all the pedestrian crowds during the day - lit at night

BUS LANES: There were 9 bus lane corridors promised in this unanimously passed motion from @christineboyle.bsky.social back in summer 2024, with implementation at a rate of at least 2 corridors per year. New recommendation is to postpone 4 of these (which we'll note are already off schedule) (2/5)

My testimony on codes and standards is quoted in a Canadian House of Commons report: "He warned against emulating the US models, stating: 'if you continue to emulate American models, you’ll end up with American outcomes.'" (From 2024! I was ahead of my time.) www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Comm...

Trying something to help visualize land usage per household (which I think is one of the most useful ways to think about cities)

So-called “inclusionary zoning” acts as a tax on new housing by requiring home builders to sell or rent a %age of the new homes at a loss. Without funding, IZ only “works” when the market price of new housing is significantly higher than construction costs. I am glad to see Oregon rolling it back.

Looks gorgeous outside despite the pouring rain

A focus on process over outcome is why rent is too high and why my family and I can’t get ahead. We badly need hotel spaces to grow our economy and siting them near major tourist attractions just makes sense.

I think this is a pretty good reason to have nothing to do with @kareem42.bsky.social and the "Vancouver Liberals"; they're NIMBYing new hotels using completely BS concerns about parks

reading Theory

Statscan must have talked to their national building code colleagues and figured that our population is getting wiped out in the next earthquake

The 2026 Budget freezes transit funding and forces service cuts. Write your MLA and tell them to protect transit funding! At the minimum, the BC gov should allow local governments to make up for lost funding. #yyj #bcpoli bettertransityyj.ca/2026/02/17/2...

My favourite TTC subway entrance. The 1978 Mid-century Expressionist Dupont Station in #Toronto by Dunlop-Farrow Architects.

"The District is prohibited from holding a public hearing on this rezoning application pursuant to section 464(3) of the Local Government Act" You love to see it, folks!

CanViz is super cool, great work @jensvb.bsky.social canviz.mountainmath.ca

(from last sunday)

The prefab pessimist line seems to be that because a series of prefab firms have failed that the underlying conditions are immutable. I don't expect venture-backed firms to be able to change fragmented codes and approval processes. That's the job of researchers and advocates.

YIMBYs and urbanists often make the point that you should let people live where they want: near jobs, schools and amenities. I'd like to make a special case for Canada: we should let people live where the weather is good! open.substack.com/pub/carboncr...

The lack of rain protection at the Bute St plaza really sucks, a pergola that lets you get soaked is the epitome of no fun city imo

til one early plan (2002) for the Canada Line involved boring the whole thing, *under* a future M-Line extension Also a Nelson station sure would have been nice for me personally www.projects.eao.gov.bc.ca/p/58851099aa...

The main span of the Casano-Loutet overpass was installed this week and can be seen on the DriveBC highway camera. The pedestrian and cycling overpass is expected to be completed in July. #NorthVancouver #BikeYVR

I think the hand-wringing over voters blaming the Feds for a major, nation-wide crisis is overwrought tbh. If the voters want a strong federal government to solve this issue we should manifest one

Something I don't get, why are there a surprising number of townhouses with _porches_ as part of large developments in Vancouver? This seems really bad for accessibility and convenience?

Kinda fascinating claim about NA train crash standards, hadn't read this argument before