This summer has been such a wash. Cancelled two out of three camping trips due to weather and dealing with surprise house repairs. All I wanted to do was cut/install some baseboards and go for long bike rides. Heck, wanted to ride TO camping this weekend. If this smoke doesn't clear up.. 😭

Babysitting a car is time consuming.

NEW from Brandi Morin. The last stand for old growth: As the chainsaws close in, land defenders refuse to look away. First Nations elders are once again on the front lines. With ancient forests facing imminent destruction, they say industry has written off entire ecosystem as ‘collateral damage.’

This is why I won’t ride in the death zones they have for painted bike gutters in some parts of YEG, like 121 st and parts of 106 st. Take the lane instead of the death zones. YEGBIKE

The High Level Bridge is closed to cyclists and pedestrians! Work is expected to last until Wednesday, but we would not be surprised to see it extend beyond that. edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/07/20/r... #yegbike

I filled this out in defence of Edmonton's bike lane program, and I encourage you to do the same. pathsforpeople.org/initiatives/...

So great to be able to just hop on a bike with a novice rider, buzz downtown on mostly protected mobility routes, hit Taste of Edmonton and the Museum, and come back home with much less worry about inattentive drivers, potholes, and parking. Shoutout to ToE for secure bike parking. YEG yegbike

This week the Funicular will be closed, along with the High Level Bridge paths for active modes - we are deeply concerned & are asking Epcor and @thecityofedmonton.bsky.social to detour cars instead, so that active modes, transit and EMS can use the open lanes on the High Level Bridge. Join us! 📢 ✉️📞

Your friendly neighborhood car dependency researcher here. If we want to get people out of car dependency, we need to let people who are car dependent talk to us about what's keeping them in car dependency. It's really not enough to say, "you should be less dependent on your car" I've tried.

ChatGPT is not a search engine. And the fact that the references needed to be checked and double checked because ChatGPT hallucinates information ought to be a very good reason for a scholar to avoid using it.

#carryshitolympics borrowed a friends bike for getting stuff to renovate our garden house... He's strictly against motorizing his bikes so i barely made it up a small bridge on the way

"As a city we are going from a layout with less people per square kilomtere to more people per square kilomete. In order to fit all these people in and move them around, we're going to need solutions that move them around in ways that are smaller than a car." #yycbike youtu.be/InmNriQxv8M?...

There are zero "anti-car activists" (the term being thrown around today) who believe that vital services such as emergency response and sanitation shouldn't be done with vehicles. The issue is personal automobile ownership and the over-deployment of cars at the expense of nearly everything else.

Catching up on the media coverage from the pro bike lane protest today. I don't think it was made evident, it wasn't JUST about 50th street (IMO). It was against the proposed legislation, bullying the City, cars over active transport. Not just one bike lane or street. City wide concerns.

For Heslinga, it’s all about distracting from other issues. “Bike lanes come up, and it’s a really easy way to make everyone start talking about something else” The UCP should be focused on healthcare, education, data breaches, etc. - not overreaching into local municipal matters.

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

UCP minister Devin Dreeshen's resume includes: - campaigning for Trump - drinking on the job - mocking worker safety, before workers died - refusing to oppose separatism This is the top-notch guy Danielle Smith handpicked to ban bike lanes in Alberta

Today on 50th Street: -More than 60 smiling cyclists and the sound of chiming bike bells. -An open seat on a tandem with a friendly invitation to Devin D to chat -An angry woman standing in the road, yelling "fuck you" to people on bikes. #yegbike #yycbike

At least 65 people showed up to our ride on 50st. People want safe infrastructure, and we want the minister to stop causing division to distract from the UCP's various scandals. Separation from traffic, not separation from Canada. I #yegbike

Have I ever said how much I love this patch? Best little addition to my bar bag. www.bearfacegeneralstore.com/product/urba...

We are in international news for garbage reasons. I wish we could be celebrated for the wins we have had in the region. This Snitch Line is such a b.s. thing. Distraction from larger issues and actively undercutting the Big Cities.

Americans thinking Canadian wildfire smoke shouldn’t affect them and Canadians thinking FDA cuts won’t affect our food supply. We’re all on this continent together, buckos. Smoke, parasites and viruses don’t care about borders.

Bike lanes create safer roads for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

www.alberta.ca/report-conce... Hey #yegbike - they changed the survey since yesterday! There is now a “none” option for which concern and then we can continue to flood them with reasons why we want more cycling infrastructure! And tell them to “ stay in their lane” and out of municipal issues

We need to ban right turn on red, because drivers like Charlie do not understand it's a privilege not a right. As a consequence drivers don't even slow down before turning nevermind stopping and looking for pedestrians.

👆When you read this story it tells you that Alberta’s UCP government position to remove safe bicycle infrastructure is really a position stating it’s okay if people die on Alberta streets, including children. And if you support their UCP, you are also saying it’s ok. #Alberta #Calgary #Edmonton

Remember the restaurant critic who wrote up reviews about places they never ate at? Me neither? So why are we taking advice or surveying people about bike lanes from people who have never ridden in them.🤷‍♂️

John Forester, killing people since 1972.

JUST IN: Edmonton floods again: Minister Dreeshen asks, "Is it the bike lanes?" More at 11:00. #yegcc #yegbike #ableg

Canada is burning today, after it’s also been flooding and boiling lately. But don’t worry — Carney has a plan to offset his embrace of oil and gas: carbon capture and storage. There’s just one problem. That plan is full of more hot air than Canada’s skies right now. Let me explain:

Email [email protected] you bike lanes concerns. #yycbike #yegbike

Storms are taking longer than expected to start coming off the foothills. Updated timeframe for potential storms in the Edmonton area: 8pm-Midnight...especially that 9-11pm window. As always, no guarantee we get a storm - but it's likely we'll have some "action" in the area again tonight. #yegwx

Plumber was here, confirmed that an old Stormwater access needs to be removed (no flapper insight with the scope). At this point, we are in the caulk and pray stage until it can be addressed. Who in their 1950's mind thought it was a good idea to have stormwater lines IN YOUR HOUSE?!

Gosh. I thought the Montreal bike survey (version #2) was biased. Alberta is not even trying to seem neutral. This is purely “tell us which bike lane you want us to beat up”.

Active transportation is a key to a happier city and a more financially sustainable city. That is the real risk here. Unfortunately the identity politics behind the UCP are not invested in the long term viability or vibrancy of Edmonton. They don’t live here or won’t be in 50 years.

The UCP will sell this as fixing something that is unpopular. Bike lanes are not unpopular in Edmonton. bike opposing candidate for mayor lost. bike opposing councillors lost to bike friendly incumbents. This is only an issue with a loud minority whose identity politics tells them it is…

Time to re-up my shared map of YEG bike counters. If you go by one, pull a uey or two and multi-bag that bad boy to account for all the places counters are not! Yegbike Bike Counters · Lyle maps.app.goo.gl/FESkBVaMB6gM...

Me: Legally crossing the road in a marked crosswalk. Driver: "I will bury you." He slowed down to let me walk, waited until I was in front of him, then accelerated. Once I was out of the way, he stopped, rolled down his window, and proceeded to threaten my life. But cyclists are the problem.

Remember, if we’re talking about separatism, we can’t “silence the voices of hundreds of thousands of Albertans.” But when Edmonton repeatedly elects councils that campaign on bike infrastructure, the province has no issue overriding those voters. Democracy matters more on some issues than others.

Snitch line is now up. There is no way to report good active transport lanes but there is an email on their website. www.alberta.ca/report-conce...

Alberta needs anti-SLAPP legislation Unrigged is joining the call on Alberta legislators to better protect freedom of expression and public interest journalism Ontario, BC and Manitoba have adopted anti-SLAPP legislation. It's time for Alberta to do the same Add your support antislappalberta.ca

Read it. Supposedly there will be a complaint website for people to report underutilized lanes. How is it any different than a roadway? What about those routes without actual counters (or functioning ones)? Stay in your own gd lane.

Tuesday, July 14, ↑24.8°C ↓14.0°C, 0.2mm rain Total: 15,342 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 1,928 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 1,204 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 1,054 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 992 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 951 Belgravia Rd Foot Bridge SUP: 797 Terwillegar Park Footbridge: 702

No more, please I beg of you. My yard can't take much more and we had street/alleyway flooding again last night. Alleyway - 3 times in less than a week Street - 2.5 times in a week

Major storm brings lots of rain to west and north Edmonton

A city councillor is the latest target of a local Zionist organization for his social media posts which criticize the genocide being perpetrated by Israel. Meanwhile our police chief took a whole trip to guzzle Zionist boots in Israel and champion their tech here & it's had no impact on his career.

that the provincial gov't wants to interfere in the decisions of a lower level of gov't is some kind of BS when, in the very same breath, they will bleat on and on and on and on and on about the feds interfering in their jurisdiction it is damn exhausting stay in your lane

#yegbike PSA, for some reason these bollards at the bottom of the very steep downhill from Brookside to the Fort Edmonton/Fox Drive area keep getting moved to narrow the entrance. Someone could get very seriously injured if they didn’t anticipate this.

Great post by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment! Cycling is a great way to stay healthy! Every trip by bike that replaces a trip by motor vehicle improves air & water quality, providing benefits for everyone, including those who do not cycle. buff.ly/7t0yWXV #yegbike

The problem with riding bikes is that a lot of the time when you’re not riding bikes, you’re just thinking, “Fuck, I’d rather be riding bikes than the bullshit that I’m currently doing.”