Today @emilylowan.bsky.social @jervaler.bsky.social @robbotterell.bsky.social announced that the BC Greens will not be renewing the Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord (CARGA). #bcpoli

Going into politics with the sole aim of removing "live, work and play" from every planning document in existence

Parents can’t wait. It’s time for Childcare By Right.

Did you know: at least 1,240 Metro Vancouver bus stops don’t have benches for waiting riders! 😱 Working with our pals over at @movementyvr.bsky.social, we mapped out where weary soles are most in need of somewhere to sit: https://go.transit.app/vancouver-benches 🍑🪑

If you're not aware of Alec, you should be. Excellent stuff.

deep sigh

Any technical modernization plan that extends beyond 15 years needs to have a retirement plan. A modernization plan that ends in 2080 needs like 3 generations of replacement and retirement plans. …the iPhone is 19 years old this year

I love budgies and I love this!!!

Broadway is closed between Main and Quebec for four months. The city has done nothing to prevent rat-running on Ontario and 10th Ave bikeways, creating a giant mess. We'll be pressuring council and staff to fix this ASAP. www.youtube.com/shorts/UEfqo...

Vancouver: we have an excellent bike network! Vancouver: *closes 1 block of Broadway* The excellent bike network: #bikeyvr #vancouver #BikeTooter

Slow-walking bus lanes? Although the City of Vancouver has promised to expand bus priority across the city, twice, these projects are getting scaled back and delayed. Promised back in 2023, deadlines are now being shifted into the unspecified future. Read the full article.

14th and main construction update: they've poured a concrete road section for the buses to stop at (which reduces wear on the asphalt). Like the temporary platform before, there will be a bus stop cutout here.

Proposal: any pedestrian pushing an occupied baby carriage should be allowed to issue a limited number of roadside summary driving bans every month

Developers don't pay DCCs. "Thus, while development charges are intended to shift growth-related infrastructure costs to developers, the literature widely shows that the new homebuyer ultimately absorbs the direct cost through inflated new house prices." www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professional...

(2016) (Portal opens) Me: mark carney, governer of the Bank of England, what are you doing Carney: America’s haunted Me: what Mark carney: (grabbing a gun and jumping back through the portal) America’s haunted

In 2025, City Hall paralysis blocked 6 key sites from being developed. Ken Sim couldn’t build the majority required to get things done. Enough. I’m moving to immediately unlock these sites for 4,000 affordable homes. No more excuses. #VanPoli #HousingNow

Just listened to the @onecityvan.bsky.social mayoral contestants @wazaroff.bsky.social and Amanda Burrows. Both would represent an amazing and positive change in city hall, though I have to say I am partial to the candidate who gives a shout out to single-stair small lot buildings.

@thetyee.ca you may want to check out Patrick Condon's X account before posting his articles in the future. Not a great look!

PSA: If you want to vote in OneCity's mayoral nomination race, you need to become a member by Sunday, Jan. 11th at the latest. AFAIK, it is the only open, contested mayoral nomination in Vancouver.

Vancouver's first city plan was designed by Harlem Bartholomew, a proud American segregationist who used zoning as a tool to perpetuate segregation in the US. Planners who protect single-family zoning are protecting racist and classist systems (whether they think they are or not)

Boomers be running around turning off every light that no one is standing directly under in their 3,000 square foot detached house for two people

Maybe the province could buy corner lots near parks. (Cities can keep cars off the surrounding school streets.) They could build two or three classroom elementary school annexes over the lower two floors, and have a co-op manage the upper four residential floors. #bcpoli #newwest #vanpoli

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? 🚍🤷

That's an average of more than 20 km per day, per bike. People want and use bikeshare systems. Cities should invest appropriately (more capital and operational funding)

My simple test for city housing policy: 1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and 2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city? Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.

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.

For some general ideals: Westshore -> Downtown in 20 min or less with 5 min frequency Uptown -> UVic in 15 min or less with 5 min frequency Swartz Bay -> Downtown in 30 min with 10 min frequency Rather than saying "let's build light rail", we need to ask "what gets us better service than driving"

It sure seems to me like DRIPA is working exactly as intended. If a law doesn't align with UNDRIP, it should be updated to align. Eby being upset that it's working as intended is definitely a choice, one that I'm not sure is good for anyone

Paris does it! Helsinki does it! Florence does it! So many places figured out how to run fast and reliable light rail lines - Toronto can too by giving transit riders the green light.

Mark Carney Megaproject: Hastings Sports Stadium/North Vancouver Skytrain/Hastings Skytrain Please Thanks This is what canada needs

I'm thinking today of the dozens of CoV team members that Ken Sim has fired, right before the holidays, thanks to his election-year budget stunt. Workers keep us moving. We need to invest in our city and its services, and we need great people working for our city to do that.

I think they should have gone for "professionally dead" instead. Same vibe, much funnier

tfw you're professionally incapacitated

As Chantal Hébert said, folks are missing the climate forest for the pipeline trees. Carney rolled back major climate policies for Alberta, now! In exchange for a lil industrial carbon price increase and the BS that is carbon capture! Forgetting the pipeline, this is BAD for the climate crisis!

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 #vanpoli

zoning perpetuates classism and racism, and it's continued use is a stain on society

Look out BC! China’s LNG demand drops for 13th month running. Last week, Pakistan cancelled a huge contract to purchase LNG from Qatar (even choosing to pay a penalty) because they no longer need/want it -- the solar revolution is quickly displacing demand for LNG. financialpost.com/pmn/business...

this dude is part of a government that just committed to ramming a pipeline through bc's north coast over the objections of basically everyone. yeah, i don't think laurel's work is continuing.

Happy Thanksgiving

Big news in British Columbia! The all party Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee has recommended a Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform after months of hearings. 1/10

Have you considered ensuring that regulated drugs are accessible to everyone since this is a public health emergency

I had a fun time carrying Patrick around in my cargo bike and giving him a little tour of my and Urban Thrive's first car free townhouse in #yyj. Quoting myself here: "I changed the way I build because the city changed the way it built" by investing in safe and convenient cycling infrastructure.

Adjusting the property tax increase for inflation, we can see that the zero-percent budget represents a 2% tax cut in real terms, the largest in the last 16 years.

Public Transit has a marketing problem in Canada. Not to customers (who love it) but to senior governments (who are apparently not even aware it exists). May I propose: "Transit. It's like a pipeline, but for people!"

City-owned golf courses overlayed on neighbourhoods housing about 60,000 people.

This is a great start - I would also add Right of First Refusal for the city/gov/non-profits as well so it is also possible for it to be turned into non-profit housing!

I love this, it's the way to go!

Will got lucky in the timing of the election. Victoria will absolutely not vote for a party that is pro bc pipeline. Idk if the ndp would take him over collins, but greens would be a great choice too

The number of people speaking to Vancouver council simply asking for *an actual budget* rather than a vague budget outline should in itself enough to stop council from passing it. The bare minimum should be saying what you're going to cut.