Why the city continues to entertain these stupid and obviously bad faith arguments is beyond me.

Oh, this is what happened in Ottawa! A single bus route was replaced by an LRT, value-engineered to within an inch of its life, that meant two outdoor transfers to downtown instead.

The very predictable and oft-heard answer — that people who can afford to fly are so rich that they don’t need transit — is outdated and irrelevant. Transit is good for everyone: it lowers traffic and reduces greenhouse gases, irrespective of who is using it.

This so much! Parents (usually mothers) in car-centric areas are forced to chauffeur their kids around. It also means they emphasize predictable, scheduled activities (like sports leagues) that cost money. Youth mobility gives kids freedom, saves money, and reduces the unpaid-labor burden on women

Ottawa 2.0: there’s still a bit of non-privatized green space you can use for 3.0.

I’m sure this feels like it matters a lot but I’m just wondering how somebody reading this in 1925 or 1825 or 825 would respond.

It’s a predictable pattern. Suburban and rural (mainly) voted to spend more, get less, align themselves with private interest to fund a project that doesn’t affect them, delivering lower value at the expense of urban quality of life and wrecking women’s pro hockey in the capital.

Why I will oppose amalgamation in Victoria, example #296. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

On the one hand, I’m glad I was able to get the shingles vax - it’s a very painful disease that is more likely to hit you as you get older. On the other hand, I woke up feeling like I had the worst hangover in history. Hot tip: schedule it before a day you can take off work.

Well, that was a disappointment.

Whatever happens tomorrow, on Sunday I will be looking up the reporting day for pitchers and catchers.

All in all, it’s just another

The finalists for Most Dramatic Wall Moment From The Last 40 Years award

Not running over kids on Hallowe’en: yet another woke salvo in the war on cars.

The most disappointing thing for online Dodgers fans today is that they can’t blame Springer “cheating” for their loss.

There's never been a better time to bike or take public transit.

I’m not one to celebrate the misfortunes of others. But in the case of the New York Yankees, I make an exception.

I don’t post about sports much here, but the Jays crushing the smug, confident, presumptuous Yankees is pretty satisfying. Vladimir Guerrero laughing and yelling, “Daaaaaa Yankees Lose!” was especially fun tonight.

Kids being separated from their parents in the middle of the night, toddlers being zip-tied by masked government employees. How much more will it take before Americans have had enough and take action?

This is one of those mornings when I read the news and am flooded anew with relief at having left Ontario.

Vancouver is SO melodramatic once fall starts.

I took my daughter to downtown LA in March for a week: our goal was to enjoy the city itself. Disney and studios were not on the list. DTLA is a little rundown, but it did not seem dangerous. But it took forever to get anywhere. Transit is underdeveloped, and driving is a nightmare.

This argument reminds me of having to clean my plate when I was a kid because there were children starving in other countries.

Oh, this new path along Ross Bay is just a delight. I had seem some complaining on the Oak Bay FB group that there isn’t enough room for cars, but they did just fine when they slowed down - which I suspect is part of the point. Amazing work by @victoria.ca.

This can’t be right. I have heard repeatedly that housing prices don’t respond to supply, and that the real problem is stone countertops in condos. Why are they hiding the research on stone countertops? /s

1/ The TC published my opinion piece on Victoria's OCP. It's critical that Council pass this. The half-century old decision to stop building small apartments in Victoria, and much of Canada, is behind many of our problems. It's time to start fixing that. #yyj www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

I'd rather be buried alive for 12 hours than attend a funeral for James Dobson. If it was 24 hours, I would go and make a ruckus. Let's not rule out indecorum. #restinpus

We need input from the cycling community, and others, on where to place our “parking zones” for the e-bike share program. Please provide input. @erikwdv.bsky.social @sarahfrumento.bike @kellyblack.ca @sv-rub-a-dub.bsky.social @raynarambling.bsky.social @bromptonymous.ca engage.victoria.ca/bikeshare

Trying to figure out if this carhugger argument is even more disingenuous than the one about making drivers stop more often being bad for the climate.

Joining the fun.

Folks, give @victoria.ca a follow on this platform. Our comms team is facing the reality of going from 40,000 X followers to 978 Bluesky followers. We’re doing the right thing by ditching the toxic platform, but we need those followers back. bsky.app/profile/vict...

Omg this. Ideas are the easy part.

Fresh research confirming chain-of-address filtering is as powerful in Class A residential as the "flight-to-quality" Class A office phenomenon 👇 New housing supply lowers rents the most in *Class C old buildings*, not the rents in other new Class A buildings! x.com/PewStates/st...

More and more I feel like we don't actually live in a city. More like a block of suburbs and exoburbs who have a singular focus on cutting everything except roads to keep taxes low. (Thanks for being an exception here)

Wow, this is such a great tool! @bikeottawa.bsky.social is a fantastic organization.

But but but housing isn’t subject to the laws of supply and demand like other commodities, because of landlord greed and luxury condos or something

Why I will oppose amalgamation in Victoria, exhibit 312.

Depressingly accurate. I visit the nation’s capital every few months, and each time the sidewalks look a little worse.

This is not the place to make anger your central identity.

“Police do not agree” that banning right on red will save lives. Welp, I guess that settles it.

As we reach the end of our sixth year in Victoria, I continue to feel like a tourist on vacation here. In Ontario, people talk about this period as the dog days of summer: hot, humid, with those evening thunderstorms. Do Victorians even use that phrase?

Our neighbourhood is ridiculously charming.

What an incredible achievement, and good news for people living under other provincial governments in Canada considering the same move.

I can not endorse this enough. The world is packed with “useful” advice designed to help you find love, manage your finances, advance your career, etc. Getting kids (and everyone else) interested in Jane Austen, jazz, silent film, astronomy and Silver Latin Prose is the real challenge.

Let’s just skip the middle and all start calling it Columbia Bible College now.

Congratulations to @shawnmenard.bsky.social, the people of Capital Ward, and all of the regular people who have been lobbying the City of Ottawa for years for finally getting the Alta Vista Transportation Corridor removed from the Transportation Master Plan and saving People’s Park.

Montreal and BIXI are decades ahead of the rest of us. I would *love* to have this option available, and am sure I am not alone.

“It’s just this one time.” “I’m just going to squeeze in here.” “I’m only stopped for a minute.” These must all sound reasonable inside the head of a single driver. But outside the cars, the impact is vehicle after vehicle blocking and endangering pedestrians and cyclists.

In Toronto, even amalgamation wasn’t enough to make bike lanes unpopular, so Doug Ford amalgamated the entire province to rally the necessary exurban anger to rip out bike lanes.

Just look at all that heritage parking