Rainbow warning in effect

wtf

Also see, Halifax. Prime waterfront land dominated by two ports and CN owned land, surrounding the Harbour and Bedford Basin. Benefits to real-live humans come second to profit.

Marketing (propaganda) is a powerful thing

Such a waste of time & money. Threaten to tear out things we've already build that the people are using & love for the very cynical hope of dividing a population against itself & riding that hate to political victory "Please car people, hate the bike people. And vote for me!" Scoundrels #BikeLanes

Want to revive rural Atlantic Canada? Trains connect. Trains grow all local economies equally. Air travel centralizes, consolidates growth to single locations. Rural citizens should fight for the return of regular trains.

Total business as usual, then taking the opportunistic power move whenever he can. Tackling the actual problems with actual solutions? Keep waiting

There's some kind of irony that during an extreme drought and threat of wildfires that they ban the activities that might save us from more climate disaster. But sure get out there in your car, carry on folks

DYK that parking a motorcycle in Halifax costs the same as any other size car/SUV/truck. Are we not paying for the space we take? This is what causes traffic. Incentivize efficient geometries

Cities have to regain their autonomy. They're the economic drivers of provinces. Yet are told what to do and how to live by suburban and rural politicians.

Where have all the hacktivists gone. Seems like a good time to make a comeback

Every advanced pedestrian signal should also be an advanced bicycle signal.

When insane car people in Facebook comments go on about how cyclists should be licenced and insured I think of shit like this. Power = responsibility.

Am I reading into this too much, or does the Mayor having a Council Relations role in his office means he won't be doing the council relations himself?

Actively campaigning to make people's lives worse and more expensive. Just why

At a time where we’re trying to increase regional tourism, why not a Tourist Train from Moncton to Halifax on summer weekends, leave Moncton in the early morning, stops in Sackville, Amherst, Truro, drops the tourists off on the waterfront around 11AM. Return trip in evening.

Conservative provincial governments vs. Cities. Just making lives worse for people. And better for no one. Useless spiteful and petty

This fucking guy. Between Fillmore and Houston, what’s happening is a lazy version of the current American administration - create a problem, attempt to set the parameters of discourse by lying and insulting people, and use your own bullshit to justify tremendous overreach. Don’t get it twisted.

For how much politicians swoon over tourism and the tourist economy, you'd think that would come up in the HFX bike lanes debate more often. You think tourists want to come to a city having to fight off cars wherever they go? Give them a city that's easy to navigate via bike or walking. See, Europe

You have to "not be afraid." 🧵 What Andy's doing here (as mayor) is setting an expectation that riding a bike is a dangerous endeavour, which is normal - and expected. He's implying that people who think you should be able to ride a bike without worrying about being hit by a car are unreasonable.

Fillmore is a coward. Saying what he feels he needs to say to impress the right people at the right time. An opportunist. A follower. Does he stand for anything? Does he believe in anything? You can't trust anything this man says.

This is fantastic. Parkland/Regency Park Sts are wide, connect from the high school, all the way through family filled residential neighbourhoods, completing at the bike lanes (only painted ATM) along Kearney Lake Rd. The wide roads of Clayton park could all use a good AT makeover. Will be well used

Mayor Fillmore seems to have a hard time with pushback and disagreement. Understandable though given his last 9 years experience as MP - not too much notable, or controversial.

I'll say it again... we could have had Waye. But no, the morons in this city voted for a career back-bencher who had slightly more name recognition and zero vision for this city. Bike lanes never slowed down your commute. Too many cars as result of shitty transit options slows it down.

It's a complete disrespect of everyone involved. And beyond that, a waste of money to have to effectively duplicate this work, and present to council again. Fiscally responsible Filmore was it?

Incredibly unprofessional and disrespectful on Filmore's part.

Quinpool bike lanes are at it again.

To be honest this is such a waste of council and staff's time. The Mayor should feel shame.

Too many times I've said "I'm going to write an email" and never did. This one had to be sent. Mayor Filmore's proposal is just so absurd. "Bike lanes cause traffic" is something you hear from the average news 95.7 caller. Cars are traffic. One Less Car.

We call it economic growth

Just another car fire, happens all the time EV car fire, front page news! Ban the technology!

Finding it amazing that amongst all of this the Prime Minister is still posting on X

Are these real people? They don't look or act like humans

Similarly, is selling a long-lasting product a sustainable business model? Some planned human obsolescence going on here.

I'm not a fucking robot!! (also tired of doing free labour for tech companies)

"When you see stories..." The use of rare, emotionally compelling individual cases that defy statistical facts is the bread and butter of right-wing propaganda. It's why those who consume right-wing media have a warped grasp of reality.

This is absolutely not the news I would have dreamed of waking up to. South Korea's Yoon declares emergency martial law. to I have some scattered thoughts to follow. m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024...

Bluesky bringing the internet back!

Dealt with traffic to get into the city for an appointment this morning. I WFH but don't know how people do that every day. I would refuse or just find a new job (I know not everyone has that luxury). There are better ways, BRT. De-normalize single-person car commutes! So much wasted space

Chender missed at least one good opportunity to criticize Houston with the talk about traffic and BRT. She said BRT plans were in progress, not even mentioning the neglect of funding by Houston's PCs. Low hanging fruit there.

Shit, life threatening injuries from a cyclist getting doored on Spring Garden Rd. Enough with the "vehicle bicycle collision" language BS. According to HRP the cyclist "collided with the open door of a parked vehicle". Again, injuries caused by cars kind of somehow just magically happen.

too much anime porn in the Discover tab. they'll have to do something about that I feel

Frustratingly finding myself biking on way more sidewalks lately. Feeling bad about dinging my bell at pedestrians sharing the narrow 1m wide path. But getting into/out of the city (safely) by the rotary is near impossible otherwise. The other option is not biking at all

Sure there's something to say about familiarity, but to design BSky to look *exactly* like twitter?