To look at the underlying issues and find the solution: more often than not, it can be found in design: design better. End right on red; better road design, lower speed limits. Design so we don’t NEED crossing guards; make car-free zones around schools. #DesignMatters
We’re tired of thoughts and sharrows; not a day goes by where there isn’t some harrowing near miss/near catastrophic interaction with life changing results; real leadership is having the courage to look at our roads and the people who use them and protect the vulnerable by making hard choices 2/
To quote the talented @tomflood.bsky.social “courage should come from our councillors not our children.”
Grief at the death of a Peter Clark could manifest in lower speed limits, road safety funding, reevaluation of road safety design approaches, a push to reinstate cameras at prov level 1/
Our communities are grieving a month after Peter Clark’s death. Our political leaders lament this tragedy — no action to prevent another:
❌ Feds won’t regulate oversized vehicles
❌ Ontario killed speed cameras
❌ Council defunds road safety
You could have reduced the cost of public transport for a full year in Canada's top 7 cities by 1/3 rather than this.
Which one would have benefited the people who really need the help the most?
Let's be more thoughtful about how we do these initiatives.
If you want to help people, help them directly, and let them choose if expensive gasoline is a good use of that money. This just hands tax dollars to oil companies and puts our emissions reduction goals further out of reach.
I feel it too, every time I get behind the wheel. When I make a right turn by looking left for oncoming cars and sliding forwards across the crosswalk without thinking that someone could also be walking there. When I automatically drive as fast as the car ahead of me. It is powerful and insidious.
Urban Truth Collective and the Fight to Fix Misinformation About Bike Lanes, Traffic, and City Living.
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Good morning Ottawa! Welcome to our walkable neighborhood. Don’t trip on the shattered curbs, busted sidewalk, or stumble into the pole we didn’t bother to remove.
Thank goodness for lowest taxes in the province!
The point is that we have an oil dependence problem, and it’s going to take a lot of money to get out of it. But we also have an opportunity here to pay for that transition using the excess revenues generated by the private extraction of public resources.
After all, that oil belongs to Canadians.
If you don’t follow them already, it’s time to follow @urbantruth.bsky.social
It’s time to rewrite the narrative. Thank you @grantennis.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social
But Ottawa had bike share before... 🧐
Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x.
Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.
This here needs to stop. Why subsidize SFH? Just make them pay the proper price and remove the pressure on apartment dwellers.
This is wealth transfer in the wrong direction. This exacerbates inequalities and amplifies social crisis.
Speed cameras work. Doug Ford removing them made school zones more dangerous.
Kids and vulnerable road users are paying the price. Drop a line to Ontario’s Transportation Minister and tell him we We need to bring them back now.
prabmeet.sarkaria@pc.ola.org
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Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.
Carney has announced he’s temporarily dropping the relatively small gas tax. He didn’t need to do that, with Poilievre in a free fall. And all it does is fuel the idea that gas taxes drive gas prices, which they obviously don’t. This was a mistake, similar to letting the carbon tax be reframed.
Today's announcement by @mark-carney.bsky.social to suspend the 10c federal fuel excise tax until Labour Day is wrong as it's really a subsidy for drivers. Instead, Carney & his #LPC government need to aggressively push for alternatives to driving. #cdnpoli #ONpoli #TOpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
There’s still a federal sales tax on bicycles.
So far this government has:
- removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market)
- removed carbon tax
- removed low carbon electricity policy
- removed gasoline tax
- removed oil and gas cap
when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?
cartoon panels of a house on fire, person and fireperson. 1. house on fire person says My house is on fire. fireperson replies: we declare your house on fire 2. Person says Can you put it out. Fireperson: no but we did declare it on fire. 3. Person: that should do it thanks. 4. Climate Emergency
Emergency
When does the new govt climate policy actually start? So far a lot of dismantling climate policy...
Same text as in post. Via @UBIWorks.bsky.social #UBI #UniversalBasicincome
“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”
Super successful 1st day (of 3) speaking with e-bike riding gig workers about their experiences, & sharing information about their rights/responsibilities. Our pals @thebikebrigade, @cycletoronto.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social & @senditcourier made this happen!
Cassie takes a selfie on her bike wearing a hat and helmet. A hockey stick pokes out behind her. And on the bike path behind her is a kid wearing a helmet and coat on another bike.
We biked to hockey today almost entirely on all ages and abilities infrastructure. And then brought our bikes on the train back home because kiddo was tired after his games.
This is what having good quality transportation options is all about!
Illustration of an Ontario town with a red carpet rolling down a street with a gas pipeline snaking along the red carpet, plugging into houses as it goes. “DOUG FORD IS ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET FOR ENBRIDGE PIPELINES” Black band at the bottom with Stand.earth logo in bottom left corner and SAFE Cities logo in bottom right corner.
Doug Ford is rolling out the red carpet for fossil fuel giant Enbridge Gas. 🤑
🛢️Enbridge already supplies gas to most of Ontario residents for home heating — and it wants even more customers.
More gas users means more profits.
#GreenSky
Jeff, Katy, James, Kaylee and Sukham pose for a cold selfie on a street corner / Jeff, Katy, James, Kaylee et Sukham prennent un égoportrait par temps froid à un coin de rue
A big thanks to my team for mainstreeting in Barrhaven with me today to hear residents' thoughts on housing, transit, the state of city services and more. If only the weather were as warm as the chats!
A group of people on bikes gather including kids, trailers, and a bunch cargo bike
The New Edinburgh Park and Fieldhouse sign with bikes all around and people in the background
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Lift kit, oversized wheels, blacked out windows, licence plate covered. But sure…. Bike lane are the problem.
Police need to step up enforcement including at the source: mechanic shops who performed these sort of modifications, should be fined and put out of business.
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
THE ALTERNATIVE IS THE BUNGALOW IS TORN DOWN AND REPLACED WITH A 2-3 MILLION SINGLE FAMILY HOME
(ALSO HOUSING IS THE ONE THING THAT DOES ACTUALLY TRICKLE DOWN)