Vision Zero Vancouver representing at the Crescent 200!

Really great explainer of pedestrian-controlled crossings!

I still believe we should phase out half-signals. We use them in spots that would be signalized anywhere else, nobody understands how they work and they create long green waves at night that let cars pick up dangerous speeds in urban areas.

The Truth About Beg Buttons... YouTube video by Nic Laporte

I let myself nerd out on beg buttons 🫣
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North Vancouver chlorine plant rejected from continuing operations after 2030 | CBC News Chemtrade, a liquid chlorine manufacturer in the District of North Vancouver, is "disappointed" that councillors rejected its proposal to continue operating past 2030. While it submitted a peer review...

Absolutely insane this is being allowed to happen. Chemtrade produces 40% of all domestic chlorine in Canada - primarily used to treat drinking water - and they're being forced to cease operations after an online smear campaign funded by their direct competitor.

Today, Vancouver council passed a rezoning that will replace a SINGLE(!) Shaughnessy mansion with 31 apartments.

Gigantic single family homes hoard so much land on the West Side. This should be legal to build everywhere by right.

Just a baffling, self inflicted months-long trainwreck. Has the government achieved anything other than making every possible side of this issue mad at them?

Meanwhile in Burnaby

Turns out that an entire urban philosophy built around shoving density onto abandoned industrial sites to spare the neighbourhoods falls apart once you run out of abandoned industrial sites

Another issue: Would a law banning teenagers from using social media even be constitutional?

Do 15-year-olds not have a right to express themselves on social media?

Yes, 15-year-olds can’t buy liquor either. But engaging in democratic debate online is not the same thing as downing a Smirnoff Ice

no i think it's just you, this seems like a perfectly reasonable route between the 3200 block of 8th Avenue and the 4600 block of 8th Avenue

no gentle density will ever be gentle enough —McGrath, since like 2013 or so

I build gentle density. Getting my homes approved attracts louder opposition than much larger buildings—usually from a very vocal minority.

People don’t like change if they feel they have a say—even if the status quo means a loss of children & families in their “family” neighbourhoods.

This should lay to rest the idea that "gentle density" will solve anti-housing backlash. Calgary legalized multiplexes (2 storeys, 60% lot coverage) by right and still faced the same headwinds. We won't get homes built by pre-emptively watering down housing reforms, so let's aim higher in Vancouver.

Introducing Chad Chadson, the true blue conservative warrior who will stand up to woke *five seconds later* we regret to inform you that Chad Chadson has crossed the floor to the Liberal Party

It is a little embarrassing that the Canada Line passes within 200 metres of the second largest hospital complex in BC and we didn't put a stop there

me watching people outside enjoying the weather after getting sick for the second time in two weeks

if you wait long enough, the park board's no biking stencils become a bike lane :))

The individual complaints are silly but they're right that the West Island REM has a big last-mile problem.

You can have a successful rapid transit line that lacks park and rides, TOD around stations, frequent feeder buses, or strong anchors. But lacking all of them? That might be harder.

Ontario to build on ‘strong mayor’ system by appointing ‘strong’ regional chairs Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government proposed Thursday to directly appoint a slate of regional council chairs and give them greater authority, which critics say is part of a trend of the government ...

I'm okay in principle with strong mayors, because a directly elected weak mayor is kind of the worst of both worlds. What's the good faith argument for adding an unelected provincial viceroy with executive powers though?

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It's legal everywhere in BC except in a handful of designated roads! I'm just kinda baffled that their construction management plan is to throw a "share the lane" sign on a freeway lane where everyone is doing 100

Didn't take a picture but I saw this setup on the Mary Hill Bypass and just had one question: WTF?

This is a freeway!

*monkey's paw curls* every farmer gets their own private grade-separated crossing like those along Deltaport Way

Never beating the Tories on bikes allegations

His full speech is really bad
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If the Liberals needed any other incentive to reinvent Canadian infrastructure project management to prioritize results over process, this is it. Delay means death for Alto.

Heather Lands rezoning to enable higher densities and provincial affordable housing initiative passes with 3 ABC abstensions

SKY alleges that the public hearing was in breach of procedural fairness because of info that supposedly wasn't disclosed. Staff: it was in the memo.

Dominato tries to go in-camera to review the funding agreement between MST and the province. Staff: we don't have this, and that's normal.

ABC councillors Kirby-Yung, Meiszner and Dominato led an effort to defer the Indigenous-led Heather Lands housing project at council today. Meisnzer says he'd oppose the project entirely without a guarantee of the provincial subsidized homeownership component, calls it a "blank cheque".

I was out in the Burke Mountain area of Coquitlam yesterday and couldn't help but feel that an environmental crime was committed here. This is a direct downstream consequence of Vancouver's failure to allow housing and Metro Vancouver's disastrous regional planning that promotes greenfield sprawl.

I always struggle to pick between Do Chay and Viet Family because they're both so good