"Just as we make ourselves more energy-secure by switching from fossil fuels to renewables, we make ourselves more food-secure by switching from animals to plants." - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
That is density?
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I love downtown city living but the endless city and sprawl around Ottawa Toronto Vancouver⌠feels way too much. Victoria is nicer city size. I donât think we need to make monster cities more monster. And there are plenty of people who prefer even quieter and slower life.
As someone who grew up on a farm, I love the city centre and Suburbs give me anxiety
â costs the City of Ottawa $465 per person each year to serve new low-density homes ⌠, high-density infill development, such as apartment buildings, leaves the city with an extra $606 per capita each year,â
What People Get Wrong About Apartment Living
Oh I see. Awkward.
Happy 9th Birthday to the Pandora Bike & Roll Lane with celebration May 3 2026 1 to 3pm
Clover Point Picnic Club is celebrating the 9th birthday of the amazing #VictoriaBC Pandora #bikelane that started the snowball effect of an incredible #activetransportation network in #YYJ đ˛
May 9th 2026 1-3pm
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Special thx to Bishop Family [âŚ]
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historically, but today jobs and location are less tightly coupled. Towns donât need a single big employer anymore â they need basic services, good internet, and reliable connections to regional centres. With that mix, people can choose them for cost and quality of life, not just for one industry.
Emojis for one.. who has time for that.
You wouldnât want to read thru the mess of my thoughts before I asked them written back organized.
Slow vs fast (re video with house and rickety fence)
What I mean⌠frequency can grow as demand does..
Anyway you can see in the picture there is no street/sidewalk continuing in the direction the pedestrian is crossing⌠Iâd feel better as a pedestrian on the median to cross when there are no cars coming so long as I donât have to wait too long for a break in traffic.
A few things that cities and safety standards (like those promoted by Vision Zero) emphasize: * Predictability beats spontaneity. When crossings are clearly marked or controlled, drivers expect to stop and scan both lanes. Mid-block, unmarked crossings on multi-lane roads are where this specific risk spikes. * Visibility is everything. Curb extensions, median refuges, and daylighting (keeping parked cars back from crossings) make pedestrians visible to both lanes at once instead of being ârevealedâ lane by lane. * Speed matters more than blame. At lower speeds, drivers have more time to react and stopping distances shrink dramatically. Thatâs why many cities push 30 km/h (or lower) on streets with frequent crossings. * Two-stage crossings help. A median refuge lets someone cross one direction at a time, eliminating the need to judge gaps across multiple lanes simultaneously. So youâre right about the danger of a single car stopping unexpectedly on a multi-lane road. The solution isnât to rely on perfect behavior from either pedestrians or drivers, but to design the environment so that situation rarely occurs in the first place.
More frequent official crossing areas where people tend to cross is better..
If people are safe on the median and have âowned the riskâ of crossing where there is no crosswalk, it can be unsafe for vehicles to stop unexpectedly especially if there are two lanes then a vehicle in the second lane might pass and hit the pedestrian they didnât see.
âKoch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects âwasteful spendingâ. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.â
Population density and tax base.
But we could populate/densify smaller towns across rail network starting with remote govt workers ⌠and tax the rich.
The vegan burrito with tempura yam is the best.. but not available at all locations.
But, they do this weird thing where they charge more for the tempura yam if you order a vegan burrito than if you order a vegetarian burrito with tempura yam. đ¤đ¤Śââď¸
(It is a lactose intolerance surcharge too )
Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich
â¨Well, today we're taxing the rich...
âShirley A. Millwood, a Republican county probate judge elected in 2024, found that the Ross brothers had deliberately rerouted mail to prevent Ross-MahĂŠ from receiving correspondence related to her citizenship application, causing her to miss an immigration hearing.â
She was married for less than 1 year to him?
Power & Politics plays a clip of Doug Ford saying he's "the only premier in history that refuses to use the premier's plane."
The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.
Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.
Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.
Yet Again that is FPTP : in a Cons safe riding, the dominant party (Cons) effectively decides the MP (maybe EDA members of con party). Other voters donât get meaningful input who the candidate js, so itâs not really any choice for/by the locals, broadly speaking.
You reject what I say either by using some random type of ProRep We would unlikely have rather than the most popular version(s) Canada has been looking at ⌠OR criticisms that squarely apply to FPTP. How should I characterize that?
Elizabeth May: "I just read in The Guardian that the big oil and gas companies are making $30m [*an hour] because of the wars. So why are we deciding to get rid of the excise tax on gas instead of an excess profit tax on the companies that are raking in the dough due to war?"
The local MPs people vote for are chosen by the party and whipped by the party (generally) so ⌠no, I cant help it if you reject logic.
