How are you going to ensure it's not ppl "wanting" to drive their motor vehicles into town?
It sounds like you're in favour of congestion pricing, & reducing ur personal vehicle lane kms in support of other modes.
It has to cost something.
@andyfillmorehfx.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Found the costs. In our Capital Projects Explorer Open Data portal.
390m of Dugald road maintenance in Winnipeg is ~$6,500,000 million dollars. #wild
Broadway ave renewal ~$16 million and we probably won't get bike lanes.
Jubilee - $13 million.
projectexplorer.winnipeg.ca/projects/180...
Like this nugget, but with historical figures for every road segment within the city. Right now, it's very hard to even find the cost of each current projects let alone past projects. It's detailed when you find it.
legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/...
I'd also like to click on any road segment and see what projects have happened, planned, construction disruption timing & costs + maintenance.
I've asked @cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social multiple times, but someone higher up seems to not approve this request. I know we have the data.
Does your city?
This reminds me. I have always wanted to see a simple GIS map of road building and maintenance costs. Sort of like these examples. If possible, it would be great to have it categorized by mode.
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If not, find a local spot, do a detailed/condensed count, and compare & contrast your city with a significant amount of Canada's cities.
This was from 2017. I'm just importing my old tweets. On the post's detail page, there's a timestamp these were originally posted on twitter. This sliver still seems to exist with a "single file" sign in front. From afar, I thought it was the startings of a protected Dutch rotary. One day 🤞
Does the same exist for Canada? I can't find design specs related to the safety of ppl outside of motor vehicles. Like, ppl w/ no protections. Let's actually have the "safest roads in the world". So let's reform. @OmarAlghabra @Transport_gc @LeahGazan https://t.co/OBP59hYrSe https://t.co/oQ0Fyth6ep
and then 100ft down the path, it’s completely different and perfect. Why the consistency issues? @cityofwinnipeg
People get paid to do this horrible job? @cityofwinnipeg
Wow. @cityofwinnipeg you just purposefully left the sidewalk full of snow but cleared all of City Hall grounds and the roads. Thanks for being an amazing neighbour. This city needs to be forced to care or nothing will change from inside. Even right outside it’s front doors.
A couple negatives. 1. The taxi area slip lane. Needs a bump before the crossing. Ppl need to be forced to pay attention. 2. The final approach. Narrow sidewalk w/ harsh square corners & no safe descent onto road. 3. Narrow crossings and snow mounds 4. Long-term bike parking
Absolute pleasure this morning. A Proper path w/ proper maintenance. A+ @YWGairport
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Your move @cityofwinnipeg. A safe, intuitive, and maintained connection to downtown w/ wayfinding signs please. https://x.com/torrinswanson/status/1532790561454886912
Par for the course is "the Dutch currently spends ~7 percent of its transport budget on cycling (~€30/capita/year)" "A smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk & cycle freely & safely."
https://t.co/AFo4RE7S6L
In Edmonton, that’s $42.5 per person per year. Right on par.
In Winnipeg we spend $2 per person per year. https://x.com/ctvedmonton/status/1574906516624351233
#2 comes w/ dangerous human-made humanholes. Kids won’t ride on #2. Parents won’t let them be that close to careless motor couches. Who’s making these decisions? Someone is going to get hurt no matter how much paint or pylons you lay down. #1 is infrastructure for everyone.
#1 or settle for #2?
Great, now can we remove the rocks from under both sides of the bridge? You know, spend money to remove the things we purposefully spent money on to deter our houseless community. https://x.com/cityofwinnipeg/status/1553040878574309380
Here’s 6 minutes south on the same street on the portion closed to pedestrians. ~230 peds and 38 personal vehicles. Fyi, The last count was ~657 peds and 0 personal vehicles.
Here’s 6 minutes of counting on Duval St in @City_of_KeyWest, using @counterpointapp. Not shown here is the Regular count breakdown of bikes and the amount of kids walking on this open street. This is how streets should be. P.s App crashed but saved my progress on next app load
Ahhh, a few blocks north they opened the road to people. Why not the whole downtown? Motor couches have no unrestricted place to roam in our cities amongst people.
Why is this one (in the video) instant but not the one on Provencher above?
#ConsistencyMatters Cc:
@cityofwinnipeg @mathieuallard @Palmquist88
still muddy? seriously when?
For the record here’s my councillor actively saying the way to keep “squatters” from taking shelter in the elements is to use jagged rocks so it hurts to sleep or sit. A terrible way to think. And for the record the way to avoid “squatters” is to #HousePeopleNow. https://t.co/bwail6TT74
Meanwhile in Vancouver they have basketball courts, table tennis, and birthday parties under their bridges. In Winnipeg, we have councillors actively keeping jagged rocks so no one can take shelter in the elements. @jbrowaty we can do much better.
A wild @plainbicycle. Vancouver needs more.
You should see my camera roll. It’s at 11,000 pictures and counting. I only have shared the ones that I can make into high-level stories. I hope someone is listening on the design and policy side of things. It’s fun biking around new cities. https://x.com/Burgundavia/status/1543661099421089792
Bike parking is a mess here too. Asked many ppl where the free and safe bike parking is and no one knows for sure. I gave up and locked to fence. Not intuitive = locking bikes to anything they can find. Not ideal. Others storing bikes next to them = less room in a packed park.
Just chaotic standstill polluting the air. Why is this island open to public cars? Park them outside and electric shuttle people in. Right now, Very angry drivers wielding 5000lbs weapons. Not fun.
But, I don’t always like to rag. B/c sometimes you find some gold like this, Pacific/Beach Ave expanded for all levels of people on bikes and pedestrians. Many path options and very very wide lanes to accommodate social conversation and tourists taking photos. Amazing job.
