I feel like we’ve been protesting ford forever now and I’m starting to wonder what would be truly disruptive enough to get Ford’s attention or reverse course on certain items

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Any amount helps as we work to scale our program in 2026. Our fleet is at least 4x larger than it was in spring of 2025, requiring more $ for secure bike storage, bike insurance & repairs.

Sign saying “sorry no petrol.”

When we think about the big differences between European and North American city-building, a primary turning point was the 1970s Energy Crisis. European cities and nations learned, and took their city-building, urban transportation, and renewable energy development in very different directions. 1/2

We’re so grateful to @perennialcycle.bsky.social for helping us with a very exciting new bike day…

Our cargo bike library now has an Urban Arrow!

This bike will be available to members to borrow for FREE when we reopen later this spring.

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Gas station sign with rising gas prices. Title says “We make a lot of money”: Trump downplays rise in gas prices during Iran war.” #Car Dependency #OilDependency

North America stubbornly didn’t learn from the 1970s Energy Crisis, and largely doubled down on oil and car-dependent suburban growth (and lately, bigger vehicles) built on assumed cheap energy.

As we face another oil shortage and potential lengthy crisis, will North America learn THIS TIME? 2/2

Some Canadiana humour

Canada, the land of make believe. ☺️🇨🇦❤️ #TigNotaro

8 ways to fix e-bike laws before the crackdown comes to you New Jersey just passed a law that makes a lot of e-bikes illegal. It's a bad law, and need to be fixed. But when it comes to e-bike regulations, there are no easy answers. So I gathered together ei...

Here's a great video from Tom Babin @shifter.info and @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social about options to legislate e-bikes. Plenty to think about!

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This sounds very cool, Toronto.

Of course urbanist heaven on earth has to be in Barcelona.

Credit: Tom Holbrook

Waterloo Region relies on this funding to expand its cycling infrastructure. Tell your MP that this is important to you.

🇨🇦 Bike infrastructure is a low cost, high impact solution for housing & health. But $500M in federal funding is now at risk.

If approvals aren't issued now, we lose the 2026 construction season.

TAKE ACTION: Email your MP by March 13!
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Different cities around the world show us what's possible and how they benefit from cycling infrastructure.

No response yet. 😕

So, being abroad as a Canadian supposedly invalidates my comments regarding Canada. 2/2 🧵

I think I am finally about done with Twitter/X. I have made two reports of people, likely from Canada like me, who ended a conversation with hateful remarks, and/or blocked me because they realized that I'm currently abroad, and Twitter seems to make that information public.

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I have a friend who just moved to London. Hopefully he’ll have some time to help.

If anyone lives in the UK, I could use footage from around: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds.

It can be as simple as pointing your phone at a skyline, high street, or transit vehicle for 10 seconds a few different times.

I fought for safer Toronto streets after my friend was killed five years ago. Now Doug Ford is undoing that work Premier Doug Ford and Transportation Minister Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria are actively dismantling the very infrastructure that so many of us fought to put in place.

"When accountability is removed, reckless behaviour increases. The result is not accidental — it is predictable. This is what happens when evidence-based safety measures are dismantled and human life is deprioritized by political choice." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ah, so they are like an old dog, who you can't teach new tricks to? Still, that's not a good place to be. We need to be lifelong students and have a learning spirit.

So the don't want to improve their skills in their own field?

Haha! What a dumb excuse! 😆

E Washington & EB HWY 30 Ramp (SB Ped Crossing) YouTube video by Jerry Schippa

Many American engineers responded to my multi-stage ped crossing video saying that they can't do Dutch-style ped green waves with American equipment.

But the City of Madison, WI keeps proving them all wrong. Here's @jerryschippa.bsky.social showing one off:
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How multi-stage crossings can be pedestrian-friendly YouTube video by Ontario Traffic Man

Here's the video on Dutch pedestrian crossings I was referring to:
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30 km/h speed limit on Autoroute 30 entering Ottawa, Ontario

When you post residential speed limits on roads that look like highways, you cannot act surprised when society normalizes speeding.

Same goes for putting stop signs at every corner regardless of sightlines.

If it feels unreasonable to obey a law, it will always become normalized to break that law.

My question is, why do they say this? Don't they want to provide more service? Are they trying to excuse their incompetence?

Greenfield Avenue in Ottawa with cycle tracks under construction.

Greenfield Avenue in Ottawa with cycle tracks under construction

In Ottawa when a road is reconstructed it's brought up to the current standards. That usually means that cycle tracks get added, as is currently happening on Greenfield Avenue:

A map of part of the Bloor West bike lane showing that a section beween Islington and Resurrection Rd was prioritized for removal. Nearby streets curve off in various directions, avoiding railway tracks and providing no straightforward alternative.

This "priority removal section" for the bike lane on Bloor W demonstrates that Ford and Sarkaria were never serious about finding parallel secondary routes. Where is the parallel route here? They don't care. www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

Oh, I see. I agree with you.

Yes, that's uncalled for.

100% the density around higher order transit locations needs to massively increase density. Back in the day I hated Ron Moeser because he blocked every attempt to increase density near rouge hill.

I'm not anti-Go by the way, I'm just saying many people do not use it due to barriers