Bike lanes do take space away from drivers.
Why not get rid of sidewalks too, hell school zones really slow drivers down..get rid of schools! While we're at it i'm kind of tired of those pesky residential areas with their people and stop signs - no more homes! Nothing but roads and parking lots.
Ah finalmente!
Con @aztrumpet.bsky.social
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
"Calgary has decided to do something that cities under housing pressure and climate pressure should avoid. It has taken a reform that was beginning to work, treated the backlash as more politically important than the evidence, and moved backward."
"Less talk, more do"
Words to live by, especially if you are a city councillor
A piece from the @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social to remind folks in Calgary that the repeal of the housing strategy was never about housing, it was always about votes. www.sprawlcalgary.com/blanket-rezo...
Bunch of dudes on city council are now taking remedial housing policy courses on the internet. 2/2
Please if you figure out how to do this let me know
help
pls
Stop scrolling! Get off your phone! Come have a conversation with real people!
@cailynn.bsky.social and I are bringing back the Urban Affairs Book Club after.
Read the book & discuss w other cool Calgarians interested in urban issues on April 28. We'll even hear from the author in the 2nd half. 🎉
Gift link for anyone who needs it: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9ed47f...
It’s wild how the G&M’s position on housing has shifted even in the past five years.
And Holly’s right, we will regret this…
Glad this important issue is finally being discussed.
Calgary housing advocates call on city council to replace citywide rezoning with new plan
globalnews.ca/news/1179933...
As someone who texts virtually non-stop, I endorse this message. I get all my plans made while riding the bus.
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Aside from being insulted by it (I’m in my 40s, well-travelled, have lived and worked internationally), it made me fear for younger generations that this is the kind of coddling that students need (or are deemed to need).
Ok speaking of infantilizing, I’m doing a 3-week law course in the UK this summer, and I had to sit through a 1.5 hour workshop on how to deal with basic travel scenarios using this worksheet.
Back at square one...
Haha that's hilarious.
Yeah a friend of ours modelled driving at about $0.40/km about a decade ago, I'm assuming it's gone way up from there.
Estimated cost of electricity for our Urban Arrow over 3.5 years: $16.
As someone who does not live in Vancouver and occasionally visits family there, family who live in a 2-bed condo (because Vancouver) and no guest space, I find this resistance agonizing.
I cannot afford Vancouver hotel rates, so I can't bring my tourist dollars there. Or visit my niece.
It turns out that the desire to bike without risking death proves to be radicalizing when it comes to a range of issues. Because when you understand how car supremacy is intertwined with other harmful power structures you want to start dismantling all of them.
Vehicles are as much about signalling wealth as they are about getting around.
Ooooooh I see what you did there
This is why housing advocacy is driven largely by people who just want to be able to ride their bikes & get places on the bus. Once you start looking for ways to make transportation better, you realize that it's land use holding us back.
And then you start spending all your free time at city hall.
But is there not joy to be found in suffering?
I've started to notice this so much in public commentary on land use - multi-family housing shouldn't be allowed to "infringe" on single family neighbourhoods, as though it's some kind of pollution.
It's been explained to the mayor over and over again.
There is a lot of motivated reasoning happening around that horseshoe...
I wish I had had the wits to write this [tweet]
Congrats on stepping on a bunch of rakes, I guess?
Weird thing to brag about.