I'm really just fed up lately that lots of otherwise progressive people have decided traffic violence is an issue that we simply cannot address. How can people claim to care about equity and ignore the toll of car dependency?
This is what happens when elected officials make your transit decisions. (There is a categorization error. The Caltrans rep cannot vote. The other rep is appointed by LA mayor and does her bidding. 100% of LA Metro Board votes belong to elected officials)
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"Cities are for the people." - Jane Jacobs
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney looked pretty stressed while watching this tense game from a bar in Chelsea, Que. this morning. Same, Mr. Prime Minister, same.
the CBC livefeed is hilarious
Just One More Goal
Bill Brownridge
2013
What a shot! Maker!
I mean, we wouldn't want to implement a policy where we'd surpass Vision 20%. 🤔
#Ottawa #Autowa #VisionZero
**Important update**
Some new details on what property owners can build by right on land zoned for residential under Pritzker's plan:
≤2,500 sq ft: 1 unit
2,500–5,000 sq ft: up to 4 units
5,000–7,500 sq ft: up to 6 units
7,500+ sq ft: up to 8 units
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
The metro area with the most car-free households in 🇨🇦 is Montreal (18%), followed by Toronto (16%) and Winnipeg (14%).
Quebec City has more car-free than Vancouver!
Calgary and Edmonton have the least car-free households, but still get very respectable LRT ridership by North American standards.
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.
Ottawa-Gatineau. Subway under Bank Street. Termini at Lyon or Parliament Station in the north, South Keys station in the south.
Connects to all four existing OTrain lines, gets around pissy Bank St. businesses not wanting bus lanes where their parking currently is.
First, New Brunswick. Soon, the world.
In today’s @ottawacitizen.com, I discuss the need for better tools to prevent demolition by neglect of heritage properties. A vacant commercial unit tax could compel property owners to either take care of their buildings or sell to someone who will. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
new-ish working paper on Los Angeles' mansion tax argues that the revenue estimates are severely overstated.
the paper argues that somewhere between 2/3 and *all* the direct revenue generated by the tax is offset by tax decreasing transaction volume.
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First: Supply matters. To decarbonize, you need green energy infrastructure. For universal health care, you need a lot of doctors. And you can't buy your way out of supply constraints solely through subsidies. You need subsidy *and* increased supply. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
This is nightmare fuel
The biggest thing that blackpilled me on housing costs was a paper from the mid 00s which said "as recently as the 1960s someone who was on drugs who did basic day labor could afford a safe small single room even in expensive cities. In an attempt to remove this cities invented homelessness
In Ottawa, on my commute on Rideau St going west on the bus from Wurtemburg to Rideau LRT entrance there are 8 stops with an average distance of 180m. Cutting out Charlotte and Dalhousie stops would improve operations and still fall within the 400m distance between stops that the article suggests.
Excited to see more discussion on single-egress stair (SES) housing. I started advocating for this with City of Ottawa staff in 2023 and recently started again. SES opens the door to more infill development and diversifies the range of units being built. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... 1/
1/ Something which I don't think gets articulated clearly often enough is that a system where countries generally respect international sovereignty and territorial integrity is not pure charity or morality by the United States, but in its direct interests.
Despite it being the strongest bear.
We have a new blog up dedicated to a summary of the analysis some of our members have done regarding the property tax for the city, and what that means for our city finances in general.
More to come in the future! Huge thanks to the members that worked on this
strongtownsottawa.ca/2025/09/04/p...
This building height diagram, shared by @stephenjacobsmith.com is from Germany’s regulations limits single-stair as follows:
•7m max height with an open staircase and ground ladder access
•22m max height w/ an open stair and aerial ladder access
•60m max height w/ an enclosed fire stair
I don’t think there was ever a world where Detroit would’ve embraced cheap EV sedans, it’s just not in their DNA, but we’ve clearly lost that opportunity for good: apnews.com/article/chin...
I guess their mom will make it for them instead lmfao
