sometimes a graph speaks for itself

Comparison street view images of Sunview Street in 2009 and 2025. 2009 shows a pretty conventional suburban street with 1950s era bungalows. 2025 shows some of the same bungalows, but now there's a bunch of urban mid-rise apartment buildings around too.

I'm a broken record about how remarkable the transformation in Waterloo's Northdale neighbourhood is. If we could figure out a repeatable formula for mid-rise upzoning for low-car streets, we could achieve amazing things

Tweet from CityHallWatch: This is an important message from the ONLY non-BCNDP MLA representing nearly 800,000 residents. Of 12 MLAs elected in Vancouver @Dallas_Brodie is the ONLY one challenging the hammer of Provincial housing policy.

Quoted tweet from Dallas Brodie: The proposed new Official Development Plan (ODP) for Vancouver is a betrayal of Vancouverites and another example of NDP Bigfoot governance. We don't want clarity and transparency; we want this to stop. The City of Vancouver needs to tell the provincial government that the ODP for Vancouver will not be changed until after the municipal elections this fall so that Vancouverites have the opportunity to vote for what they want for themselves rather than have David Eby mandate our lives. Anyone who lives in Vancouver knows that this is being forced upon us, even though the city pretends to have consulted. Vancouverites are already up in arms about four-plexes springing up next to their single-family homes. Parking is already a disaster, and our neighborhoods are being destroyed by ideological city employees who want to force a new way of life on us. Vancouver residents are being treated like annoying appendages rather than people who have lovingly built this city and who do not want to see a wholesale change in their neighborhoods

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"We don't want clarity and transparency; we want this to stop."

Bad but inevitable given changes in immigration policies, combined with decades of housing policy failure that we have just begun to fix

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Nah, I mean that might be true, but are just seeing people upset online because people live to be upset online.

Too bad he didn't stay there :(

Even the headline is completely inaccurate 'Fleeting savings'. All the research shows that by far the biggest benefit is to stop changing the time 2x/year. The impact of which time you choose is relatively minor. So the savings will be permanent, since the big win is no longer changing the clocks...

Also, should move the school start time back 1/2 hour (should have done that anyway, regardless of time change)

The surprising science behind why daylight saving time is good for wildlife You might have a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time, but research shows that urban wildlife may stand to benefit

I find arguments less convincing when they are one-sided and fail to weigh pros AND cons of decisions, so this was weak. Mentioned Russia and the US, but not the Yukon or Saskatchewan. Failed to note extensive research supporting permanent DST, ertc (eg: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

I guess most Americans consider that progress

We had to set out a system of rules ahead of time before we went anywhere. One child gets up, the other gets down, etc. That way they could fight about who was breaking the rules instead of who got to push the button.

It is the same with televisions. Sometimes the TV companies make a lot of small ones, and I think we need the government to step in and stop this. How many small TVs do we really need anyway? We need to take action to make sure the vast majority of TVs made and sold are at least 55".

Could have been 'The Boy She Met Online' (2010), 'The Husband She Met Online' (2013), 'The Girl He Met Online' (2014) or 'The Psycho She Met Online' (2017)

Sorry you got confused, all that happened is that they accidentally posted the plot to a 2006 Lifetime Thriller over top of their intended article, which was undoubtedly some deep wisdom about how invading Iran is actually a good idea, or something like that.

Great to see this confirmed - such a (relatively) easy hack to improve the system performance and rider experience

modal filter at the intersection of bute street and robson street.

modal filter at the intersection of bute street and haro street.

modal filter at the intersection of jervis street and maxine lane.

modal filter at the intersection of bute street and davie street.

in the west end, #vancouver uses a lot of small public plazas as modal filters, which allow bikes and pedestrians to go through, but not cars. not only do these places make the city safer for all, they're also great third places.

The new REM branch A4 to Deux Montagnes is an absolute model for how transit should operate. Frequent and fast, it ramps up to 95 km/h steady between virtually every station, holds it the whole time and then rapidly decelerates. It’s not timid and it’s so good. 10/10.

They are like cartoon characters at this point

Finally, greed has been defeated!

*demand is down and supply is up, so prices are lower

This wins the thread…

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An example of why this account is my favourite follow on Bluesky…

It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel … sad

Location checks out

Think about how many barrels of oil there around the world that aren’t being burned right at this moment, how can there be a shortage?

Love those trees…

Can you tell me how to turn, how to turn our streets into Sesame street

$1bn/day is just measuring a small fraction of the costs…

Agreed, but you feel like the lighter version is coming, the way they have been going…