Not tapping the glass, but taking a sledgehammer to it:
Majority governments are bullshit. “Needing a mandate” is political speak for: we need to be able to do everything we want unencumbered. It’s bullshit.
And the story frame needs to be built around this transition that stops talking about bike lanes. They are so entrenched as the political villain not amount of data and experts are going to change that. It’s an economic issue not a space issue
What cities should do:
- Double down on active transportation infrastructure and transit, not roads and highways.
- Fund e-bike rebate programs.
- Switch municipal fleets, where possible, to cargo bikes. (Parks department vehicles, for example.)
- Expand commuter tax credits to encourage cycling.
Something @sgoodyear.bsky.social points out that I'm reminded of each time people post about the war, gas prices and the need to switch to EVs is that the V in EV stands for "vehicle," not "car." E-bikes are EVs and cities need to create the conditions that will allow more people to adopt them.
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Don’t work for them but have alongside projects they’ve worked on
Having similarly dealt with far-right characters I’ve reported on engage in stalking / harassing behaviour to the point where lawyers needed to be engaged, I can say Canada’s laws are completely insufficient to deal with these problems and I have zero trust in the legal system to protect journalists
Thing is, when the Charge move to the CTC for a season or five, I’ll be ditching my season tickets. Because there is no way I’m driving halfway to Toronto on a winter weeknight for hockey.
In the abstract — as many have argued — municipalities probably shouldn't be going out of their way to accommodate pro sports teams.
In practice — in this case and at this moment — I dunno if a wise political strategist would advise picking a fight with the Charge fanbase.
Ya the 1-car household is the captive audience in waiting at whatever stage of life but I’d focus on households with older kids, kids 16-18 that want to have a life, job, etc but can’t have one unless there’s 2+ vehicles. But what do I know about how the world works, I’m an urban elite
The headline I want to see is: “x city” is explicitly moving towards households being able to live with only 1 car.
Cuz a city that allows a household to live with just one car is a city where you can live without one.
Huh, boasting about low taxes and having a rotating cast of “business people” bitching about efficiencies seems like a bad trend to continue
The wilderness this guy is in is really something. Carney's taken so many chunks of his platform away he's got culture wars and literature reviews?
lots of ppl said they support neurodivergence until it's a mcdonald's CEO
It’s a very high ESL school which we love, the kids are amazing, staff are amazing and it’s 200 m from mud lake which the kids get to access year round. But it’s not home to a lotta rich families or folks who donate to the PCs in #ontario
Hey #ottawa if feel inclined to sign or at least share would be appreciated. OCDSB has decided to slowly shut down our beautiful little neighbourhood school in Lincoln Heights I assume cuz the land is valuable, and kids are not
www.change.org/p/save-regin...
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.
The other infuriating thing about all this is that slip lanes are not recommended by our own guidelines and yet we rebuild intersections with them included. It’s like we give the wrong info to hired consultants and don’t hold them accountable to our own safety standards.
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Zoomed in with ward boundaries, showing Tierney's Beacon Hill-Cyrville vs downtown.
I'm not able to filter out specifically right turn on red collisions, but here is every pedestrian/cyclist collision at a traffic light (2017-2024).
And let's not forget about all the car vs. car collisions that happen because of right turn on red.
I've personally seen 6 collisions at Bronson and Catherine in just the past few years, but not a single one since they added a no right on red sign.
It's a really stupid maneuver to allow.
Cuz this isn’t about just right on reds. Some traffic asshole specialist manager at the city pronounced the city position, Tim fucking Tierney says it’s a done deal and the 10s of thousands of us just rolling dice against the whims of people operating 000-lb vehicles just goes on another day
The lack of predictability is the worst part of allowing right on reds. People driving absolutely do not give a shit about you, or kids and on a daily /weekly basis the wild shit we experience honestly just numbs you. The anger and stress just simmers and boils over but it’s never fucking off
I can name a dozen intersections around us that I, my kid and my family have to interact with where getting to and from home safe and uninjured is either cuz of the goodwill of people driving ushering you with their hands or sheer fucking luck. 5 folks got randomly unlucky this morning and who cares
Whether it’s RORs of insane right hand slip lanes like we have to deal with at Richmond and Carling both directions, there is one primary purpose to the design, signaling and infrastructure decisions. They don’t prioritize people walking kids to school or existing outside a fucking car
Goddamn the sheer stupidity, the call to authority of a single person in municipal management, city councillors whose only value they give a shit about is travel times for people driving.
#ottawa like most places wants you to shut up and accept that dead and injured its the price we have to pay
It really seems like the major policy document guiding this committee says this is not time-wasting. It's not like it was totally out of left field like a ring road or something 🫥
I look at the data and I see an opportunity to reduce collisions with cyclists by nearly 20% and with pedestrians by 4% at the cost of making drivers wait a mere 60 seconds.
Seems like a no brainer. But this is Ottawa.
