@pentastich.bsky.social
Urbanism, utility cycling, rowing, food, vintage cocktails, and city living. Victoria, BC, Canada. He/him. Blog: https://www.boomin-in-victoria.ca Mastodon (rarely) https://urbanists.social/@pentastich Formerly @pentastich on Birdland
They're in section G (Intersections + Crossings) ofthe BC Active Transportation Design Guide:
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Kist back from a #yyj shopping trip. I stopped at Wildfire Bakery, and then headed up the Fort Street bike lanes. It was a cold, rainy, day, and it was delightful to see so many people, including parents and kids, using the downtown bike lanes. Transportation cycling is a thing!
It's something that I'm happy to pay taxes for. Those changes make the network much stronger, and, for any form of transportation, cars, rail, buses, sidewalks, or bikes, the network is everything.
My favorite, from another part of the world, was "they're luxury apartments that nobody can afford and will be filled with drug dealers and poor people."
Then they can call it the Deaccelerated Active Transportation Plan.
2/ The industrial section off of Bay looks very architectural in black and white!
1/ I took a walk down the Goose, across the trestle, picked up some Honduras coffee at Mile Zero, then home across the Point Ellice bridge. What a beautiful day!
#yyj
Yecch… they should be ashamed of themselves.
I hope you feel better soon!
Councillor Thompson's and Dell's "Pandora East" motion just passed unanimously. Notably, this DOES NOT commit the city to build anything, but asks staff to prioritize this project, and to report back on funding implications.
#yyj #yyjbike
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Could we defund active transportation this way? Give me 22 new bike lanes instead of 24! Or, perhaps, the province could defund BC Housing along the same lines! The possibilities are endless!
Just saw that this was advanced, unanimously I believe, which is good news! It's an excellent project.
#yyj #housing
Wowsers! I see what you mean.
Yes, and, weapon or not, the violence is predictable. Theft, especially repeated theft, is infuriating. It's a violation. That doesn't excuse the violence, but it makes it easy to understand. I remember how I felt they last time i had something stolen from me, and it wasn't pretty.
3/ …NOT the shoplifting—the assault by the security guard. Shoplifting, bad as it is for the people trying to make a living at the store, does not legitimize physical assault. And it's all linked to our refusal to seriously engage with the underlying problems.
2/ The person being beaten is indigenous, and the article says they were stealing $95 worth of goods from the store. We refuse to grapple seriously with poverty and our abuse of indigenous people and nations, which leads to crime, which reinforces stereotypes, which leads to THIS crime…
1/ I hate this. The article is about an incident in Manitoba, and, when I looked closely at the video, it looked to me like the security guard is using brass knuckles.
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Interesting contribution to the 15-minute city idea. #yyj
Now? Though it might be after their bedtime.
This is smart city planning. #yyj
Thanks. I deleted the post. I'm not a fan of CTV News, but I prefer not to make unfounded accusations! Here's my retraction:
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I deleted the post, below. @jodinechase.bsky.social pointed out that CTV uses quotes a lot, and that these probably aren't "air quotes".
Hmmm… @jodinechase.bsky.social points out that CTV uses quotes a lot, so maybe they're not "air quotes". I can't tell exactly what they're using words for, but there certainly are a lot of them.
Interesting. I've got no clue what they're doing. Here, they quote "property crime spree" but the words never appear in the article. And in the one about Tumbler Ridge, they don't use quotes at all.
I have added you as a friend, but I won't see many of your posts since I nearly never log in anymore!
This is cool. It's absolutely beautiful today in Victoria (#yyj), and my bread just finished baking, so we headed to Boom+Batten for lunch. The hostess noticed we had bike helmets and offered us hooks!
Councillor @susankimyyj.bsky.social does a great job of posting what's going on at Victoria BC Council meetings. I really appreciate the effort she puts into this.
I'm sure it's temporary. IIRC, the brush is being removed because this is where the new line is going.
