@calliope4112.bsky.social
Grateful inhabitant of Turtle Island, multi-modal fan. Known as @calliope4112, @bicyclesmile1 & retired #LdnOnt @BYCS @bikemayor on 🐦. Now in #HamOnt. Mom to Tuna, Juliet & Pirate cat. Morticia & Mimosa get me around!
I don't post often but it remains true:
"Bad behaviour on the part of cyclists on MUPs will ruin it for everyone. If you don't care about getting more butts on bikes, take your MAMIL selves out on the road so those of us trying to build a modality for EVERYONE, can do the important work."
The Compassionate Friends supports bereaved parents and grandparents. Today, our hearts are with every parent who has lost a child from road violence or any other cause. Child loss is the worst pain that life can inflict on any human being.
Your children are not forgotten. You are not alone.
Drivers: I couldn’t see you, it was raining
Drivers: I couldn’t see you, there was frost on my windows
Drivers: I couldn’t see you, it was dark
Drivers: I couldn’t see you, the sun was in my eyes
Also drivers: I never see anyone using that bike lane, let’s rip it out.
A Massa Crítica dessa sexta em São Paulo vai ser divertida, hein? Vamos festejar!
Você que é livre, não tem tornozeleira e não pedala com fascista, cola na bicicletada e vamos transitar em julgado pela noite paulistana. Aqui ninguém solda a mão de ninguém!
This - and we have to let them be independent. Constant parental supervision is making kids anxious and afraid. Part of growing up is learning from mistakes and independence.
Critics of speed cameras challenge the claim that compliance lowers accidents and injuries
Below are #OttCity collisions within 30s of a camera and normalized to age of camera (-'ve = prior install)
Collisions and injuries dropped. Will they go up again?
Tx for helping
@sjamieit.bsky.social
Everything Ford touches dies. #FordFailures are stacking up as a mountain now.
#Ontario avoids public hearings on bills; 1 would boost education minister's powers
Ford government also fast-tracking a housing bill that critics say will hurt renters
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canada’s debt is modest, self-financed, and stable. Yet we are told to accept austerity as the “responsible” path forward. Deficit panic is really a strategy to limit what’s politically imaginable—universal services, public housing, and climate action.
I am putting a whole lot less effort into this Halloween business.
But I present "A fish on a bicycle".
Now you can say you saw one. #hamont #Halloween2025 #bikelife
#IdeasAtWork
"any distance is walkable as long as it's from a parked car"
More evidence that promoting alternatives transportation modes has to be the primary goal, rather than just substituting one heavily polluting car for another almost as polluting one on our streets #CarBrain #SustainableTransport www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“Bike lanes create cyclists because they largely eliminate the risk of being crushed by careless or aggressive suv drivers.” - @dlknowles.bsky.social
Seems like a reasonable ask to our elected municipal reps here in #TOpoli
E-bikes are #SustainableUrbanVehicle
🚲 #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange
“Even temporarily, seeing what happens when the cars stop can prompt a powerful shift in people’s perceptions about the potential uses of street space … Laughter rings out. Why have we prioritised cars, parked or moving, over people?" #worldcarfreeday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy.
It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.
We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.
Argghh ..my late mate sent me a message from the argh beyond.. it made me and de parrot cackle!
Arts can't work in a blue collar town?
#hamont laughs at you.
Of interest:
@kathynavackas.bsky.social
Incredible to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
So happy to have worked with the amazing people @visionzerovancouver.ca
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
"There's no room for a bike lane here" yes there is, it's hiding underneath the parking.
Very thoughtful take from a pastor on road design:
"A car-centered community is a community designed around its wealthiest and able-bodied members." Robin L. Owen
faithandleadership.com/what-do-the-...
No fewer than half of all trips in Delft are made by bike, a success replicated in cities and towns across the country. But the Dutch blueprint for urban vitality was forged on these streets decades ago, when the strategic decision was made to build a network and to build it as quickly as possible.🧵
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.”
Cities need smart, specific strategies to manage vehicle size.
It’s about space & safety.
Ask @cycletherapyham.bsky.social for suggestions. He plays some atrocious song where they repeatedly sing about gummy bears. Agh! I do sweep so I can't hear it at the back🤣
Critical Mass is tomorrow and I’m bringing the big speaker on behalf of #KidicalMassHfx, so currently testing out its karaoke capabilities and mulling over playlists for the ride 😏
WTH is with this headline?
"2 hospitalized in apparent chain-reaction pedestrian crash"
No mention of the part that driver in a car hit them.
It's like saying "Wall falls on person sitting bedside it in freak accident" when driver crashes into a building.
In a rare turn of events, a local TV station (Edmonton) does a positive segment on bike lanes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjKp...
What do we have here? A car INDEPENDENTLY hit an elderly pedestrian who domino-ed into another elderly pedestrian. Bet you gathered that from the headline, right? Nope.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/08/25/2...
Hey Ontarioans who bike and also have high blood pressure. Join me so we can balance out the drivers!
