Lisa Dekleer

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What’s the worst intersection in Metro Vancouver? (FINALE) The semi-final votes are in: you’ve narrowed our 32 intersections down to the Grand Finale, pitting Vancouver’s triangular terror at Main & Kingsway against Richmond’s chaotic…

We started with 32, nominated by you. We're down to TWO intersections in the Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver finals!

Main & 7th & Kingsway? Or No. 3 Rd & Sea Island Way & Bridgeport Rd? Only one can emerge victorious. Vote now!

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Bligh has a decent amount of support from the province and feds (more than Sim or Allam at this point), which could help.

But her 6 years being a supporter of Ken Sim, and getting elected under both the NPA and ABC banners, means it’ll be difficult to get support from local left-wing parties.

Rebecca Bligh voted to slash wages for workers, to block rental housing in wealthy neighbourhoods, and to oppose common sense tools to properly fund our schools.

We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.

Going to council today - motion #5

I’m really curious to see how this is received. The motion potentially up-zones almost all of the weathiest single detached properties in the city.

Will be telling who is for/against.

Support more housing along bike routes and by parks! Here's how: - Peter Waldkirch Webzone Lucy Maloney's (OneCity) motion to legalize housing by parks and bike routes is housing and climate action. Here's how you can support it!

IMPORTANT: Here in Vancouver on Sept 17th, City Council will consider a motion by Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social directing Staff to look at allowing 6-storey apts & retail at corners along active transport streets & around parks. This idea should have been done 10+ years ago.

Please support.

Many cities could use #BetterMayors.

We’ve had many excellent ones in recent years, including @annehidalgo.bsky.social @valplante.bsky.social @clovermoore.bsky.social @wutrain.bsky.social

Who you choose to let be mayor has a huge effect on your city’s success. It can’t be overstated.

Pick better.

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New Westminster, B.C., extending school zone speed limits New Westminster is extending school zone speed limits, just as students head back to class. As CBC's Rafferty Baker reports, the change is part of a broader effort to slow traffic in cities.

Kids are back to school today, and New Westminster is changing 30km/h school zone hours to 7am-10pm. This is a great change - school zones are active zones all day long! Thanks to @pjnewwest.bsky.social for the leadership, and great comments from @michaelhall.bsky.social

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Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings

‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.

Huge kudos to Andrew and Lisa for sticking with this story for months and showing how the VPD slow-walked FOI requests and requests for updated data.
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Calling all urbanists!

Come find us at the Vancouver Big Tent Urbanist event on Friday and choose your fighter (or multiple) 👀✊🏙️

Many organizations will be there, including Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney!

#vancouverbc

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FYI, our guest for this event will be Vancouver City Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social, a champion of the livable streets, transportation, and environmental movements. We're excited to get to talk with her. Gotta respect elected officials who don't shy away from sitting down with The War on Cars!

Red-light right turns: Ottawa councillor wants to ban them downtown Downtown drivers may get less leeway at red lights. A councillor is applying pressure after witnessing an accident steps from City Hall.

“It’s every light & every corner & every time a car almost turns into you — it’s really scary & it’s just time to consider something a little bit radical to save people from getting hurt … It shouldn’t take another fatality to motivate change.”

It’s not radical at all. It’s actually common sense.

Got my ticket! Can’t wait 🚴🏼‍♀️🚎🛴

Vancouver will miss its climate targets. Natural gas is partly to blame Vancouver is on track to blow through its climate targets with the use of natural gas to heat buildings driving the majority of greenhouse gas emissions, the city has revealed in its annual climate pr...

Vancouver is on track to blow past its climate targets, thanks mostly to natural gas.

Vancouver Shows Just How Much it Costs to Ban Apartments | Sightline Institute Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. Editor’s note: This article was originally published by Policy Not...

It's a housing crisis. Why is Vancouver still banning apartments on the vast majority of residential land?

This suppresses both non-market and market housing creation, exporting the city's shortage to rest of the region and province.

BC should put its foot down. www.sightline.org/2024/10/09/v...

Former vancouver councilor (and vocal anti housing advocate) Colleen Hardwick expressing consternation over the choice of Christine Boyle for housing minister in BC.

Additional confirmation that this is a great choice

In 2023 Ken Sim filed multiple code of conduct complaints against opposition councillor Christine Boyle, costing her thousands of dollars in legal fees

Now, Boyle is the Minster of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and is the main government point person for everything Sim wants

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The Broadway Subway to Arbutus is not enough. With over 156,000 daily trips to UBC, we need SkyTrain all the way!

Extend SkyTrain to UBC NOW!

💌 Sign our petition to demand action from all levels of government.

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#ubc #ubcvancouver #vancouverbc #skytrainvancouver

A flier taped to a streetlight pole that reads: “I also have access to a printer, And I say Upzoning is cool and good and it is my friend Let ‘em build some housing! What're you worried about, people with jobs and homes using the Red Line? Atraid of density? then why did you move to the big city my good friend [emoji making a ‘this guy’s nuts!’ gesture] ‘But I wanna drive my car!’ The bus is better because you can read a book on the bus Dear ‘Save Edgewater’: If I ever see you again claming that increasing supply increases prices I will spank your bottom and enroll you in an econ class at Loyola Say YES to proposed Upzoning in Edgewater Email: Leni@the48thward.org Call: (773) 784-5277

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

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A photograph of Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander at their co-endorsement press conference. Mamdani appears behind a Lander for Mayor sign and Lander appears behind a Zohran for New York City sign.

When progressives come together, incredible things are possible.

Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and to New York. Next up: Vancouver.

Vancouver's social housing initiative 简体中文 | 繁體中文 Making Vancouver more inclusive and equitable is a key priority of Vancouver Plan, the city’s long-term land-use strategy. Vancouver’s Social Housing Initiative works toward the critical n...

One of the reasons I was so proud to run with OneCity was @christineboyle.bsky.social’s fight for social housing in every neighbourhood.

Her social housing initiative, passed in 2022, is finally coming to the public for consultation. Make your voice heard!

www.shapeyourcity.ca/social-housing

My motion to restore Vancouver's Renter Office may have failed today but on the bright side, I'd be surprised if the word "bollards" has ever been used as many times in a Council meeting as it was today. #Bollards

An image of City Hall with the caption BRING BACK OUR RENTER OFFICE. It is followed by the OneCity Vancouver logo and the call to action to SWIPE.

Tenants need to know that Vancouver has their back.

That's why @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @ptfry.bsky.social have brought a motion to bring back the Renter Office.

it’s highly anticipated because you sat on the land for 17 years after getting a $211 million interest free loan

How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills