Denis Agar (he/him)

Or they could at least fund both sides of an issue equally 😁

City of Surrey report table on 2026–2030 capital plan. Yellow highlight on "Roads & Transportation" row: $358.5M total

The City of Surrey just released its proposed 2026-2030 budget/financial plan, outlining how it will raise and spend money over the next five years.

How does this impact transit riders? Here’s what we found from our review. movementyvr.ca/surre...

City announces big shift for Granville Street during FIFA World Cup | Urbanized The City of Vancouver has announced that Granville Street will undergo a transformation during the FIFA World Cup this summer.

Vancouver has taken years to produce a single metre of bus lane.

And they're about to further postpone and delay some of this unfinished work next week.

Yet they're about to prove that it can in fact be done quickly: new bus lanes coming for FIFA, in <100 days

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This building is like a gun pointed at so many stable neighbourhoods in Toronto. Thanks god a number of brave councillors are taking a stand against such violence.

Transit investments like this don't often make a dent in vehicle speeds so it would be hard to draw a link.

Beautiful! this should be permitted as of right.

Vancouver tops Toronto, Halifax as Canada's most traffic-congested city Canada-wide, drivers only proceed an average of 8 kilometres in 15 minutes during the evening rush hour

This is your annual reminder to ignore the tomtom congestion index coverage because the methodology is car-brained.

"How far can I travel" is the wrong metric.

When things are closer together, you don't need to travel as far to get things done!

"How many things can I get to?" is the right metric

So many words to obfuscate this group's fundamental demand: to preserve mansion-only zoning in Dunbar and Point Grey and to price you out, and into the suburbs

Down the median of hwy 1?

Buses can be SO MUCH better than streetcars; it comes down to the service design. People just want fast, frequent, reliable transit with few transfers and short walking distances. The DC Streetcar was FREE and people still didn't ride it because it was worse on all those metrics than the bus.

We’re just 100 days out from FIFA. What does the @cityofvancouver.bsky.social need to do to prepare for the influx of tourism and travel demand headed to the city soon?

Yeah you're right. This is why I'm not in the sciences!

Just reflecting on this, in a grid network, the shape would be a square, not a circle right? So would there be less area in that 2-minute ring?

Oh I love this

She's got the juice, folks.

Much of what Toronto needs to improve on the downtown streetcars (and Line 6) can be learned from the 507/western 501. The combination of fewer cross streets, island platforms, wider stop spacing, and no forced slow zones across intersections is enough to provide good speed with weak TSP.

Why the DC Streetcar Deserved to Die Redundancy by Design: The Train That Never Outran the Bus

“Great transit is defined by its ability to move people reliably, frequently, and efficiently. When we confuse the ‘shiny object’ with the ‘service,’ we end up with expensive infrastructure that serves as a monument to poor planning rather than a functioning part of a city’s circulatory system.”

Reading Michael Barclay's fantastic history of Canadian music from 2000-2005 (Hearts on Fire).

One thing that really jumps out is how often musicians of the era credited their success to cheap rent. Small grants and a few bucks from shows go a long way when you're paying three hundred a month!

A sunny blue sky day. An intersection in Downtown Vancouver where a person carrying a green bag had just crossed the crosswalk. Along the sidewalk is a plum blossom tree in full bloom. It's in front of a pink apartment tower.

West End scenes 🌸
#vancouver #canada

This is a great episode and everyone should listen. This opinion is naturally unbiased. 😅

Toronto’s corridor densification scheme is so visible from the air. And its freeways look to be Houston wide. It’s quite the ‘one hand/other hand’ in terms of planning.

Good morning and welcome to the month where Seattle opens the only light rail line across a floating bridge anywhere in the world.

Fascinating! This wasn't on my radar.

yay! so honoured to be on canada's number one transit-oriented podcast.

take a listen - we talk about the eglinton crosstown, transit in latin america, halifax, subway construction costs, and so much more

Cities in Australia and New Zealand get the little things right. Why can’t ours? Usable public toilets. Attractive trash bins. Traffic lights that make sense. They all add up to a better urban experience

This is a pretty common sentiment in the transit world too. The answer mostly comes down to different levels of funding for pubic amenities, does it not? Here in Vancouver we fund sidewalks repair at a rate that will ensure they're fully up to standard in 400 years.

Excellent!

It was pretty similar to Puerto Vallarta. Lots of confusing routes leaving the stop at the airport but I eventually figured it out. A lot of what I read online encouraged me to take the new electric bus to the northern bus station but that would have been a bad idea.