Ian Thomson 🇨🇦

Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(Among MANY other public benefits.)

Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane.

#CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com
#BikeLanesMeanBusiness

She’s not wrong

If Jordan "meat diet coma" Peterson is a prodigy, then what do we call the multiple laypersons who made him look like a drooling idiot in one on one debate?

PP would believe that JBP has a beautiful mind, because JBP is clearly a stupid person's idea of a smart person.

Nearly 150 Canadians held in ICE custody this year, including two toddlers, data show — The Globe and Mail One child was detained for 51 days, more than double the legal detention period, a Globe and Mail analysis found

Please Canadians 🇨🇦 avoid going to the US at all costs. It is so dangerous! Data shows that so far this year 150 Canadians are being held in ICE custody including two toddlers and a 77 year old. One man died in a Florida detention center.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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And why would you think that

A graph showing the various risk of death for a pedestrian hit by a car. At 20 mph the risk is 10%, at 30 mph, it's 40%, and at 40 mph, it's 80%

Drivers always minimize speeding by saying things like, "Oh, I was only going 10 mph over the speed limit." But those 10 miles per hour can literally be the difference betwen life and death for a pedestrian or bicyclist.

Source: nextstl.com/2022/04/in-a...

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

Until they’re in the comments of a post about bike lanes…

They will discover a nearby crematorium or a mass grave when this is all over

this may literally be the one subject on the planet on which everyone is aligned in this way

I’m not sure you could get these poll numbers with “the sky is blue” or “two plus two equals four”

Your irregular reminder that protected cycle lanes will:
1) improve your health, and that of your loved ones
2) increase the value of your home
3) increase your business' profitability

Even if YOU don't cycle!

Jesus Christ, how many worms and parasites does she figure she has?

One of the best things we can do to reduce crashes and their severity is lower vehicle speeds. In the absence of redesigned roads, automated enforcement is an effective way to achieve that goal. The fact these cameras produce revenue doesn't negate that speed lowering effect.

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network Are Our Roads Designed To Be Dangerous? [2 Hour Compilation]

Anti-bike people like to throw around the idea that bike lanes are some kind of "social engineering" conspiracy.

NEWSFLASH: Our roads network and historical cars-first transport policy is actual social engineering that has created serfs of everyone www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Vw...

You sure about that? Watching from Canada, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for fascism among even ordinary Americans right now, and most American liberals seem to be in complete denial about that so…

The USA has gone full fascist.
What a disgrace

The pedestrian survival rate when hit at 40 MPH is only 15%. We've got a cultural problem that needs fixing, because…

✅ Driving 40 MPH on city streets is considered to be acceptable.

❌ Punishing people for driving 40 MPH on city streets is considered to be unacceptable.

Driver Seriously Injures Teen Victim On Northern Strand Trail Crosswalk In Lynn - Streetsblog Massachusetts Lynn police cited the alleged perpetrator for failure to yield at a crosswalk.

I know it'll never happen, but the level of detail and context in this @mass.streetsblog.org article is what we should see in all articles about traffic violence. Instead of just repeating copaganda, we get details about the area as well as data about prior crashes on that street (54 since 2021).

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Translation from Canadian Government-Speak into Regular Canadian: Hey Donald ya fucking goof, how about you go fuck yourself eh?

This is awesome

Your best case scenario will NOT mean we’re automatically ‘friends’ again (if we ever really were). Canadians are going to demand the respect of Americans that we have NEVER received, from maga or otherwise.
Americans can start by denouncing & disowning American ‘Exceptionalism’ as the garbage it is

First of all, you’re talking about Americans, not Canadians, and you’re assuming that IF the Dems get back in power (lol they’re doing a shit job of making that happen so far), that we Canadians will be happy and just automatically accept that everything will be fine. That is NOT going to happen.

The USA is and *has always been* a terrible country, and it will never get any better until ALL Americans realize that. Get the fuck over yourselves and maybe we’ll talk

You just described why it can NEVER be rebuilt

These fascists aren’t just going to exit in 3.5 years lmao come ON

Nope nope nope.
Not interested in visiting a fascist country whose government wants to destroy mine. And don’t come at me with ‘that’s not the real America’ or some bullshit like that because yes it is, and frankly it always has been.
Sorry not sorry

No no no — Canadian *corporations and CEOs* trying to be like the USA.
The average Canadian citizen is, wants, and tries to be, as little like Americans as possible. Very important distinction.

Why the fuck did you need a chatbot to do that (and poorly too of course). Jesus - just put a few photos together