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Trevor Anderson

@trevorjanderson.bsky.social

Edmonton. Retired teacher. Books, cinema, traveling, urbanism, biking, coffee, social justice, active public realms, housing.

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Dr. Wesley nails it:

"If there’s a problem, it’s not that judges exist. It’s that populists don’t like being told “no.”"

We don't elect kings/queens.

The same system that gives power to Premiers gives it to our courts to protect us.

Democracy isn’t mob rule.

And the UCP don't like that. #ableg

07.12.2025 19:46 — 👍 65    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 4
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Bus priority infrastructure in Asian cities always stuns me. Our electric bus (that runs every 10 minutes) is speeding down a center running bus lane.

It’s a ~40 minute ride to dinner and I’m seriously enjoying it.

29.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 103    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 1
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The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Single-Room Apartments

Relegalize SROs. Relegalize single stair buildings to enable larger, family sized homes. Legalize townhomes everywhere. Legalize ADUs everywhere. Legalize apartment buildings in more places. Yes to all the homes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

25.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 155    🔁 24    💬 3    📌 5
Picture of multi-modal street

Picture of multi-modal street

Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.

If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.

If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.

Spread the word.

15.11.2025 09:14 — 👍 626    🔁 209    💬 14    📌 9
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

08.11.2025 15:13 — 👍 675    🔁 235    💬 14    📌 29

Time to move on to new Democratic leadership.

04.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've been to all 20, not just airports. Driven Route 66 from beginning to end. Visited every state but Hawaii, but I won't be crossing that off anytime soon, or maybe ever. To be fair, I've also driven across Canada twice and have been to every province and territory except Nunavut.

11.10.2025 05:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Green tram tracks, like this one I saw in Rotterdam today, just look so much better, but they also make you feel you're in a much calmer space.

20.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What strikes me the most during a Friday evening rush hour in Delft Netherlands is just how pleasant the noises are compared to the loud cars and motorcycles back home. You can actually hear people talking, birds chirping, and bikes rhythmically wheeling over the cobblestones. Much less stressful!!

19.09.2025 16:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A school bus, but on bikes! I recently joined parents, kids, and volunteers for a community ride to celebrate the launch of @bikebusedmonton.bsky.social. #yegbike

28.08.2025 20:08 — 👍 52    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3
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When parks are the backyard of a city.

23.08.2025 01:09 — 👍 264    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 2

Lol

11.08.2025 23:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

04.08.2025 06:33 — 👍 967    🔁 323    💬 13    📌 4
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ANALYSIS | Alberta minister threatens to axe bike lanes. Can he make his case? | CBC News Province claims urban bike lanes worsen congestion. Ontario said the same thing — then a judge found they lacked evidence to back up their point.

Alberta's provincial government punching down - again - to distract from the chaos they are causing everywhere #yycbike www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

03.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 42    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 0

Canadian here. I love the United States. I have visited every state and capitol except Hawaii. I have driven Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica. I usually make at least one trip every year to or through the U.S. But I will not be doing so for the foreseeable future. It's not worth all the risks!

29.07.2025 23:27 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We were out at Taste of Edmonton today collecting ideas from transit riders on how we can best improve our system!

These ideas will inform our future advocacy, and be sent to the City

#yegcc #yegtransit #yeglrt

23.07.2025 02:19 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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View from the office today!

18.07.2025 20:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It was great to see so many people out last night to be inspired by @nerd4cities.bsky.social Thanks @pathsforpeople.bsky.social

18.07.2025 14:24 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Great event last night!

18.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Montréal knows how to create pedestrian streets that engage the 10s of 1000s of people using them every day. They make them playful, fun places that people want to visit. No hostile furniture here! What a boon to the small local shops, restaurants, and bars that line these summer streets!!

09.06.2025 02:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#PlanetForTheWin 🌍. #HumansAtAnInflectionPoint

06.06.2025 20:21 — 👍 116    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 3
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First visit to New York City since the introduction of congestion pricing. These photos were taken between 3:30 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. on Friday, May 16th, in midtown Manhatten, and show the drastic decrease in traffic. Buses and taxis were moving! What a win for hard-working New Yorkers going home!!

17.05.2025 12:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If we’re being honest, the biggest threat to urban livability isn’t density or height. It’s the noise, danger, pollution, and wasted space that comes from prioritizing cars above all other modes of transport.

10.05.2025 17:06 — 👍 1228    🔁 195    💬 27    📌 10
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The report shows this was a government-wide, systemic refusal to process FOIP requests. It's a damning indictment of the UCP's extreme culture of secrecy. And the UCP is further reducing FOIP access, which is yet another red flag re: growing authoritarianism.

oipc.ab.ca/information-...

09.05.2025 20:55 — 👍 308    🔁 156    💬 6    📌 12

Without popular support for separation, she has seriously limited options. But Moscrop is exactly right: this is live ammo-stuff now, the way Brexit was, the way Trump as a candidate was. She is reckless, and part of a political movement of delusion and dishonesty. Very dangerous

05.05.2025 22:19 — 👍 467    🔁 154    💬 20    📌 8
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Mike Judd of Timberwolf Wilderness Society timberwolfwildernesssociety.ca explains what restoration of the Eastern Slopes looks like.
#abpoli #ableg #polluterpay #EasternSlopes #water #wilderness #restoration

06.05.2025 12:57 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

Think of your favourite part of your town. Could you build it again under your zoning laws? No? Porquoi mes amis, porquoi?

05.05.2025 16:35 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

The day after the federal election, Danielle Smith introduced sweeping changes to Alberta’s election laws.

She says these changes will make elections more fair.

False.

These are Trump tactics that will do exactly the opposite.

Get loud and stay loud, Alberta.

We need your voice more than ever.

30.04.2025 18:11 — 👍 337    🔁 125    💬 12    📌 5

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