Bromptonymous 🇨🇦

Our idealogue premier in Alberta is trying to interfere with Edmonton's bike lanes too 🙄. We are not allowed mobility, heat or power if a fossil fuel isn't burned to make it happen.

I have incredible news for #yyj history and transportation nerds. *One* day after this post, someone scanned the 1965 "Capital Region of British Columbia Transportation Study" and uploaded it to the @victoria.ca archives. You can now download the entire document! archives.victoria.ca/capital-regi...

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Minimum Parking Requirements are Pseudoscience
And your city can repeal them too.

Upvoting this one too. One of my all time favs.

Read “Greenwood” yet? 🤨

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year Anti-bike arguments aren’t just frustrating—they’re outdated, inaccurate, and often repeated without a shred of evidence.

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year.
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Edmonton city council votes to remove minimum parking requirements | CBC News City council voted Tuesday to support the change to the city's zoning bylaws. With the change,  Edmonton will become the first major city in Canada to drop minimum parking requirements.

Edmonton (!) led the way on this in 2020... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

GREAT bike.

A red bike is parked in front of colorful flowers.

New (used) bike day, though not for me! Saw that someone was selling a used Gazelle for a great price & shared the post. My mom texted me right away that she wanted it, so I went & bought it for her to get later. I've recommended this bike for years & I fully stand by that after riding it around.

Only bad news. Anything short of a full repeal is a failure IMO.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Minimum Parking Requirements are Pseudoscience
And your city can repeal them too.

Congratulations Denver!

Being in the room and speaking to eliminate parking minimums was something else.
Congrats to Denver City council for repealing parking minimums! #copolitics

If Denver can do this, Victoria can, too. @davethompsonvic.bsky.social @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social @susankimyyj.bsky.social

🚨The Denver City Council voted 9-3 to abolish minimum parking requirements citywide for all uses. This means more room for homes, small businesses, and people—not empty asphalt. A major step toward a more affordable, sustainable, and people-focused city.

📍Denver, CO

This is amazing! Bravo.

Super innovative use of ride tracking. Proving driver was at fault and lied to the cops (or was too unaware to notice, not sure which is worse) about hitting a cyclist. 👇 Bravo!

My worst nightmare. Monsters aren’t real, but legal monster trucks are.

Young girl dies after being hit by vehicle in northeast Calgary alley Police say a young girl has died after she was hit by a vehicle in a northeast Calgary alley Monday evening.

Stop this.

Road violence is a result of choices, decisions, and cruel indifference.

We are a broken society unmoved to adopt proven solutions that appear to inconvenience drivers but result in spared injuries and lives.

She was a toddler. He drove a pickup.
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Maybe we shouldn’t have government sponsored corporate oligopolies? But hey, this is Canada eh, it’s just how we do things.

The concept of Johnny Gaudreau’s death being preventable had there been separated bike lanes has hit the Calgary Roast and Toast FB group.

The discourse that has ensued is as expected.🙄
#yycbike

Making Canadian cities children of their provincial gov't was the fatal flaw of the Constitution Act of 1867 (with the caveat that cities are often children who need to be punished).

A terrible conundrum.

Three bikes at the red gates at the end of the Galloping Goose trail

Leechtown plaque with bikes

Sooke River.

Made it to the red gates and Leechtown. Swam in clear water. Camped in beautiful forest. Don’t tell anyone you can do awesome things by bike.

In an alternate universe she’s still president in her second term.

It's a telling sign that to be a useful politician these days one must have graduate level education in invertebrate zoology.

"Despite overwhelming evidence in their own modeling that general purpose vehicle lane reduction with prioritized public transit, pedestrian, and bicycle infrastructure perform significantly better across nearly every metric (most notably safety, equity, and livability) ..."

A comparison:
45 miles of protected bike lane = 72.4km or 0.17m/person
City of Victoria has built ~19 km in that same time person, or 0.21 km/person

A cute baby elephant

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

Inspired by @bromptonymous.ca

“We are here because Dillon Angulo and Neima Benavides were part of a beta test they never signed up for,” —- we need to end the beta test of personal vehicles in cities.