Ulysse Desranleau

I will appreciate it if you can check on Nov 1st to see if your prediction was right.

We are once again asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to come on the podcast.

Those are the electric vehicles we need to subsidize.

B.C.’s e-bike rebates boost affordability, health and sustainable mobility - UBC News New UBC study finds B.C.’s income-based e-bike rebate program improved access, encouraged active travel and reduced car use.

"After 1 year, rebate recipients increased their e-bike use by an average of 40km/week week and reduced their motor vehicle use by 17km/week. Participants most often swapped out a car journey for an e-bike ride, particularly for commuting, errands and shopping."

news.ubc.ca/2025/09/bc-e...

The core is also very walkable and bikeable; with a few exceptions, most arteries are still not large 3 lanes roads.

Transit is solid, too. Also: use it because traffic is the worst (which is fine).

Complete bike experience, including car parked on sidewalk.

Libraries.

What a disgrace. Detained for sitting. And the ridiculous answer by the cop… “disturbing the peace by not leaving the train”, which misses the point of establishing what he was doing wrong ON the train. Racist passenger, racist cops.

Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

Mass transit is the safest way to travel. When someone complains about it they're truly complaining about not being able to correct how someone else is sitting.

www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

I like that “mad” can have 2 meanings, and both are applicable here.

In Canada, criminal (penal) law is Federal. Meaning you don’t have to evaluate if doing something is a crime depending on where you are. If it’s a crime at home, it’s a crime everywhere.

Lots of differences in education culture/system that people don’t realize.

Contrary to the US, with many small selective private universities like Harvard, all of Canada’s notable universities are large and public.

The University of Toronto has more undergrads than the entire Ivy League.

My city recently backed out of a “pool tax” for pool owners. Our water system is already behind schedule on maintenance. The means single family owners get a luxury spend funded by everyone (often less wealthy).

What is the total cost of ownership for a car? | Ratehub.ca How much does owning a car cost each month? Let's take a look at all the cost of car ownership you may face as a driver in Canada.

Cars are expensive! Saving a smidge on taxes because the city is under-funding transit means that costs are downloaded to households. www.ratehub.ca/blog/what-is...

My hospital has the same “amenity”. My big issue is always finding a spot where I’m sure I won’t cause issue for people with mobility devices.

Cycling advocacy is also (mostly?) ground-level work. A the sub-city scale, being seen a talking to other citizens goes a long way.

I didn't do any advocacy here on the platform today, but I did go to the grocery store on my cargo bike and got asked a ton of questions by a nice couple who were sitting outside the store. We wound up talking for 10 minutes and it was a lovely experience.

The fun part is not a negligible part of the bike commute equation!

Good Q, I hope not. It’s possible there was another issue with the tree (disease/stability).

Even then, if the tree absolutely must go (somehow), I take a safe curb. Mtl has been good about greening the city, and I’ll take a few less trees now (with more planted) in exchange for much safer city.

“Ok guys, hear me out: we put restaurants NEAR housing, rendering delivery robots useless” 🤯

I think Wells Street should get rid of all parking and the parking becomes extremely wide bike lanes on both sides. Then the current bike lane can be a delivery robot lane, and then the remainder of the space you can walk on with a couple of golf cart shuttles operated by the CTA

Charlie Kirk shouldn’t have died the way he did.

He should have passed of old age, a forgotten footnote to a darkly stupid time, having been kept healthy by universal healthcare and all the exercise he got from living in a walkable city.

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As SEPTA restores bus and rail service, here’s what you need to know Routes are returning, fares are increasing, and the underlying funding shortfall has not been addressed.

State lawmakers still have not passed a budget, and the complex reasons behind the transit agency’s $213 million shortfall remain unaddressed. But for now, things are back to normal. Sort of.

www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Cyclist struck in southwest Calgary dies A cyclist who was struck by a vehicle Friday in southwest Calgary has died.

During the planning for the SW Ring Road, I wrote to both #ableg and #yyccc about cycling infrastructure and safety. The ring road cut off many popular routes. I got crickets in response. This was preventable. #yycbike www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

maybe I can by a 100 pack of plastic flex-posts on Amazon because even that would be better than constantly fighting for the use of my tiny ~3’ bike lane.
paint. is. not. protection.
#houston #bikecommute #mobility

I will propose, however, that car ownership is not the problem. The Nederlands has very high car ownership rates, but the government does not let this personal choice influence policies so that they are a detriment to sound urbanism.

The right to raise city taxes for all because of inefficient and spread out land use.

Well, yes, but that’s like saying “oof, it’s so good to be back to drinking 1000$ Champagne instead of the 500$ Champagne bottles I had”.

“City gave me a Citibike station and you’re showing up to my wedding with a crockpot?”

Zohran’s videos have reached Prestige TV levels of production value. They KNOW people are going to freeze frame stuff to catch everything so they have to spend the time to add these touches. And then of course people share the inside jokes, which amplifies their reach even further!