Cassie Smith (she/her)

Katie Wilson's Success in Seattle Shows Again that Urbanism Is A Winning Campaign Issue — Streetsblog USA The transit advocate's strong early performance in Seattle's mayoral primary is rekindling a national conversation about the power of bold transportation reform to win at the ballot box.

I don't think it's a coincidence that so many mayoral candidates are running on platforms that unapologetically promise to give people great mobility options besides driving — and they're winning their primaries by *massive* margins. Wrote about urbanism as a campaign issue in Seattle & beyond.

I’m going to be insufferable about this for 16 months. Suburbs don’t pay for the city. The city isn’t trying to annex a new tax base, they’re being swindled into taking on enormous liabilities.

Car-free and car-lite places = more freedom for kids, yes, but also more freedom for parents!

This should go without saying, but the best thing for Canada to do as the United States quickly spirals into fascism and corrupt autocracy, isn’t to try to seem more like the United States.

It’s to quickly double down on being even MORE Canadian.

That’s the big advantage, the big opportunity.

Zohran’s citibike numbers make me feel like we need to start demanding bike share stats from our politicians in the same way we demand tax returns

Congratulations! I foresee many wonderful bike rides in your future 💜.

🤣 Yeah, this would be my oldest child - at any age (well after 3 months, he did very well then).

Great tips. Thank you!

True! Not easy to plan for though 😉

Pretty good from 7:30-8ish. But rarely not in their own bed. They did really well in a car a few weeks ago though.

Parents, what are the chances my four year old will sleep if we take a 4-hr train ride departing at 5 or 6pm? Am I setting myself up for a disaster? And what if this train ride is on Via so more like 5 or 6 hours *grits teeth*

We should ban cars on Halloween every year and expand from there

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

The bucket of a cargo bike as seen from above. A kid sits in the front across from two halves of a pinata.

Today's cargo bike haul: the broken pinata from a birthday party. 🤷🏼‍♀️🎉🤣

NIMFYs 🤣🤣🤣

"Children and youth need to feel empowered to take climate action.... Providing young people with a feeling that they have the power to act is essential and improving their journeys to school is a great place for them to start." 💚💚💚💚

Belated 👋🏼. I thought it might have been, but I was absolutely not paying attention (another benefit of biking - not too dangerous to daydream 😉)

"Bikes aren't practical for people with children"

A selfie of Cassie on a bike wearing a purple helmet. A child also wearing a purple helmet is in a bike seat behind her.

Today is my youngest's last day of daycare. I will miss our daily bike rides together 🥲. But I am also looking forward to one school drop off closer to home!).

My rough guess is we have travelled at least 3000km by bike for daycare trips (and my partner another 2k too).

#MobilityOfCare

We cut an old heavy yoga mat to fit the floor and then stuff something or other into the footholds on the side. The kids' cold feet are their number one complaint and this has helped a lot!

I often get folks showing up in my timeline insisting that riding a bike on the road is perfectly fine - even safer - than riding in protected bike lanes. Yeah, no. Protected bike lanes enable families on the go. This is the Beach Avenue bikeway in Vancouver.

We should add to Open Street Maps so it can be on Cycling Guide!

I wondered about that, but didn't see it on any maps and couldn't see it from the parking lot. I might have even backtracked with that to the River path - although the threat of rain had me moving quickly today!

Yeah I arrived through the neighbourhood which wasn't bad, but didn't make as much sense for my way home. The sidewalks were busy with kids biking so I took the painted lane which was in horrible shape 🥴. Cycling Guide took me up at Aviation so at least I avoided the last half.

@ldnontbikecafe.bsky.social - I think you may know some?

Costco bike parking with 5 bikes

A full Urban Arrow bucket of food

I was at Wateridge Village this afternoon which was a great reason to try #CostcoByBike in the east. Bike parking situation was much better than Nepean. The route was much worse. I brought my rain cover for extra capacity, but was glad to have it when there was a downpour on my way home! #OttBike

I have thought about it, but I have done nothing with those thoughts 😂.

We have internal gear hub and a gates belt drive and that pretty much takes care of everything! We brush off heavy snow. After 4 salty Ottawa winters it has cosmetic rusting, but nothing impacting use or safety.

We also lower the seat quite a bit so it's easier to put feet down if you're going slowly and start to slide or get stuck in ruts. There's definitely an extra level of caution and awareness, but not much more than on a regular bike in winter (but I might be more cautious than others already)

An Urban Arrow e-bakfiets on a driveway between snowmounds. A small child wearing a snowsuit, balaclava, helmet and sunglasses.

At your service from real winter 🫡.

Mostly the same tips as regular winter biking tbh. And keeping passengers warm. We add sheepskin seat covers, a blanket, block drainage holes on the bottom of the bucket & avoid longer trips by bike (+30 mins).