Ricky Leong

As an editor, I 100% approve of your PSA for good writing at the end of the episode. As a newspaper guy, extra points for lede vs. lead, haha

❤️

It took a few days of near-obsessive listening during non-work hours … but I'm finally caught up with @shieldpodulation.bsky.social

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities

Watch this now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-e...

Supertrain 2025 Olympic Oval Calgary

Choices!

Happy birth(pre)day!

The inverse is also true: Calgary’s sprawl (and some transit-unfriendly suburban neighbourhood design) makes excellent public transit an expensive proposition, from an operational standpoint.

“If children walked to school in our bike lanes, would paint still be enough protection?”

“just be grateful you got a bike-lane.” (Kid on bike in painted bike-lane next to massive truck creeping over the painted line)

For 60 years, car advertising has programmed us that driving is freedom, that cars are how we get around, that driving — even reckless driving —is a symbol of status & power. But what if a car marketing vet used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture?
sf.streetsblog.org/2020/11/05/r...

Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.

Reuters: Voice of America staff put on leave after Trump orders cuts www.reuters.com/business/med...

Congratulations!!

A rare sequel that outdoes the original!

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas We Are Canadian

Leaving this here for no particular reason 🇨🇦
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

I wonder how that would have looked with TTC+GO+suburban local transit versus STM+ RTL+STL+Exo+REM? 🤔

Happy birthday!

Ras-le-bol du REM ! « Vouloir » et « pouvoir » sont deux choses bien différentes avec le Réseau express métropolitain (REM).

[…] Les déboires du REM produisent déjà un effet pervers : ils découragent des résidants de la Rive-Sud d’utiliser le transport collectif. Plusieurs, atteints d’une écœurantite aiguë, sont retournés à leurs vieilles habitudes automobiles.

www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

I was just going to warn you about that. Glad you were aware!

Produced from extensive research: this graph shows volume over time of positive comments about Connor McDavid from Calgary Flames fans

Exhale.

Réseau express métropolitain | « Ça prend de grosses améliorations » Le Réseau express métropolitain (REM) n’a plus d’excuses et doit offrir un service de meilleure qualité rapidement, plaident des experts et des regroupements d’usagers. Devant ce ras-le-bol, le gouver...

Titulaire de la Chaire Mobilité à Polytechnique Montréal, Catherine Morency appuie totalement cette idée. « Franchement, les concurrents du REM, ce ne sont pas les lignes de bus, ce sont les cinq ponts à côté », commente-t-elle.

www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g...

Shame on every "journalist" writing shit like this.

Shame.

Gare Saint-Lambert

So soothing!

Glad you’re getting to experience it together!

Congestion pricing could be the only path to managing gridlock Transportation agencies in the U.S. spend billions of dollars each year expanding highways to ease gridlock. Yet commute times have increased 20% over the last 50 years and traffic congestion is still...

Once you recognize that widening roads always leads to more congestion, the case for (de)congestion pricing + transit investment is obvious.

But if you need a study, here's a study:

ssti.us/2025/02/03/c...

Lights illuminating the RESO Montréal underground passageway

One of many underground passageways in Montreal.

😵‍💫

Screen capture of message from REM explaining recent technical difficulties.

A more fulsome explanation from REM itself about one of the issues — the lack of cars. Something to do with a winter braking system needing maintenance. This is on top of the power outage yesterday.

We are experiencing this moment in time just as we’ve lost much of the living memory of the Second World War. The knowledge of the atrocities of that time was likely the source of our long era of (mostly) peace. Now, the knowledge is only known if taught and properly understood.

Raconte-moi une histoire Montréal. (février 2025)

How about a timeline cleanse? Here’s a beautiful mural at rue Sherbrooke and boulevard Décarie in Montreal. flic.kr/p/2qJVRwV

B.C. Interior twinning seems to be well underway:
www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...