“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social
Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
Farkas says it's an unfair equalization that Calgary pays more education property taxes than Edmonton
He didn't do the math.
Calgary has $457B of assessment to Edmonton's $220B.
The Leg will get $1.2B in YYC prop taxes this year, then return $2.2B in funding YYC school boards.
Against official policy, I bring by Tern GSD on Seattle light rail because I need to be able to bike on both ends of my trips. There are no bikeshare options for parents carrying kids. Family bikes should be prioritized over space for other bikes.
The UCP ripped off some of my footage to make an ANTI-bike lane video. The bike lane shown wasn’t the one they wanted to rip out. You can see my brakehoods in the video so I knew it was mine.
One of the reasons you should take up a transportation cycling habit asap.
Price of gas becomes mostly meaningless.
Same goes for rush hour traffic reports.
My teenage girls like rides in the UA but only one at a time. No one is strong enough to ride with me inside but I have a GSD coming that might solve that. Otherwise, I spend time trying to think of errands that require the bakfiets. Alas, you can only hit Costco so often.
Right wing Alberta influencers are demanding an Edmonton City Councillor apologize for... condemning the KKK in black history month?
The accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers think sharing the message "the KKK is bad" is an attack on Premier Danielle smith.
This is where we're at.
My wife put a sign on our van because our daughters are learning. She left it up when she drove. She got heckled more
Save the date for May 1st for a special weekend in Edmonton with @colville-andersen.com
www.michaeljanz.ca/cityhalltalk3
Here's how my own experiences riding around these cities have influenced the way I think about urban cycling.
youtu.be/IkvuMNRGtzI
Danielle Smith is scheming to force all public libraries in Alberta to implement her book ban.
Multiple sources have confirmed to me that the UCP is planning to require public libraries like EPL to ban and restrict material at the UCP's direction
It's coming.
Where did your bike land after this crash?
Great new initiative to develop better messaging around the value of good urban planning, led by @brenttoderian.bsky.social, @grantennis.bsky.social and
@tomflood.bsky.social.
I’m using the free DaVinci Resolve. There are lots of tutorials on YT and it’s fairly easy to get started. I knew nothing when I started making my videos. After four years, you can barely see an improvement in my videos but my editing process is faster.
4 adults biking in a contraflow lane with a white car about to turn left Every leader should be required to ride a bike (if able) with a 6 year old before they provide any direction on bike infrastructure.
Years ago we had the mayor bike to school with my then 6 year old, within the first :30 seconds they were almost hit by a driver on live TV. Every leader should be required to ride a bike (if able) with a 6 year old before they provide any direction on bike infrastructure
Starting to wish my undergrad was in #chemistry, not #physics. An uncle of mine developed #Becel and, in #BreakingBad, I’m up to where Walt was offered $3M for three months of work.
I’m holding out hope for a camper version, especially if it has a pop top that sleeps 4
Somewhere, a Riese & Müller exec is angry the picture is of a Dutch Urban Arrow
City is hiring a supervisor for mobility lane maintenance crew, including snow, ice, & debris. Vote here: SHOULD the hiring criteria include personal, all-season, experience with the mobility network, or Oulu's winter cycling infrastructure maintenance training?
www.instagram.com/p/DUwZpIDkjK7/
On Saturday, we will be testing the YEG ward with the best bike infrastructure (so far) to see if one can ride between places in the ward that women need to go: schools, hardware stores, groceries, clinics, malls, LRT stations, cafes, seniors centre, City Hall & a college (spoiler: answer is no).
I've been talking to a lot of low vision cyclists for a new project and it has made me think about some of the assumptions I carry regarding who has a right to be in public space and move in public space.
I kind of wish @michaeljanz.bsky.social came back with all the stuff he said is well supported in the academic literature to counter the racist’s “I don’t agree”
I'm looking for examples of VMT reduction policies with teeth.
Who has good ones? Especially at the municipal level.
Bettman already eliminated the Stanley Cup in Canada after he became the Commish in 1993.
Stand down! I found it www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Changing the priority for cyclists at separate bicycle crossings, when planning main routes for cyclists, requires at least an elevated crossing, or a hump before the crossing"
New paper finds that US bike deaths have "trended toward lower-density suburban areas" rather than central cities
Those killed tend to be poor and non-white.
Lesson: The suburbanization of poverty could be contributing to the surging number of cyclist fatalities.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
I posted this earlier today. I think the City paused for the weekend but leaving the snow in the painted door zone bike lane was a choice
Line of snow piled in the painted bike lane, that is in the door zone of parked cars, while the parking and travel lanes for vehicles are clear
Can you find the bike lane between the parking and travel lanes for SUVs?
Yaaa, um.
We aren't the ones that said we'd never back down, just for the record.
We know the City of Edmonton can do excellent work, and we believe that Wîhkwêntôwin deserves great! We will be the first to say we like good things - like 132 Ave or the downtown bike network.
#yegbike
Bus directions showing a 19 minute walk from the closest bus stop to the destination
Fighting Blindness Canada invite to a meetup. ACT rec centre is inaccessible if you don’t drive
Fighting #Blindness Canada is trying to connect people with similar eye diseases IRL. One in #yeg is at an #inaccessible rec centre. The closest bus stop is 2.5km away. If you go, you must be driven there. #motonormativity #disability #VisuallyImpaired
