Rapid transit improvements work best when it’s designed to serve an area of shops, restaurants and housing… We’re fighting to make sure transit improvements that serve the needs of our region don’t get shut down by people afraid of change.
Burnaberians (?) and people from around Metro Vancouver, last chance to fill the survey about the North-Shore Burnaby BRT. Tell Translink you want it to go through Burnaby Heights! Watch @denisagar.bsky.social explains why:
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Metrotown–North Shore Bus Rapid Transit EXPLAINED A graphic of the MNS BRT route with a question mark around the undecided portion of the route Park royal - Lonsdale - Phibbs Exchange - Kootenay Loop - Maybe Burnaby Heights - Brentwood - BCIT - Metrotown Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders
Above: An image of apartment-lined, coffee shop full Hastings Street in Burnaby Heights, from TransLink Below: Car dealerships and wide streets and powerlines on Boundary Road, Image from Google In the middle: Which street do you think has more transit riders? And what even is Bus Rapid Transit?
An image of BRT in Utrecht, from Karl Fjellstrom, Far East Mobility What is Bus Rapid Transit? BRT is like SkyTrain for the road! It’s fast, frequent and reliable - buses every five minutes - dedicated lanes to zoom past traffic - fancy stations Seattle put in BRT and ridership doubled in less than a year
What is the Metrotown-North Shore BRT? This new BRT route will go from Metrotown to Park Royal in only 60 minutes The exact route is still undecided A map of the route from TransLink is displayed in the background
Would you rather have new convenient transit access to the wonderful restaurants and shops in Burnaby Heights, or to a station that's already served by SkyTrain?
The choice is yours!
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Listen to @michaelhall.bsky.social about curbside use and tell Translink what you think about the proposed BRT (opt 1 if you would like to get to Burnaby Heights comfortably) translinklistens.ca/bus-rapid-tr...
Bill proposal: every council member (anywhere in the world) will have to go to the Netherlands for a week, stay in a suburb/not a city center and learn how convenient it is to use public transport and bicycles. Only than they could say something and vote about transit/urban development.
This is how my worst nightmares look like
I wrote an op-ed for the @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social about my feelings about the 25 bus in Vancouver (spoiler: not so positive), transit planning and the changes needed for more people-oriented cities.
Thanks @denisagar.bsky.social and @iamkennethchan.bsky.social
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I live right next to it. It's a nice start, but a long way to go till we could call the area TOD. Needs denser street network and connectivity, diverse housing (not just high rises), way less parking... Right now it's a compounded destination, not a part of a city (the surrounding is even worse).
Yep. The problem with season 2 is that the storyline of the game was horrible (no spoilers, but the season is not getting better). They didn't have a lot to work with and even that they did worse. Ok, the killing Joel scene was a shocker, now what? You killed the only one here that I care about!
Today (like any other day) is a good day to remind everyone: Paint (alone) is not infrastructure!
One of the things that I love to do during the NBA playoffs is to compare who has the fewest parking lots outside the stadium. Go Knicks! (at least on the no parking part)
Burnaby: Human scale.
There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.
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They've been planning the Broadway & Commercial site for almost 20 years.
This Thursday (May 15) it's FINALLY getting a public hearing.
A thousand transit-oriented rental homes, zero displacement, and daycare!
Please say YES to housing. Step-by-step instructions below!
Done and forwarded :)
I was out of characters: just wanted to say that I really love your videos😊
From around 8 minutes (Sullivan). Maybe contradicts is a better word, in this part the blame is on Jacobs for helping the no-density crowd, but Death and Life is all about density, and you say it in other parts in the video. What I'm saying is that there are mix-messages about what the book is about
Like you side, no one's perfect, including Jacobs, but I think that the video is leaning too much to that stuff, and a bit misrepresenting her advocacy in The Death and Life...
It's Jane's Walk weekend in Metro Vancouver!
I just love this event so much, it allows you to really learn about a city from the people who live and love it.
I really recommend everyone to go on at least one walk (in Vancouver or wherever you are in the world) @janeswalkvan.bsky.social
I don't know this street, but let me guess: an arterial road inside a city that has nothing to do with the definition of street, where cars can go as fast as they can and pedestrians are not welcomed to say the least?
No need to argue. It's bad road design that allows for drivers to go too fast and kill pedestrians
Not enough 🤦🏻♀️ in the world!
They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!"
And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Good to know that there are still some people in Toronto that make professional desicions, not just cynical politics
Another solution that works in other countries is an agreement between Canada and other countries that have that pool of skilled people: a constructor goes to the Canadian gov, asks for x workers, the Canadian gov goes to the other county that gives the workers that signed up.
A great prof. of mine introduced me to the term place vs non-place like this: in a place you see and experience things that you can tell about later and create memories, a non place has nothing distinctive that you want or can tell about later. Places are lively and non-places are grey and dull.
My guess is because running a red light hurt mostly people who drive (and pedestrians) and the danger is more direct, whereas driving on the bus lane is hurting people on the bus and you can't "see" what's the harm if you don't take the bus yourself.
With a small tweak: "I want affordable housing in places that people actually want to live". You can have all the parking you want in the middle of nowhere with an affordable house because no one wants to live there
If any of you are in Vancouver this Friday and wants some urbanism fun, come join us in the Urbanism Big Tent at Brewhall Vancouver 5:30🎪🎉
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What does everything that needs to take a few months takes a few years here???
And why the public is last in the city's priorities??
How does the Singapore model works? 80% living in social housing and own a different house?
