@joshtwowheels
π¨π¦ husband & father of π§πΌπ§πΌπ§πΌ π§ͺ environmental engineering technologist π² cyclist π reforest the cities, reclaim the roads, restore nature π libraries, community gardens, 3rd spaces π± plant-based for the planet
I just sent a letter urging the government to act on Canadaβs wildfire crisis. Join me in demanding a real plan to protect communities, nature, and our future!
act.naturecanada.ca/page/173783/...
I'm a member of the War On Cars because I want cities to be more like this.
It was right there!
A picture of a firefighter on a street with embers flying all around them, with the text saying βclimate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until youβre the one filming itβ
An image of raspberries, a variety knows as βrubusβ creeping arctic raspberry
Brain: sleep
Also brain: hmm what variety of raspberry should order?
A picture of a peregrine falcon destroying a gray pick up truck with the word cars ruin cities at the bottom
Spotted in the wild
A graphic with two photos of Ontario Place before and during redevelopment with the text: Therme Spa will cost $1.8 Billion more than original estimate. per the Auditor Generalβs report.
A graphic with a photo of the Science Centre with the text: Science Centre move will cost $400 Million more than estimated. per the Auditor Generalβs report.
While people struggle to afford groceries, make rent, or find a doctor this government is spending billions of tax dollars to enrich corporations.
It's time for a government that puts people over the profits of billionaires.
People riding in a safe bike-lane in downtown Vancouver
You donβt have to be a βcyclistβ to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You donβt have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.
Huge kissing canopies in downtown Brisbane, Australia
Kissing canopies in Vancouver
Kissing canopies in Vancouver
Kissing canopy over the sidewalk in Vancouver
Did you know that a βkissing canopyβ is when trees above a street or sidewalk grow to touch overhead, creating a cool, shaded place? Despite it being colder and darker these days, letβs remember the beauty and value that #StreetTrees add to our cities, IF we design for them. #KissingCanopies
Independence and community are so important for our seniorsβ physical and mental well-being.
We owe it to them to continue to build communities & infrastructure where their needs are safely fulfilled.
These seem like a wonderful was to help seniors get around in their communities.
A page showing various bike share usage statistics for the poster. This includes 2593 trips, 9406 kilometres travelled, 827 hours usage, and 2337kg of carbon reduced
My current Hamilton Bike Share (locally called SoBi) stats. Bike share is not all of my bike trips, but it does make up a good amount of them, simply because it is so convenient and Iβm exceptionally bad at doing maintenance on my own bikes.
Iβm hoping to break 10,000 km total next year!
Tire microplastics are bad enough, but research shows very troubling consequences when these microplastics interact with other forms of pollution.
One component, 6PPD, has been found to interact with ground level ozone, forming a toxin, 6PPDq, that kills fish.
e360.yale.edu/features/tir...
I remember this well, even if it had been scripted it couldnβt have gotten the point across more cleary!
I could only dream of the day where this type of infrastructure would even enter the realm of possibility here in Canada.
But that doesnβt mean I wonβt stop working towards that future.
Very impressive. Itβs wonderful to see what is possible when a society committed itself to a vision.
Looks beautiful!
Reported
If someone doesnβt support libraries, that person needs to be kept away from any position of decision making
Hard fought victory. Cheers to all.
Itβs not just good transportation policy or economic policy. Itβs also great health policy.
I wish BlueSky had the option to βpinβ Starter Packs.
Thereβs so many good packs out there but I canβt handle following several thousand accounts.
βBuild it and they will comeβ
Just finished The Serviceberry, was a wonderful read.
Many great recommendations here.
Would love to hear of any others!
OPINION The bike lane debate isn't a war on cycling - it's a war on data SARAH ELTON AND MADELEINE BONSMA-FISHER CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED 3 HOURS AGO A car stops halfway into the dedicated eastbound bike lane on Bloor St. West near Huron St., in Toronto, on July 9, 2018. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
γ Sarah Elton is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology. Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher is a Data Sciences Institute postdoctoral fellow in civil and industrial engineering at the University of Toronto.
Innumerable studies conducted in cities around the world have found that safe bike infrastructure has many other benefits. For example, people arriving by car spend less money at main street businesses serviced by bike lanes in comparison to people arriving by bike - and cyclists also stop at these businesses more often than drivers do. This has been known for a long time. Ten years ago, a study from New York City's Department of Transportation evaluated case studies where active transportation infrastructure was added and found higher sales relative to comparison sites. That's not to mention the individual benefits of improved health supported by safe infrastructure, as well as the money that people save when they replace car trips with cheaper transportation, or the shared benefits of reducing air pollution and helping to meet urban sustainability goals.
There is a lot of data to support expanding bike lanes. Yet the provincial government plans to destroy existing infrastructure, regardless of the cost to taxpayers, and prevent new safe cycling infrastructure investments if they take space away from drivers. What we see here is a contest over what informs transportation and infrastructure policy: either that irritated feeling you get when you're stuck in traffic, or actual data-driven evidence. Ripping up bike lanes based on frustration is bad policy. Canadians may think that post-truth policy-making is a condition more prevalent south of the border, but buckle up: With Doug Ford in the driver's seat, frustration - not data - is leading the way.
The facts donβt lie even as this government tries itβs best to do and say otherwise.
Fantastic deconstruction of Bill 212 in the @theglobeandmail.com via @sarahelton.bsky.social and @mbonsma.bsky.social
h/t @uoft.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
"The bike lane debate is a war on data."
True. But it's *also* a War on Bikes. (Both things can be true at once...)
Important op-ed in @theglobeandmail.com about Doug Ford government's attack on bike infrastructure in cities of #Ontario.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Errβ¦ that should be βunmaintained pathsβ
Heartbreaking.
Just stunning callousness from the Ford government.
Not a thought or care to anyone outside a car.
βThe most exciting form of transportation technology is more than 100 years old β and itβs probably sitting in your garage. Itβs the bicycle.β
The vehicle of the future (& the present) has 2 wheels, Via @WIRED (2018):
Still accurate. #multimodalcities #driverlesscars
www.wired.com/story/vehicl...
Iβm sure you must have seen the excellent mΓΌnecat video about the βmanosphere.β
Iβd encourage everyone who hasnβt seen it to check it out!
youtu.be/BgO25FTwfRI?...