Advocating for safer streets is characterized as "radical" from two #winnipeg city councillors who are both well beyond the Best Before Date.
you know this council isn't used to an engaged and informed segment of the citizenry, holding them accountable, when they resort to name calling.
We are more than a year and a half into the process for temporary bike lanes. Even if the process for a permanent solution started today, it would still take years for any tangible change to be felt on the ground by the people this is affecting the most.
city council overhauls the transit system driving up bus commute times 10 minutes or more longer but won’t pull the trigger on a road safety initiative that will improve all road users’ experience because of a five-second delay to drivers
Janice Lukes wouldn’t let us upstairs and don’t come down to talk to us, but CBC had a chat
Good news! With all the time you’re going to save this week from not having to call your councillor about the charter-free zone, you can call them about this instead!
I. Love. Winnipeg 😭
Here’s the part where Janice Lukes freaks out and shuts down the meeting when a registered delegation mentions being disappointed that 30 duly registered delegations were silenced
Here’s the moment when Janice Lukes decided democracy wasn’t the right way to run council committee meetings
If you bike to work, you could live longer, new study suggests.
momentummag.com/if-you-bike-...
Janice Lukes said on UpTo Speed yesterday that people would be heard with respect to the Wellington Cres delays. Instead the committee moved to suspend the rules and block all these individuals from speaking today. This is against city bylaws. @faithfundal.bsky.social
Not lost on me that there’s an open fascist coup happening in LA as Janice Lukes decides to shut down debate on an issue of life and death for cyclists and vulnerable road users. She supported Khan *after* he rolled out his anti-queer campaign plank and the PCs doubled down against landfill search
If you’re not watching, Janice Lukes just moved NOT to hear ANY delegations on Wellington Cres bike lanes today. There are 30 delegations registered to speak on it. They just ejected someone who shouted that she took off work today to be here. Amazing disrespect. www.youtube.com/live/PnyG8uZ...
If a few random people can do this in less than an hour, imagine what the City of Winnipeg could do in an entire year!
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Results are in from the community-built pilot project: it’s fun as hell!
This is entirely opposed to the tune Janice Lukes was singing when she added the temporary measures to the motion requesting a report. Her entire promise was something this spring! The point of a temporary measure was safety until a permanent solution can be studied! People will die because of her!
Winnipeg cyclists build their own bike lane, because the city is taking too long, and declare @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Is that a critical mass of vegan cake?
when you think about it, the sheer amount of misinformation, defunding, stigma, and general bullshit people throw at bikes is a pretty good testament to what a powerful tool they are to change the world, and how deeply they could threaten our most toxic power structures if we let them.
Jeff Browaty and Janice Lukes visit Minneapolis
The tininess of the AT branch explains why they forgot to include the 2006 Winnipeg Police attack on Critical Mass that led to the formation of Bike to the Future, now @bikewinnipeg.bsky.social
Where's the lie?
Councillor Lukes just moved to delay action on Wellington Cres another 60 days. No infrastructure changes at all before June, no guarantee of a timeline.
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Mayor Hidalgo in Paris is not only making her city easier and safer to get around by bike, bus, and foot, she's dramatically reducing air pollution.
Poster for a bicycle demonstration. Text: "Bicycle Demonstration (with a little guy on a bike saying, "Look ma, no cars!"). We demand: No private cars in Manhattan (then rearrange the system of buses, cabs, & trucks). Millions for public transit, no more money for highways (stop the spending of $2 billion on rebuilding the West Side Highway, rebuild subways instead.) Free bicycles (end the problem of theft.) Join the AAA (Action Against Automobiles) Room 632, 555 Mad. Ave (371-0999). Practice now. massive Bicycle demonstrations in the spring until the streets are cleansed of the auto gangrene. Stop the cars from killing the city!"
Poster promoting an anti-car demonstration in New York City, 1972
HT @carltonreid.com
City council wants to hear less from the public
Screen print of a giant white bike ridden by a whole crowd of people pulling together as one body, crushing a cyber truck with the front wheel. The body/people are backed in crimson.
Zoom of the torso, arms, and head of the crowd/body, with placards reading “rise” and “up” in place of eyes, and a banner reading “mass up” in place of a mouth. The body is made of many small people.
Zoom in on the huge bike wheel absolutely crushing a cyber truck.
Critical Mass(ive)
I dream that one day drivers will give me as much space on the road on my bicycle as they do a discarded cardboard box.🙏
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
