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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦

@davethompsonvic.bsky.social

Community, housing, climate, urbanism. Also Victoria BC City Councillor, CRD Director. Civil discourse and good governance. Pragmatic progressive. Please email my City account for City business. My own views only. Seeking re-election in 2026! ☄️⏳#yyj 🇨🇦

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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦@davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 6d ago

Construction to begin on second phase of Esquimalt Road protected bike lanes. The bike and roll lanes portion is 8 percent of the project budget, with underground utilities, paving etc much more, which is normal for multimodal infrastructure upgrades. victoriabuzz.com/2026/08/cons... #yyj #safety

Construction to begin on second phase of Esquimalt Road protected bike lanes

The Township of Esquimalt has announced that construction will soon begin the second phase of the Esquimalt Road Active Transportation and Infrastructure Project.

victoriabuzz.com

Dave Thompson 🇨🇦@davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gas stoves and asthma. I've used gas stoves and induction electric. Induction is faster, more even, more precise, and safer. #asthma #fossilfuels

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."

Dave Thompson 🇨🇦@davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do you have an explanation for this @bchydro.bsky.social? #climateaction #climatechange (Don't tell me about the 2024 and 2025 calls for power. I already know about them. What I'm wondering is what on earth you were doing prior to that.)

Charts showing little to no growth in solar or wind electricity in BC since 2016Chart showing significant growth in wind energy in Alberta post 2015
Jeremy 🇨🇦@jeremy77.bsky.social · 3w ago

As electrification continuous to push total electrical consumption up in #BC we have transitioned from a net-exporter of electricity to a net-importer. While #BC is still primarily powered by hydro electricity, deployment of wind and solar has lagged far behind Alberta and isn't seeing growth.

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’re using the word e-bike to describe too many things. Electric assist bikes are a version of bike & have many public interest benefits. But vehicles being driven by food delivery app drivers aren’t a form of bike…they’re a form of motorcycle. They don’t belong on sidewalks or pedestrian streets.

Picture of food delivery app driver, one of many, I see each day on downtown Vancouver’s Granville Street pedestrian zone. It’s a motor vehicle, and doesn’t belong on a vehicle-prohibited pedestrian street like Granville Street, and definitely not on sidewalks either.
Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3w ago

New market rate housing helps poor people by keeping rich people from outbidding them for existing housing. Further, the past 50 years of CA housing policy show us that *not* building enough new market rate homes is TERRIBLE for the poorest, who are forced into overcrowded housing or homelessness.

Sebastian Gorka Izzagirre @obeylittle.bsky.social · 3w ago

My main point is that the market rate housing you advocate for will not help these people and that interests aligned with your group support punitive measures toward that population. You have definitely mobilized a grassroots army of defenders and advocates for market rate development.