Two of my favourite things collide! @thewaroncars.bsky.social talks with @humantransit.bsky.social and you’ll learn so much if you listen to it. Transit advocacy for people with disabilities will be my focus in 1-20 years when I can no longer bike and bike advocacy becomes too difficult.

The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · yesterday

New episode up! We talk with transit planner Jarrett Walker, author of the recently reissued classic Human Transit, about why buses are so great, how we can make them better, & how advocates should fight for public transit in a hostile federal funding environment. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

EDMONTON PIT TOUR IS HAPPENINGGGG Come join me and a bunch of other pit enjoyers on Aug. 12 it's gonna be so funnn #yeg #yegcc www.eventbrite.ca/e/edmonton-p...

Edmonton Pit Tour x Taproot Edmonton

Come celebrate some of our city's greatest pits with a tour led by Stephanie Swensrude of Taproot Edmonton, followed by a panel discussion!

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107 ave seems to be the project the city is holding up as a win. I have serious doubts that council/admin has the guts to make this safe. Intersections including at the roundabout will have to be seriously improved. Level crossings added and restricted turns.

There is an initiative called "Week Without Driving" which asks elected officials to stop driving for 1 week to learn what mobility in the city is like for 1/3rd of the population, so they can make better infrastructure choices: weekwithoutdriving.org #yeg #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #urbanism #yegbike

Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026

Sep 29th – Oct 5th, 2025 - An experience created for everyone to learn firsthand about barriers and challenges for nondrivers. Join, support, or become a host.

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Bike lanes work best when their benefits are amplified through the network effect. A great example of this in North America is at risk. youtu.be/jTTIqyPVxLA

When bike lanes are treated like transit

YouTube video by Shifter

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Is it bad timing to pick up Frostbike in July? Not in YEG where the anti-bike crowd assures me there’s 13 months of winter.

Seen some tutorials lately on the best place for a person on a bicycle at a multilane intersection like this, and friends, the actual best place to be is at city hall every day asking WTF we're still telling people on bikes to "just act like cars" rather than building safe infrastructure

Tell me you hate bikes and don’t know the joy of riding them without telling me you hate bikes and don’t know the joy of riding them. (The image is a response to my previous post about using one bike to transport a second bike)

Fortunate that I own more than one bike. When one needs servicing, I can take it to the shop with another bike. That how I continue to fight @thewaroncars.bsky.social

No matter what kind of day you are having, this👇 will make it better. 🥹 🚲 ❤️

Your friendly neighborhood car dependency researcher here. If we want to get people out of car dependency, we need to let people who are car dependent talk to us about what's keeping them in car dependency. It's really not enough to say, "you should be less dependent on your car" I've tried.

UCP minister Devin Dreeshen's resume includes: - campaigning for Trump - drinking on the job - mocking worker safety, before workers died - refusing to oppose separatism This is the top-notch guy Danielle Smith handpicked to ban bike lanes in Alberta

At least 65 people showed up to our ride on 50st. People want safe infrastructure, and we want the minister to stop causing division to distract from the UCP's various scandals. Separation from traffic, not separation from Canada. I #yegbike

I love bike lanes. I love them when I ride my bike. But I also love them when I drive my car; they reduce my stress as a driver, and make the automobile traffic flow more smoothly. (Proper divided lanes are best - sharrows worse than useless.)

Biking should be considered a Third Place. It’s very social. Taxiing my eldest to D&D in the bakfiets, I yelled “you’re parked in a bike lane” at a driver and said hi to the mayor, who was biking the other direction. Didn’t react fast enough to offer the mayor an ice cream. @andrewknack.bsky.social

Hear our two-parter on John Forrester and his book, "Effective Cycling," the bible of vehicular cycling. While we've come a long way, cities are still feeling the effects of his movement. thewaroncars.org/2024/07/09/1...

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you're advocating vehicular cycling in the year 2026 you are not an ally in The War on Cars

Something tells me they will count the volume of submissions, and ignore the content, at least when it's convenient for their narrative.

David William@nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 3w ago

The UCP just launched a bike lane complaint line. It would definitely be a shame if the line were flooded with messages in support of bike lanes. #yyc #yeg #abpoli

Gosh. I thought the Montreal bike survey (version #2) was biased. Alberta is not even trying to seem neutral. This is purely “tell us which bike lane you want us to beat up”.

Audric Moses 🇨🇦@audricmoses.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey #yegbike #yycbike -- can we flood this portal with suggestions to put NEW bike lanes? And yes, sometimes they're not done well. But most of them are great for those who want to use active transport, including young kids. (can't repost b/c Shields Up has me blocked) #yeg #yyc

Snitch line is now up. There is no way to report good active transport lanes but there is an email on their website. www.alberta.ca/report-conce...

Report concerns about bike lanes

Share issues or concerns about municipal bike lane infrastructure.

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Edmonton Journal@edmontonjournal.com · 3w ago

Bell: Smith UCP gears up to stop or rip out bike lanes, now seeks your input edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Great weather last night for a bike ride. Good on @ashleysalvador.bsky.social for coming along, knowing she’d face a group of advocates, 30 in the end, who are all much less than happy a protected bike lane is being delayed and likely won’t be built.

Scramble funeral is off! We still have one more summer of scramblin'. Removal of Whyte Ave scrambles delayed until 2027 edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2026/...

Removal of Whyte Ave scrambles delayed until 2027

Three scramble crossings on Whyte Avenue will remain in place for another summer season so the city can better coordinate with events and construction projects.

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Specifically for Rutherford, pointing out that now other residents are going to ABSOLUTELY ask to get this done for their infrastructure installs. We could have seen this coming a mile away with Delton and Grovenor complaints. I bet those Ward offices are about to get a flood of inquiries.

This week we launch Canadian Civil Conversations, if you’ve been looking to form a parasocial connection with minor Canadian internet personalities, now is your chance! https://site.canadiancivil.com/civil-convo-1/

No one else thought my labelling of this evening’s dinner was a bad attempt at a math joke. It was my daughter who told me which buns were pastrami and not pastrami

Someone moved one of the Toronto barriers in my favourite modal filter to make the gap for drivers even wider. Wouldn’t want to hurt drivers’ feelings by preventing them from driving everywhere

My research finds that conventional traffic congestion cost studies are highway industry propaganda. I want help finalizing this research. Please review the following report and send me your comments (litman@vtpi.org). "Congestion Costing Best Practices" (www.vtpi.org/ITED_congestion.pdf).

Place your bets! After resurfacing is finished, how long until the bike lane is repainted? What per cent of trips before the bike lane is painted will I encounter vehicles parked where the lane should be? #yegbike

Baking cookies this morning nearly went horribly wrong. I’m well aware nutmeg isn’t white but I put a lot of trust in the label.

Not sure if this is a hot take, but 🤷🏻‍♀️. Public input can provide valuable insight about behaviors and challenges in a neighborhood. Lived experience greatly enhances understanding of the context. But public input should not get to decide the solutions, not for transportation safety.