But also, it really illustrates how poorly the Park Board has handled the regrowth of Everett Crowley over the years.
mark burge@markburge.ca · 2d agoPacific spirit park is better than Stanley park.
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mark burge@markburge.ca · 2d ago
I am begging people to leave the downtown and see how shitty the rest of the city is for bike infrastructure.
Edward Russell@byerussell.com · last wk.I can’t speak for every bike lane in downtown Vancouver, but the selection I rode — and saw — were all protected with actual concrete, landscaped or otherwise. Not just flexposts (I did see some at corners). This is how to do it (cough*DC*cough).
I didn’t have @99pi.org mentioning Pierre Berton on my bingo card for today, but here we are.
People get hella mad when you suggest adult drivers should be more responsible than children walking/biking
5 million could have been spent on more permanent shovel ready projects across the city, especially in areas of the city with little active mobility or other place making infrastructure. This is pretending that we don't already shovel money into the downtown core hoping investors do their thing.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last wk.Was Vancouver City Council’s decision to extend the Granville Street Pedestrian Zone beyond the World Cup a “mistake?” Despite its popularity with businesses, residents, etc, some in the media, and a city councillor, have suggested that. Here’s how I responded to a media post on the other site.
Weirdly, there’s no plan for filtering at knight or Fraser as part of the neighbourhood traffic calming plan either.
mark burge@markburge.ca · last wk.Okay, where is the mode filtering from knight, Fraser and main streets onto the Masumi Mitsui greenway @cityofvancouver.bsky.social ? The easiest thing you could do to make this route safer for active mobility, and yet you decided to pave the street instead and make it faster for drivers.
Okay, where is the mode filtering from knight, Fraser and main streets onto the Masumi Mitsui greenway @cityofvancouver.bsky.social ? The easiest thing you could do to make this route safer for active mobility, and yet you decided to pave the street instead and make it faster for drivers.
I may not have many american friends who I've met with in person, but when there is a major shooting in their town, I sure as hell check in on them.
I swear people don’t even do any basic google searches anymore. c.org/jd2YDW6mb7 There is already a mount terry fox in mount terry fox provincial park, in the BC Rockies.
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There is a ten degree difference between my bedroom and my basement.
It's almost as if they know that 1 time out of 100 they'll get ticketed and just built that cost into their cost of doing business.
Robert Prinz@prinzrob.bsky.social · 2w agoThe business model of delivery companies (as well as ride hail & food delivery) requires their drivers to park illegally. Bike/bus lane ticking isn’t inherently bad, but if it doesn’t change behavior then it’s not effective. Fundamental restructuring of delivery activity in cities is needed.
Look,I’m generally for painted bike lanes(they designate a space, so when you go to put in a permanent separated one there’s far less pushback, but you have to build the culture to support them if you’re not going to have a physical barrier. if that means ticketing folks like this, then so be it.
But also, parents are the ones buying these machines for their children. And, I’ve never need more bike gangs out and about than in the past six months. It’s clear they’re popular.
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is a solid and even-handed article. I'm glad it makes 3 important points: 1. Many kids are riding high-speed e-motos and not e-bikes 2. The e-bike panic has the potential to hurt riders who depend on these bikes 3. Kids want to and deserve freedom of mobility without cars!
Hot take: emotos wouldn’t be nearly as much of an issue(it’s barely one now) if cities had invested in separated micromobility routes over the past 20 years. Teenagers aren’t buying them- their parents are because they’re more reliable than public transit.
Because if it was about ridership, they would be focusing on the McLean to Wall Street section first. No, Wall Street funders of abc want their street to look like West Point Grey. #vanpoli #bikeyvr
mark burge@markburge.ca · last mo.Every time I ride the Dundas to renfrew section of portside it’s abundantly clear why the initial funding for portside is being directed to a section that is already far better than most greenways in the city- and it’s not because the road is bad or there is too much car traffic.
Every time I ride the Dundas to renfrew section of portside it’s abundantly clear why the initial funding for portside is being directed to a section that is already far better than most greenways in the city- and it’s not because the road is bad or there is too much car traffic.
One bright side to the Killarney fifa practice venue is that when the teams are there, the motorcade just hangs out on 45th- which is a bikeway. I’ve never seen so many drivers go the speed limit and respect cyclists on this road- there’s no other modal filters or anything to discourage driving.
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It’s insane that it’s 2026, and the city still doesn’t have a connector or signage to from the Masumi Mitsui greenway to the arbutus greenway.