The City is proposing to cancel many of the planned routes from the $100 million project. Please register to speak on August 26 if you can! Register in OPPOSITION to item 7.6 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Agenda & reports are here: pub-edmonton.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx... #yegbike

Speed cameras work to reduce speeding. They save lifes, full stop. They are good public policy. Imagine thinking it’s ok to attack speed cameras that work and save lives because you want to be able to break the law and endanger people without consequences.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

Millions of drivers across the country are encountering speed cameras for the first time, or will soon. Some don't like it, but advocates say there's clear evidence that cameras make roads safer. n.pr/4gwT62D

"Drivers struck and killed 7,080 people walking in the United States in 2024, 72% more than in 2009, when pedestrian deaths were at their lowest."

If there’s a war on cars in the USA then the cars have won

American vehicles have grown heavier, faster, and wider every decade since 1982 — and federal fuel economy rules reward the growth. Evidence from 50 years of EPA data.

maxmautner.com

Bike lanes are the infinite rage content machines. So tedious. I wish people would just live their lives instead of choosing outrage. You're losing parking? Get a real f*cking problem.

Bland article from CBC. Academic quotes are good. Two random people to give "balance". Numbers with no context. Why do bike lanes have to be justified with numbers? How do you compare those numbers against 80 years of building cities solely for driving? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Are people actually using Edmonton’s bike lanes? Here’s a look at the numbers | CBC News

To cut through all the rhetoric, CBC News reviewed municipal data to get a sense of how often Edmonton’s bike lanes are used.

cbc.ca

#yegbike - can you lend a hand to let @ashleysalvador.bsky.social know how you feel abou the 79 Street designs? Here is what is planned (a 🧵):

Paths for People@pathsforpeople.bsky.social · 2w ago

Send some bike lane love to Councillor Salvador 💜 A simple message in support of the 79 street bike lane will help ensure construction goes ahead as planned. 💌

Safe routes do not just improve trips. They decide whether some people can make them at all. One respondent gave up biking to work after too many close calls. Now they ride every day—even in winter—because the downtown network feels safe. Share your story: tally.so/r/Y5vvN0 #yegbike

A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.

Dutch traffic lights have a green wave so cyclists can keep going and save their momentum. The North American traffic light experience more often than not feels like the exact opposite of that - green lights will almost always turn red for you if approaching from a distance. 🫠 #yeg #yegbike

The bike parking was overflowing at Heritage Festival today - so many people chose cycling as their mode of transportation since it was convenient and had dedicated parking! 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴 Edmonton is a cycling city 🙌

I didn’t get a photo, but there are now cuts for a bike counter on the north side of the 142 St pedestrian bridge. It’ll be interesting to see the usage numbers once it is working! #yegbike

YEG Bike Counter Bot@yegbikebot.jacobdawang.com · 2w ago

Friday, July 31, ↑26.4°C ↓13.2°C Total: 13,451 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 1,567 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 1,053 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 888 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 875 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 805 MacKinnon Ravine: 701 Buena Vista Bridge: 629 Belgravia Rd Foot Bridge SUP: 600

Lots of people have a mental shortcut/block that assumes all cyclists are slow. I still get people making turns in front of me when going 35+kmh, if I were driving and going the same speed, most would never even think of doing it (lots won’t even go even if I’m signalling a turn while driving).

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Roglic has one of the brightest helmets in the peloton too! Something else interesting is that they're also usually going quite fast, faster than a normal fitness cyclist.

While the Province seeks greivances, we're seeking positivity. We know safe mobility options make getting to work, attending school, getting groceries, visitng care providers, and many other types of trip possible. We will be sharing early results soo, so add you voice now: buff.ly/8TvwT29

Whenever I’m cycling with vehicle traffic, I make sure I’m extra intentional with hand signals to be predictable. Yet for some reason it seems to be too much to ask for the drivers of the more dangerous vehicles to return the favour? I can’t read your damn minds when you stop randomly. #yegbike #yeg

So much upsetting about the Fauci attacks. But it also demonstrates the COMPLETE absorption & normalization of hardcore lies and conspiracy theories by the political right (alas, same here in Alberta). Reality irrelevant. Rage & grievance dominate.

If someone is concerned about the risk to pedestrians from e-bikes, e-motos, and scooters, but doesn't support taking away space from cars to build safer micro-mobility infrastructure then I would question their commitment to safety

For the morning commuters: Avoid Mill Creek Ravine. There is a massive mud-bottomed lake at the bottom of the hill at the north entrance, more than 24 hours after the storm. Also, the tree down on 83rd Ave between 101 & 102 Streets is still there as of 11:30pm. Bypass via car lane. #yegbike

PSA: Downed tree between 102 and 100 St on the 83 Ave bike lane. Sections west of 109 St also quite muddy/slippery. #yegbike #yeg

The Province asked Albertans to complain about bike lanes. We’re asking a better question: How does freedom of mobility improve your life? Tell us what safe, affordable ways to walk, roll, bike and take transit make possible for you. Share your story: tally.so/r/Y5vvN0 #yegbike

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Finally, safer infrastructure induces demand. That means more people will bike when it's safer and 50st isn't safe right now. Measuring the number of people that want to cross a river by the number of people swimming across makes no sense. Cycling is no different.

Hey, look @thecityofedmonton.bsky.social, here's over $1200 in wasted potential red light ticket revenue. On a random weekday afternoon. Just think of how much $ an automated device would make here when we've essentially legalized motorists running red lights. #yegbike #yeg

"...neighbors argue that aggressively driving or distracted motorists simply cannot see them until it is too late." Aggressive and distracted drivers you say? Well there's your problem right there.

Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 4w ago

In other words they are doing their job

Noticed some apparent new bike counters recently installed on 100 St north of 76 Ave, as well as 106 St south of 61 Ave! #yegbike

YEG Bike Counter Bot@yegbikebot.jacobdawang.com · last mo.

Thursday, July 16, ↑27.0°C ↓14.7°C Total: 15,623 #YEGBike High Level Bridge West: 1,185 83 Avenue W of 99 Street: 1,179 102 Avenue E of 121 Street: 1,053 110 Street N of 86 Avenue: 1,020 83 Avenue W 106 Street: 986 Belgravia Rd Foot Bridge SUP: 763 Terwillegar Park Footbridge: 761

Catching up on the media coverage from the pro bike lane protest today. I don't think it was made evident, it wasn't JUST about 50th street (IMO). It was against the proposed legislation, bullying the City, cars over active transport. Not just one bike lane or street. City wide concerns.

A driver drove a car into an apartment building, setting it on fire and killing three people. Just looking for the car snitch line on the UCP website…

Remember the restaurant critic who wrote up reviews about places they never ate at? Me neither? So why are we taking advice or surveying people about bike lanes from people who have never ridden in them.🤷‍♂️

The bad people running this province are evil geniuses in certain ways, keeping the zone continually flooded with red meat for the base and rage bait for the rest of us.

#yegbike PSA, for some reason these bollards at the bottom of the very steep downhill from Brookside to the Fort Edmonton/Fox Drive area keep getting moved to narrow the entrance. Someone could get very seriously injured if they didn’t anticipate this.

The new Rainbow Valley (and possibly unofficially 142 St) pedestrian bridges have not even been open for a week and there were so many people already on the trails around them today! #yegbike

There's a wide-open lane for someone to make a fiscal prudence/pro-mobility case for expanding bike lanes. You'll never win over the loudest critics, but you can blunt their arguments.

Tim Querengesser@timquerengesser.bsky.social · last mo.

North American automakers seem unable to build anything but cars for the well off who can afford (or finance) a vehicle with a price that would have been a house a generation ago. Meanwhile, we're still arguing about bike lanes in cities. Bikes should and could be the low-cost solution here, folks.