Fort St. John is a terrible city to get around without a car. Oh, you want to walk somewhere? Screw you.
A disappointing start for Victoria's latest bike share attempt. With just over 2 rides per bike per day, we're well below the average of 5.1 rides per day per bike for docked bike shares. We're also below the 3 rides per day per bike that dockless systems average.
CTV News Vancouver@ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 2mo agoThousands of Lime bike trips recorded in Victoria since launch. Here’s how many
I'm convinced that anyone who argues against cycling infrastructure by claiming blue collar workers can't cycle just hasn't been around many blue collar workers.
The up-front cost to government is ~$21,000 lower per [infill] home than building homes at the outer edge of cities and towns. Can someone explain like I'm 5 why govts are so resistant to infill at places like Nanaimo Stn, but it's so easy to build infra for sprawl in Coquitlam, Langley, etc?
Building Homes Near Jobs, Stores, and Transit Saves Public Dollars
Amid a national housing shortage, momentum is growing at the state and local levels to make it easier to build more homes—a proven way of reducing unaffordable rents and home prices. A key question fa...
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There (mostly) shouldn't be special charges on new developments. That's what property taxes are for. "The stuff getting developed doesn't generate enough in property taxes to cover its infrastructure costs" Your tax system and/or land use is... Incorrect.
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 4mo agoFee on new homes could fall by as much as $33,787 under new city plan City of Ottawa proposes cutting development charges by 54% to get nearly $500M for infrastructure www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Galloping Goose and Lochside trails are about to get wider! Construction starts this summer/fall. More about the project, to be discussed at our CRD meeting tomorrow: davethompsonvictoria.ca/regional-tra.... #yyj #safety #yyjbike
This is one of the biggest transit delay spots in the network, so make your voice heard and tell Saanich staff you want no delay for buses! hello.saanich.ca/.../interurb... #yyj #BCTransit
Did Canada’s 10¢/L cut to gas tax really lower gas prices? Earlier in April, gas averaged 69¢/L more in 🇨🇦 than 🇺🇸. After the cut (April 20th), prices immediately dropped about 10¢ relative to 🇺🇸! But then started trending back up again. Prices today are only 3¢ lower than before the cut.
If only we had electeds here who would fight for bus lanes too. Fun fact, several buses in Victoria (including the 26!) carry more daily ridership than the Route 8 in Seattle, but apparently bus lanes on McKenzie are a crime against humanity that must never be allowed to happen.
Mayor Katie B. Wilson@mayor.seattle.gov · 6mo agoBus Lane... or SCANDAL? 😱
Is housing demand fake? Absolutely not, writes Will Dawson #bcpoli #housing #yyj #vanpoli
Housing Demand Isn't Fake - Better Columbia
Why do people assume that demand for expensive apartments is fraudulent? If you follow housing news in Canada at all, you’re surely familiar with two competing ideas for what’s to blame for the housin...
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Good to see safety improvements throughout the region. victoriabuzz.com/2026/02/esqu... #yyj #safety
Esquimalt to begin phase two of bike lane and road work project this summer
Phase one of the Esquimalt Road All Ages and Abilities Bike Lanes and Underground Utilities Project is nearly complete, spanning between Lampson Street and Dominion Road.
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Take APTA data with a grain of salt. For Vancouver, the average weekday numbers the APTA reports are lower than what TransLink reports. Though annual boardings seem correct. www.translink.ca/plans-and-pr...
Managing the Transit Network
Managing the transit network involves developing policies, guidelines, and performance indicators for transit service.
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Ray Delahanty | CityNerd@nerd4cities.bsky.social · 9mo agoI get prickly if I go too long without making a countdown video. So, Tuesday enjoyment for the Nebulized: nebula.tv/videos/cityn...
We are increasingly building an inside-out metro, where dense housing is located further away. This is very much an outcome of calcified, inflexible zoning, not market forces. It means longer commutes, more congestion, higher taxes for more roads, & higher emissions. Now... 3/4
🎵Guess who's back, back again? QMP's back, tell a friend!🎵 Saanich votes Jan 19 on the Quadra–McKenzie Plan. Transit riders need faster, reliable buses now. Speak up: email council@saanich.ca or attend the meeting. Don’t let a small minority stall progress for thousands of daily riders.
A surreal sight... #SkyTrain's retired Mark I cars being torn apart and dismantled at a recycling scrapyard. It marks the start of the end for the original fleet. While some will be repurposed, most of the 150 cars will not. #TransLink #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/sk...
SkyTrain's retired iconic Mark I cars spotted being torn apart in scrapyard | Urbanized
With SkyTrain's new Mark V train arrivals, TransLink's process to retire the old Mark I cars is now well underway, including the scrapyard.
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One of my biggest takeaways from living in Tokyo was that the city is incredible in spite of the fact that 95% of the architecture is unremarkable. It makes the years-long design review process for a single apartment building in the U.S. seem all the more frivolous.
Brandon Donnelly@brandondonnelly.com · 10mo agoTokyo is a city that makes the argument that architecture is irrelevant. What matters more is urbanism: The street network The density The freedom of uses The clustering around rail
Victoria, with a population centre of 363,000 people and 100,000 average daily boardings comes in at 0.275 boardings per capita.
Brendan Dawe@dawe.bsky.social · 10mo agoApproximating this methodology using, Translink's average daily 1,551,339 mf boardings over a Vancouver population centre 2021 population of 2,426,160 we would arrive at 0.639 riders per capita
When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com
US building codes requiring two stairs in multifamily buildings: not only worse living environments, but also more dangerous in fires! What a combination.
Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 11mo agoConsultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...
"There is growing evidence of an “optimism bias” regarding the attainable performance of tramways or other transit services operating in “type B” right-of-way, pushed by an ill-informed idea diffused in political and planning circles that type B right-of-way and ...
Read this to understand how Victoria's transit system is at risk of going backwards on the things that riders value the most bettercolumbia.ca/2025/12/02/f...
For Transit, stagnation is regression. - Better Columbia
Nic Laporte and Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders recently released a video discussing the phenomenon of a “transit death spiral”, and the converse positive feedback loop that comes with adequa...
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Denis Agar@denisagar.bsky.social · 11mo agoTransit riders in Victoria, BC were asked what improvements they want. Here's what they said. Frequency, reliability, directness. h/t @toddlitman.bsky.social
Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns. The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space! #BlackFridayParking
In @translink.ca budget discussions, and frankly we don’t talk enough about how Metro Vancouver is the 25th largest metro area in Canada/USA, but has the 3rd highest transit ridership. This is a massive success we sometimes take for granted.