In post-blue-wave Mamdanistan, "neighborhood divided" stories are now banned. The overwhelming success of Proposal 3 shows that residents are very much *not* divided over bus and bike lanes. We don't have to play this game of finding three people who are upset about something everyone else wants.

Prospect Heights residents divided over proposed bike boulevard, B65 bus changes

A petition opposing the city's proposed bike boulevard has drawn more than 2,600 signatures, while supporters say the changes could make streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Canada’s wealthiest 19,500 families hold 12 percent of the country’s family wealth. Investigative journalist Linda McQuaig and tax scholar Neil Brooks propose a wealth tax that could raise $40 billion a year. Here’s how it would work and what it could fund: thewalrus.ca/the-billionaire-...

Just saw a new Canadian brand called Pudgyboy and it has AI graphics on the box. 🤬 Second cup and jumping bean are full of shit AI 'art'. I want to support local but FFS I also want artists to be paid. Stop using AI 'art'. It stole from our collective skills and we got nothing from it.

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We demand parking that is convenient, available, and free. The catch? Trying to get all three destroys the very places worth visiting in the first place. I loved chatting with @henrygrabar.bsky.social and learning about how prioritizing parking continues to shape and destroy our cities.

Meredith Martin 🇨🇦@meredithmartin.bsky.social · 2w ago

When people talk about what's more important, housing for cars or housing for people, that's not an abstract trade-off. It's a very real one. Henry Grabar & Cara Stern discuss his excellent book, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.

Join me and write to St. John's City Council via @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: We all lose when Metrobus loses mechanics! Restore Metrobus Service: Keep St. Johns Moving!. Write here: actionnetwork.org/letters/rest... @atucomms.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @elizabethyeoman.bsky.social

Restore Metrobus Service — Keep St. Johns Moving!

Our community deserves reliable transit, fully staffed with mechanics to keep service running safely. St. John’s residents depend on Metrobus to get to work, school, medical appointments and essentia...

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My work with cities emphasizes that getting a better city-building idea approved ISN’T ENOUGH. It’s just the beginning. The work needs to be intentionally positioned UP FRONT to succeed & survive continued attacks, including elections or leadership changes. CELEBRATE it and QUICKLY fix any problems!

LOVE DRIVING 🥰 Some recent work done with @wearehub.bsky.social Prioritizing safe routes for kids to walk, bike, roll saves parents and caregivers time, reduces traffic congestion, improves children’s health, and reduces serious transportation injuries.

*quietly* This argument applies equally to sidewalks as it does bike lanes.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Cyclists apparently don't deserve safe infrastructure because a single driver can't figure out how to look both ways

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A huge newspaper arguably THREATENED NDP Leader Avi Lewis. Why is no major media talking about it??

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

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Union Pacific is trying to merge/buy Norfolk Southern, if it happens it will be the biggest railroad merger in history, and will make UP the first to have a true Transcontinental railroad from East to West Coasts. I talk about all of the details here:

America's First *Real* Transcontinental Railroad might Happen

YouTube video by Alan Fisher

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Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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The only thing worse than not having a reliable transit system is having a transit system that disappears. Having zero redundancy and zero plan is not great. The mayor's comments are laughable when they themselves approved single source private managed Transit with no redundancy. Mayor is a 🤡

Ashley Fitzpatrick@ashleyfitznl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a community at the heart of the proposed megaprojects expected to flow billions and billions to NL. Just in case anyone is wondering. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The changes to the Canada Labour Code in this new bill are “without precedent in Canadian law and they’re without precedent even amongst our trading partners in the G7.” “It provides the complete and unlimited discretion to the federal minister to decide who gets to go on strike and who does not.”

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”

Too big for Europe: America's pickup trucks became a trade war flashpoint - EUROPE SAYS

America loves its pickup trucks. The Ford F-150, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Ram 1500: these are not merely vehicles. They are cultural monuments on

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this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo

The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity

Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...

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Calgary and Edmonton are just too spread out for public transit? Edmonton pioneered modern LRT in North America. Calgary’s C-Train was the highest ridership LRT among all cities in the US and Canada for 2025, beating out systems in much bigger cities.

Hank Tough 🇨🇦@jetaitkens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A small population spread out over a vast geography with harsh weather is more the reason eg The geography of the island of Montreal physically restricted sprawl thus is pretty dense, walkable/bikeable with great mass transit vs Calgary Edmonton or Winnipeg

I want to see this cost to benefit breakdown each and every time a sprawling new suburban/exurban subdivision is proposed in HRM.

New Edmonton neighbourhoods will cost $1.4 billion more than they will bring in - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

A new City of Edmonton report says the long-term costs to build and maintain three new neighbourhoods will exceed the revenue they will bring in.

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A new St. John's suburb has 11 lots/ha. Car dependent hell. No transit or no bike lanes. It'll lose the city 70M$ in 50yrs. Another mid city area has bike lanes, transit AND 100% car access but is 50 lots/ha but makes money even with single D's. Cara can be a part but it can't be the only option.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What I Really Think About Car Ownership

Delivery and freight sometimes need space, but in all reality, most driver infractions are not penalized so drivers continue to break the law. Remove a drive lane. Until vehicle's get repo'd, licenses revoked, and proportional to income fines levied, change won't happen fast enough.

Tiny Beaches@tinybeaches.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wonder if Calgary’s bike lanes would see more use if people didn’t park large trucks in them? #yycBike #yyc #Calgary

Well, it happened: Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to open up Canada’s four largest airports to private investment. So....privatization. That's not the only thing he pledged to a room of obnoxiously rich people. I talked to economists and a top labour leader to break this down:

I have a 14km drive to work (bus doesn't go there) and the time to travel is fully dependent on a traffic light, not my speed. Inside North American cities, every local street could be reduced to 20/hr and it'd only add 2-4mins to commutes but it would increase safety on 85% city streets.

Brandon - "Fietser"@americanfietser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Speeding doesn't actually save you meaningful time. All it really accomplishes is aggressively increasing the chances that you kill yourself or someone else outside your vehicle. It's a mathematically flawed, entirely selfish risk.

Speeding doesn't actually save you meaningful time. All it really accomplishes is aggressively increasing the chances that you kill yourself or someone else outside your vehicle. It's a mathematically flawed, entirely selfish risk.

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.