abolish-this.bsky.social
A menace to society. Abolish_This on bird app. Kjipuktuk, Mi'kmaki. He/him
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Walking across a large windy parking lot in winter: somehow also good?
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In my letter I somewhat implied that I'm already pulling plans for investments that I was planning on making in this city. I could still be persuaded to change my mind by the vote being extremely not close, though.
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For people who are missing a talking point, I would suggest:
- Fillmore says it's because the costs have gone up.
- Fillmore has said many times that he is upset about road paving costs going up.
- Somehow, Andy Fillmore hasn't suggested that we cancel road paving, or even that we cancel new roads.
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It would certainly solve the demand problem
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We need to start carrying lances. For only this, of course, nothing else.
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A 5 year plan with an aim solely to increase public loitering would improve our lives
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Yeah, it's a combination of no other way up and those streets being mostly super unpleasant compared to just staying on the waterfront
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We're losing money hand over fist not having a charming & easy downtown loop tram. A lot of tourists are going to look at those hills - often dominated by asphalt and garages - and just not consider it worth it to get to the other nice parts.
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Sold, who got it??? I need to know who just acquired this sick bike
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I can hear them debating it. "Well, mansions are bigger than small apartments, so it's not fair to make them pay the same price per metre." It's like arguing that rich people should pay a lower percent tax than the poor because the end dollar value is higher. No y'all, taxes need to be progressive.
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My guy Matt has been absolutely killing it with spreading awareness of this here, despite how ungodly boring and forgettable of a subject it is to the average burger-griller.
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I've said this almost word for word before, haha. Many cities including mine (Halifax Regional Municipality) have charter legal resources they don't use that allow taxing areas higher based on land use or other built environment factors (e.g., zone). Instead we have pigouvian taxes on efficiency.
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Staff don't see the problem with this, they think that's fantastic AAA infrastructure
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So I think the integrity of these "Ends" are straining now, especially as we put dense corridors on their boundaries - e.g., the Young FGN is going to make us question whether it's North or West End, and I'm worried we'll conclude North based on that "North End has condos" so West End stays sparse
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For example Fairmount used to include Mount Olivet (that's where the Fairmount Zoo was, apparently), which is now firmly West End. Bayers/Westwood is considered West End but it was built as housing for the CFB in North End and nowadays is associated with Fairview Lawn Cemetery!
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I have, but my issue with that is that they don't really make a lot of sense - the south part of North End feels a lot more like the east part of South End than it does the north part of North End. It just doesn't jive with me, and a lot of the time it misses important historical connections.
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Opening it in the Google Maps app, Safari, or something else?
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Very odd. What device are you using? I can do some testing and see if some setting fixes it.
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Clicking on them doesn't give you anything?
The Fairview/Westwood gets a chunk of North End because Westwood was built as military housing (so gets the associated military complex) AND has Fairview Lawn Cemetery!
West End has Fairmount because what else is Fairmount 😂
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Here's a look at the very WIP map as it is now. Please give me all kinds of feedback!
I already know I need to rename "North End" to something different so Africville-Hydrostone residents don't get mad at not being North End anymore. I just don't have a better name yet 😂
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Is SoMo in common use? Because I have my downtown going to South. I expanded it a little bit in all directions to include things that clearly serve/face downtown or have a downtown identity. But I can move it back to Morris if that's a strong neighbourhood identifier.
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Never heard of it! I'll look into it
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Greenbank is the name of the community they displaced Africville-style for the port. I really can't find anything historically/culturally appropriate for the community that's there now!
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I was considering naming it "Portland" as a joke but decided to take the names a little bit seriously instead
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Haha, I have it currently as "Greenbank-Gorsebrook" for lack of a better name. Schmidtville is still within downtown. Although perhaps we should kick them out.
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I got to talking about it in the Strong Towns server and it looks like Google Maps (where I got it from - if you search it it highlights that exact region) pulled an inapplicable name and it has no basis in what it's actually called... which is, in fact, nothing, from what we can tell!
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Would you like to join the Strong Towns Halifax server and see what the local Strong Towns chapter has to say about the basic Strong Towns stuff?
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In the Strong Towns server I'm working on a modernized neighbourhood boundary map (for fun, not an actual legislative proposal), and I split South End in half for how different the two parts are. More different culturally than Sparse South End and Sparse West End
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Here's the announcement from Dee Dee's last year:
www.instagram.com/p/C7jUq57uLGc/
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That is not the "same upzone as the entire regional centre got". A lot of the regional centre, including places with a strong geographic disadvantage compared to this area, got a much larger upzone, not the same one. Love ya Waye but that's a full-yell lie.
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Another mischaracterization via is/ought. No one said or argued anything about what the current laws and rules are.
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The wealthy have too many ways to claim they're poor and misunderstood, just base it on zoning, valuation, and structure criteria
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It should've made the mansion owners draw lots to see which ones get zoned for future expropriation for dense public housing
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It's funny, I know Marlborough Woods but I don't know the other sub-bits. I would love to see all the sub-regions in the HRM that exist in the Google Maps dataset, because that's the only way I can think of to actually figure this out.
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I guess technically the South End you've drawn in your diagram *does* have a name - Marlborough Woods - but no one fucking knows what that means. It sounds like a generic North American suburb named after a golf course
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Like all those Dartmouth buildings going up by the old bridge are going to be really different from downtown Dartmouth and anything else around them. I propose the Bridge District - which includes the Bridge Terminal, retroactively named for the neighbourhood.
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The only critique I have is that there's the whole other part of South End to the east. This might be also an illustration of a problem we're encountering as we develop, though: neighbourhoods are becoming more like boroughs and we need new neighbourhood names that reflect material & social reality.
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Did you make this pic? This is a great demonstration
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"People should have more responsibility to behave safely and abide by rules when they are piloting heavy machinery at high speeds."
"How very peculiar to say that. Nonsensical. Bizarre. I am very intelligent."
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I wouldn't be surprised at all!Would be cool to have some kind of explorable dashboard on the hfx.bike site someday once there's enough data to really sink one's teeth into.
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Thanks!
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Are we close to any all-time records?
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Hey, listen, if we can replace a parent driving a kid a block over in an SUV by instead giving them their very own Costway 12V Electric Kids Ride On Car with Remote Control Wireless Connection Lights White, sure, whatever, take the bike lane I guess
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Probably some level of materials should be considered because pedestrian use of it means pedestrians need more space. But I don't think induction loops will record pedestrians anyway unless they're sensitive enough to catch someone's belt and zippers. Kids' bikes and cars should both increase count.
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Hot take: the calibration should not try to exclude heavy vehicles at all. A car in the bike lane should tick up the count bc it's a metric of bike infra investment value. Plus, drivers that hate bike lanes might think twice about blocking them if that just encouraged more of them to be built.
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It's really sad and striking that we only get mainstream news coverage of highly threatening new covid strains if it's a new way a right wing outlet can say china bad
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(maybe it's only hundreds of thousands, idk, I forget)
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Who would win
Millions of dollars in infrastructure $ spent pushing bikes onto residential labyrinths away from relevant frontage
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one gappy boi in a curb in a parking lot that maybe is there for drainage or something