epiong.bsky.social
Candidate for the Revolution Party of Canada
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I am also not convinced that they have an accurate assessment of those segments of our bike network. Having spoken with the lead researcher, she has concerns about parking and vehicle volumes on LSBs generally, but she doesn’t necessarily know the local context.
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Halifax north of young street is a complete food desert.
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Total # of high comfort bike lanes as defined in the Can-BIS system:
Montréal: 360 km
Vancouver: 246 km
Edmonton: 226 km
Québec: 190 km
Sherbrooke: 109 km
Winnipeg: 71 km
Halifax: 3 km 2/8
Source is the excel file in this zip folder:
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The Can-BICs system ranks bike infrastructure as high, medium, or low comfort & is more objective about what makes a bike lane safe than Halifax’s own “AAA” classification. High comfort bikeways must be low stress & include protected lanes, local street bikeways, & off street bike-only paths. 3/8
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As much as the Trish Purdy’s of the world want to convince you that investing in micromobility is a waste of money, Halifax is starting from the front of the pack. Over 60% of peninsula residents and over 12% of total residents already commute actively even with our short, disconnected network. 4/8
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With that desire already in place, imagine how many people might commute to work actively if we had a connected network of over 100km of protected lanes? Imagine the positive effect that might have on traffic congestion. 5/8
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It’s also misleading to only concentrate on commutes. What about a theoretical parent who drives to work because they require a vehicle for their job, but who uses a bicycle to drop their kid at daycare, run their errands, and travel to playgrounds, libraries and friend meet ups? 6/8
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What about a retired person who no longer has a traditional commute, but uses micromobility everyday? What about kids? What about people who are unemployed or work from home? StatsCan very specifically only looks at travel to and from work, which will never tell the whole story. 7/8
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If we build lanes solely for commuters there are a lot of people that get left out (including kids) who may never bike on infrastructure that isn’t built safe, isn’t built “high-comfort”. There’s overlap there with some of the same groups left out by car-centric design. We can do better. 8/8
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Meanwhile, we’re getting 4.4km of bikeway this year in Halifax, and 1.47km of that is painted sharrows. 😭
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None of this surprises me as someone who has had “get off the road” yelled at me by more than one driver while riding on our LSBs.
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Following up to this, I can see that the CAN-BICS map folks have listed our LSBs as “non-conforming” on their map. Which means they don’t meet CAN-BICS criteria for an LSB either.
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Having just written a position statement on Halifax's LSBs, and having looked closely at the NACTO guidelines which supposedly were used to guide design principles here, I can so there is not a single LSB in Halifax that should be considered as such. None meet the NACTO guidelines.
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CBC? The House?
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I think no colonization would be great, let's do that.
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I hope the reset doesn't bring back indigenous genocide and slavery of african people... Oh, maybe no europeans. That would be a good reset.
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Just cause we're nearly in June? What were you thinking :-)
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we should not require underskilled people to helm death machines as a part of their day to day!! makes everyone's lives worse
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I also think you did really well!