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In October of 2023, Edmonton amended it's zoning to allow up to 8-units on most lots. After permitting only 1,000 new units in 2023, the City saw nearly 2,400 new units in 2024, with nearly 2,000 of those units coming in the form of townhomes, duplexes or ADUs. 📍Edmonton 🇨🇦

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

1 bus lane (Lincoln Tunnel) moves 5x as many people per hour as 5 car lanes combined (Lincoln + Holland Tunnels) github.com/hudcostreets...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Here's an interesting article on the ins and outs, benefits and challenges of building an electric processing plant for a new gold mine that just opened in BC. Progress on electrification of the economy continues (slowly) ... magazine.cim.org/en/projects/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Your regular reminder that the City of Vancouver is unwilling to actually zone for duplexes zones specifically intended for duplexes, RT-10 in this case. This "duplex zone" allows SFH outright, but duplexes are only allowed conditional on planner whims and the kangaroo court of public opinion.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Yesterday was a gorgeous day, but it was also very busy for bikes. There's network of 30+ counters in region and a bunch of them recorded some big numbers. All the data that follows is from here: data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic/?... Analysis work is mine, including a custom script to create web page

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

AFTER | BEFORE 🧵 After 4 years, we managed to close the street in front of our kids’ school to cars. Here’s what it looks like today:

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

Man, I read this and then searched for the same late June weekend in Manhattan and Vancouver, and wtf, Vancouver hotel prices are insanely high. Times Square Mariott $1200 (CAD)/3 nights, Hilton Manhattan $1,450, YVR Downtown Mariotts range from $1,900-$2,000, YVR Airport Mariott $1,700, etc.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes my impression is that "normies" believe that our out of control construction costs are the result of some gross malpractice or, worse, blatant stealing by a few bad actors, so we can just get rid of those and, bam!, we get cheaper infrastructure! Unfortunately, that's not how it works.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Great new longitudinal research from Drs. Nick Ferenchak and Wes Marshall, showing the value of protected bike lanes (over single stripes, sharrows, or nothing) in increasing rates of cycle commuting. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Very significant. I think people will ignore this at their peril

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Don't fall for the cranks. Rising inventory is how prices go down, & always has been. Yes, a lot of developers aren't going to be happy about selling right now. Provincial & city govs need to keep the pressure on by upzoning & lowering costs to keep construction going.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

Parking is the "dark matter" of urban land use. Learn about how it saps communities of vitality & raises costs -- and how Washington state recently reformed it. Juicy stuff.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This is a very interesting article on the potential benefits and challenges related to building up interprovincial electricity trade, with a focus on BC and Alberta

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

Traffic deaths per 100,000 people: Florida: 17.1 New York: 5.8

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments