bollardfan.bsky.social
Vancouver-based transportation planner interested in safe streets🚲, climate action🌿 and more housing🏘️. Train enthusiast (not the band). Kits resident, indie rock enjoyer, Montréalais. Opinions my own - he/him.
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This is completely unfair. Council committees always meet in the daytime, which makes it virtually impossible for anyone with a non-remote 9-5 job to attend. Public hearings are deeply broken but at least they're in the evening, when more people can attend.
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main and broadway looking quite different today
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It's okay, it's not like there's a major research university or anything in Oak Bay whose students need housing
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I've seen an example of this in Arlington! Really cool concept
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Ça me ferait beaucoup de plaisir parce que j'ai quasiment aucune opportunité de parler français avec du monde depuis que j'ai déménagé à Vancouver
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I'm opposed to design review for houses but I'm willing to hear out the argument for a design review board for clothes
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Gone but not forgotten 🥲
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Ontario has the same relationship with SkyTrain/ICTS that England has with subways: invented it, built one, then never made another one ever again
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For reference:
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I don't recall the exact numbers off the top of my head, but my recollection is that they're deployed a few dozen times a day on the 99. We have APC counters on our bike racks so we have a good idea of their use on almost every route.
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In Vancouver we have bike racks on the 99 B-Line, the busiest bus line in North America. It does not add that much dwell and the benefits far outweigh the minimal delay
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The West Point Grey Community Centre has to be one of my least favourite buildings in all of BC
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IMO no reason not to have them, and STM is a huge North American outlier in not having them. Bike racks provide a useful last-mile option for multimodal trips and don't add too much dwell time since they're not used on every single trip.
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Believe it or not, Kitsilano actually has the second youngest median age of any neighbourhood in Vancouver (behind Mount Pleasant)! But we only ever hear from the geriatric homeowners who hate apartments
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Instructions unclear, just ordered 5,000 pounds of asbestos
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Do you feel them taking revenge on you yet?
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Can we talk about how insane this building is in general? The fact that it's a strip mall that faces inward onto a parkade and that there's literally no way to enter the stores except through the parking lot?
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Yes! Tlahutum (Colony Farm) Regional Park might be a bit iffy with how wet it's been lately, but the rest of the route should be pretty chill
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Given that Purolator is almost fully owned by Canada Post, I wish they shipped to FlexDelivery PO boxes