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Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

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What’s the opposite of nation-building?

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Our regular reminder that when we’re driving, we’re not stuck in traffic. We ARE traffic. That’s a product of our individual choices, as well as our collective choices, including who we choose to give massive city-building powers to and the choices they make with that power.

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Canada not mentioned in U.S. threat assessment’s summary of fentanyl crisis - The Globe and Mail

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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

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Just a reminder that while some cities are still debating transforming a few blocks of 1 or 2 streets into places for people, last year Montreal transformed 11 such streets across 7 neighbourhoods, equalling 9+kms changed from car spaces to people places. Leadership. www.mtl.org/en/experienc...

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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

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Spring 2025

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In the plans I’m working on, I call it “corner convenience.” Allow stores, services, restaurants/cafes within a workable form/scale at EVERY corner in the city/suburb. DON’T require parking, and allow housing above. It’s a no-brainer for more walkable, complete neighbourhoods with less car traffic.

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DEI… “Diligence, Excellence and Imagination”

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Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will…

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"’It is more important than ever for Canada to strengthen its ties with its reliable allies, such as France,’ Carney said… Describing Canada as the most European of non-European countries… ‘We must strengthen our diplomatic ties to address a world that’s increasingly unstable & dangerous.’” Smart.

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According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150,000 trees have been planted and 45 hectares of parks created in the city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to and manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Plant a lot more urban trees.

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“Mumford’s wariness of urban cars was rooted in a simple observation: Cities lacked room to accommodate lots of them. As he wrote [a LONG time ago], compared to other forms of conveyance, cars “happen to be, on the basis of the # of people it transports, by far the most wasteful of urban space.”

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A new study has ranked Canada 3rd on a list of the top countries with social purpose, seen as being “the most progressive and inclusive” countries in the world. Denmark and Sweden occupy the top 2 spots on the list, while Norway and New Zealand round out the top 5. Via @cultmtl.bsky.social

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“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

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His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

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In 2013, the great Robin Williams apparently described Canada relative to the United States as “a really nice apartment over a meth lab." I miss the meth lab. Trump and Musk’s USA makes a meth lab seem like a Nordic spa.

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"Top officials of our oldest allies say privately they fear that we are becoming not just unstable, but actually their enemy. The only person who gets treated with kid gloves is Putin..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

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New electric duck buses in Vancouver! HT @dailyhivevancouver.bsky.social

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So the protests are working.

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“Elon Musk's transformation into a Nazi-saluting extremist, meddling in elections & decimating the US, doesn't seem to have helped Tesla either. Some people who bought Cybertrucks are regretting the purchase & trying to sell their 'Nazi mobile' because they don't want people to think they're evil.”

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By far the most reposts, quote-posts and replies of any Bluesky post of mine so far.

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"NZ’s glaciers have already lost nearly a third of their ice – as more vanishes, landscapes and lives change". Meantime we have climate change policy of "masterly inactivity" theconversation.com/nzs-glaciers...

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This photo is the perfect cityscape. Lots of trolleys, people walking & no cars anywhere.

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Attention policy makers: As a business owner in Canada, I could take advantage of pretty good tax breaks if I had a car. But I don’t want a car and choose to live where I don’t need one. That’s better for everyone. But there are no tax breaks connected to my public transit pass. That’s bad policy.

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Wickedly savage. 🤣 Tragically true. 😩

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