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“Don’t tread on me.”

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This should, theoretically, be grounds for revolutionary action taken by small ad hoc militias - or however the freedom mythology goes

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If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive. Get vaccinated, while you still can.

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It took quite a while, but the paper about the history of high-speed rail planning in Italy that I co-authored with @beriapaolo.bsky.social is finally out! It's open source, so you can read it at length (it is pretty long), But here is a TL;DR: 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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youtu.be/qxw4LG1DWek?...

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New book day!

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Amazon will survive tariffs. Your beloved neighborhood toy shop won't. www.oregonlive.com/retail/2025/...

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I appreciate Sara noting how car dependent infrastructure is inequitable and isolating for disabled people who can't drive. It also aligns nicely with this point in the screenshot. Some people may still need to drive, and that's okay, but what we must do is give people safer alternatives.

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pretty incredible that some cities are building as much per capita in their downtowns as the suburbs of texas, florida, and arizona. seattle and atlanta lets gooooo

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Alt headline: Child killed by driver and unsafe road design in Bedford.

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This article is great because it almost exclusively uses Andy Fillmore's work pre-2025 to slap around Andy Fillmore's "work" in 2025.

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A three year old struck and killed by a car this evening in Bedford. My thoughts are with his family

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'Guilty as charged': Jury convicts Adam Drake of murdering Pat Stay

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This is like the bar exam question from hell

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I hope he ends up owning everything the town government has. Government buildings, pigmobiles, all of it.

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haligonia.ca/fatal-pedest...

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This is insane

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When it comes to resisting Trump's bullying in court, the Constitution gives state governments some high cards that the rest of us don't have. If the president tries to force a showdown with California by cutting off its federal funding, don't assume he'll come out on top. My new Cato post

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I wish council would wait to discuss bike lane costs until I could complete my analysis and video. There's a governmental flowchart somewhere, and I'm pretty sure it reads "important decisions are downstream of HFX By Bike videos"

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Close the Bedford Highway due to lack of sidewalks. This would more logical than this car-foolery www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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This is the prime ministerial equivalent of accidentally calling your teacher “Mom” www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...

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I just pulled the data for Canadian provinces of the most common injuries by province, here they are:

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Incredibly amazing post by @jessrem.bsky.social with an important point about American housing—NY/CA build nothing, TX/AZ sprawl, but only a few American cities like Seattle, Atlanta, & DC are actually building lots of new dense housing in their core neighborhoods

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The “empty luxury condos only for investors” myth is omnipresent in the housing discourse. No matter that 1) they’re not empty, 2) they’re not luxury, and 3) they’re not only bought by investors. This myth causes so much harm, largely by providing policymakers (especially progressives) a scapegoat

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BRING BACK TROLLEY

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More debate on the cost of bike lanes in Halifax on the way at next council meeting A look ahead at what's on the Halifax Regional Council agenda for Tuesday. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

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Removing choice in transportation mode is inequitable. Not everyone can drive - like children, older adults or people with disabilities. Thanks to the Halifax Examiner for publishing my commentary. Currently not paywalled: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/b...

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Halifax narrowly dodged a bike lane pause, but misinformation persists. Today, a Vélo Canada Bikes board member & Dalhousie Prof, @sflkirk.bsky.social in the @halifaxexaminer.ca has the receipts: "Bike lanes don’t cause congestion, cars do.": www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/b... #bikehfx

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This is really frustrating. We almost sent our kid to SJAM and in hindsight we're fortunate we didn't. There's a lot of community that's built around a school and being able to walk to the school makes a difference. 1/

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One major general, across the board complaint about Canada; Too slow progress. Too expensive to build anything. Too many red tapes. Also, lacking visionary politicians. Both CPC and LPC suck. NDP and GPC never have a chance while climate emergency was declared.

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WE ARE CROSSING THE ENTIRETY OF CANADA EXCLUSIVELY BY BUS!!! We just left Victoria, BC; if all goes according to plan, we'll be arriving in St. John's, NL on Wednesday night after six days, seven bus companies, and nine Canadian provinces - all but PEI!

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I’m not so sure about. A new built community would come in with higher assessments and not capped. I think the suburbs could be fine at ~twice the property taxes

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The purpose of economic policy is to ensure a sufficient level of background prosperity and abundance so that cool but sort of stupid businesses are possible. It’s all about making it feasible to have a coffee shop cocktail bar vinyl store in a giant treehouse somewhere. That’s the goal.

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Next week's video was uploaded last night. That's just how on-the-ball I am.

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Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars. I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars. drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...

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My opinions on Germany’s transit and why it’s better than most give it credit for: open.substack.com/pub/nextmetr...

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Have some on the left really negatively polarized themselves into supporting exclusionary, car-centric zoning because they don’t want to agree with Ezra Klein?  “You will take my minimum parking requirements out of my cold dead hands, neoliberal scum. The revolution will have ample parking.”

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going to be saying a few things about this on Todd's show on Monday, 12.45 Vulnerable Road User Safety cannot be scapegoated and sacrificed for congestion caused by cars.

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1/I'm the "one resident" quoted in this @torontotoday.ca story by @gabeoatley.bsky.social. Yes, it's ridiculous that city staff are proposing that new neighbourhood cafes under this plan will be prohibited from giving us a place to sit and drink a coffee. #topoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-p...

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