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michaelhall.bsky.social
New Westminster Trying to get the humble bus the respect it deserves 🚍♥️
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I'm proud to report that my amendment to the Granville Street Plan has passed - directing staff to explore substantial road safety and accessibility improvements, including benches, bollards, bus bulbs and a bike parkade. A good day for safer streets for all!

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

former Burnaby Now, New West Record and Tri-City News reporters announcing a campaign to launch a cooperatively owned and run publication covering the communities that have lost their local news publications

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

THANK GOD. Wonder what their thoughts are on Grok AI

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

4/7 New West councillors had to recuse themself from a vote on the city OCP yesterday meaning the meeting lost quorum and ended. Issue cited when explaining uncertainty was the fact they owned property in a TOD area. Most of New West is TOD area ...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Instead of “growth pays for growth” as a guiding principle of planning, I propose a better alternative: “sprawl pays for sprawl”

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

A few tickets remain for tonight’s talk with the one and only, Christof Spieler! 🕡 6:30–8:30 PM 📍 Boardroom, 475 W Georgia, Vancouver, BC V6B 4M9 📩 RSVP - actionnetwork.org/ti...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wooo went to my first Critical Mass tonight!! So fun!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

"We're going to cut your taxes" is such a big green shiny button for governments to push. But I haven't set aside a separate account for building my own SkyTrain expansion. Have any of you?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The Granville St Pedestrianization Plan, in typical City of Vancouver fashion, will "pilot" things for up to *10 years* while they decide whether or not to do it permanently. Full-time bus priority lanes on Howe and Seymour are in their "20 Year" plan 🙄 permanent bus moves are 11-20 years away

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Wow Water Street is so much better this year, look at all these drivers that are *definitely* here to shop and eat locally and not just looking for a shortcut through traffic

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

More transit priority in #NewWest !!! 🚍❤️ Giving the 106 a little love 🥰 @movementyvr.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Bus lanes are GREAT for getting you places quickly, like getting to urbanist book club early so you can cram in some reading you didn't finish 🚍📚

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Cheers to the Grok AI-fueled bloggers who interrogated and photographed me from all angles after I chose to sit with them at the New West Council media table, which would otherwise be dead empty Have I said I miss The Record? 😢 I also forgot to post this photo to start my live thread, so here:

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment