mylesrussellnl.bsky.social
I'm an equitable urban planning policy researcher and advocate. I'm the director of streets are for people https://streetsafp.ca and I'm a former ward 4 candidate in St. John's. He/him
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I'd suggest do city. Finished a game yesterday in St. John's. Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver are clear winners. But Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax and a good few others could work too 😊
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Pardon my ignorance as a fella in a province with no trains 😅. Is framework referring to say how they decide routes, stations, speeds, how to create good legislation to ensure sensible construction etc?
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St. John's NL. History, culture, arts & the people are fantastic. It managed to not wholesale destroy the city for the car but the city has a lot of issues and are all car driven (pun intended 😁)
We need human focused planning & engineering manuals. That's how we tackle the housing & climate crisis
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Personally I'm a fan of employment programs and housing support. It's the only levers the St. John's act provides the city to address crime.
Support people, and help build community. Not an easy task by any means but I think it can be done.
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There's also the psychological benefit for police to make things go to an extreme. Doesn't matter if it is or is not more dangerous. What matters is perception; see security theatre.
That said, IMO St. John's will probably gain 500+ residents to move/work here if the games go well.
Gotta infill 😊
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Yeah it's a common trope that glosses over a more complicated issue that for the last 40 years in North America, munici and prov gov'mts essentially stopped building non-market housing and depend on developers.
But you're correct that all of this ignores that it still builds housing for people.
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Is that difficult to do? I know nothing about crab and lobster pots other than they have a floating chummy with a line down to the pot.
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I would imagine it'd be a train tunnel, no? That's too long to be trusted by drivers. Trains are great for bulk cargo.
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With 300m deep waters, the approaches might be 20km long. A lovely European style seikan tunnel.
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Wait where is the list? 🤩
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Tolls from a bridge could have done wonders but it seems like the government had different plans.
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Honestly HFX needs a light rail line. Something along the west end of the basin to the peninsula and maybe even a little though old Dartmouth to the ferry terminal.
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Can't you log in with existing Google accounts and pair them?
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My partner and I just voted as well and first time advanced. Fully agree. Fptp is an atrocious system that will always degrade to a two party system. There are so many other better options out there.
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To clarify, i'm able bodied so I don't want to speak for those with mobility restrictions.
I come from the world of car centric ableist engineering but I've shifted careers to help stop that. I can speak toward that aspect.
There are many ways to address these injustices. The article is just one.
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In the article I mention that we already have a lot of car free folks in the areas noted and the economic costs associated with car focused engineering.
We already have precedent to reduce car only infra; eliminate parking mins.
Also high density infill raises revenue to build human scale infra.
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As @terriclarke.bsky.social mentioned, walkable really means human scaled. Human scaled design benefits everyone and not just drivers.
Everyone is a pedestrian.
Human scaled design also saves lives and money. It's a positive ROI from a social, fiscal, and environmental standpoint.
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As a planner for 28yrs I conclude that our profession is broken in too many ways So I'm suggesting a motto for the pervasive negligence, ill-informed actions, uncuriousness, scapegoating & laziness:
"Ignorantia cognitionis
Mora super omnia"
"Ignorance over knowledge
Delay above all"
-Prove me wrong
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The trailer I bought is pretty easy for me to modify as well. It's limited to 45 kg but I can get a good few pieces of lumber with that 😁
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You bring up some really good points 😜
(I biked out to the store last night and bought one)
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Vehicles should really have a more complex licensing system. Large and powerful vehicles should come with a step increase in fees and penalties for infractions.
Class 5 is too broad. These vehicles are the same class. One has a grill nearly as tall as me
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As a born and raised Islander (Newfoundland and Labrador) your speed is perfect for me 😊
I listen to audio books and podcasts at 1.25 to 1.75 depending on the narrator. Gotta go fast 😅
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I'd love to see a few hundred roads made one way with the other lane delineated with jersey barriers and noted pedestrian only. Make it wide enough to plow with class 2 and bam big safe protected pedestrian spaces.
Speed limits on all the small roads should to 30km/h too.
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Love your work Ray. It inspires me to do better engineering. All of the post 2019 urbanism content inspired me to get into politics after taking a hard look at how lethal civil infrastructure is.
Keep rocking on @nebula.tv