sflkirk.bsky.social
Health Promotion Prof @dalhousie.bsky.social. Posting mainly about pop health, climate anxiety & advocacy for safe streets. UK export now physically located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Volunteer board member of @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. She/her.
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It’s terrifying that elected officials are making us less safe by ratcheting up divisions and othering cyclists, and it’s frustrating that people are seemingly teaching this to their kids, but at least we’re all having a laugh about the absurdity of congestion being caused by bike lanes I guess.
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The guy beside me shrugged, pointed at the intersection which had become blocked by drivers trying to make illegal left turns, and joked the congested intersection and the long line of cars on the bi-hi offramp must be caused by the bike lanes and then pedalled away. 😆
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Then when we were waiting for the light to change at Joe Howe to get onto the COLT, a teenage brat sitting in the passenger seat of his parent’s car yelled slurs about cyclists out his window at us with his mouth stuffed full of cookie.
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Local source too this morning, selling like er…. lovely local fresh strawberries!
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Dammit, typo - I meant backpedaling!
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🎯
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Yes, regular occurence this week during convocation and likely the same next week. Security guards on duty are obviously not there to stop it either which is also annoying.
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Ugh, yes.
And it’s not just 9yos that struggle to be perfect.
I’ve been biking in Halifax since 2008 and I still have moments every day when I’m not sure I’ve made the right split-second judgment call, since the “right thing” for cars often isn’t safe or sensible for bikes.
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Thanks!
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What show? Please send link!
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Agreed! I’ve been living in Halifax since 2008, and in the burbs of Halifax since 2013, and walking cycling and bussing all this time somehow, despite the supposed non-existence of those options.
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big proviso launched of late - IF there are alternatives for drivers, which apparently are not available yet. It's mystifying for those of us who use the alternatives, even in suburbia, every day
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RESULTS:
1. Bluesky, decisively.
2. Mastodon, but with an excellent showing given quite a bit fewer followers. Possibly the “pound for pound” champ.
3. LinkedIn, which always has far more engagement than one would expect.
4. X, far back despite having the “most followers” (at least “on paper”).
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In Boston today thinking about the Big Dig project that was a highlight of our Mayor’s CV. Maybe he has sights on a big (car) transportation project being planned behind the scenes in collab with Province.
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Using his voice to promote walking, rolling, cycling, and bussing, he said. Boy, how that tune changed.
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Meant to say data not days, damn autocorrect!
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Yes, those days would be important especially since they have grown even bigger since the study was done.
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The inference is that by keeping arterials feeling and looking like Highways, they will do their "job" better by moving more vehicles - but the opposite is true.
They end up inducing demand for driving, because they don't support other modes, and being closed off entirely due to crashes