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timbarton.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Transportation planner & engineer, helping build communities by enabling people to access what they need in healthy, sustainable & equitable ways. Also photography & graphic design. 🇨🇦 Posts are my own. Vancouver & Port Moody BC http://timbarton.ca
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That’s not helpful.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Just as President Donald Trump moved to shut down the tolling plan, data shows — and riders say — the bus experience going crosstown has become better. https://buff.ly/41mO4yd

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Glad to see #portmoody discussing the opportunities for #sharedmobility #e-bike and #e-scooter use. It Would make most sense to partner with #coquitlam to expand that existing program. tricitiesdispatch.com/e-scooter-pr...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Time to tax based on weight? And set new more stringent standards. Unfortunately there seems little chance of this currently.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“when looking at weight alone, Canadian officials seized more illegal drugs coming from the U.S. last year than what the Americans captured on their side of the 49th parallel.” #buildthewall www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Utterly unnecessary and dangerous. This is the age of the attention wars and we’re all the losers. Unfortunately fits in perfectly with what @chrislhayes.bsky.social has been saying recently.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My 15 yr old’s social studies text book: perhaps the countrys rugged landscape … have helped define #Canadianidentity … #MargaretAtwood spotted this shared experience… She noted that many Canadians share the experience of confronting & surviving nature… in her view survival is the essence of Canada.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is important — 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 www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

morning walk to clear the mind. #rockypointpark #portmoody

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“Congesting pricing is working exactly as intended – with faster commutes, cleaner air, and even more business activity ... It’s also increasingly popular: 66% of New Yorkers who regularly drive into the zone approve of the toll … “Despite all of this, President Trump wants to bring back traffic.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The #techoligarchy. It’s a thing that everyone should be aware of and what it’s doing to us.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

“In an interview with CBC News, Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand said removing existing barriers "could lower prices by up to 15 per cent, boost productivity by up to seven per cent and add up to $200 billion to the domestic economy."” Why didn’t we do this years ago? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

“Bradford’s clean air zone has reduced air pollution and saved the health service about £30,700 a month in its first year, a study has found.” Amazing!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Billionaire spends $40M to push propaganda to justify his coup during the during the year’s biggest media moment. Truly dystopian.

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

During a news conference on Wednesday, a reporter asked Anand if "interprovincial trade barriers [could] be dealt with, wiped away in 30 days? "The short answer to your question is yes," she responded.  www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Reduce the number of cars and you’ll probably increase the number of people. What do businesses want near them? Cars or people?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

#Tesla sales plummet in Europe. No surprise there. But does Elon care? electrek.co/2025/02/05/t...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

“There is something galling about the world's richest man stopping money flowing to the world's poorest people.” Elon Musk has taken control of the USAID's headquarters, locking out employees and revoking access. articles.globalplayer.com/7giGvYGUpN2P...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

When looking for alternatives to US products or services tech is the hardest. There just aren’t viable alternatives currently.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Great interview with the Canadian High commissioner to the UK. Canadians are more united than ever.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them. I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...

submitted 20 days ago • 60 comments

Time to look for new alliances and diversify. And a new friend.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

must-read clear-thinking from @parismarx.com

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

In these turbulent times Canada, consider signing this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Cool road trip with the high schooler in a #Modo Car coop #Mazda #MX-5 up to Squamish from the Vancouver area. The Sea to Sky Highway really is breathtaking. And the car is so much fun :-)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Port Moody sparkles at Rocky Point Pier. #portmoody #rockypointpark #christmaslights #lightroom #iphone16pro

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Shame Canada is not doing the same but good to see the UK putting #roadsafety first.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Mist lingering on the #fraserriver at #fortlangley in #britishcolumbia. Getting out whilst the weather holds up. I think it’s going to be a wet Christmas in these parts. #lightroom

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments