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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 40m

Like, how Halifax can't introduce a blanket residential street limit of 30km/h. Or speed & red light cams.

햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 41m

Major cities should become their own province so that the rest of the province don't hold up the progress.

Alex Kohut @alexjkohut.bsky.social · 9h

As we've been seeing in elections across the country, Canada has become more divided than ever by rural/urban lines.

The PCs made no seat gains in St. John's and saw their popular vote decline there compared to 2021 - all of their seat gains were in rural/small town ridings.

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Bikebarpro @bikebarpro.bsky.social · 8h

That's terrifying! and it's so frustrating that we can't have safe infrastructure to separate the traffic types.

We're doing some research into close passes, if you're interested in helping out: forms.gle/YiRUDH39sMN4...

Cycling Close Pass Survey

We're conducting this survey to better understand the experience of bike riders who are close-passed by vehicles while riding. We're interested to understand how often it happens, where it happens, an...

forms.gle

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 9h

Haha I'm just teasing, its great!

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 9h

Paint on streets is *not* infrastructure.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11h

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 17h

Ban cars

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, since many people are obviously not reading the article, here's a pertinent figure from it showing the top actions to reduce emissions.

A horizontal bar chart titled “19 climate-friendly choices, ranked” shows actions individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint, ordered from most to least impactful. The x-axis represents projected impact in tons of CO₂ equivalent per capita per year (tCO₂e/cap/yr), ranging from 0 to about 2.5. Each action is color-coded by sector: transportation (blue), energy (orange), and food (green).

Go car-free – highest impact (blue bar extending to about 2.5 tCO₂e).

Fly less (blue, about 1.5).

Shift to renewable home energy (orange, about 1.4).

Switch to EV or hybrid car (blue, about 1.2).

Go vegan (green, about 1.0).

Walk, bike, or take transit more (blue).

Make energy-efficient renovations (orange).

Use clean cooking equipment (orange).

Go vegetarian (green).

Shift driving habits (e.g., carpooling) (blue).

Increase telecommuting (blue).

Shift to regional/seasonal diet (green).

Move to energy-efficient home (orange).

Decrease food waste (green).

Eat less meat (green).

Use less energy at home (orange).

Reduce packaged food, dining out (green).

Use energy-efficient appliances (orange).

Compost – least impact (green, under 0.1).

A note clarifies that these are meta-analytic estimates of greenhouse gas reduction potentials, drawn from 659 estimates across 47 academic journal articles. The average person emits 6.28 tonnes of CO₂e per year, though this varies widely by income and country. Wealthier populations may emit up to 110 tonnes per year, while lower-income populations may emit as little as 1.6 tonnes.

Source: WRI, based on data from Ivanova et al., 2020.

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 17h

E-biking cheater!

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 18h

Get vaccinated!

햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 18h

Boi

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 23h

Extra fun if they added ferries too lol

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Bartek Ciszkowski @justbartek.ca · 23h

Realized yesterday morning (what else would I be doing at 5am when it's dark out and no one's awake?) that the Halifax Transit Vehicle Position feed is available for anyone and you can just plot buses on a map and it's kind of fun to watch them nudge around!

data-hrm.hub.arcgis.com/pages/open-d...

An OpenStreetMap layer of Halifax and surrounding. The map contains icons (bus emoji) for each bus route. On each icon is the bus route ID and a small arrow indicating direction.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 1d

Ban cars

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

All these people in cars would be a traffic jam. Instead, it’s a city.

Broadway in New York City. Photo by me. The street is pedestrianized with a row of bikes on the right and pedestrian activity in the center.

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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving, Toronto. I'm grateful for the TTC and all its hard-working staff delivering transit service which I rarely have to wait more than 5-10 mins for at all hours of the day. Even with all its faults, the TTC delivers one of the most usable transit services in all of North America.

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 1d

What a nice day to Ban cars

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Emergency naked bike ride is just a really funny idea

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 2d

Ban cars

Scarin' Olson @paddle2paddle.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, #Bikesky, have a look. Old bikes. People having fun on old bikes. It's always a nice reminder that despite the dour expressions on old pictures, that thete was play, athleticism, and frivolity, too.

(1895)(4K,60 fps) The First Wheelies: Vintage Bicycle Tricksters

YouTube video by Nineteenth century videos. Back to life.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 2d

Toronto barriers are heavy and linked tightly to one another, giving them some rigidity, but they work by absorbing impact, and need to be reset after a collision. If they are not reset, obviously, they create a hazard and the impact resistance of the entire row is degraded.

Brandon der Blätter @intcreator.com · 2d

this bike lane has been blocked for two weeks. it has been reported many times by many people by the Find It Fix It app and by phone. I bet if it was a car lane @seattledot.bsky.social would have fixed it by now

the two way bike lane on Airport Way between S Edmunds St. and S Lucile St. with two 1673 lb concrete blocks blocking one of the lanes

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. AB (upon scraping a car), BC, PEI, QC, NS. They have their own e-bike rebate programs.

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햏 @hehheh.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to him, but an ex-PM of Canada shouldn't be in the US right now.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

chat it's happening

uk.news.yahoo.com/katy-perry-j...

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

After months of rumours, proof seems to be in that Katy Perry is dating former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The loved-up couple were spotted kissing and cuddling on board Perry's 24-metre y...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Observing The City @observingthecity.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know Toronto has 15 permanent bicycle counters around the city? I have created a portal that should be updated monthly when the city updates their open data. It's live now at: observingthecity.ca