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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 3h

No it's pretty great, but yeah it's not big and a bit out of the way for a lot of tourists

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Jeremy 🇨🇦 @jeremy77.bsky.social · 8h

We have a bike counter on the multi-use trail going over the bridge. The rush hour is real! You can also see the impacts of unusual weather (snow in Victoria 🤯) and the impacts of seasonal darkness.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 1d

This panel discussion at the UBCM conference is very informative

It features David Rosenberg, lead lawyer for Cowichan; Robin Junger, former chief treaty negotiator; and a lawyer focused on municipal legal issues

Really worth a watch

Implications from the Cowichan Tribes decision

In a recent landmark ruling, the BC Supreme Court granted Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal title to about 800 acres in the City of Richmond including fee simple lands. Our panel of lawyers reviewed the case...

www.ubcm.ca

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 10d

Pragmatism.

In a context where funding for mass transit projects was sorely lacking, the city didn't waste time on pipe dreams; instead, it acted on what it had control of and fiscal capacity for: bus service levels and patterns, allocation of street space, and traffic flow organization.

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 16h

Or whatever site he's on these days

Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 16h

Not an avid NJB viewer but I get the sense that his counterproductive doomer tendencies are more visible on twitter than on youtube

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 1d

There isn't a lot of coordination with the airport required tbh; this is more about the trade-offs between investing in airport service and <long list of other regional transit priorities>

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 1d

Anyways, to OP's original point - the airport woes are downstream of the fact that the ferry terminal is the Actually Important destination for off-island travel. The airport is a pretty marginal destination and so all the resources/schedule timing aligns with the ferries

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 1d

I guess maybe not if you're going to the gulf islands, but that's pretty marginal tbh

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 1d

It's true for flights, but the buses are timed with the ferries?

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 1d

@bettertransityyj.ca

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 2d

I appreciate that this is a very minor point of pedantry to the points made above

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 2d

It's the opposite fwiw; BC Transit is a crown corp and TransLink is not

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Uytae Lee @uytaelee.bsky.social · 4d

Why tf does North America allow right turns on red? Was this ever a good idea? So proud of @ardenenglish.bsky.social for his first collaboration with the CBC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDV...

Right Turn of Death | Creator Network | A Film by The Greater Discussions

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

www.youtube.com

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 5d

Another neat technique you see in the NL is putting detector loops a fair bit in advance of intersections so bikes don't need to come to a stop. There's a neat intersection in Utrecht just west of the Prins Clausbrug where you can follow this path without stopping thanks to clever loops + phasing

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 5d

Some valid points here but my impression was that in the NL, beg buttons for pedestrians are universal and still not entirely uncommon for cyclists.

My experience was that Dutch intersections are very efficient and conflict-free but this means cutting down on unused signal phases

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 5d

The Dutch, naturally, have this sorted.

At this #Delft intersection, people on bikes and pedestrians get a continuous green.

The arrival of a car or truck sets off a sensor, which allows it to cross. The default is green for humans, red for cars.

Video @modacitylife.com

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 5d

I'm confused where we are in this conversation tbh

Seems to be there's two issues:
a) Can doctors actually afford to go to school (are the loans crushing?)
b) Can they get get access to the loans in the first place (what Penny was getting at)?

I assumed that these were a non-issue for doctors

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 5d

Is this an actual problem? I mean this seriously, I would have assumed someone who had already gone through undergrad and was accepted into medical school would have few problems getting access to loans (I have no idea how applying to medical school works so I could be way off base here)

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 5d

What do they think "housing is a human right" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

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Carolina Ibarra @lacaroibarra.bsky.social · 6d

This is v unfortunate. I understand & respect why but this just means that all those folks on the street & shelters won’t access #housing into after all the relocations happen. Just recently finished relocating people from sites to be redeveloped.

Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 6d

Victoria's Tiny Town shipping-container village to close for good next spring

The temporary housing facility on Caledonia Avenue will permanently close March 31, according to a letter sent to neighbouring residents by B.C. Housing.

dlvr.it

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 12d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 5d

Burnaby is deciding to curb their SSMU bylaw because too much housing is being built

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 6d

And level 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jH-...

Level 2: Christy Clark’s Game

YouTube video by British Columbia Federation of Labour

www.youtube.com

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 6d

Reminds of these #bcpoli gem from 2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l98j...

It’s all a game to Christy Clark

YouTube video by British Columbia Federation of Labour

www.youtube.com

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Mark (he/him) @markedwardson.com · 6d

this was unthinkable a few years ago, so BC requiring munis to zone for 20-year housing need is having an impact

But something is clearly wrong if:
a) apartments and dense townhouses are still generally illegal
b) this upzoning is sufficient for 20-year housing demand
c) UVic still needs a rezoning

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