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Civil engineering, transit, active transportation, housing, and Civ 6 shill | @WilfulAlpaca on twitter. | Vancouver/Victoria
I called in
December 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I would live tweet it but most of the comments are just the same-old:
- trees
- DEVELOPERS
- must protect uplands
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Can't remember what the source is for this, but - supposedly - the dueling rationales for housing are that for the left, non-profit owned housing is harder to privatize, and for the right, it keeps debt off of government books
December 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
We do! (Also called MUTCD)
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
SFU students, still waiting for their gondola: yes please
December 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I use it when talking about the climate and that's it I think?
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
When was the fight to get the old implementation for e.g. Fort St - was protected facilities really on the table back then?
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Or do you mean the current implementation on these corridors is mediocre
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
wait what's the definition of "mediocre" in this case, like painted bike lanes? My impression of these projects is that these are all cases of building good infrastructure where basically nothing existed before, not upgrading mediocre-but-adequate infra after original implementation
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Which bike corridor required a giant fight to upgrade it from a mediocre implementation?
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Yes and no, the downtown bike lanes and the rest of the CoV bike network would likely not exist without the Goose, and the Goose is still firmly at the top when you look at counter data

data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic/?...
November 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Canada*

*East of Abbotsford
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Reposted by Mark (he/him)
This speaker disclosed that they themselves live in a $2M home. And yet they came to Council to say that a laneway home for someone else is a "monstrosity."

Burnaby had allowed up to four storey "multiplexes," with up to 50% lot coverage. They are rolling that back to appease this opposition.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
other thoughts:

crazy Paris is further up on this list than Rotterdam

why is ghent on this list
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Their bikeshare system also blew everything else I've experienced out of the water: almost 100% reliability (no broken bikes)
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
as someone who thinks north shore skytrain is a pretty marginal priority, I'm in favour of a Downtown-PNE-Metrotown project
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM