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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

in the video they talk about how the government responded to their request :/

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

abc ad within 100 metres of a polling place... this is illegal, right?

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Rhi Faux @rhifaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The traffic calming installed in my neighbourhood has meant my kids have a safe route to school and soccer practice. Its made a huge difference for our comfort. Ken Sim & ABC would rather placate a handful of noisy drivers than protect children, seniors, & others who just want to get around safely.

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 07/10/2026

Getting out the vote for road safety! Today is the 2nd early voting day!

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 07/10/2026

This is a HUGE red flag for transportation in Vancouver. Ken Sim is vowing to repeal Gregor Robertson's 2017 delegation of authority to the chief engineer on road allocation. This would mean that every single bike lane and traffic calming scheme has to go to council for a public hearing and vote.

ABC press release with highlighted text reading "Ensure that council has the authority to provide effective oversight of major changes, like the large-scale installation of banana barriers, within Vancover neighbourhoods"

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 06/10/2026

Distraction is the second leading cause of fatal crashes in our region and province. We hope that all candidates take that seriously, especially those from a party campaigning on public safety. (Video from ABC School Board Candidate Lina Vargas on Instagram)

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Michael Hall @michaelhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On Friday it took David Eby just 2 hours and 13 minutes to cave-in on TransLink's long awaited new revenue tool. This also marks the 25th anniversary of Mike Farnworth and the NDP axing a vehicle levy in 2001, and losing that year's election 77-2.

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The BC NDP's transit cave-in - Better Columbia

The BCNDP celebrates the 25th anniversary of transit funding cuts—by cutting transit funding, again.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elections have a way of clarifying who matters to political parties (car owners) and whose priorities can wait for another day (transit advocates). My dispatch from Day 1 on David Eby’s four day mid-election road trip. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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ANALYSIS | Eby puts needs of car owners ahead of transit advocates in ruling out Metro Vancouver vehicle levy | CBC News

For the last 18 months, a vehicle levy has been talked about by TransLink as a potential way to create a more sustainable funding model, as revenue from fuel taxes continues to decline. But all that w...

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 03/10/2026

We tried to do something in Vancouver but ABC voted it down. They put cars over children. Oh by the way it's the first day of early voting and the sun is shining ☀️

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i can exclusively report that david eby has no nostalgia for blink-182

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 02/10/2026

More money for drivers, less money for transit. Our "progressive" government hard at work.

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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In ERs, we see the impact of unsafe roads regularly. Cities with good bike infrastructure have fewer deaths and greater safety for all, regardless of whether they’re walking, cycling or driving. Ontario gov should reconsider how to spend $48 mil Improve lives - not put them at risk #bikeTO #onpoli

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Why hundreds of doctors are fighting Ford’s removal of Toronto bike lanes

YouTube video by CBC News Toronto

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

im dating a guy named nic and it's getting confusing

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RE: Bike lanes save lives and promote health. Removing bike lanes will lead to injury and death. #signed by 600 healthcare workers and counting via #doctorsforsafecycling h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @safestreetsto.bsky.social #BikeTO

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Christopher Porter @canadianveggie.com · 28/09/2026

I made a tool to analyze and grade the voting records of the Vancouver City Council. Who was the best on housing? Or transportation? If you don't like my grading scheme, you can easily override it with your own and share that. canadianveggie.github.io/vancouver-co... #vanpoli

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Vancouver Council Scorecard

Build a personal Vancouver Council report card from the issues and votes that matter to you.

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my therapist let me into session early to ask me who to vote for in the municipal election lol

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bike lanes on Adelaide yesterday morning. Over a dozen cyclists taking up the same space as one or two cars.

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 23/09/2026

Not that any provincial party seems particularly interested in this issue, but, with today's events... if anyone provincial candidate wants to have a try at some road safety policies, here are some suggestions! visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/10/05/f...

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Five things the Province can do to save lives on our streets

We mainly focus on municipal issues at Vision Zero Vancouver, but the Provincial government has a critical role to play in making our streets safe. Here are five evidence-based ideas the province c…

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 21/09/2026

44 seconds of "transit signal priority" on toronto's line 5 and kitchener-waterloo's ion LRT

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

when you purchase from eppendorf, you're actually just paying for the fun pipette pen and the actual pipettes are thrown in for free

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In a massive dataset of over 10,000 cities around the world, the strongest association with distance travelled by cycling was not climate, topography, or even infrastructure - it was *gasoline prices* doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Figure 3 from "Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure" by Adam Millard-Balla, Monisha Reginalda, Yasmina Yusufa, and Christopher Bian. The figure shows factors associated with distance travelled by cycling and walking, arranged in order of effect size. For cycling, the largest effects are gasoline prices, GDP per capita, rail service, steep terrain (negative effect), minimum temperature (negative effect), population density, and bicycle lanes. For walking, the largest effects are population density, gasoline prices, bicycle lanes, and maximum temp (negative effect).

Fig. 3 Caption: Factors influencing active travel. Each coefficient represents the impact of a one-SD change in each variable on the share of kilometers traveled by cycling (A) and walking (B). For each city-level variable such as density, the model estimates a separate coefficient for each country. The shaded area shows the distribution of country-level coefficients; for density, for example, the effect on walking ranges from about zero to ~0.11, excluding one outlier. For country-level variables such as gasoline prices, there is only a single coefficient. Variables are ordered by the size of their absolute effect in the median country—density and gasoline prices have the greatest impact on walking and gasoline prices and income (GDP per capita) on cycling. The minimum temperature variable shows the marginal effect of both the linear and squared terms.

One might expect climate to have a major impact on active travel, and many studies highlight the impact of weather on daily and seasonal travel decisions (9, 25). However, in our model, there is a negligible association between precipitation and the mode shares of walking and cycling. Hotter temperatures decrease walking but have no effect on travel by bicycle. Colder temperatures only reduce walking and cycling in colder climates (SI Appendix for further Discussion). At the national level, gasoline price has the largest association with the share of travel by active modes. A one-SD increase in the price per liter (equivalent to US $0.40) is associated with a ~1.0 percentage point increase in walking and a ~0.5 percentage point increase in cycling—notable given that the mode share of cycling across the entire dataset is just ~0.9%. These findings echo a large volume of research that shows how vehicle travel declines in line with rising fuel prices (26). Gasoline prices also have an indirect effect in promoting denser, mixed-use development (27).

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes for sure, to the tune of "in the median city, each new km of bicycle lanes is associated with ~13,400 additional km per year of bicycle travel."

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

turns out you can't remove a kudos from strava which now makes things awkward between me and my ex

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's this @tomflood.bsky.social joint come to life, but with a school board instead of a cop.

police officer pointing at kids with hi viz vests on

Police Excited To Transfer The Responsibility Of Road Safety From Themselves Directly To School Children.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A new Vancouver mayoral poll by local pollster Justason is out. FRY 45% SIM 30% HARDWICK 11% ALLAM 10% BLIGH 5% Sample size of 509 and was online only, but obviously supports the notion that the left has consolidated support behind Fry quickly.

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 17/09/2026

"Every year in BC, 300 people die on our roads. If this was an issue of a few bad drivers, surely we could have put a stop to this by now. This is a systemic issue. So rather than focusing on individual responsibility, vision zero takes a systemic approach." youtu.be/sdnuGUO7V3c

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Call for Provincial Action on Road Safety - UBCM 2026

YouTube video by Vision Zero Vancouver

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 16/09/2026

“We applaud the leadership of Mayor Johnstone, Mayor Pachal, Clr Maloney & the municipalities advancing these resolutions, which would give local govts stronger tools & provincial support to put Vision Zero into practice.” It was an honour to be included at this event w/ these inspiration leaders.

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 16/09/2026

Our much-anticipated Vancouver City Council full term report card is here! 📝 We look back over 4 years of council votes and give the mayor and each councillor a grade, backed up by solid numbers. How did your favourite councillor do? visionzerovancouver.ca/2026/09/16/v...

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Vancouver City Council Full Term Report Card

Vancouver heads to the polls in October to vote for its Mayor and Council, so we’re looking back on how all the incumbents voted on road safety measures over the full 4 year term.

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i would like to mention that this is staff parking and there may just not be any other space for these staff to park. but i also have a lot of opinions on the current size of cars and what we consider "small" or even normal

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York. That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it's a BAD day to be a med applicant in british columbia lmao

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 14/09/2026

I recently worked with Abacus Data on a poll of Albertans, probing deeper into the sentiments underlying the separation debate. Today we are releasing the first of five reports. It explores an apparent contradiction: how Albertans feel both deeply attached to Canada & also deeply aggrieved by it.

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Alberta at a Crossroads: Albertans Hold the Grievance and the Flag at the Same Time - Abacus Data

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 13/09/2026

Last year, Montréal introduced its first dutch-inspired protected intersections. The design improves pedestrian and cyclist safety at intersections through a configuration that includes protective islands between cyclists and vehicles. 📸 @Patrick Murphy - Oh the Urbanity! buff.ly/vCAEZ8K

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Urbanist interior decorating ...

“It started with subway tile in the kitchen and then we got carried away.”

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I mean look at this system map. It’s a thing of beauty.

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The city will allow names like <FOX, Amy "Evil Genius">, <ALM, K R> and Melissa De Genova who claims she was "gifted" a Chinese name, on the ballot; but is fighting Iona from using her birth name? Not to mention the city already lost this fight in 2022.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I actually ran this analysis before! 92% of people in Calgary live within easy cycling distance of a grocery store. 97% within easy cycling distance of a school. (I counted up to 2 km away straight line on a map. That’s up to maybe 3 km away actual travel on the street grid.)

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

looking at my ex who ran a marathon (no running experience) before his mcat. then the day after his mcat he biked to the juan de fuca trail, hiked it with like 5 granola bars, then biked back to vancouver. then got into med school with a 508 mcat. brutal heartbreak.

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Cal 🌿 @calsneurons.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

litmus tests i stand by: - smarter than me - can prove me wrong - likes bikes - has done an insanely difficult side quest "because why not"

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 10/09/2026

With road injuries & fatalities on the rise, the next Vancouver council must act to make our streets safer. We created a list of 10 actionable items for Year 1 of the new council and sent it to all the parties. Read the list, who endorsed, and who declined to do so: visionzerovancouver.ca/vote/

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Election 2026

We asked each party to commit to implementing key road safety measures if they form government, within their first year in office.

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