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Ian

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I like cities where drivers don’t kill people, taking pictures of dogs, and fiddling around with bikes. Go follow VZV: bsky.app/profile/visionzerovancouve…

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 19h
A type of failure to return to pre-pandemic levels I can get fully behind. Still not liking the trend though, it's high time we turn this around for good. canviz.mountainmath.ca/plot?v=74726
Timeline of sales of fuel for road motor vehicles.
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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Commute got you down? We can fix that. OneCity Candidate Iona Bonamis 陶思穎 outlines Project Greenlight, which could save you weeks of your life in traffic. If you want City Hall to help you get you where you're going faster, volunteer, donate, and VOTE OneCity. #transit #vanpoli
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Map of federally subsidized intercity bus routes: US (in orange) vs. Canada Source: irp.cdn-website.com/270961f6/fil...
Map of the us with many orange and gray lines across it, showing the 5311(f) subsidized routes. Source: 

https://irp.cdn-website.com/270961f6/files/uploaded/Intercity_Bus_Industry_and_State_Updates.pdfA completely blank map of Canada
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 01/10/2026
Hey you know what actually saves people a fortune on travel costs, helps the climate, gets people active, *doesn't* further subsidize oil & gas, and would cost the government exponentially less money??? visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
visionzerovancouver.ca
Bring Back the BC E-Bike Rebate!
You Want an E-Bike? How about an E-Waitlist? In 2023, BC Provided tax rebates of $350 – $1,400 for e-bikes to low income earners. The budget was for 9,000 people to get e-bikes and the progra…
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
eyyy editors you are literally the only person being paid in the entire submission process! if a reviewer sends you some racist shit like this it is your job to not show this to the author. it is your job to find another reviewer and blacklist this one.
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Stephanie C. @stepc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everything’s fine.
A white and red sticker on a brown envelope. The text says “This is your Vote by Mail package for the 2026 Vancouver Local Election, NOT the Provincial General Election.”
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 30/09/2026
In this very residential area, it's a 10 minute walk just to cross the street at the nearest crossing. This is the consequence of building a city for cars first and people second.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 30/09/2026
Yesterday, a 27 year old pedestrian was killed crossing Granville Street near 52nd St. Did you hear about it? www.youtube.com/shorts/vKXqZ...
youtube.com
Another pedestrian hit in Vancouver. Did you know?
YouTube video by Vision Zero Vancouver
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 29/09/2026
Holy smokes, a constitutional earthquake in the Safe Supply debate
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s September
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isabella zavarise @isabellazavarise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A city council candidate running for Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC party is being sued by a company she helped co-found, which alleges she and two others misappropriated company funds. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
ctvnews.ca
Lawsuit accuses candidate for Vancouver mayor’s ABC party of misappropriating funds
A city council candidate running for Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC party is being sued by a company she helped co-found, which alleges she and two others misappropriated company funds.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 28/09/2026
*taps sign* Hey we hear there's a provincial election coming up. We also hear the cost of living is soaring. You know what would be a cool campaign promise? visionzerovancouver.ca/2024/09/22/b...
visionzerovancouver.ca
Bring Back the BC E-Bike Rebate!
You Want an E-Bike? How about an E-Waitlist? In 2023, BC Provided tax rebates of $350 – $1,400 for e-bikes to low income earners. The budget was for 9,000 people to get e-bikes and the progra…
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Mike F @mikefeaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Expo Line could run 4-minute headways on both a local and express with just a second set of platforms at Metrotown All stops west from Commercial, express only at Joyce, Metrotown, 22nd, Columbia, Scott Road, and Surrey (Let's assume there's a separate Millennium Line platform at Columbia)
A string diagram showing local and express services on the Expo Line between Commercial and Surrey, with a passing station at Metrotown
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hyper-fast acceleration is dangerous as well as pointless. As I wrote in 2024, the 0-to-60 metric is outdated and needs to die. No driver on a public road needs to go from 0 to 60 mph in under 8 seconds. Even the slowest car on the market is more than quick enough.
fastcompany.com
How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn't matter
The auto industry has pushed this metric for decades. But cars—especially EVs—are so fast that comparing the decimals is pointless and dangerous.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 26/09/2026
We're hosting group rides to the polls on Saturday, October 3rd and Wednesday, October 7th. Come ride with us, get voting checked off your list, and then join for a social after. RSVP: forms.gle/sFCZQ9J87D3f...
Group Ride to the polls poster. Features a picture of a goose riding a bike and pulling gosslings in a bike trailer with text 'honk for better bike lanes', honk is crossed out and replaced with vote. Lists the following details: 
Voting days: October 3, 7, 13 & Election Day 17th 
Ride with us: October 3rd or 7th 
October 3: Meet 2pm at Trout Lake, vote Henry Hudson Elementary (Kits), optional social Batch Kitsilano. 
October 7: Meet 5:30pm at David Lam Park. Vote Mt. Pleasant Community Centre, optional social Jonathan Rogers.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A $600 fine? That'll show em! They won't do something like that again! You know, unless they want to.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Awful news out of Sicamous, as the iconic D Dutchmen Dairy was mostly destroyed by a fire overnight. 40 calves died. What a terrible tragedy for such a beloved business.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 24/09/2026
🚨♻️ You can now donate your bottle return refund to help fund our road safety advocacy! Have balance sitting in your account, or want to set up an automatic donation? Use our link here: app.return-it.ca/visionzerova... It might sound small but it will go a long way!
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CalgaryK @calgaryk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sorry, this guy!? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Vancouver mayor apologizes to councillor for unsubstantiated comments about distributing drugs | CBC News
Mayor Ken Sim says he has apologized to his council colleague Sean Orr for claiming without evidence in a media briefing earlier this month that Orr distributed illegal drugs. Orr has denied the alleg...
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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...
visionzerovancouver.ca
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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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A competent municipal government would have bus lanes and signal priority to prevent bus bunching. Under ABC, this is the norm. #evictkensim
Screenshot of Transit app showing 6 westbound R4 busses between Cambie and Oak at 10am.
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Imagine if @theicbc.bsky.social used their “road safety” propaganda department for good
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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There was a very particular reason why BC ferries needed ferries in timelines and quantities that only Chinese yards could deliver on. Next time the propeller falls off on a holiday weekend don’t say you weren’t warned
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe it would be cheaper to give busses sirens and the authority to run red lights and cross yellow lines than to retrofit intersections with smart signals to give bus priority.
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
YVR has been ranked the best airport in North America for 15 of the past 17 years but you know what it really needs? Some billionaires trying to squeeze personal profit out of it. This always makes things better. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When you really don’t want people making desirepaths
A gap in a hedge beside a path, with a chain link fence blocking just the gap.
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Cariad Heather @cariad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Imagining how much more complicated this will become were this to happen.
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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Road safety is public safety. Every year, the numbers speak for themselves. I'm proud of my work on Council to bring traffic fatalities and injuries to zero. We need political will to deliver results, and Ken Sim and ABC have shown us time and again that this isn't a priority for them.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Chow wants to introduce weekly fare capping, making the TTC free after 10 paid rides a week! This is after already implementing monthly fare capping after 47 trips, to be lowered to 40 trips next year. www.cp24.com/local/toront...
cp24.com
Olivia Chow wants to make the TTC free after 10 paid rides a week
Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow is promising to make the TTC free after 10 paid rides in a week, arguing that 'families shouldn’t have to choose between rent, food and getting around.'
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 11/09/2026
Today on the radio @lisadominato.bsky.social claimed ABC passed the "entire Vision Zero action plan." She must be forgetting the part where they ripped out speed reductions (#1 cause of deadly crashes) on select high pedestrian arterials (#1 location of deadly crashes).
visionzerovancouver.ca
ABC Guts Road Safety Plan
Yesterday at Vancouver City Council, Ken Sim’s ABC majority voted to gut the Vision Zero Safe Mobility Plan by rejecting safer speed limits on the city’s most dangerous roads.
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My Vancouver unpopular opinion: trolley busses are more fun than skytrain. The rapid acceleration after every stop is the perfect Adrenalin microdose.
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Simon @depaneuse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you are in Vancouver take a look at what @visionzerovancouver.ca did, super guide on the upcoming elections visionzerovancouver.ca/vote/?zlinki...
visionzerovancouver.ca
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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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/
visionzerovancouver.ca
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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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Going car-free is great, but don't forget about families who could use a cargo bike (or minicar) as their second or third vehicle. The potential market is much, much bigger!
electrek.co
This family of four put 1,000 km on a cargo e-bike instead of buying a second car
I’ve been working in the electric bike industry for nearly two decades, and publicly reviewing e-bikes for around half of...
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Margie @margiesanderson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
‼️My bike was stolen last night from 41st and Main in Vancouver ‼️ It's a tan electric Muli, very unique. No battery on it when stolen. Please keep an eye out in your alley, bushes, or Fb Marketplace etc. I rely on this bike and really hope to be reunited! project529.com/garage/bikes...
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I think light industrial space in a city is good. Put jobs close to homes! But I don't understand why we carve out so much industrial space in Kits if all of it is luxury car dealerships. These are boutique stores for the rich with few jobs and no real industrial use. Anyway another is coming!
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
prioritizing transit and bikes over cars is a massive public health win
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning, Vancouver! Glad to see the neighbourhood character bus bunching in Kerrisdale hasn’t changed 🥰 Bonus today: R4 stuck behind a tractor waiting as a garbage truck backed out of an alley.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a wild statistic (from IIHS, a very reputable research org): "Cellphone use prior to crashes is undercounted in police reports by a factor of at least 7."
iihs.org
Study shows police reports undercount cellphone use before crashes
Police usually fail to note drivers talking, texting or fiddling with their phones in crash reports, a new IIHS study shows.
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 29/08/2026
interesting how many replies I've seen to this story on reddit, and elsewhere that say something like "well, you chose to live there." air pollution is a hazard, not an annoyance. a residential neighbourhood should not expose the people who live there to constant, serious health risks.
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 26/08/2026
ICYMI: the VPD budget increased by 48% from 2018 to 2024, but the number of traffic tickets they issue has fallen by 59% over that same time period. Why has traffic enforcement evaporated in Vancouver?
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm inherently against cops ticketing cyclists for going through stop signs by default, but you'd be hard pressed to find a location more needlessly punitive than this one.
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
20splenty.org
The Evidence is In: Transport Experts and the Public Agree—It’s Time for a UK-Wide 20mph Default
We support those communities that want 20mph where people are
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 12/08/2026
In the 2010s, we were told new tech would revolutionize transportation. As BMW faces backlash for sticking a Spider-Man ad on its center console, we can see what it really amounted to: cars that collect vast quantities of data on us and which automakers are desperate to use to push ads on us too.
disconnect.blog
BMW’s in-car Spider-Man ad is a warning sign
We were promised a transport revolution. Instead we got cars tracking us and serving us ads.
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Tessa Rowland @tessarowland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
staff memo: "[...] there is always potential for a legal challenge asserting that Council exceeded its jurisdiction under s. 184, including a court application to halt the process through injunctive relief." "it would increase the costs of the election by approximately 4%-6% ($400,000 - $550,000)"
letterhead from a city of vancouver memo of today's date:

CITY OF
VANCOUVER
CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
August 13, 2026
TO:
Mayor and Council

CC:
City Leadership Team
Donny van Dyk, City Manager
ellisa Morphy, Acting Chief of Staff, Mayor's Office

FROM:
Jason Twa
City Clerk

SUBJECT:
Plebiscite Question for October Municipal Election"
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 12/08/2026
it's outrageous that every government ministry has a massive communications department and yet they refuse to provide information that the public has a right to know, even when asked directly.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users.”
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Ian @idmb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Skytrain doors closing: beautiful little chimes Paris metro: truck horn of doom
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 02/08/2026
In 2023, Ken Sim & ABC cancelled plans for Broadway active transport lanes because of the $10M price tag, saying we need to spend resources in other areas. So why are they now considering spending $20M rebuilding 2 blocks of 10th Ave, a bikeway Sim once called "perfect"? Read more:
visionzerovancouver.ca
ABC’s latest bike lane boondoggle
Or: why spend $10 million building 8km of protected bike lanes on a high street when you can spend $20 million replacing a couple blocks of an existing bike lane that you once called “perfect…
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
FINALLY!!!!
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