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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Burnaberians (?) and people from around Metro Vancouver, last chance to fill the survey about the North-Shore Burnaby BRT. Tell Translink you want it to go through Burnaby Heights! Watch @denisagar.bsky.social explains why: youtu.be/n2TuO_f38FM?...

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The Problem with Vancouver's Boundary Rd BRT (w/ @MovementYVR )

YouTube video by RMTransit

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Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders @movementyvr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Would you rather have new convenient transit access to the wonderful restaurants and shops in Burnaby Heights, or to a station that's already served by SkyTrain? The choice is yours! 1/3

Metrotown–North Shore Bus Rapid Transit
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A graphic of the MNS BRT route with a question mark around the undecided portion of the route
Park royal - Lonsdale - Phibbs Exchange - Kootenay Loop - Maybe Burnaby Heights - Brentwood - BCIT - Metrotown

Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders

Above: An image of apartment-lined, coffee shop full Hastings Street in Burnaby Heights, from TransLink

Below: Car dealerships and wide streets and powerlines on Boundary Road, Image from Google

In the middle: Which street do you think has more transit riders? And what even is Bus Rapid Transit?

An image of BRT in Utrecht, from Karl Fjellstrom, Far East Mobility

What is Bus Rapid Transit?

BRT is like SkyTrain for the road!
It’s fast, frequent and reliable
- buses every five minutes
- dedicated lanes to zoom past traffic
- fancy stations

Seattle put in BRT and ridership doubled in less than a year

What is the Metrotown-North Shore BRT?

This new BRT route will go from Metrotown to Park Royal in only 60 minutes

The exact route is still undecided

A map of the route from TransLink is displayed in the background

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Listen to @michaelhall.bsky.social about curbside use and tell Translink what you think about the proposed BRT (opt 1 if you would like to get to Burnaby Heights comfortably) translinklistens.ca/bus-rapid-tr...

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Metrotown-North Shore BRT: Public Engagement Survey | TransLink Listens

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Bill proposal: every council member (anywhere in the world) will have to go to the Netherlands for a week, stay in a suburb/not a city center and learn how convenient it is to use public transport and bicycles. Only than they could say something and vote about transit/urban development.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is how my worst nightmares look like

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I live right next to it. It's a nice start, but a long way to go till we could call the area TOD. Needs denser street network and connectivity, diverse housing (not just high rises), way less parking... Right now it's a compounded destination, not a part of a city (the surrounding is even worse).

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Yep. The problem with season 2 is that the storyline of the game was horrible (no spoilers, but the season is not getting better). They didn't have a lot to work with and even that they did worse. Ok, the killing Joel scene was a shocker, now what? You killed the only one here that I care about!

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Today (like any other day) is a good day to remind everyone: Paint (alone) is not infrastructure!

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

One of the things that I love to do during the NBA playoffs is to compare who has the fewest parking lots outside the stadium. Go Knicks! (at least on the no parking part)

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Burnaby: Human scale. There's new development, but it's mainly highrises compounds. No other option for housing, street network not dense enough and car depended, not enough bike infrastructure and not a lot of quality public space for people in the neighborhood level.

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HUB Cycling @wearehub.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Biking to Work, School, or to Shop? Log Your Rides—It’s Go By Bike Week from May 31–June 6! Ride your bike to 30+ celebration stations for free bike checks, snacks, prizes, and more! Join for free as a team or ride solo at bikehub.ca/gbbw #GoByBike #GoByBikeBC

A graphic with text that reads: "HUB Go by Bike Week from May 31-June 6. Join for free: bikehub.ca/gbbw" The graphic has an image of a woman standing with her bike. Her bike has blue rear panniers.

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Abundant Housing Vancouver @ahvancouver.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

They've been planning the Broadway & Commercial site for almost 20 years. This Thursday (May 15) it's FINALLY getting a public hearing. A thousand transit-oriented rental homes, zero displacement, and daycare! Please say YES to housing. Step-by-step instructions below!

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I was out of characters: just wanted to say that I really love your videos😊

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

From around 8 minutes (Sullivan). Maybe contradicts is a better word, in this part the blame is on Jacobs for helping the no-density crowd, but Death and Life is all about density, and you say it in other parts in the video. What I'm saying is that there are mix-messages about what the book is about

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Like you side, no one's perfect, including Jacobs, but I think that the video is leaning too much to that stuff, and a bit misrepresenting her advocacy in The Death and Life...

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It's Jane's Walk weekend in Metro Vancouver! I just love this event so much, it allows you to really learn about a city from the people who live and love it. I really recommend everyone to go on at least one walk (in Vancouver or wherever you are in the world) @janeswalkvan.bsky.social

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I don't know this street, but let me guess: an arterial road inside a city that has nothing to do with the definition of street, where cars can go as fast as they can and pedestrians are not welcomed to say the least?

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

No need to argue. It's bad road design that allows for drivers to go too fast and kill pedestrians

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Not enough 🤦🏻‍♀️ in the world! They see a successful project in almost every aspect and say "oh, let's do the exact opposite, this will work!" And to be proud about eliminating road diets... God forbid we'll save some lives and make it easier and enjoyable for people to move in the city. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Good to know that there are still some people in Toronto that make professional desicions, not just cynical politics

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Another solution that works in other countries is an agreement between Canada and other countries that have that pool of skilled people: a constructor goes to the Canadian gov, asks for x workers, the Canadian gov goes to the other county that gives the workers that signed up.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A great prof. of mine introduced me to the term place vs non-place like this: in a place you see and experience things that you can tell about later and create memories, a non place has nothing distinctive that you want or can tell about later. Places are lively and non-places are grey and dull.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My guess is because running a red light hurt mostly people who drive (and pedestrians) and the danger is more direct, whereas driving on the bus lane is hurting people on the bus and you can't "see" what's the harm if you don't take the bus yourself.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

With a small tweak: "I want affordable housing in places that people actually want to live". You can have all the parking you want in the middle of nowhere with an affordable house because no one wants to live there

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What does everything that needs to take a few months takes a few years here??? And why the public is last in the city's priorities??

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

How does the Singapore model works? 80% living in social housing and own a different house?

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

And take the rejuvenating experience of being stuck 3 hours a day alone in traffic? Where's the fun in that?!

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What do you want? People living right next to places they want go to and have access to great public transport? That's preposterous

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I agree that it could've been implemented better, but even with how it was the report shows an increase in people walking, using the street and shop/pay in the businesses, especially during the weekday. And despite this success the coucil decided to practically kill it. ACB is useless indeed

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Paris is going to pedestrianize *500 MORE* street. Meanwhile Vancouver is slowly and painfuly suffocating the one great pilot it had in Gastown... Not to mention the rest on the metro area.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🚍 Save the Bus! Despite the rain, so many people showed up at the #SaveTheBus rally today in Metrotown to demand no transit cuts, only more funding! We need more buses. Cutting transit funding is not an option. Thanks @movementyvr.bsky.social for organize the rally! Take action: SaveTheBus.ca

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

You all know I love the inspirational power of a great “before & after” street or place transformation. Here’s a before, middle and after transformation, showing the temporary and then permanent changes. The evolution of a school street in Bratislava, Slovakia, HT @holz-bau.bsky.social. Very smart.

3-part evolution of a school street in bratislava

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

SUVs and the car-depended urban environment that incentivizes people to buy and use those SUVs over walking, cycle and taking public transport

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'll even argue that we need to have FAR minimums

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Definitely. Speed kills everyone, we have to design our street people-base, which each all of us.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

One of the things the article misses: Buchanan says that in Vancouver pedestrians are the group that gets hit the most. That's because other cities have way less pedestrians! The fact that Coquitlam for example has less crushes is not because they are safer, it's because no one walks there

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I totally agree with Carlos, in order to be good at our job it has to be more than a job, it has to be a passion and obsession, it's a way of life! I always say that being an urban planner is like taking the red pill in the Metrix, you can neven unsee all the changes you want to do in the city.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

So many questions: What's teenagers curfew and why is it a thing? Why does he thinks that a teenagers on the street has anything to do with the violence? And most important: How about taking measures to actually stop the violence so the streets are safe for everyone, teens included??

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

לגמרי. חשבתי שבלוסקיי יהיה מפלט, אבל מפחדת שבלוסקיי יהפוך לאותו דבר מהצד השני

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Great article! Very important point about the relationship between transportation and housing/urban planning

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wrote an entire article analyzing this. The key takeaway: “EVs are the future of cars, but cars are not the future of transportation”

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Are Electric Vehicles the Future of Transportation?

What does truly sustainable transportation policy look like?

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

They can drive over them, it will stop some but not all.

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

100% look at Japan for instance, the car over there fit the city and people, not the other way around. We've become addicted to "bigger and stronger" and mistakenly associate it with "better"

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Michal Rieback @micrie.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This type of car should be illegal

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