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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 29/09/2026

Yeah this is super recent. I only found out because I was trying to get screenshots of how broken it was only to find out they magically fixed it like two days ago. This also means that the fare calculator seems to be working on non-reservable routes for the first time in forever.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 29/09/2026

What's missing? Structurally it's still a mess in terms of the inconsistent and non-standard formatting, but the schedule is looking pretty complete right now for the first time in a long time. bc-ferries.bctracker.ca/routes

bc-ferries.bctracker.ca

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 29/09/2026

Just as I'm about to start writing a blog post about how BC Ferries needs to fix this, I discover that—I think for the first time in its history—BC Ferries has uploaded a GTFS feed that correctly lists all of its routes and sailings for the next six months. Mission accomplished I guess?

Screenshot of GTFS Static feed map that shows all BC Ferries routes in the Salish Sea

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 29/09/2026

I'm in China and there's always a funny contrast between the efficiency of the rail system and the inefficiency of the passenger loading. This is just a queue for every single train at once. Whenever a train pulls into the station, it's mayhem as people push their way up to the front to enter.

Hundreds of people milling around a train station atrium

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 26/09/2026

Weirdly, this isn't actually Ken Sim's fault. Scott Jensen and Brennan Bastyovanszky voted to create paid parking at Hillcrest, which makes it all the more baffling that their party leader Kareem Allam has spent the past month railing against community centre parking fees.

Motion moved by Commissioner Bastyovanszky to enact paid parking at Hillcrest Community Centre

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 26/09/2026

Three weeks ago, Golden became the only place in BC to adopt year-round standard time instead of DST. This went over like a lead balloon: 2,395 people in a town of 3,900 signed a petition, forcing council to reverse itself. Seems like pretty good evidence that people in fact prefer later sunsets.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 23/09/2026

I think the coverage about the number of ministers stepping down should mention that everyone and their second cousin is a cabinet minister in BC for some reason. The 47-member government caucus has 23 ministers, 4 ministers of state and 14 parliamentary secretaries. What's up with that anyways?

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 22/09/2026

can't a premier call a press conference in front of the lieutenant governor's house on three hours' notice without causing an election speculation frenzy

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 20/09/2026

This one was only modestly raised. I should have taken a picture of the much more raised one a bit down the road, but I didn't want to turn around to snap a pic of it

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 19/09/2026

Here's a rare sight: a raised crosswalk on a rural road in BC. That's because the province owns most rural roads and has a rule to ban raised speed control everywhere, whether it's UBC or the Kootenays. This road is owned by the District of North Cowichan, which isn't bound by this arbitrary policy

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 18/09/2026

I'm sure Mike Bernier, leader of CentreBC (at least until 1pm), is a nice guy but you can't be running for office as M. Bernier and be surprised that everyone thinks you're the more infamous M. Bernier

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Peter Waldkirch 華彼德 @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The defeat of Vancouver’s Villages Plan is a major setback for addressing our housing crisis and appears to mark the end of the Vancouver Plan, which has been the main focus of our planning department since 2018. Read more in my first piece for Sightline!

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 18/09/2026

Say what you want about Richard Nixon but at least he knew that you send your shady operatives to target your enemies and not, uh, your own supporters and colleagues

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 17/09/2026

why is this post the way I find out that Betty Forbes is running for re-election 🥲

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 17/09/2026

I'm really mad about this decision and decided to elaborate on my thoughts in a long-form blog post. If a judge doesn't overrule the chief electoral officer's stance, the next council can and must take matters into its own hands and order the city clerk to cease enforcing this racist policy.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 17/09/2026

This case is really upsetting to me. For the city to claim that complete nonsense monikers like "Rollergirl" and "Evil Genius" qualify to be on the ballot but then deny racialized people the right to use the name they were given AT BIRTH is an act of white supremacy. This can't be allowed to stand.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 16/09/2026

Whatever we'd like to call it, my point is solely that the EU dual presidency's rivalry over diplomatic protocol pretty consistently produces the goofiest handshakes imaginable

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 16/09/2026

Kind of obsessed with the ridiculous three-way handshake that Carney has to do because the EU can't figure out whether the European Commission president or the European Council president is its ceremonial head of state

Picture of Carney shaking hands with Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 11/09/2026

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003)

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 11/09/2026

a seattle cement plant's push to do what for what

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 11/09/2026

On the topic of municipal amalgamation, I always think of Yves Boisvert's retrospective on Une île, une ville in Montreal as made famous by Peter Trent: "What was running well runs less well. What was running badly runs just as badly."

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 11/09/2026

I'm not so sure. Projet won a majority of (non-borough mayor) city council seats in 2013 in the unamalgamated city of Montreal but lost big in the new boroughs to the Gerald Tremblay coalition, allowing Denis Coderre to continue Tremblay's suburb-centric governance for another term.

Map of the 2013 Montreal city council election

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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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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 09/09/2026

Now we just need to build a giant shore battery in case the Spanish come back

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 09/09/2026

Don't worry, we can just put all the bike routes on side streets. No wait, not like that.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 08/09/2026

130 seems to be the planning capacity, with a crush capacity more like 220. Since the planning capacity of an artic is ~75, I think it's more like 75% more people?

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 08/09/2026

What are the concrete blocks for?

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 08/09/2026

British Columbia needs an equivalent mandate, if for no reason than to force BC Ferries to publish a GTFS feed that's not inexplicably missing half its routes

Map of the BC Ferries GTFS highlighting the missing Crofton-Vesuvius, Swartz Bay-Fulford and Mill Bay-Brentwood Bay ferries

Map of the BC Ferries GTFS highlighting the missing Quadra Island-Campbell River and Alert Bay-Sointula-Port McNeill ferries

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 07/09/2026

TODAY is the last day to tell the city you want to see Granville stay open for people and closed to traffic! Make sure to fill out the survey, every positive response builds a stronger case for vibrant car-free streets in Vancouver.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 07/09/2026

Are we talking about the same Official Canada that routinely commissions jurisdictional scans to learn from *checks notes* the MTA

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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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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 06/09/2026

Very late to this, but the new bike and pedestrian bridge over Highway 1 in North Van is super cool! Glad that there's now an alternative to Lynn Valley Road.

Approach to the Crosscut Bridge in the City of North Vancouver

View of the mountains from the Crosscut Bridge

Wayfinding sign on the approach to the Crosscut Bridge

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 05/09/2026

I feel like the British military battles corner of Dunbar can give it a run for its money.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 05/09/2026

Some pockets of employment lands have fostered some really economically vibrant uses, like the tech hub on Great Northern Way. But when the vast majority of it is just furniture stores and car dealerships, you have to wonder a bit why Metro forces every city to protect so much of it from land lift.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 05/09/2026

The answer is that this isn't industrial land. Half our industrial land base is designated by Metro Vancouver as employment lands, which limits industry and protects big-box stores and car dealerships. It's why half of Still Creek is industrial and the other half is a Costco and Jim Pattison Toyota.

Map of the Metro Core showing industrial and employment regional land use designations

INDUSTRIAL
• Light and heavy industrial production
• Distribution
• Repair
• Construction materials and equipment
• Infrastructure
• Outdoor storage
• Wholesale

EMPLOYMENT
• Indoor Storage (e.g. self-storage)
• Stand-alone office (e.g. law and financial offices)
• Stand-alone recreation (e.g. karate studios, theatres, crossfit and climbing gyms, badminton/tennis facilities)
• Retail / wholesale (e.g. big box, car dealerships, furniture, automotive parts)
• High tech software development
• Consulting services (e.g. engineering, architecture, environmental)

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 05/09/2026

Interesting that it's happening to e-bikes too. It's really bad for e-scooters, where by my count the majority of all municipalities where e-scooters are legal claim to enforce an imaginary speed limit based on a misreading of the provincial rules.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 05/09/2026

So I tried MapQuest out of curiosity and wow, these are the worst cycling instructions I've ever seen. I put in my home to my office in New West, and it thinks the best options to get there are along 1st Ave, Kingsway and Lougheed Highway. Clearly zero thought went into the bike route algorithm.

MapQuest screenshot showing three biking route options between Kitsilano, Vancouver and Sapperton, New Westminster

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That’s why we need to buy buses from outside North America because MAN and Alexander Dennis have massive double deck bus markets in Australia, Singapore, Germany, etc. Solaris and Hess make 9-10m buses.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 04/09/2026

This downsizing seems inevitable after Vicinity, the only manufacturer of midibuses in the Canadian market, folded. It illustrates the pitfalls of relying on fragile, uncompetitive supply chains for transit. What happens to BC Transit if AlexanderDennis, the only double-decker bus maker, pulls out?

cheknews.ca

BC Transit to replace all Port Alberni buses with ‘light-duty’ fleet

BC Transit is replacing all medium-duty buses in Port Alberni with newer light-duty buses starting this summer.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 03/09/2026

People often think of Via as similar to Amtrak, which makes money on the Northeast Corridor and spends it to subsidize long-distance trips. But that's not the case: Via loses $50.55 every time someone goes from Montreal to Toronto. Surely this is a solvable issue.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 03/09/2026

Potential Via expansion is welcome news, but I hope Ottawa takes a closer look at how to ensure its financial sustainability. Via shouldn't be a for-profit business, but the deep, persistent structural deficits on *every* single route leave it at the mercy of capricious senior government funding.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 03/09/2026

Bad day for Alberta interests in BC: not only did the MLA for Golden leave the Alberta separatist-controlled Conservative Party, but the entire town has apparently left Alberta's time zone

thegoldenstar.net

Council supports permanent Mountain Standard Time for Golden - The Golden Star

Keeping time with BC.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 28/08/2026

This might be the weirdest fundraising email I've ever received

Screenshot of email from the BC NDP entitled "We can't win a by-election"

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 27/08/2026

Right, that's the motor output limit in question. It speaks to the engine power a scooter can have to be considered street-legal, and doesn't preclude exceeding 25km/h, say, downhill. I don't know if there's a basis for cities or the Burnaby RCMP to claim to enforce a speed limit against scooters.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 27/08/2026

Shocked and horrified that the 4-storey elevated parkade with the brick facade wasn't built by Admiral Kingcome in 1862

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 27/08/2026

Been noticing lately that a lot of BC cities' websites claim that scooters are subject to a 25 km/h speed limit. In Burnaby, the RCMP even plans to do speed enforcement. As far as I'm aware, that's not a real rule. There's a *motor output* limit but what law imposes a speed limit?

Screenshot of page named "Know the rules: How to scoot safely in Vancouver" that advises that exceeding 25 km/h may result in a ticket

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 25/08/2026

At long last, we are rebuilding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from the classic biography Don't Build the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 20/08/2026

My picture of the exact same spot three weeks ago!

Two totem poles in front of a longhouse in Alert Bay, BC

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 14/08/2026

This is a narrow issue, but it illustrates that judicial review of cycling infrastructure can cut both ways. There was also an attempted challenge to the Stanley Park bike lanes in 2024 on a litany of grounds that included "the views from the left lane" being "not as good", but it was dismissed.

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Ruofan 🚎 王若凡 @ruofan.ca · 14/08/2026

In Kovacs v Maple Ridge and Belusic v Victoria, the HRT required the redesign of cycling facilities because they adjudged that they didn't properly mitigate conflict with blind transit users. Unfortunately in the former case, the MUP and e-feet were just eradicated and replaced with a dismount sign.

2023 orthophoto of Dewdney Trunk Rd and 203 St with elephant's feet crossings for bikes between multi-use paths

2025 orthophoto of Dewdney Trunk Rd and 203 St with elephant's feet removed, as the MUP was converted into a sidewalk

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