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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The average commute duration in Victoria is only 4 minutes shorter than Calgary. 25km from downtown Calgary gets you into rural areas, not unlike Victoria. Riding in the rain is just as if not more unpleasant than dry cold. At 5°-10° and rain your choices are wet from the rain or wet from sweat.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's like if I claimed that cultural differences were the cause of Victoria having lower rail ridership than Calgary rather than the fact that Victoria just doesn't have any trains. Likewise, Victoria's higher rate of cycling is due to infrastructure not culture or weather.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's not culture, it's infrastructure. Oulu has more winter cycling than Calgary not because they're tough and Calgarians are wimps, but rather that they have infrastructure to accommodate winter cycling.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

He's literally worse than Sim on affordable and social housing. bsky.app/profile/pwal...

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just adding insult to injury

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fort St. John is a terrible city to get around without a car. Oh, you want to walk somewhere? Screw you.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The radical policy: "Efficient maintenance of cycling routes ensures that walking and cycling are a reasonable alternative for most trips around the year." oulu.com/en/living/mo...

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Winter doesn't seem to stop the people of Oulu from cycling. Though they do have some radical policy that could never, ever be replicated elsewhere.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That quote is just a self fulfilling prophecy. People will use the modes of transportation that we plan for and provide. The majority will only continue driving as long as that's what we keep providing to the majority of people.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hopefully usage will pick up and I'll be proven wrong. However, Lime faces an uphill battle. Dockless bike share usage is stagnant in North America. Combined with a lack of regional integration and e-bikes only, I can't see it being a huge success.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A disappointing start for Victoria's latest bike share attempt. With just over 2 rides per bike per day, we're well below the average of 5.1 rides per day per bike for docked bike shares. We're also below the 3 rides per day per bike that dockless systems average.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It sounds like Montreal needs to put communal bins in the street like New York or many European cities.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

That's interesting. I have lived in many apartments, none have required storing garbage in the unit. All had bins or a dumpster. Though one of my previous jobs was curbside waste collection. I never once saw an apartment without bins or a dumpster.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do you have to store garbage inside your unit? Bi-weekly collection has been standard for detached homes for decades in BC. Apartments typically have a dumpster/bins outside or in the parkade or in a separate garbage/utility room.

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Neat little ap: where people would live in a city www.observingthecity.ca/where-would-...

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When I talk to people the answers are always the same. In the core cycling is just faster and much cheaper than driving and the infrastructure makes people comfortable. Build it and they will come.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One only has to see the stream of bikes coming out of the shipyard onto the E&N trail at shift change to know tradesmen will use bikes. At a previous job I was a truck driver and for about a year 25% of the drivers biked to work.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I work in the trades and my job takes me around to lots of different locations. At almost every construction site, warehouse or industrial facility, you will find bikes tucked away in the corner.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm convinced that anyone who argues against cycling infrastructure by claiming blue collar workers can't cycle just hasn't been around many blue collar workers.

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The up-front cost to government is ~$21,000 lower per [infill] home than building homes at the outer edge of cities and towns. Can someone explain like I'm 5 why govts are so resistant to infill at places like Nanaimo Stn, but it's so easy to build infra for sprawl in Coquitlam, Langley, etc?

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There (mostly) shouldn't be special charges on new developments. That's what property taxes are for. "The stuff getting developed doesn't generate enough in property taxes to cover its infrastructure costs" Your tax system and/or land use is... Incorrect.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Care to explain what the fallacy is?

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm arguing that for existing systems, usage and fare recovery ratios are correlated. I also think that practically every system needs more government funding and that funding should go to increased service and not lowering fares.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's just false. I'll link to the Wikipedia page again. It's not an exhaustive list, but the trend is clear. Farebox recovery ratios are higher in Europe than in North America. Asian systems are even more reliant on fares and are also much more well used. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox...

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Farebox recovery ratio - Wikipedia

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fares are funding. Some transit systems are fully funded through fares. Compared to the US, European systems receive more funding from fares and they have better transit. Saying "fares can only be used to reduce funding" is absurd. Especially when the most used systems have higher fare recovery.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Transportation is fundamentally different that the fire service. Transportation is the textbook example of elastic demand. Demand for fire, police, etc is inelastic. Your house isn't going to burn down more if there are more firemen, but people take more transit if there's more service.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's a simple fact that a dollar spent lowering fares is one that can't be spent on increased service. It's not a false argument.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Transit agencies being run by municipalities doesn't mean they have the same financial structure. More fare revenue doesn't mean that other funding will be cut. Political will is fickle, there's not always going to be support for funding. Transit unfriendly governments will eventually be in power.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Transit agencies aren't like municipalities, they don't have a set service level that they adjust funding to meet. Those funding cuts you talked about in Montreal and Ottawa would likely have happened regardless of the change in fare revenue.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fares also allow agencies to be more responsive to demand. Higher ridership brings in more fares which allows more service to be provided. Rather than hoping the political climate is friendly to transit.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also, it's good to have diversified funding. During COVID agencies that were more reliant on fares had to cut service more. Likewise, highly subsidized systems are facing larger cuts with the rise of transit unfriendly governments.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Funding is always finite and we need to use those finite dollars where they will create the most good. When choosing between lower fares and more service. More service wins basically every time.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm open to being wrong. It's entirely possible that there's political will to fund fare elimination, but not more service. However, so far there are no well used systems without fares. In fact, there is a very strong correlation between system usage and fare recovery ratios.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If we're going to talk about political realities, lots of systems are struggling to keep enough funding to maintain existing service levels. Let alone enough to eliminate fares or expand service. Eliminating fares is just as hypothetical as expanding service.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

But you might say that funding could be increased to $3B/year with fares eliminated and service increased by 50%. Setting aside the political challenges of additional funding. The transit agency could also use that $3B/y to double service if they retain fares.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Say there's a transit system that receives $1B/year in government funding and $1B/year in fare revenue. If the government wanted to increase funding to $2B/y, you could eliminate fares, increase service 50% or some combination of both.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also, fares absolutely pay for service. Fares are a revenue stream, the same as taxes or advertisement. lower fares don't mean more government funding and higher fares don't mean less.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think you're missing the point I'm trying to make. I'm saying that the quality of service is so much more important that despite despite the higher fare recovery ratios in Europe, they still have better outcomes..

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Look at the US vs the EU. EU systems tend to have higher fare recovery ratios, but higher ridership. As a result, the EU has much more equitable transportation outcomes. Outside of systems with negligible fare revenue already, eliminating fares isn't worth it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox...

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So how do you measure the value a transit system provides? Ridership. I'm sure there's some point where more service increases ridership less than lower fares, however I can't think of anywhere that's reached that point. As of now, there are no high ridership systems with no fares.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The counterfactual to increased funding to eliminate fares and increase service isn't less funding to only increase service. It's using the entirety of the increased funding to increase service even more. The question is what provides more value, more service or lower fares?

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

US citizens haven't been "waived in" since the 10th of September 2001.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Coquihalla base tunnel when?

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I also think that TransLink incorrectly reports station entries and not boardings to the APTA. Additionally, it seems as though TransLink reports average daily boardings and not average weekday boardings to the APTA.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I wonder if there was a mix up between station entries and boardings somewhere. The rail summaries page of the TSPR shows station entries, so the ridership reported on that page is significantly lower than the table on the PDF.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Neither is Vancouver full of vacant homes.

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Jordan @theantiwizard.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There really is no substitute for simply measuring usage. The better the infrastructure, the more people use it.

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