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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing to see here, just me and my 26 taking 8 minutes to travel the 500m from Saanich/McKenzie to McKenzie/Quadra. On a Saturday. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 4d

why is there a trip 121 why is the numbering so out of whack this is bothering me like a lot

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 4d

Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck is rolling out a "Better Buses" campaign with transit advocates, seeking to improve speed and reliability with bus lanes on key routes.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 4d

having worse transit somehow than 100 Mile House should unlock some sort of achievement 🙃

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 5d

engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg...

Looks like a Saturday in-person consultation session for the VRTP has been added for 2-4pm on the 25th at the Uptown Walmart. Probably a good call as students and commuters were largely timed out of all the previous sessions as they were all during the day. #yyj

Victoria Regional Transit Plan

We need your input! BC Transit is seeking input into the long-term goals and network design priorities for the Victoria Regional Transit Plan. The plan is being developed with input from the Capital R...

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

Might've gotten a bit ahead of myself. Sounds like TransLink does in fact have a veto over MRN geometry changes but didn't necessarily exercise it here.

The linked staff report includes this line: "As part of the MRN, TransLink must approve any reduction to vehicle-moving capacity."

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

Who the heck LIKES the existing transit service to YYJ...? 🤨

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

The jurisdictional side of that as it is right now is definitely very convoluted. Obviously a less positive example, and I could be entirely out to lunch on this one (please correct me if I am), but I do recall hearing that TransLink vetoed the Broadway bike lane due to it being a MRN corridor.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

see: Esquimalt drawing up a 2.66m lane width on Esquimalt Road when Transit's Infrastructure Guidelines explicitly note 2.67m as the bare minimum horizontal clearance (excluding mirrors) of a 40' bus.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

TransLink having control over the Major Road Network is, if anything, one of the biggest things we WANT out of a regional transportation service. One of the biggest infrastructure problems in this region is that every municipality forgets transit exists when proposing changes to their right of ways.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

I would hope that they have strategies to avoid the structural issues that TransLink has. How many times have they been on the precipice, or actually went over, a fiscal cliff in the last ~30 years? If nothing else, we currently have a guardrail against that and we definitely need that to stay.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

To add, the Commission (consisting of locally elected representatives) instructed Transit to study Airport service earlier this year, and it was that same Commission that directed Transit to take the larger Airport expansion pieces out of immediate expansion plans in favour of more critical needs.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

I don't think the "regional service" is necessarily the panacea we think it is.

The lack of early / late options to YYJ is fundamentally due to insufficient funding and other competing priorities. "Regional control" isn't solving that if it doesn't come up with ways to increase transit funding.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

The crux of the problem is insufficient funding to address all of those issues in a timely fashion.

This also comes after proposed expansion for next year got slashed by over half due to a chronic historic lack of capital funding.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 7d

As a regional destination, YYJ absolutely should have better service, but there are just so many more critical chronic overcrowding and/or reliability issues with the rest of the system that deserves resources so much more.

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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 11d

EVs significantly reduce the marginal cost of driving, which is going to be a disaster for our cities. It now costs me $15 round-trip to drive from Vancouver to Seattle with up to 5 people. Why would I park my car and take transit once I get there? Road pricing will eventually prove essential.

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 11d

I was thinking of taking the fam on the train to Leavenworth to see the Christmas lights this winter, but it would be $544 dollar for the four of us...

It would cost about $5.50 to drive our EV that distance.

Amtrak ticket showing $136 per person for a round trip to Leavenworth from Seattle

Map showing 45 kWh to drive from Seattle to Leavenworth. At $.13 a kilowatt that's about $5-6.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 17d

what do you mean people didn't give up and turn around and work from home

inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 17d

Here we go again 🙃

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 19d

speed cameras are the funniest tax in existence because it has the biggest loophole possible in the universe to facilitate tax evasion

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 19d

#Breaking: Doug Ford rejects mayors' plea to rethink banning speed camera 'cash grab'

‘The answer is no’: Doug Ford rejects mayors’ plea to rethink banning speed camera ‘cash grab’

“The only thing municipal speed cameras are 100 per cent effective at is taking money from hard-working people,” Doug Ford wrote in his response.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 19d

engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg...

BC Transit is updating the Victoria regional transit plan.

Questions up for discussion (survey linked) include:
- How frequent is "frequent"?
- What times of day should service run?
- How many transfers is "too many"?
- Where should expansion be prioritized?

Victoria Regional Transit Plan

We need your input! BC Transit is seeking input into the long-term goals and network design priorities for the Victoria Regional Transit Plan. The plan is being developed with input from the Capital R...

engage.bctransit.com

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 22d

Tragic events like this are all too common, yet they've for decades been dismissed as "it is what it is" in society's continuous pursuit to save seconds on the road.

Meanwhile, we're making it EASIER, not harder, to get a license in BC by removing the second road test.

Something needs to change.

Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 23d

Xavier's Law: Island family pushes for change after son, 12, killed while rollerblading

The parents of Xavier Rasul-Jankovics, who was inline skating on a country road when he was struck and killed by a 17-year-old driver, say drivers who kill should immediately be taken off the road.

dlvr.it

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 24d

Remember that in this case, that scheduled time **excludes**:
- Time spent walking to/from the bus at the beginning and/or end
- Time spent waiting for the bus
- Time spent improvising a revised itinerary because your 52 got stuck on Sooke Rd for 45 mins just to get to Goldstream

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 24d

20km is a distance where very few would choose to bike, and so the only way you induce a positive modal shift is by convincing people to take transit. Only problem right now with that is, the *scheduled* time for this 20km trip is slower than biking, to say nothing of the chronic peak unreliability.

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 24d

With the CRD's geography, where half the region bottlenecks into 4 lanes daily, and road expansion is both not feasible and completely ineffective, traffic/grade-separated transit becomes the single most effective and transformational investment possible -- and it's high time we got started. 5/5

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inparts.bsky.social @inparts.bsky.social · 24d

As the region, and most specifically the West Shore, continues to grow, it's time to invest in a stronger transit network to go with that growth -- one that people will *want* to use, that is fast, frequent, reliable, and not beholden the whims of daily traffic variations. 4/5

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