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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 7h

The Vancouver budget will be devastating to services so many rely upon and to the hardworking employees delivering them, but here's one tiny sliver of good news: the scheme to spend millions to widen Beach Avenue and tear out the bike lane appears to have been dropped from the Capital Plan!

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 13h

Why did Main and 7th win the title of Worst Intersection in Metro Vancouver? @nicthedoor.bsky.social explains the problems with this intersection... and maybe how we can fix it? 👀

youtu.be/XgSjL7e7_ow?...

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 1d

So 1,400 units of student housing at no cost to SFU or the city fell out of the sky next to Burquitlam Station and Burnaby said 'nah', truly the mark of a council serious about housing

dailyhive.com/vancouver/98...

City of Burnaby rejects 1,400-unit, off-campus SFU student housing proposal | Urbanized

Burnaby City Council has rejected a proposal for 1,400 units of student and rental housing near the SFU Burnaby Mountain campus.

dailyhive.com

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 4d

I was disappointed but not mad about the results until I read this two minutes ago, and now I'm mad

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 4d

Pas surprenant mais comme même décevant. Ça fait huit ans que Montréal est en tête de l'Amérique du Nord en matière de transports actifs et de développement durable, mais c'est certain que la ville va maintenant reculer. La seule question, c'est si ça sera un grand reculement ou non...

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 4d

They say a good compromise makes nobody happy. That's why I suggest that we change the Pacific time zone year-round to be UTC -7:30

pros:
- whimsical
- makes for a great pub trivia factoid
- force the CBC to say "8:30 newfoundland and british columbia"

cons: don't worry about it

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 9d

Yup, the path is here. It was closed for a few years because this whole area got dug up for a pipeline, but now it's open again. It's a pretty nicely maintained gravel path, although the wayfinding is a bit lacking.

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah I always take the tunnel under Mary Hill Bypass that drops you west of the psychiatric hospital because I don't feel comfortable going onto reserve. Would be great if Metro clarified the status of all the trails in the area and brought in wayfinding

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 9d

I honestly had no clue there was a sidewalk on that bridge!

The 'normal' route through Colony Farm Park has been so chaotic since the dyke trail closed, although at least it's not obstructed anymore by TMX construction

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Sightline Institute @sightline.org · 9d

To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...

To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute

How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.

www.sightline.org

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 10d

According to the BC Ministry of Transportation, you may bike through this crosswalk, but you must dismount and walk across, but also you must not walk here

(Port Mann Bridge NB @ United Blvd)

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 12d

@markedwardson.com pointed out that even the Ministry, where cycling infrastructure goes to die because of bureaucratic hangups about the Motor Vehicle Act, has one

Like come on why is the COV being so weird about this

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 12d

A recent bugbear of mine: Vancouver has inexplicably decided that this sign, which is used basically everywhere in BC, is illegal for some reason

It's not that big a deal because unsignalized cross-rides are really rare here, but still just really baffling stuff

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 15d

As we approach the clock switch, a reminder that we need to overthrow the tyranny of the morning owls and have DST year round

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 15d

My local bus growing up literally had ZERO service off-peak and weekends

I had to walk 50 minutes to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to catch the bus

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 15d

A lot of Montreal suburbs are huge transit deserts too, where you practically have to drive.

Having grown up in Ile Perrot, I wouldn't wish Vaudreuil-Soulanges transit on anyone. Can't believe large parts of a county 5 minutes off-island have worse transit than 100 Mile House, BC (population 1,928)

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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 21d

Brilliant video from @ardenenglish.bsky.social explaining why right on red is so dangerous for pedestrians, and why BC should get rid of it. Please watch!

youtu.be/AqDV13zzMao?...

Right Turn of Death | Creator Network | A Film by The Greater Discussions

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

youtu.be

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 25d

Finally got around to playing with TransLink realtime GTFS data. Kind of fun. Transit in Vancouver is looking pretty good, especially considering this is an hour midday on a holiday weekend, with some lines not running (hello 44) and not all buses reporting real-time information.

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Ruofan 🚎 @bollardfan.bsky.social · 25d

It is my conviction that charging extra for guac should be outlawed and that, contrary to all price controls hitherto attempted since the dawn of humanity, this will have no negative consequences

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Peter Waldkirch @pwaldkirch.bsky.social · 28d

Sadly the new provincial reforms to their multiplex system appear to continue to NOT apply to the City of Vancouver.

The Province continues to ignore Vancouver's housing shortage, the epicenter of the provincial housing crisis.

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