Ian
@idmb.bsky.social
I like cities where drivers don’t kill people, taking pictures of dogs, and fiddling around with bikes. Go follow VZV: https://bsky.app/profile/visionzerovancouver.ca
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Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in.
www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...
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On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
4-plex going up a few blocks from me. Gonna see about getting a showing when it's done. If we can see 2 adjacent units at the same time I'll bring a lil Bluetooth speaker to test the acoustic performance between units.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
December 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
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always mighty interesting when anonymous lifestyle-focused websites start doing multiple stories about local political issues from one side (and in some cases with blatant untruths)
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
always mighty interesting when anonymous lifestyle-focused websites start doing multiple stories about local political issues from one side (and in some cases with blatant untruths)
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Staff recommended that Council zone for social housing outright. ABC just voted to use federal HAF (Housing Affordability Fund) money not to enable more social housing, but to pay for staff time to develop a slower, more expensive alternative. @gregorrobertson.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Staff recommended that Council zone for social housing outright. ABC just voted to use federal HAF (Housing Affordability Fund) money not to enable more social housing, but to pay for staff time to develop a slower, more expensive alternative. @gregorrobertson.bsky.social
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My simple test for city housing policy:
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
Mike Klassen just went full NIMBY in council just now, citing "principles of liveability" (a deeply NIMBY coded phrase) to apparently set the stage to justify his vote against legalizing more affordable social housing.
And sure enough, ABC voted against the Social Housing Initiative. Rank NIMBYism.
And sure enough, ABC voted against the Social Housing Initiative. Rank NIMBYism.
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My simple test for city housing policy:
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
1) Do you support turning a parking lot and grocery store next to skytrain into lots of homes, and
2) do you support making it easier to build more non-market housing throughout the city?
Votes are in and only One City of Vancouver party supports both 1 & 2.
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July 2024 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the summer weather."
December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather."
I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?
December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather."
I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?
December 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
July 2024 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the summer weather."
December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather."
I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?
December 2025 after a string of fatal crashes: "It's the winter weather."
I don't know maybe our road design just isn't safe?
It’s really great that the city of Vancouver transportation department lets cars with 1 person in them clog Kerrisdale and bunch the busses every single day. Nice priorities 🤗
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s really great that the city of Vancouver transportation department lets cars with 1 person in them clog Kerrisdale and bunch the busses every single day. Nice priorities 🤗
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Always very happy to see other cities join the cause!
Vision Zero Ottawa has entered the chat.
Our goals: to overturn the culture of accepting tragedy as inevitable; human health over all other objectives; take a safe systems and design approach to safety; and to hold those who govern our transport systems accountable.
Join us.
visionzeroottawa.ca
Our goals: to overturn the culture of accepting tragedy as inevitable; human health over all other objectives; take a safe systems and design approach to safety; and to hold those who govern our transport systems accountable.
Join us.
visionzeroottawa.ca
Vision Zero Ottawa
A site for Vision Zero Ottawa, a non-profit community advocacy group committed to promoting Vision Zero principles. The site serves as a landing spot for campaigns, volunteer recruitment, and donat…
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December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Always very happy to see other cities join the cause!
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Incredible!! Just got confirmation from Tanille Johnston that it looks like their teamwork paid off:
Tony McQuail hit his fundraising goal after — along with Tanille and volunteers — they raised thousands in today’s telethon fundraiser.
Pretty astonishing, heartwarming stuff.
Tony McQuail hit his fundraising goal after — along with Tanille and volunteers — they raised thousands in today’s telethon fundraiser.
Pretty astonishing, heartwarming stuff.
Cute that since Tanille Johnston raised enough to make it through to the next stage of NDP leadership, she’s teaming up to try to get Tony McQuail across the finish line.
Deadline is tonight. I gotta say the camaraderie on display from these two is pretty endearing
www.youtube.com/live/yOaaPW6...
Deadline is tonight. I gotta say the camaraderie on display from these two is pretty endearing
www.youtube.com/live/yOaaPW6...
Tony & Tanille's 15h Telethon Fundraiser
YouTube video by Tanille Johnston
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Incredible!! Just got confirmation from Tanille Johnston that it looks like their teamwork paid off:
Tony McQuail hit his fundraising goal after — along with Tanille and volunteers — they raised thousands in today’s telethon fundraiser.
Pretty astonishing, heartwarming stuff.
Tony McQuail hit his fundraising goal after — along with Tanille and volunteers — they raised thousands in today’s telethon fundraiser.
Pretty astonishing, heartwarming stuff.
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RIP Repair Cafes run by spec.bc.ca
ABC’s budget death count thus far: summer fireworks, community repair cafes
@lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social
ABC’s budget death count thus far: summer fireworks, community repair cafes
@lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
RIP Repair Cafes run by spec.bc.ca
ABC’s budget death count thus far: summer fireworks, community repair cafes
@lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social
ABC’s budget death count thus far: summer fireworks, community repair cafes
@lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social
Congratulations on keeping overbooked and unobtainable lessons affordable!
Sure would have been a travesty if you’d also expanded capacity.
Sure would have been a travesty if you’d also expanded capacity.
Today Council unanimously supported my amendment in today’s budget deliberations. We’ve reallocated $800,000 from the City’s existing budget to make sure Community Centre recreation fees stay at 0% increase in 2026. This means admission, passes, lessons, programs, and permits remain affordable.
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Congratulations on keeping overbooked and unobtainable lessons affordable!
Sure would have been a travesty if you’d also expanded capacity.
Sure would have been a travesty if you’d also expanded capacity.
Continually impressed with how much the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade hates Vancouver.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Continually impressed with how much the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade hates Vancouver.
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Possibly the first protest of its kind at City Hall this morning. A diaper change-in protesting budget cuts and fee increases to amenities for new parents, and many others. @womentcities.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Possibly the first protest of its kind at City Hall this morning. A diaper change-in protesting budget cuts and fee increases to amenities for new parents, and many others. @womentcities.bsky.social
"We already have a huge deficit in terms of sidewalk repair around the city. We can barely keep up with the amount of funding that's required to ensure that we're fixing things like sidewalks, potholes, and civic infrastructure." says @petermeiszner.bsky.social as he defunds Vancouver.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"We already have a huge deficit in terms of sidewalk repair around the city. We can barely keep up with the amount of funding that's required to ensure that we're fixing things like sidewalks, potholes, and civic infrastructure." says @petermeiszner.bsky.social as he defunds Vancouver.
“This is not about the budget” says @petermeiszner.bsky.social about discussion about a chainsaw austerity budget that had to be specifically amended to prevent a reduction in baby change tables in public facilities.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“This is not about the budget” says @petermeiszner.bsky.social about discussion about a chainsaw austerity budget that had to be specifically amended to prevent a reduction in baby change tables in public facilities.
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"Personal protective equipment is the least effective layer of protection in the hierarchy of controls – by the time you need it, you’re already in danger."
ICYMI: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/02/t...
ICYMI: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/02/t...
The Invisible Pedestrian; or, why Vision Zero doesn’t promote reflectors
As the seasons change, and the days get shorter, we often get asked, “Why doesn’t Vision Zero promote reflectors and lights for pedestrians and cyclists? It seems like everyone wears dark rain coat…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"Personal protective equipment is the least effective layer of protection in the hierarchy of controls – by the time you need it, you’re already in danger."
ICYMI: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/02/t...
ICYMI: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/02/t...
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without evidence, the federal government says a law that prohibits fossil fuel companies from lying about the environmental impacts of their products is “creating investment uncertainty”
The Carney government wants to pare back aspects of Canada’s anti-greenwashing law, telling @meyer.bsky.social it prevents the fossil fuel industry and other groups from sharing their environmental claims. Critics say the law might be working as intended. thenarwhal.ca/greenwashing...
Canada says anti-greenwashing rules silence industry | The Narwhal
Carney is moving to nix some of Canada’s rules that restrict how oil and gas companies and other industries advertise environmental claims
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November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
without evidence, the federal government says a law that prohibits fossil fuel companies from lying about the environmental impacts of their products is “creating investment uncertainty”
Another day another four full R4s stuck in traffic 🥰 thank you Ken Sim and Sarah Kirby-Yung for being so pro-transit, this is great and truly reflects competent leadership at Vancouver City Council.
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Another day another four full R4s stuck in traffic 🥰 thank you Ken Sim and Sarah Kirby-Yung for being so pro-transit, this is great and truly reflects competent leadership at Vancouver City Council.
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there's a change-in being staged at Vancouver City Hall next week, coinciding with the vote on a proposed budget that may see change tables removed from city facilities to "save money" www.instagram.com/p/DRNu5kYksgu/
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
there's a change-in being staged at Vancouver City Hall next week, coinciding with the vote on a proposed budget that may see change tables removed from city facilities to "save money" www.instagram.com/p/DRNu5kYksgu/
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Great move by Surrey, and we especially like the part about lobbying the Province to lower the default limit so cities don't need to put up a thousand sign posts every time they want to lower limits themselves!
surreynowleader.com/2025/11/18/s...
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Surrey council votes to reduce speed limits - Surrey Now-Leader
It’s also lobbying the provincial government to lower the default speed on roads to 40 km/h
surreynowleader.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Great move by Surrey, and we especially like the part about lobbying the Province to lower the default limit so cities don't need to put up a thousand sign posts every time they want to lower limits themselves!
surreynowleader.com/2025/11/18/s...
surreynowleader.com/2025/11/18/s...
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Why are you allowed to legal turn left in so many places downtown still? Why does anyone think driving is enjoyable? Get me back on transit. (I have an immensely heavy box to bring in or I would never be in this Evo)
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Why are you allowed to legal turn left in so many places downtown still? Why does anyone think driving is enjoyable? Get me back on transit. (I have an immensely heavy box to bring in or I would never be in this Evo)
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Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. One of our volunteers @margiesanderson.bsky.social spent the morning postering locations where pedestrians have been killed this year in Vancouver alone.
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. One of our volunteers @margiesanderson.bsky.social spent the morning postering locations where pedestrians have been killed this year in Vancouver alone.
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as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
as @cityofvancouver.bsky.social mulls removing change tables for budgetary reasons (?), a reminder that my husband and I have been mapping crowdsourced change table locations for the last two years for "fun!" vancouverchangetables.com
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ABC caught spreading disinformation in support of their rubber-stamping of the latest VPD budget increase.
This while imposing brutal cuts to public services across the city.
Zero means zero integrity.
#EvictKenSim #vanpoli #Vancouver
This while imposing brutal cuts to public services across the city.
Zero means zero integrity.
#EvictKenSim #vanpoli #Vancouver
Inaccurate violent crime statistics touted by Vancouver mayor’s party
Inaccurate violent crime statistics touted by Vancouver mayor’s party
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC party published inaccurate statistics about a decrease in violent crime in the city when touting the impact of its “historic investments” in public safety.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
ABC caught spreading disinformation in support of their rubber-stamping of the latest VPD budget increase.
This while imposing brutal cuts to public services across the city.
Zero means zero integrity.
#EvictKenSim #vanpoli #Vancouver
This while imposing brutal cuts to public services across the city.
Zero means zero integrity.
#EvictKenSim #vanpoli #Vancouver