It may well! They're lovely shirts :-)

2/2 Members of Victoria's Ecosocialist Echo Chamber Biking Cartel do not wear hair shirts (note: I have no association other than amusement and wonder with this online shop):
yyj-bike-cartel.myspreadshop.ca/all

That reminds me of this great @humantransit.bsky.social post:
humantransit.org/2011/03/rail...

That decimal point seems out of place somehow. Mismatched millennia or something like that :-) Wikipedia says it should be (approximately) LXIVS•••••!

It made me happy that I had no idea what those "magic numbers" were. A tiny scrap of remaining innocence… though I suppose even that's gone, now. Thanks Google. You've ruined my second childhood.

Yeah, watching the Quadra-McKenzie debacle makes me even more certain that amalgamation is a bad idea.

TBF, the award is for the newly created plan, not past "achievements," and that plan lists car dependency as a challenge to making improvements. It sounds like the city is trying to get themselves out of the trap that Stu built.

There's a similar issue here in Victoria. Thankfully, we seem to be building a some new ones, and I hear less complaining than for "truly outrageous" proposals like a sixplex or a 4-storey apartment building (gasp). High housing prices → fewer spare bedrooms → more need for hotels.

4/ As is all too common, the real scandal is the headline and an uninformed US Senator trying to generate clicks and score points.

3/ There are a gazillion good reasons to oppose many companies visions for autonomous cars clogging our streets. I just don't think this is one of them.

2/ I much prefer this approach to one where the car just plows ahead through complex situations. Here's an illustration from a video in the Waymo blog post I linked earlier.

1/ I disagree. I'm not a self-driving car fan, but Waymo is using smart engineering. The car is self-driving. If it gets into a situation the software doesn't understand, it can request a consult. The company described The process a couple of years ago. This wasn't hidden.
waymo.com/blog/2024/05...

I made a related point in my letter of support.

I've been stuck behind one of the tiny mobility scooters on a narrow bike lane with no room to pass. Did I like it? No, but I've also been stuck behind small kids, and slow older riders. I cope, and I'm sure things will sort out. The AAA network is for everyone, not just the fast and furious.

I'm excited that cycling here is boring. It's become just another practical way to get around. It's not a labour of love anymore.