NIMBYism and local transit/development

Yes, both feeders to the down hill (9th and Holden) are only one lane in that direction.

Just absolute nonstop complaining about potholes and how parking should be free everywhere. But mention bikes and they start with who's going to pay for it. 😡

I saw something about how LA has been converting a lot of small green verges (we don’t have a good word for this in America usage) some full of native plants and functional ecology to more pavement. Ruining habitat, uglier, makes flooding worse. Nailing it.

Zuffenhausen Ludwigsburger Straße ist wieder so ein Radweg, bei dem die Planer aufpassen, daß er auf gar keinen Fall den Autos weh tut. Und trotzdem wird den 300m Rückstaufläche nachgeheult.

@prinzrob.bsky.social what's up with some the path diversion that guides bikes way thru a right turn before continuing straight?

It’s actually really nice to see. Cities that invest in cycling infrastructure usually end up becoming much more livable. Compared to many places, Vancouver is already pretty bike-friendly. Do you ride that route yourself? 🚲😊

I think the work to get the land development deal in place is a huge part of the value. Not many franchises own huge multi-use developments in a central location in one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Usually they just lease in those, they don't own them.

Yecch… they should be ashamed of themselves.

Only when canal has water. No, I don't think the NCC permits the speeds we'd want.

If cost was comparable to taking a bus or LRT, and was faster than usual canal sightseeing boats (have to be careful of the wash not to harm other boats and canoes)then maybe a commuter service on the canal would work.

The parking worshipers are making me want to join the zoning board to say "too many parking spots, remove 30%" for every proposal.

I'm very curious about the rental situation in that Skinker-D/DPlace/CWE area post-tornado... do we have any ballpark idea of how many multi-fam buildings/units are offline? I'd also think it would be hard to find places for rent like these. Or maybe the market wasn't affected too much?

A "Tesla's only tunnel" -- how many kickbacks & to how many people were required to put that together. Utter insanity & corruption.

Fare is going up because parking is?

Trying to drive through that is also dangerous. Again, people need to get places year round and for some a bike is their only form of transportation.

That’s the bike lane deferral motion

I noticed that Saanich just erased $670,000 off their books by killing some funding for bikes and buses.

Austin says they are already increasing the parking rate and adding Saturdays. He’s okay with giving up the hour free on Saturday, but not charging ok evenings and Sundays.

“The old one is not very good at all. You could even feel the steps shaking when vehicles passed under it. The new footbridge is way better,” Marcos told reporters

When the grandson of the Brave New World guy is quoting Orwell you know, well I'm not sure what you know other than he needs a new hobby.

btw, the original Vegas Loop was contracted for $48.7 million and wound up costing $53 million. So if you go ahead with this harebrained tunnel scheme, expect to wind up paying $6 million to $7 million all in. (Plus the costs of paying the drivers, because the cars can't drive themselves.)

WTaF? And why is a Judge considering what a mayor said in opposition versus what he said having been elected as evidence that the motovation was mainly financial? As for 'Our Open Roads', these are residential streets. Roads are hardly open if non-car occupants are marginalised out of existence.

Vancouver resident. In my not traffic engineer opinion, for city works because we have several larger (4-6 lane) roads going N-S and E-W across the City. Also traffic can get bad (where doesn’t it lol). Also the skytrain and buses are POPULAR and well used.

This is why the SL14 (Chingford-Stratford) is nonsense. It serves heavily congested 2 lane roads in Chingford and Walthamstow. At best, it won't be able to overtake regular buses like the 158 safely, at worst it will crawl along in traffic. All while TFL ignore places that actually need more buses.

Dear Metra:

Thank goodness for city and state laws that have mostly taken all the powers away from these local nimby NC. Thanks for making an attempt to take them on.

Let’s let the rural councillors with little to no transit in their districts decide how much we should charge for transit

If they can raise transit fares twice back to back, then they can raise parking fees twice back to back. Tit for tat.

What are the major drawbacks or unintended consequences of parking mandates? This is a good faith question, I just want to understand the issue better!

a diabolical, infuriating boondoggle of a transit project

in my second meeting, wong + a few other members screamed me down for advocating for a project that would replace an empty parking lot on wilshire. like, "developers are colonizing the neighborhood" level meltdown on a zoom call with 11 participants. completely unserious left NIMBYism

Re MDOT's 2 Tunneling Alternatives (Alt 1 & 3): They're a $3 billion tunnel plan that's part of a $6 billion project (for LRT) that has zero chance of being funded and makes no sense when you've got a perfectly great existing crosstown tunnel that is underutilized by 90%."