Community planner, consultant, and transportation enthusiast passionate about sustainable cities. Tweets my own.
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18 Mar 2023
Fellow urban planners and urbanists. Check out this piece — lots of great data and confirms what many of us have long known: NIMBYism is embedded in cultural preferences around housing and has been a problem in Anglophone countries for many years.
17 Mar 2023
NEW: housing shortages, affordability crises and NIMBYism are growing problems in many countries, but what’s especially striking is how much worse they all are in Anglophone countries 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇦🇮🇪
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My column -> enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
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30 Oct 2022
Excellent thread on Herman Daly (founder of ecological economics). The principles of ecological economics are so important for helping us grapple our most vexing urban challenges including climate change, waste management, and transportation.
30 Oct 2022
I am so so sorry to hear that the brilliant Herman Daly - founding father of ecological economics - has died. His paradigm-changing work flipped my little econ head inside out & inspired me to write a book on rewriting economics… Here are just some of his big ideas 1/n.
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28 Aug 2022
This is the narrative I’d like all municipal leaders to get behind. 👇
28 Aug 2022
The future of urban transportation isn't driverless cars, flying cars and drones. The most inspiring trend before, during and after the pandemic has been the rise of the 'car-free' city, where people, not cars , are the central planning principle.
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7 Jul 2022
What is the role of planners?
“Manage growth and change. Planning deals with risk and uncertainty about the future. To plan for present and future generations.” - Mitchell Silver, President of AICP. #plan2elevate @Elevation_2022
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1 May 2022
Just hit 1,000 km on the new family electric cargo bike. E-bikes are continuing to explode in popularity around the world, especially with young families. That means less driving, less congestion, and lower climate impacts. Oh, and they are lots of fun too! @UrbanArrowcom
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16 Apr 2022
This is yet another reminder about why painted bike lanes—even with a a bit of buffer—are not good enough to protect people cycling (especially on busier roads). Protected bike lanes with barriers should become the norm if we want to see more people on bikes!
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31 Mar 2022
So many logical fallacies in this article but on transport: 1. “traffic” from a 14-unit bldg that would only generate 6 trips in the peak hour. 2. Problems with access off Oak Bay Ave. Where do they think the access is for the multi-unit building next door? Unacceptable.
Stop the act #OakBay.
First you rejected housing for the regions most vulnerable at Oak Bay Lodge.
Now you’re playing the affordability card on what would have been some of the lowest priced units in Oak Bay? Seriously?
timescolonist.com/opinion/co…
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22 Mar 2022
If economics has taught us anything, it’s that higher prices shift behaviour. Cutting gas prices is bad economics. In urban areas, transit is a viable option and should be promoted. That, with targeted cash transfers to ease financial pains from ongoing inflation.
22 Mar 2022
"Plus there is something inherently wrong about cutting gas prices while failing to offer lower transit fares, or increased service, to help people who don’t own cars."
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
22 Jan 2022
Faster, quieter, more efficient, and much better for the environment. What’s not to like about an e-cargo bike? They are an indispensable urban transportation solution.
21 Jan 2022
🚲E-Cargo Bikes have many advantages over vehicles👇
➡️ move quicker through city streets, delivering packages 60% faster‼️than vans
➡️ save ~90%‼️in carbon emissions.
➡️are almost silent, and ‼️cut congestion, as a cargo bike uses a fraction of the road space of a delivery van
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12 Jan 2022
Cities have finite space and how we prioritize that space shapes our mobility choices, health, environment, and economy.
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21 Dec 2021
Agreed! Now let’s continue to build the cycling infrastructure needed to support greater use of cargo bikes on our roads.
21 Dec 2021
Cargo bikes tick a lot of boxes when it comes to moving freight in urban areas.
Cargo Bikes🔋⚡️👇
✅ Deliver ~60% faster than vans.
✅ Cut carbon emissions by 90%.
✅ Can replace up to 51% of all freight journeys in cities.
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16 Dec 2021
Such a great point. Transport planners often stress how parking minimums are bad b/c they don’t support more compact growth and sustainable transportation more broadly. The fact excessive parking has a major GHG impact is rarely mentioned and certainly needs to be stressed more!
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22 Nov 2021
Victoria / transportation folks, please share this thread with people you know who have been thinking about using transit. The benefits are multifold as discussed in this thread.
Hi there, are you new to public transit and thinking about trying it out this week? Here’s a 🧵 to make the experience super simple.
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Tim Shah retweeted
2 Nov 2021
Hey #Nanaimo - have your say! getinvolved.rdn.ca/trs
"This plan seeks to develop a priority plan for how to improve the RDN's transit services, their links to land use & #activetransportation, & increase ridership over the next five years." #WEAREWATT
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13 Oct 2021
This is a smart move. We know from dozens of surveys that the cost of an e-bike is one of the top barriers to ownership. Making e-bike ownership more attainable will help lower vehicle ownership rates, reduce GHGs, and promote physical activity.
12 Oct 2021
A $350 incentive for e-bikes for Saanich residents is now available, with up to $1,600 for income-qualified households. E-bikes are a climate-friendly transportation option that make longer trips, hills, and carrying kids and groceries easy by bike! saanich.ca/ebike
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10 Oct 2021
Amazing. Wish we had this kind of data available in Canada.
9 Oct 2021
Fascinating maps of car-free households in US cities, from geographer Christopher Winters: liberallandscape.org/2021/09…
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28 Sep 2021
Keep us the great work @modo_carcoop. These stats are useful for understanding the impact of car sharing on our transportation system.
28 Sep 2021
The average rate of #carownership in #Vancouver alone is 1.6 cars per household, compared to Modo members at 0.36. With the province seeing a rise in congestion related issues, it's more important than ever to seek alternatives to private ownership where we can. #sharingeconomy
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28 Sep 2021
Such a fantastic read on the many benefits of electric bikes. Great stats too! There was a 66% increase in e-bike sales in the US from 2019 to 2020. I bet % is similar in Canada. E-bikes are continuing to push sustainable transport in a VERY positive direction!
27 Sep 2021
A good workout, that's easier on the heart: E-bikes are "able to get people who have never cycled before as adults to get out and use their e-bikes, or people with physical limitations to start exercising again,” @johnmacpdx told @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/health/eb…
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12 Sep 2021
Excellent blog post @cdnveggie breaking down the ethics of vaccines and why they are ultimately critical for protecting all of us, irrespective of whether you agree with them or not.
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27 Jul 2021
This needs to be reiterated 1,000 more times, especially to our political leaders👇
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