Sustainable Transportation Planner | Plan & design cool infrastructure for a living 🚲 | Have been known to throw my support behind new housing
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17 Jan 2025
Checking in on the construction of @ISLengineering's design for Phase 2 of the @cityofcoquitlam's Guildford Greenway
The project includes the 1st 3 protected intersections in the Tri-Cities - a huge win for the region!
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
15 Sep 2024
The housing shortage is not just quantitative—that is to say, it isn't just that aren't enough homes to go around. It's also qualitative—too many people remain trapped in housing that is either unsafe, poor quality, or too far from jobs, simply because we refuse to build it.
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14 Sep 2024
'Logic will get you from A to B. Biking will take you anywhere'
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22 Aug 2024
Our team at @ISLengineering rode some of the region's bike infrastructure this week, including a few of our own projects
@roytheplanner has some insights in his blog here ⬇️
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
23 Jul 2024
Are well-intentioned policies from local governments getting in the way of more purpose-built rental housing being built?
Bosa Properties thinks that's the case in #Burnaby, according to a letter they sent to Burnaby City Council this month. #vanRE
storeys.com/bosa-properties-…
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25 Jun 2024
A few interesting pics from my trip to Taiwan in March
-Protected bike lanes
-Interesting painted shoulder
-Pedestrian countdown signals
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
21 Jun 2024
Vancouver City Council is expected to abolish all minimum vehicle parking requirements everywhere for ALL uses.
Not just residential, but also commercial & industrial.
Goes far beyond BC legislation before June 30 deadline. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre
dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
6 Jun 2024
This is not the "second way" but the only way. The notion that we should have a split system of housing production, where permission to build is governed by planning economy mechanisms but the actual building of housing is governed by market mechanisms, is asking for trouble.
6 Jun 2024
The second way is to become less reliant on planning, forecasting, etc. Perhaps use market-based mechanisms. Say when land prices reach a certain threshold, a process is triggered where cities would then need to expand urban growth boundaries, upzone, etc.
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
15 Apr 2024
We tax housing construction like we tax cigarettes, and we wonder why we’re getting less of it.
Governments can fix this.
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
11 Apr 2024
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23 Mar 2024
I often see more TWSIs in many asian countries than I do back home - not always perfect, but clearly on the mind of road designers
This is something we can do better in Canada 🇨🇦
(📸: Malaysia, Taiwan, & Vietnam)
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23 Mar 2024
Also - TWSIs through crosswalks
Are there any examples of this in North America?
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Scott MacDonald retweeted
21 Mar 2024
In 2016, Auckland, New Zealand upzoned to legalize dense housing developments in most of the city—causing a record construction boom that increased growth & improved affordability
For the US to address its housing crisis, we must learn from New Zealand
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apricitas.io/p/new-zealands-…
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21 Mar 2024
In Asia for a few weeks & of course I'll mostly be taking photos of 🚲
📍Kota Kinabalu, Borneo
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21 Mar 2024
Quick build MUPs, roundabouts with bike lanes, & fully painted bike lanes
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1 Feb 2024
We've been doing some exciting work planning improvements to Burnaby's bike network
Let the City know if you like the designs, and whether there's anything else you'd like to see
31 Jan 2024
Please take a minute to fill in this survey on new proposed bike routes and improvements in Burnaby. There's actually some really exciting stuff proposed!
cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/…
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5 Oct 2023
And high-quality infrastructure is starting to appear, with clearly demand for more 'AAA' facilities
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