Spyke

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ontario

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Brampton removing another stretch of bike lanes amid heated debate

A survey of area residents conducted by Wards 3 and 4 Couns. Dennis Keenan and Martin Medeiros found that 58 per cent of respondents drive on Charolais daily, with 83 per cent of respondents opposing the bike lanes.

So at least 29% of respondents oppose the bike lane on Charolais, despite not driving on Charolais.

Regardless, what are the odds that removing these bike lanes solve traffic?

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canada

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Carney pledges $2B for Ukraine, sanctions for Russian 'shadow fleet' as war enters 5th year

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Pretty big ROI for the people actually.

  1. Proxy war is better than a war on our own soil. While the straight conflict is one part; Russia is also fantastic at information operations, and those are greatly subdued here due to that federations current conflict.

  2. All the donated vehicles are Canadian produced, so we get a subsidy for the vehicle industry (might of heard some issues around that regarding a trade war) and defense industry (a good strategic asset to have).

  3. The Operation Unifier mission training Ukrainian soldiers also allows our soldiers to learn from Ukrainians, keeping them up to date on the latest tactics of the war.

  4. With the current rumblings from another one of our neighbours, Canada has a pretty fucking huge interest in supporting a rule of law, over might makes right, international order.

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fuckcars

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Bike share: Paris has made space for cyclists in a way that I simply have not seen in any other city

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Most bike-friendly cities I've visited in the last ten years fall into two categories: 1) a comprehensive network that's been intentionally incorporated into the infrastructure across decades, or 2) quick-and-dirty changes that work really well on some streets with a comprehensive network to be desired. Paris has built a comprehensive network with mostly quick-and-dirty changes in less than ten years. And it's obvious just riding around that these changes continue to iterate. I was most delighted to track how the striping below my feet had been scraped and relocated as evidence that the bike lanes had been expanded. It's a work in progress, and that progress is working.

I felt that paragraph adressed it pretty clearly. It's not that Paris is doing better than X Netherland city. It's that Paris is tackling the problem with a quick and dirty, but still comprehensive, network. An approach that can be modelled in other cities, even without decades of working towards the goal.

An approach that has inspired me to delegate in my own city as a way to get after this.

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solarpunk

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Electric buses are passing a brutal cold-weather test in Wisconsin

With transportation accounting for roughly 28 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, transit agencies...

28% of emissions are in the transportation sector, but busses are part of the 2% of the transportation sector that doesn't get it's own category. Or <0.5% overall.

emissions in 2022 were light-duty trucks, which include sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and minivans (37%); medium- and heavy-duty trucks (23%); passenger cars (20%); commercial aircraft (7%); other aircraft (2%); pipelines (4%); ships and boats (3%); and rail (2%).

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/transportation-sector-emissions

I'm not saying electrifying busses isn't good. It definitely is. Especially for local air quality. But as a priority, it's pretty low down.

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