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@BrianPecic @mindoverdata @BikeShareTO You realize that there are people with vision and physical limitations that prevent them from operating a car, but do not prevent them from operating something suited for a bikelane, right? What do you expect them to do for the next decade while they wait for your magic car?

@mindoverdata @BikeShareTO In about 10 years or sooner, cycling will be obsolete. We’ll have autonomous small electric vehicles (people movers) for on demand hire or lease in the city core. This will also allow people with vision or physical limitations to get around, currently unavailable by cycling.

There were ~900k @BikeShareTO trips in September, mostly downtown, which only represent ~12% of total trips. That's ~7.5 million bicycle trips. We're now seeing winter ridership numbers similar to summer ridership from 2019. #BikeTO #ONpoli #TOpoli schoolofcities.github.io/bike-share-tor…

@Tainley_Sir @BrentToderian @tvo There is also the bit where neighbourhoods that are highly accessible to bike and transit are typically still reasonably accessible by people who would normally drive. Neighbourhoods that aren't readily accessible by bike and transit don't have access to non-drivers...

@BrentToderian @tvo People prefer neighbourhoods they can walk in to neighbourhoods where they have to compete with the noise/danger of constant auto traffic.

“Over the course of a month, a cyclist or pedestrian will spend 40% more than a motorist. Improvements to the public realm that facilitate pedestrian or cyclist access can increase retail sales by as much as 30%.” Debunking 3 big bike-lane myths, via @TVO tvo.org/article/debunk…

@CBCNews So they're promising to take money that should be going to pay for nurses and such and instead will send it off as a subsidy to enhance profits of people selling homes for less than $1 million?

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging to eliminate the GST on new homes sold for under $1 million if his party wins the next federal election. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

@linda77sa @CTVNewsVI You feel some people should be stripped of one of their fundamental rights just so you don't have to wait as long? Do you also feel like some groups of people should be banned from public so you don't have to wait as long in traffic as well?

@CTVNewsVI Mail in delays results and always will should not have that option

Mail-in ballot figures coming for each B.C. riding, may make election outcome clearer bc.ctvnews.ca/mail-in-ballot…

@DavidZipper @CityLab The only way robotaxis will complement transit is if they are tightly restricted to short journey connector/local traffic, and blocked from running crosstown journeys. Local neighbourhood on demand flex routes have a useful place and can scale. Cross town doesn't.

Robotaxi companies are presenting themselves as transit’s new best friend. Don't fall for it. Cities full of robotaxis would be a disaster for public transportation. Me, in @CityLab bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@JenMsft But honestly I'm more likely to put on pjs and grab the bigger-small screen and go lounge in bed watching random movies till I nod off.

@JenMsft Tiny screen buzzes and alerts me to check the small screen. Small screen tells me I need to go to the medium screen. Trying to do much on the medium screen frustrates me and I eventually go to the array of large screens. And then I can go out to see the big screen...

Looking at my tiny screen To prepare me for my medium screen So I can relax later in front of my big screen

@calmenhancer @kemosite @Michphil1998 @ClimateNate More cars makes driving worse. If you WANT to drive, then it is in your best interest to convince as many other people as you can to NOT drive, and therefore NOT be in YOUR way, or leaving their cars in YOUR parking space near where you want to go. Why do you want things worse?

@calmenhancer @Michphil1998 @kemosite @ClimateNate So it should be a privilege to easily and safely move around one's own community?... And you are fine with that? You don't see that as a fundamental problem?

@Michphil1998 @calmenhancer @kemosite @ClimateNate "If we had the space for 10 cars, why can't we put 20 even larger cars in the same space!" If you value freedom, then you should value investment in the freedom of movement for people outside of a car. Cause not everyone can drive. And freedoms that not everyone gets are?...

@RealLuckless @calmenhancer @kemosite @ClimateNate Weird. We’ve had the space previously for all who wanted to drive. Why don’t we now?

@Michphil1998 @calmenhancer @kemosite @ClimateNate Everyone driving a large car and parking it at work, when large portions of trips could actually be made with smaller vehicles that need less infrastructure and parking, is not practical... The argument isn't that "No one should drive!", it is biking anywhere should be safe...

@RealLuckless @calmenhancer @kemosite @ClimateNate Riding a bike around a city for leisure is one thing but biking to and from work, with a family of 5 and small children or to do groceries just simply is not practical.

@calmenhancer @kemosite @Michphil1998 @ClimateNate I'm not asking for 'everyone to return to pre-industrial life' - For one bikes aren't a pre-industrial item. Neither are trains. And I'm not sure if you've ever sat in urban traffic behind a pile of cars... But they're kind of the opposite of rapid transportation.

@GreatGeoffGiant @taxspendlib @amoralorealis So if I write a piece of software and sell it around the globe, that is a rural resource extraction effort? BC exports far more than just natural resources...

It’s honestly utterly wild to me how many people think rural/exurban communities subsidize urban areas when it’s the complete opposite. Where does this myth even come from?

@BrentToderian I don't shop at Costco because it is three towns over, and at LEAST a 20 minute car drive away. Assuming good traffic, which is increasingly less likely and often randomly becomes over an hour's drive, one way. Or I could walk the 5 minutes to my local supermarket... hard choice

Sigh. See thread. x.com/brenttoderian/…

@TheCromenockle @EricDLombardi Because a bike takes less space and is far faster in urban traffic, and they can move faster and safer when given a protected route. Punishing EVERYONE because selfish people wish to take their luxury private property into dense urban areas is wrong.

How is replacing car lanes with bike lanes going to "clear the way for faster modes of travel"? And I've done both car and train commuting into the city. There's no world in which one is not massively more convenient than the other currently. I'm not opposed to greater transit options, but punishing commuters for taking a car when the transit sucks is just wrong.

Our provincial leadership.

@TheCromenockle @EricDLombardi Do drivers not benefit from having fewer large vehicles clogging the limited road space ahead of them? Are you also claiming that people who do not currently cycle -because there is no routes going where they wish to that they feel safe on- cannot benefit from new cycle lanes?

@EricDLombardi I don't know about that Eric. I'm no fan of government red tape but this would be a textbook example of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs - which would justify govt. intervention

@TheCromenockle @EricDLombardi Commuters don't have access to transit? All those busses and trains headed into the city can't be used by them? The only way to decrease average commute times is to clear the way for faster modes of travel. It is not by allowing individuals to clog streets with a luxury item.

Because the locals have alternative forms of public transit (subways, streetcars, walking) that are similar time-wise to biking. But commuters by and large don't. Their only choice is sit in traffic for longer. One other point I'd make is that what we want to reduce is not traffic congestion per se, but average commute time. If a highway doubles its lanes, congestion may or may not decrease due to increased demand. But commute times almost certainly will which means less time wasted on roads and more time being productive.