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Royal Bay in Colwood, BC comes to mind as an example of a developer that tried to do bike-friendly (and generally much nicer) sprawl and (imo) mostly succeeded

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social

It’s crazy how, even if you are all in on the suburban lifestyle. There is apparently no appetite among greenfield devs for even modestly human centered design. No street trees? No street grids? No walking paths/green belts? No bike lanes? Nothing? The same exact topography from a century ago?

3/8/26, 8:40 pm1 repost10 likes

Mark (he/him)

@markedwardson.com

3 Aug

likewise, despite its reputation amongst urbanism circles as sprawl-hell, Calgary's trail network is genuinely quite impressive and continues to get built out alongside new subdivisions (dark blue = trails/protected bike lanes)

Ian

@idmb.bsky.social

4 Aug

The map doesn’t really show you how they often intersect an arterial road with no safe way to cross 😅

Mark (he/him)

@markedwardson.com

4 Aug

Look, we're grading on a curve here (but also I'm impressed at the extent that Calgary _does_ have grade-separated crossings for their trails?)

Mark (he/him)

@markedwardson.com

4 Aug

Like I used to work in the area north of Vista Heights and was struck by how this relatively obscure industrial area still had a dedicated ped/bike overpass crossing Deerfoot...