David Colburn

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Les pistes protégées sauvent des vies et mieux encore, encouragent les déplacements en vélo. Les chevrons et les pistes peintes ne sont, elles, rien de plus que des bandes dessinées.

(They meant "flouting.")

First bike lane removal truck blocked.

Toronto cyclists seek Supreme Court appeal against bike lane removal Cycle Toronto and Ecojustice are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a lower court ruling that upheld Ontario's plan to remove bike lanes. Construction to remove lanes on Bloor Street West began Tuesday night.

What’s different about Danforth? It’s not part of Dougie’s commute to work from “Ford Nation” to Queen’s Park.

this is extremely disheartening news especially the "tried to cover it up" part if you were a capitalist company, out to make all the money you possibly can, would you do anything different to customers in a country you're in a trade war with?

“Sure, it could wipe out humanity, but what’s the recurring revenue model?”

"There are real tensions between cyclists, motorists & pedestrians sharing the road, but Montrealers believe traffic-calming measures, bike lanes, speed humps & curb extensions can improve safety for all road users." True in every city! t.ly/GL1Qz

Do I need a commuter workhorse bike? No. But, boy oh boy, these are all tempting.

See you next week Dublin! Still can’t believe it sold out and moved to a bigger venue - absolutely wild.

Some thoughts: -Toronto crime is down -Toronto homelessness is down -Cops don't solve crime -Union Station is fine -It's FINE -Jesus Christ -Why is everything about cops with this dude -Stop trying to scare your way into office -Please don't elect this fucking guy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The invention of Jaywalking via Hannah Fry #WarOnWalking youtube.com/shorts/6W_s3...

Hey Doug Ford, about the bike lanes…

👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

Critical Mass This Friday.

hey #bikesky! I built an app that makes running a bike valet easier! a simple web app that sends SMS to riders instead of a clipboard and a roll of raffle tickets. i’m doing this just for fun, so share with your local bike group and DM if they’d be interested in trying it out for free!

Toronto, rise up.

WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner from December 2024 in Toronto over the Gardiner Expressway. 📸 @martinreis.bsky.social

Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”

Cops parked in the bike lane directly in front of a Tim Hortons truck parked in the bike lane is the chef's kiss of policing in Toronto. Spoiler - the cops were not ticketing the doughnut & coffee supply truck. #BikeTO

Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

It’s a good day when you get to bicycle. It’s a great start to the day when the first news item that catches your eye is this one in the Guardian on creating cycling gender parity in Bogata. TLDR: build infrastructure, give lessons and encouragement. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵

The topic needs way more attention and the starving of our public health system needs to stop.

“Not vaccinating your kid is like saying, ‘I don’t want my car to have brakes,’” said Dr. Mark Roberts of the Public Health Dynamics Lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. “Because it’s other people that you can hit. It’s not just you in your car. It’s other people.”

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

I dined on delicious homemade vegan lentil curry tonight. But I would also happily eat the rich.

If police are permitted to roll stop signs when it's safe to do so, they shouldn't be ticketing cyclists doing the same in High Park on the MGT or anywhere... Video taken on Monday.

One of the biggest joy-killers of US cycling infrastructure is how narrow it is. Forcing everyone into a single-file line ruins the experience. Cycling is social, and our paths need to be wide enough to actually enable that.

Agree

Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.

Here’s a SERIOUS question. What if our property tax system was actually fair, and was based on public costs actually incurred to support housing? What if low density housing had to pay its way, rather than being subsidized by responsible infill housing? What if we stopped incentivizing sprawl?

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Bike lanes are good for gender equity.

here's today's post: "James Talarico is a boss" — and Ken Paxton fucking sucks. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Want to show your support for the cancelled Eglinton Complete Street? @cycletoronto.bsky.social will be hosting a Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux on Tuesday, June 2 (6 PM) at Eglinton and Holly. Please spread the word. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.cycleto.ca/rally_for_eg...

ATTENTION: If you speak English and can parse—or find news in—“closing in on a framework for negotiations that could extend the ceasefire, lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and set the table for more substantive talks,” please call the NYT because they’ve no idea Should move markets tho

Do you know why there is a speed bump? Because drivers can't help but drive dangerously next to this elementary school Do you know why there are flex posts next to the speed bump? Because drivers would avoid the speed bump and use the bike lane to continue their dangerous driving

Separated bike lanes = 44% FEWER DEATHS

Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

NEW: The One-Hour City Conspiracy! “Here's the REAL conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, crashes, noise, air pollution, social isolation —& less space for everything our streets should be giving us.” Thanks @usa.streetsblog.org #1HourCityConspiracy