Kat Stephen

Don’t drive on Halloween. Let the kids have a night.

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Shocking news, protected bike lanes result in more people riding to work share.google/8asAE1wmfyV8...

YES to Canada and NO to the rest. Thanks to everyone who’s fighting for Canada, and a special thanks to the Alberta Federation of Labour for rallying people together. 🇨🇦

Paris is showing how to make cities healthier and more child-friendly. More than 300 school streets are now car-free and give space to trees, play, and safe walking/cycling. The aim goes far beyond traffic safety: cleaner air, less noise, and more independence for children.

#TOPoli a sign for the times

While homelessness has increased across the province by more than 20% in recent years, the Chow administration has overseen an 8% reduction here in Toronto. And encampments have been reduced significantly too. No one should accept this as success. But it’s progress to build on.

Here is what Ford wants to rip out. In a city stuck in debilitating gridlock, nothing better than removing bike lanes and getting more people driving. 🙌🙌

It’s actually happening. Ford is set to rip the Bloor bike lane out tomorrow. Lets get every person on a bike in the GTA out for this. Tuesday Oct 13th. 5pm. Tom Riley Park

Time to show up Toronto bike friends. Be loud and demand this safe street infrastructure remain. The cost in lives is too much not to mention the 48M$ price tag. No improvement to traffic flow is the other outcome…so why do it? For votes. For perception by the Ford fan base. Urban vs suburban

Hey Vancouver friends, PLEASE sign this petition to save the traffic calming that has made my neighbourhood much safer for my kids and everyone else walking and rolling through it. It’s under attack by a vocal minority with the ear of the media and 2 municipal parties (TEAM and ABC, fyi). 1/

Drivers drivers a little extra this morning. So many no-look, no-stop, red light, right on red with no stop. I look at my fellow human on a bike at a light wondering if they were feeling the same vibe…

What a great thing for kids to help keep them safe from cars (drivers) on the most dangerous night of the year. I’d support this and other measures from our municipal government. @lucymaloney.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social

Please don’t assume anything, Alberta. Vote against the Russian and American-fuelled separation self-sabotage. Send a strong message to the rest of Canada that we’re in this together. Foreign actors want you to vote for your own Brexit or Trump… or to help them win by just staying home.

👻 Ya know what’s scary? You not voting in the upcoming elections! Listen to the little birdies & Hovercar — register to #vote at @votedotorg.bsky.social & make a plan to #VoteEarly. 🗳️ #VotingIsPunk

Loving the new pedestrian scramble at Broadway and Cambie. Longer crossing times. Less right on red danger. The reductions in lanes seems to have reached an equilibrium with traffic flow in pre Broadway line construction times. do we need all these lanes? Maybe we close some permanently.

I’d like to know which mayoral candidates / parties commit to bringing back our lost cultural events (like All Souls Nights) that were axed under the current council @ptfry.bsky.social @rebeccaleebligh.bsky.social @kareem42.bsky.social @colleenhardwick.bsky.social

One of the big lies that the foreign disinformation campaign targeting the Alberta Separation movement spreads is the claim that a yes-vote doesnt really mean separation, it just provides a stronger negotiation position within Federation. Tell that to the people who regret voting for Brexit.

Urbanist Philomena Cunk. Town planners are pushing a controversial new idea called the "15-minute city". It’s a terrifying dystopian nightmare where everything you need, like your office, the pub, the shop that sells the little plastic bags for dog poo, is only fifteen minutes away.

Can we regulate “soft close” hardware on all new toilet seats going forward? Too much government?

Speeding doesn't actually save you meaningful time. All it really accomplishes is aggressively increasing the chances that you kill yourself or someone else outside your vehicle. It's a mathematically flawed, entirely selfish risk.

I’m kind of over automated enforcement of speed zones… all this talk of speed limiters on scooters and ebikes; let’s put limiters on cars and trucks. Drivers cannot be trusted

The idea of a war on cars is comparable to that of the perpetrator who claims to be victim... 🤥

"He said that I’m disrespecting Jesus. You want to know what actually disrespects Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran, and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war." PLEASE WATCH AND SHARE!

This is my neighbourhood & this reporting is lousy - as are the people leading these efforts. The traffic calming here was well-advertised, involved extensive consultation, and does not barricade anyone in their own neighbourhood. It has made the area much safer for people walking and rolling. 1/

The walk to school is often a child's first step towards independence & it should be a safe one. School's back Sept. 8, so slow down in school zones & watch for kids. With ICBC & local communities, we're making streets around schools safer for kids, one crossing at a time. @lisabeare.bsky.social

To have any chance at all of dealing with climate overshoot past 1.5 C in a timely way, we must cut CO2 emissions AND make extremely deep cuts to methane. But people are sometimes surprised to learn that most of our methane emissions come from the food system. drawdown.org/insights/we-...

One of the frustrating parts about the climate crisis is that the solutions can seem out of reach. However many are low tech and relatively simple changes to the way we grow food or deal with waste and compost for example. Check out these folks for solutions if you are tired of feeling powerless.

IMPORTANT: If you support how GRANVILLE STREET in downtown Vancouver was transformed this summer into a PEDESTRIAN STREET & PEOPLE-PLACE, THEN TELL CITY HALL! They have a short survey below going on until Monday Sept 7th asking how u felt about it. The survey will be open until Monday September 7th!

In a real country with real debate this would have been covered in English media. #cdnpoli

Your friendly reminder that SLPS schools start on Monday! Lots of kids walking to bus stops and and ever growing number biking. Let’s all slow our roll and give the kids some extra space.

Oakland is the latest city to show that speed safety cameras really do save lives: “The number of motorists going at least 11 mph over the speed limit fell by 70% at 18 locations since automated speed enforcement cameras went up.”

This raised intersection is @leniann.bsky.social’s magnum opus I watched multiple families on their way to the park cross here, and drivers fully complied with the law. Something shockingly rare at stop signs.

Morning commute on a bike lane that Doug Ford wants to rip out. 21 bikes and 4 cars clearing an intersection in 23 seconds. Which mode fights congestion?

Confined Animal Feedlots—factory farms—are an U.S. invention. Let’s gigantisize them. Nebraska is building the nation’s largest feedlot for 200,000 beef cattle on a one mile slab of concrete. Water depletion. Pollution. Disease outbreaks. Cruelty. Grotesque insideclimatenews.org/news/0908202...

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

Just left Metric, Broken Social Scene and Stars! What a show at the amphitheater in Toronto. A 100% Toronto band experience. Loved it so much. So real and local.

Heads up Toronto fams. This isn’t over until it’s over. They will try again and again. Keep up the good fight!

RIP Louisa Gag, a transit planner who dedicated her career to making Boston’s streets safer for cyclists & pedestrians. She was killed while biking to work on July 9, 2026. Street safety improvements shouldn’t be delayed, watered down, or treated as a political inconvenience. Safe streets now!!

Take a breath and zoom in…

Hello everyone, I have deleted the missing person posting of a few days ago. She is back safe with her family and friends. Thank you for bringing attention to this and especially to the search and rescue volunteers, RCMP and the Shambala organizers. ❤️

“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...

BC friends and family in the Kootenays. Did you or your friends attend Shambala? please take note. Check in with your people. Did you see Kayla? Please contact the RCMP with any information