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Trackless trams?

The up-front cost to government is ~$21,000 lower per [infill] home than building homes at the outer edge of cities and towns. Can someone explain like I'm 5 why govts are so resistant to infill at places like Nanaimo Stn, but it's so easy to build infra for sprawl in Coquitlam, Langley, etc?

There (mostly) shouldn't be special charges on new developments. That's what property taxes are for. "The stuff getting developed doesn't generate enough in property taxes to cover its infrastructure costs" Your tax system and/or land use is... Incorrect.

Galloping Goose and Lochside trails are about to get wider! Construction starts this summer/fall. More about the project, to be discussed at our CRD meeting tomorrow: davethompsonvictoria.ca/regional-tra.... #yyj #safety #yyjbike

This city is best experienced on a bike

This is one of the biggest transit delay spots in the network, so make your voice heard and tell Saanich staff you want no delay for buses! hello.saanich.ca/.../interurb... #yyj #BCTransit

Did Canada’s 10¢/L cut to gas tax really lower gas prices? Earlier in April, gas averaged 69¢/L more in 🇨🇦 than 🇺🇸. After the cut (April 20th), prices immediately dropped about 10¢ relative to 🇺🇸! But then started trending back up again. Prices today are only 3¢ lower than before the cut.

If only we had electeds here who would fight for bus lanes too. Fun fact, several buses in Victoria (including the 26!) carry more daily ridership than the Route 8 in Seattle, but apparently bus lanes on McKenzie are a crime against humanity that must never be allowed to happen.

Is housing demand fake? Absolutely not, writes Will Dawson #bcpoli #housing #yyj #vanpoli

The same spot, 7 months apart.

Just another day at the office.

Good to see safety improvements throughout the region. victoriabuzz.com/2026/02/esqu... #yyj #safety

We are increasingly building an inside-out metro, where dense housing is located further away. This is very much an outcome of calcified, inflexible zoning, not market forces. It means longer commutes, more congestion, higher taxes for more roads, & higher emissions. Now... 3/4

🎵Guess who's back, back again? QMP's back, tell a friend!🎵 Saanich votes Jan 19 on the Quadra–McKenzie Plan. Transit riders need faster, reliable buses now. Speak up: email council@saanich.ca or attend the meeting. Don’t let a small minority stall progress for thousands of daily riders.

A surreal sight... #SkyTrain's retired Mark I cars being torn apart and dismantled at a recycling scrapyard. It marks the start of the end for the original fleet. While some will be repurposed, most of the 150 cars will not. #TransLink #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/sk...

One of my biggest takeaways from living in Tokyo was that the city is incredible in spite of the fact that 95% of the architecture is unremarkable. It makes the years-long design review process for a single apartment building in the U.S. seem all the more frivolous.

These improvements can't come soon enough

Victoria, with a population centre of 363,000 people and 100,000 average daily boardings comes in at 0.275 boardings per capita.

Racing the Millennium Line

When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com

US building codes requiring two stairs in multifamily buildings: not only worse living environments, but also more dangerous in fires! What a combination.

"There is growing evidence of an “optimism bias” regarding the attainable performance of tramways or other transit services operating in “type B” right-of-way, pushed by an ill-informed idea diffused in political and planning circles that type B right-of-way and ...

Read this to understand how Victoria's transit system is at risk of going backwards on the things that riders value the most bettercolumbia.ca/2025/12/02/f...

Minimum parking requirements create financially insolvent land use patterns. The two apartment buildings on the right generate six times more in property taxes than the big box store on the left, while occupying almost half the space! #BlackFridayParking

This is our first video from Colwood, BC. We ride along a protected bike lane and raised cycle track that connect to a multi-use pathway. We'll post more videos of Colwood in the future. #yyjbike #bikesky #ColwoodBC www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsZk...