The world keeps turning, even if I have been crazy busy with various non-bike relating things. So I present a grab-bag of fun links and commentary on news stories: Packed in like sardines. It is a cliche and yet our buses (and public transit across the world) often feel more like a can of fish [...]
Posts under ‘Walking’
“Winning” at the expense of pedestrians
This week the biking community “won” a pair of battles to add bike infrastructure in a pair of cities. But what did they really win? First, let’s look at Toronto: The 5-lane Jarvis Street is being redeveloped to make it more pedestrian and bicycle friendly. Sadly, rather than do the right thing and remove two [...]
Pictures and notes from the East Saanich Rd. open house
I had heard the rumours of bike lanes and sidewalks on East Saanich Rd., so when I learnt that North Saanich was hosting an open house to display the plans, I decided to check it out. The open house took place over three hours in room just off the lobby in the Panorama Rec. Centre. [...]
Rainbows & Raindrops from the community fair
At the Community Fair yesterday we put out two piece of bristol board, sticky notes and pens and then we asked people who came by to tell us about biking in Oak Bay, both what they loved and what they would like to see changed or disliked. We got some great feedback, as I have [...]
Jaywalking and pedestrian space
There is a minor little stink going on in downtown Victoria over a recent crackdown on jaywalking. The Downtown Victoria Business Association is quite annoyed, feeling it will drive people out of downtown. Jack Knox quite correctly points out that ICBC, who funds this work, and the writing of tickets themselves makes lots of money [...]
Cars kill 300 year old tree
Another piece of Oak Bay’s urban forest was lost this week. A large Garry Oak in the 500 block of Victoria Avenue was removed because it was diseased and thus was a potential risk to falling over. Given it was around 300 years old, age does tend to catch up to even the best of [...]
TC’s special on Rebuilding Canada
The Times Colonist (and presumably the whole Canwest newspaper chain) has a special entitled “Rebuilding Canada”. That they are running such a piece now isn’t really a surprise, given the massive number of stories talking about an “infrastructure stimulus“. What really gets me is the focus on rebuilding and adding new roads. One of the [...]
Silly pedestrian, sidewalks are for cars!
Today while walking back from Camosun, I saw no less than three trucks parked on the sidewalk. Frustrating. This looks like a contractors truck, given the construction in the house right at this location. This Cadillac Escalade is owned by somebody who lives here. I see this car here nearly everyday, usually parked on the [...]
