And NO THANKS to Harper, Chambers, Brownoff, Westhaver and Brice, who should all hang their heads in shame for acting like the regressive politicians they are.
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And NO THANKS to Harper, Chambers, Brownoff, Westhaver and Brice, who should all hang their heads in shame for acting like the regressive politicians they are.
You know, the side-street-first types aren't even prepared to change stop signs to yield signs and/or create roundabouts and/or put stop signs on the traversing roads not on the "bike route". And they seem to think that, like flying cars, bikes can fly over gaps where the side streets don't connect
I have been watching these people online. Thank you to those supporting the amendment to delete the cut. I will NOT be voting for Brownoff, Brice, Chambers, Westhaver or Harper next fall. At this point, nothing will persuade me otherwise.
I would not recommend betting on the proposition that Saanich Council will do the right thing on Thursday. It will be interesting to see which Councilors vote which way.
Nothing irritates me more than "I am a cyclist too" preambles to rants against building new cycling lanes. Maybe I should preface everything I say about de-prioritizing cars with "I am a car owner too".
Karen Harper appears to be running for the mayor's position in Saanich. Probably not good news for cyclists or active transportation advocates: as best as I know, she's a Frank Leonard style keep the taxes low (as opposed to "we need to spend on infrastructure") type.
I don't think that the Democrats can undo the mess, even if they win Pres + gerrymandered House + unequal Senate in '28. They can ameliorate things a bit, but a) USA will remain a madhouse b) with permanent structural economic damage done by the Orange infant and c) with devastating inequality.
Yeah, you won't see me vacationing in the US over the next 4 years. Maybe longer. I'm not even going to book flights with connections at a US airport.
An absolute anti-bike-lane and anti-bike rant today on Save Our Saanich Facebook page, which somehow I get postings to (not sure how this happened). Including the usual call to have cyclists pay as much for insurance as car drivers do. Geez, SOS types: you WON by defeating the QMP. Sore winners?
Victoria: great planning to create a comprehensive cycling network. Saanich: scattered "when roads need fixing & when adding cycling infrastructure is cheap we'll add it" scattered disconnected bits made better by the CRD's Lochside & Goose trails (a regional NOT a Saanich effort).
The Save Our Saanich group opposes a new development on Chatterton. The claim that the development will "destroy", "undermine decades of conservation work" and "permanently damage" Rithet's Bog Cons Area (presumably its sensitive ecosystems) is such total BS that it makes me want to gag.
Tax 'em! Escalating scale starting at $100/cm/year above ground and as they get into the "pedestrian killing danger zone" make that $1,500/cm/year. Name of this new tax: "the idiot tax" or "the a-hole tax".
Most interesting part is what they did to one-way streets. Bikes share the road in the one-way direction but there's a special separated bike lane in for cyclists wanting to travel against the direction of one-way travel.
I'm not convinced that the Y-axis value will relapse back to close to zero in the case of the Quadra-McKenzie plan and the Save Our Saanich crew. I hope I am proven wrong.
Good people sometimes do bad things. Bad people sometimes do good things. My overall assessment of how a corporation's owner behaves when it comes to business dealings with bad actors (e.g. ICE) IS "in my lane". How we act as consumers is not a pure "apolitical" act.
Time for a pickup truck licensing surcharge to reflect how dangerous these vehicles are to pedestrians and cyclist. I might exempt Euro-style small trucks (of which there are, sadly, very few in Canada)
Great rail trail, not sure if it is contiguous. Sad because it was the world's longest electrified RR at one point, broken up late the last century due to the efforts of the then equivalent to today's private equity plunderers to maximize profits by not reinfesting in capital infrastructure.
..... So the Saanich ATP is now just a bad joke. Can't be taken seriously. Couldn't have been much worse if it had been written by the Save Our Saanich crazies.
2018 "award winning" Saanich ATP: bit anemic, pushing real progress 15+ years into future but not terrible. 2023 update: moved 5 year timelines to 7 years, only did "easy stuff" (read: inexpensive). Council present. last year: we're going to take much longer. Now 2028 update pushed back to 2029.
.. and why did BC cancel its carbon tax ... just because the feds cancelled the carbon-tax-or-alternative requirement it imposed on provinces?
While I'm generally in support of the use of bike lanes by scooters and wheelchairs, where the bike lane is uni-directional and too narrow for passing, I'm concerned when a 7km/h wheelchair blocks the lane... sidewalk if available might be a more appropriate route. Faster wheelchairs, scooters: OK.
Hello, Saanich. Please examine this map carefully. Yes, Saanich is more spread out and we can't expect the same density of bike infrastructure as C of Victoria. But we should at least be able to expect the same # of kilometers given that your tax base is roughly the same.
Gee, Mark, do you really think this is going to make me more likely to vote Liberal in the next election? Dream on.
Somehow, SOS, hereinafter referred to as ABN (the anti-bike Nazis), had its feed landing on my infrequently-visited Facebook page. Argued cars bumper to bumper but I didn't see any bikes (presumably on the Goose paralleling the TCH). Brace yourself for more from this group.
Contractors seem to think blocking pedestrians & bikes is not the same as blocking motor vehicle traffic: nothing wrong with holding up bike lanes for long periods (witness the Lochside trail blockage), discontinuing sidewalks, etc. Municipal engineering departments need to be "on this".
SOS Sure, there are sometimes points to be made regarding poorly designed development projects & there are instances where small compromises will mitigate the negative impact of developments on existing nbrhoods, but by an large SOS is merely anti -all-development (&worse: anti-bike too) . 2/2
Thank you so much Amber Wright for articulating what many of us think: the Save Our Saanich bozo brigade is largely a bunch of self-interested narrow-minded entitled a-holes who are incapable of listening to rational argumentation. 1/2
After publishing all sorts of "news" articles articulating the Save Our Saanich anti-development anti-bike cut-taxes & screw the idea of better public services view and then SOS opinion pieces we finally see an anti-SOS opinion piece in Saanich News Today. BUT they invited SOS to publish a "reply".
Dear car & truck drivers: please note that the 1 metre rule (you must give cyclists 1 metre when you pass) applies equally to cyclists in painted-line-only bike lanes. Please at least have the courtesy of slowing down to pass if you break this law.
