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Maybe they thought that giving away a bunch of studded tires absolves them from any responsibility of fully clearing the routes. Honestly when it was -20, I actually quite enjoyed the 4-5 metre packed snow MUPs they cleared along the river valley, but the packed snow has become liabilties now...

I've been really fortunate most of my commuting paths have been cleared all winter, but I wanted to ride the river valley yesterday and was shocked by how poor those MUPs are. I was met with slush at the bottom of MacKinnon Ravine that I was wrestling to slow down my bike but at the same time...

There were more holes in the original turnstiles than the current Oilers goaltending situation.

The 99 was a bare minimum rapidbus implementation. Curb bus lanes in the peak hour direction that allowed parking otherwise, no special stops, no prioritization at major intersections, when you compare the time it takes for the 9 and 99 to get from UBC to Commercial-Broadway leaving at 4:20 and...

I am looking forward to riding to Fort Sask this fall.

There are MUPs along the arterials, through parks, utility corridors, and around storm retention ponds, and I would feel safe having my kids ride down most quiet residential streets, but the residential collectors should arguably have MUPs at minimum if not separate bike lanes, which is what...

The one wood structure building that was at five storeys last photo is now topped at the 6th floor with a roof. That's the only significant change since the last photos. I expect things to really get going again when the weather warms up.

Happy Winter BIke to Work Day! Did anyone else make it to Garneau Lamp this morning? There were over a dozen cyclists at the lamp this morning and a couple dozen more I passed by on High Level Bridge.

The Maryland CAF trains look intriguing. 43m long = three of them would be 129m long and all the doors would fit within our platforms. Two trains for normal service, one train for late night/weekend service, and three trains for event/maintenance service.

Is it the land developers or the city through property levies that are responsible to build that initial road network? I disagree that there would be little demand. Even if most of their tasks have to be done by car, people love to walk and cycle around neighbourhoods evenings and weekends...

Also in the process of purchasing an electric vehicle although we will not make tonight's deadline to register without the EV tax. I don't dislike having to pay my share for road maintenance, but rather the flat rate model. But the flat rate is probably the least costly to administer. They could...

Why are we allowing new subdivisions to be built to the minimum standard roadway and sidewalk designs without much thought for multi modal transportation? That should be a bare minimum. Want to sprawl? Fine, but we expect the same level of design as our renewed suburban neighbourhoods.

Honestly other than EllisDon being involved, I thought this thread was just going to die off as quickly as it came. Strong support for HSR in Alberta not only by Albertans but also a conservative government was certainly not on my bingo card.

You know when sleazy car dealers manage to sell something their customer did not want to buy? This happened yesterday. It's easy to say the city could've walked away from LRT, but this was a clear lose-lose situation...

Sent a 311 report to the city asking if it was appropriate for city staff when asked nicely if they could park their vehicle to the side of bike lane to sarcastically respond "Yea ok." One of them gave me a hand gesture of some sort when they noticed me taking this photo for documentation purposes.

Vancouver also took 3 years. Toronto took 16 years, just like Eglinton-Crosstown LRT.

97 Street between Jasper Ave and 102 Ave was the original Chinatown. Unfortunately circumstances occurred 50 years ago that lead to the two distinctive Chinatowns, but for the remaining businesses as well as the three elderly Chinese apartment buildings on 102 Ave, it would be nice to see...

I'm going to have to disagree with Can-BICS on classified bikeways as high comfort and MUPs as medium comfort, it should be the other way around. Even in Metro Vancouver where the author of the classification system lives, those bike ways are nice and good for adults and older kids who have some...

It was very pretty out this morning. I was expecting the snow to be wet, heavy, and difficult to ride through, but my tires just sliced through it.

There were bad drifts to the NW, I opted to only partially ride Wednesday and yesterday to avoid them. Rode on Hermitage Rd this morning, the frozen slush windrows at the bus stops were the biggest hazards. I was happy seeing at least 10 other bike tire tracks on Hermitage. It's the matter of...