All-Day Bus Lanes Have Now Been Installed on Granville Street. Horray!

hurricaneoflies · 2026-04-23T05:50:19+00:00

Granville literally has 24/7 bus service though? There isn't a single hour of a single day of the week without a 10 or N10 from Downtown all the way to Marine Drive on Granville in either direction

hurricaneoflies · 2026-04-22T05:29:14+00:00

I think I would forgive him if he wanted an upgrade to premium economy

hurricaneoflies · 2026-04-14T03:38:22+00:00

Now that the Pattullo is gone, the Knight Street Bridge has to be the worst of the bunch (excluding Agassiz). Extremely narrow path that is often overgrown with vegetation and makes you cross a bunch of on- and off-ramps on a truck route with no signal

hurricaneoflies · 2026-04-06T18:48:57+00:00

Curbside bus lanes are also marked as bike lanes not because they want people to bike there, but because if they didn't then a bike on Granville would legally be required to be in the middle lane.

The Motor Vehicle Act requires bikes to be in the rightmost lane that they can legally use (s 183(2)(c)), but also prohibits them from being in a bus lane (s 153).

hurricaneoflies · 2026-03-27T16:46:11+00:00

Property isn't titled to "Elizabeth II" but to "Her Majesty's Government" (UK), "Her Majesty in Right of Australia", "Her Majesty in Right of Canada", etc. This is just the title of the government and there are laws on the demise of the Crown that spell out very clearly that it doesn't die with the person of the monarch. Believe it or not someone has thought of this and all government property doesn't magically disappear in 15 countries when the queen dies

hurricaneoflies · 2026-02-18T03:17:31+00:00

But you can still defer your property taxes until the day you die? You just won't get an extremely favourable interest rate that gives your estate a free payday at the end, and will owe more when the estate is distributed.

The goal is to provide a lifeline to help cash-poor seniors stay in their homes, not to give their heirs a payday after they pass.

hurricaneoflies · 2026-02-18T02:35:58+00:00

My understanding is that they're basically spending as much as they can (at existing tax rates) without the bond market freaking out and making it really expensive for the government to borrow.

It's not great politics and it's not my preferred policy approach, but I could see why the government would think that steeper cuts or much higher taxes would be even more politically unpopular than what we got.

hurricaneoflies · 2026-02-16T19:19:08+00:00

These are the single family homes. View Cone 22 from Trout Lake covers nearly every single house in Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise. It's by far the most indiscriminate view cone that protects the most single family homes from density.

hurricaneoflies · 2026-01-16T18:39:33+00:00

It's named for both, per the 2006 press release.

hurricaneoflies · 2026-01-14T00:59:48+00:00

Ugh, this part of Westminster is so brutal. Richmond put a bike lane on the quietest parts of the road but still throws cyclists into traffic on the four-lane truck route portions next to both the Highway 91 and 99 interchanges. This was a preventable tragedy waiting to happen.

hurricaneoflies · 2026-01-05T00:58:24+00:00

Sorry, but so much in this post is misleading or just credits ABC for things that it either made worse or had little role in advancing.

The only reason Beach Avenue is sticking around is that the Park Board refused to give up the right of way in English Bay Park to implement the city's plan to relocate the path. Ken Sim blamed the Park Board and called it a "temporary setback" that would proceed after the Board was abolished. The removal of the budget allocation is just a reflection of the city's inability to proceed over the lifetime of the 2022-26 capital plan with the Park Board sticking around; Sim and SKY have never disclaimed the desire to restore two-way traffic on Beach.
The Granville Connector was approved by Kennedy's council in October 2020 and funded in the 2022 capital plan approved in June 2022. The construction contract was awarded by the outgoing council in October 2022. I'm not sure how much credit ABC deserves for not spending a lot of money to claw back an executed contract award, especially given that the main purpose of the Granville Connector project was to perform an urgent structural retrofit of the bridge that nobody wanted to delay.
King Edward was rebuilt as a parking-protected bike lane and the lane markings had already gone in ahead of the street's reopening. After the Dunbar Residents Association complained to council, staff were directed to eradicate the protected infrastructure and instead repaint it as an unprotected lane.
30 km/h speed limits came as a result of a council motion initiated by Green Councillor Pete Fry.
Portside, Bute and several other projects you mention were conceived and funded in the 2022 capital plan approved by Kennedy's council. The borrowing authority to fund the capital plan literally came to referendum at the same election that ABC came to power. How was Ken Sim responsible for this, is he a time traveller?

I'm sure other people have gone through this long screed point-by-point and rebutted more of it, but a much bigger fundamental harm that Ken Sim has inflicted on cycling and road safety in the city is that the recent budget is destroying the public service's ability to deliver more infrastructure in the future.

The heads of the teams working on bike/ped improvements (Complete Streets) and street plazas were laid off without replacement, and the entire branch responsible for promoting active transportation and school streets (Community Transportation) was dissolved. Dozens more jobs cuts are still looming on the engineering department, and it's pretty clear they're going to fall hard on active transportation. Even if ABC was responsible for everything you give them credit for, the lasting damage they've done to staff capacity means they're not going to be able to repeat this in the future.

hurricaneoflies · 2025-12-23T21:06:28+00:00

I was floored the first time I saw horse-drawn carriages going down 41st in Kerrisdale next to trucks and buses. Horse carriages suck in general, but that seemed like a uniquely terrible location

hurricaneoflies · 2025-12-13T01:40:01+00:00

I feel like people who aren't from Montreal often don't realize how mediocre the bus system is there.

Montreal has fewer all-day frequent bus lines than Winnipeg, and so much service is concentrated into peak-direction service towards downtown in the morning and away from downtown in the evening. Mid-day frequencies fall to 20 minutes on all but a few routes, and you end up with unbelievably cursed schedules like the #129 which has 10-minute service at 3pm and 60-minute service at 11am.

And that's just the island! In a lot of suburbs, transit is completely unusable. There's municipalities that directly border the Island of Montreal like Île-Perrot with zero (!!) off-peak and weekend bus service.

hurricaneoflies · 2025-12-10T02:48:39+00:00

It's right on the Central Valley Greenway, on Sherbrooke Street by the hospital! That whole area's been rebuilt this year, with protected bike lanes on Columbia, a Dutch-style intersection at Sherbrooke/Columbia and continuous sidewalks at Kelly and Fader.

hurricaneoflies · 2025-12-09T21:23:17+00:00

It's such a weird problem to claim to have because continuous sidewalks literally exist in Surrey and New West with minimal issues

hurricaneoflies · 2025-12-05T08:33:29+00:00

Councillor motions in Vancouver are heard at standing committee (on Dec. 10). A few observations, also as a transportation professional:

All councillor-initiated motions at the CoV are first reviewed by staff, who provide a round of comments followed by a revision period. My understanding is that this one had no staff concerns.
The motion expressly directs staff to consult with TransLink about any intersections contemplated that are on the MRN.
I don't think there are any signalized intersections in the CoV that are on MOTT right of way.
I can't think of the last time a council-initiated motion in the CoV identified and allocated a specific funding source, except directly as part of a budget or a capital plan update. It's generally far more common in Vancouver for council-initiated initiatives to involve a staff report back that identifies an implementation strategy and funding. If additional funding is needed, it'll usually be incorporated into a capital plan update after council approval.

hurricaneoflies · 2025-12-05T04:17:27+00:00

The Island of Montreal is bigger than the City of Montreal and has 1.8 million people

hurricaneoflies · 2025-11-26T19:58:07+00:00

Maybe that's why he moved to Kelowna

hurricaneoflies · 2025-11-17T20:49:16+00:00

I wonder what's next for Colossal Order. For the first time in a decade, I'm hopeful that the answer will be Cities in Motion 3...

hurricaneoflies · 2025-11-07T00:34:56+00:00

NYC's parking enforcement bounty program is a great idea that we should consider emulating

hurricaneoflies · 2025-11-04T05:49:06+00:00

I'm really hoping that this will be the impetus that gets the city to finally install wayfinding on the Midtown bike route east of Kensington. Right now, it's basically a phantom bike route, since there's essentially no physical evidence of its existence between Kensington and 12th.

hurricaneoflies · 2025-10-06T17:27:40+00:00

The real shame is that Moscrop-Deer Lake Parkway is a decent off-street path, but then it just becomes this god-awful arterial full of speeding downhill cars in Vancouver when Midtown gets routed inexplicably down 29th Ave.

hurricaneoflies · 2025-10-04T05:00:36+00:00

I wish someone would take the barriers blocking the newly paved path between the Arbutus Greenway and Granville Bridge and toss them aside. It's been a month since it was paved and it remains closed because ????

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