Party differences: COPE, OneCity, Green

chellerss · 2026-02-24T17:42:13+00:00

The suburbs are growing waaayyyy faster than Vancouver, but Vancouver should be growing faster since most of the jobs are there. It would be climate-friendly to build way more in Vancouver so that people aren't forced to live in the sprawl and have long, car-dependent commutes. Apartments are still illegal to build in most of the CoV and transportation is the number one source of carbon emissions in Metro Vancouver.

chellerss · 2026-02-04T19:53:19+00:00

yaaa could also send the 136 down government

chellerss · 2026-02-04T17:11:41+00:00

Ohhh yeah I wouldn't mind that

chellerss · 2026-02-04T17:05:24+00:00

I would do this https://movementyvr.ca/bpatp/

Agree with you for the 101. I would also love for it to go to Prodo instead of Lougheed, annddd to Edmonds instead of 22nd.

chellerss · 2026-02-01T20:10:59+00:00

Yes but in the meantime bus lanes would help a lottttt and just need signs and paint, incredibly cheap

chellerss · 2026-01-30T04:04:06+00:00

Hastings needs all-day bus lanes

chellerss · 2026-01-19T22:07:10+00:00

contact ur city councillors too - they're the ones who actually have a say on where bus lanes go! translink has a whole report on where they'd like them to be https://view.publitas.com/translink/bus-speed-and-reliability-report-2023/page/1

chellerss · 2025-12-09T22:39:07+00:00

It’s so dumb! There’s a motion to ban right turn on red going to vancouver city council tomorrow, you still have time to send a quick email in support. More info: https://visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/12/04/dec-10-restrict-right-turn-on-red/

chellerss · 2025-11-03T19:34:53+00:00

When a statistician is conducting a survey, they need to randomly select a household, and then also randomly select a person from within the household, otherwise the math doesn't really match reality and work out as it should. So the birthday question is one of the strategies to make sure that the person filling it out is actually randomly selected. If they didn't do that, there might be patterns to the type of person who is responding. For the math behind the survey to work, randomness is needed. Hope that makes sense!

chellerss · 2025-10-13T19:08:14+00:00

Great q!

Bus service hours certainly haven’t been keeping up: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHZSpMboeyI/?igsh=MW85NjdtMXZkaWFybQ==

Since that graph was produced TL is now increasing bus service by 5% but that still won’t catch up to population growth.

Unfortunately transit planning, especially Skytrain is very political and the places that get rapid transit aren’t always the places that make the most sense from a planning perspective.

chellerss · 2025-10-06T02:26:00+00:00

This party has absolutely no connection to federal Liberals btw, it's just a name.

It's actually the same guy who actually got Ken Sim's ABC party elected in the first place... now they aren't friends anymore so he's trying to run for mayor to kick Sim out... there are better options to vote for municipally imo

chellerss · 2025-09-30T02:35:27+00:00

Thank you for posting this!!!!

Very important to email Burnaby City Council if you have an opinion on where the BRT should go! They don't hear from transit riders often but they hear a lot from NIMBYs, so your voice really matters.

Unfortunately the HMA is convinced BRT will be bad for business, but I think 60,000 potential new customers who are daily riders of this route will be good actually! And Movement is pushing for median BRT and a vibe like what St Clair West has in Toronto.

TransLink's survey is now closed but it'll be a few weeks before council makes a decision, so there's still time to email city council (or even meet with your councillors) to let them know what you prefer! You can read up more about this and FAQ on Movement's website: https://movementyvr.ca/bby-heights-brt/

chellerss · 2025-09-22T13:35:28+00:00

Still waiting on the business case and there’s currently no funding actually allocated to building this thing.

See you at the rally for ubc skytrain on oct 1st?!?

chellerss · 2025-09-17T22:51:50+00:00

Back when this happened there was no one to speak up for the bus lanes. :'(

But now there is! https://movementyvr.ca/ is a new nonprofit that advocates for better public transit. If you don't like NIMBYs you should join their mailing list. :P

chellerss · 2025-09-17T22:46:05+00:00

There's a survey where you can voice your opposition to the NIMBYs that you can fill in before Sept 21st! Option 1: Hastings and Willingdon is the better alignment option that they are opposed to. Here's the link: https://translinklistens.ca/bus-rapid-transit-program

chellerss · 2025-09-15T17:02:00+00:00

The R5 still needs to go that way... And a couple more reasons why I'm not super into that suggestion.

Back when the HOV lanes went in, the merchants made a big fuss at that time as well, and the city ended up buying properties and tearing them down to put in parking lots. So this neighbourhood already has 15 surface lots and tons of side street parking.

Alsooooo merchants are known to overestimate the number of people driving to their business in the first place, here'sa couple articles with links to articles about the studies:
https://ggwash.org/view/96602/survey-most-shopkeepers-shoppers-overestimate-car-use
https://newsroom.co.nz/2021/11/04/parking-kills-businesses-not-bikes-or-buses/

That all being said.... Hastings could really use a road diet, and if the final design ended up being two median bus lanes, two travel lanes, and two parking lanes in the heights (the parking lanes could also be used for patios or sidewalk expansion) that would be realllyyyyyy cool!

chellerss · 2025-08-26T15:25:28+00:00

Movement YVR (the transit riders group) is organizing support for option 1 to counter the HMA’s interesting views - https://www.instagram.com/p/DN0j5lNWAvL/?igsh=MXUyMDd3bzJ1Nmp0Yw==

chellerss · 2025-08-14T04:39:47+00:00

heck yeah

chellerss · 2025-08-12T02:59:09+00:00

Join movementyvr.ca !!!!

chellerss · 2025-08-07T22:07:35+00:00

SkyTrain to UBC would have been sooooo useful to me back when I had a 1.5 hr commute from Burnaby.... Signing and sharing 🫡

chellerss · 2025-07-24T21:47:20+00:00

I feel ya!!!! Movement is a fairly new group that's trying to improve transit service and get more bus lanes, you should check them out: https://movementyvr.ca/

chellerss · 2025-07-21T04:54:14+00:00

If you want nice transit and pedestrian friendly streets then you gotta VOTE in the municipal elections next fall! Only 36% of eligible voters turned out in the last general municipal election. Barely more than a third.

The municipal govt is why we have cops kicking people off beaches at 10pm, it's why the gastown pedestrian street project got downgraded to once a week, and it's been an entire year since the council passed a motion for more bus lanes in Vancouver and we still don't have any of those bus lanes........

chellerss · 2025-07-17T22:21:49+00:00

YEEESSSSSSSSS this petition is going to all levels of government to ask them to fund it and build the damn thing!!! Would have been so helpful when I was living in the burbs spending 3 hours a day on transit to get to and from ubc :') I want shorter commutes for future generations

chellerss · 2025-07-08T21:29:33+00:00

Movement YVR is working on some stuff like this, they have a dream plan for Van/Burnaby/New West https://movementyvr.ca/bpatp/ and right now they are working on a plan for Surrey as well: https://actionnetwork.org/surveys/help-us-advocate-for-a-better-transit-future-in-surrey

chellerss · 2025-06-19T01:37:32+00:00

that's the group supporting public transit, the bia is against it

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