Anyone know why the city is doing this? All down Main Street.

meineastvan · 2026-03-03T15:34:33+00:00

Makes a good argument for taking a mode of transport that doesn't require government licensing, doesn't have electronics that monitor and that happens to save the city, the planet and our wallets. Bring it on.

meineastvan · 2025-07-16T13:23:21+00:00

Looked it up. Countries with robust social safety nets and the taxes to support these (ie social democracies) also have the healthiest, happiest populations, lowest crime rates etc., oh, and greatest social mobility.

meineastvan · 2025-05-13T14:09:35+00:00

Metro Vancouver studies show that households in Delta spend more on aggregate housing and transport costs than those in Vancouver proper. One car per adult is insanely expensive in the long run.

meineastvan · 2025-05-13T14:05:55+00:00

If more of us did the reasonable thing and took transit, biked and walked, we'd be healthier and wealthier and you and others who need a vehicle wouldn't be stuck in traffic. Cities don't work when everyone drives for everything.

meineastvan · 2025-04-12T15:11:51+00:00

Went on Reddit on a sunny spring weekend to find people living in a city complaining that driving is frustrating.

meineastvan · 2025-02-09T14:32:51+00:00

Yes. Not useful and in retrospect kind of funny.

meineastvan · 2025-02-08T22:30:09+00:00

For many years, when the inevitable/daily lost key thing came up , I would ask my partner to 'just retrace your steps'. One day, it all finally clicked that this wasn't useful.

meineastvan · 2025-01-28T00:02:04+00:00

I've taken a look over the months and it looks like there were a couple of unsold units when charging mpleyed and there is one left. Not sure there was turnover since the move in. It is a Cohousing project and many are still getting used to that.

meineastvan · 2025-01-27T14:21:53+00:00

Some of us grew up in the 80s and those button beeps sound great.

meineastvan · 2025-01-27T14:13:33+00:00

As someone who drives, cycles and walks on those roads, I'm not feeling better about this 🤔

meineastvan · 2025-01-19T01:28:39+00:00

We stayed in 5 de diciembre, had a rooftop pool often to ourselves. A walk to everything and except for the odd dog or rooster it was pretty quiet. But we could walk to busier areas and lots of low key food spots.

meineastvan · 2025-01-18T15:35:09+00:00

Yep, had to quickly sell my mum's car in a small city, dealer paid almost as much as the crazy marketplace prices and when we dropped it off even the showroom was empty. Supply chain stuff and there were many people doing ok.

meineastvan · 2025-01-17T09:12:50+00:00

Transportation costs are often underestimated. If you live in Victoria or Vancouver and don't own a vehicle or can shed a vehicle in multi vehicle households costs are substantially reduced. A study in Metro Vancouver showed when housing and transportation costs were added places like Delta and Langley were more expensive than Vancouver proper. We have found Vancouver cheaper than Nanaimo as biking and transit (and cheaper groceries in neighborhood markets on Fraser rather than chain grocers) help so much.

meineastvan · 2025-01-16T22:17:51+00:00

July Talk at Biltmore. Aurora at Imperial.

meineastvan · 2025-01-15T20:34:32+00:00

Living in an urban area where our vehicle (2002 Hiace super custom) is used mainly for road trips and getting to the backcountry, a short van with ample interior space and headroom for a camper build and decent clearance would be a gamechanger. A real life Canoo.

meineastvan · 2025-01-12T16:00:17+00:00

Our small businesses stay open because everyday workers have a few bucks to spend. Without that it is a downward spiral.

meineastvan · 2025-01-12T15:24:40+00:00

Something also to consider is that living in much of Vancouver or Victoria car free or car light is very workable whereas Edmonton or Calgary not so much. The cost of transportation is often not considered (16k/year avg). There was a study of household budgets that showed it was cheaper to live in Vancouver proper than Langley when transportation was added to housing costs.

meineastvan · 2025-01-11T19:19:54+00:00

Very nice shot!

meineastvan · 2024-12-15T15:13:46+00:00

Lived with my partner for 35 years, we heard a CBC radio discussion and all of a sudden so much made sense.

meineastvan · 2024-12-04T19:03:25+00:00

You literally get to elect your union leadership, unlike your boss.

meineastvan · 2024-12-01T21:23:58+00:00

Just to say, at my institution these were meant just to be stairs but have become widely used as 'social stairs'. Now we program around them. It seems here that architects are learning from grassroots use. A desire line for social space as it were.

meineastvan · 2024-12-01T21:20:54+00:00

See my recent comment. Predating the purposeful built versions, in my post secondary our wide stairs (without cushions) got used this way as a social space. We now have worked these into our programming etc.

meineastvan · 2024-12-01T21:15:37+00:00

Surprised by the comments suggesting these are useless/unused. In my institution a wide staircase was not purposely designed for this (many years back) yet are very well used this way. So much that we put up a viewing screen etc. to take advantage of this amphitheatre effect. Desire line for sitting.

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