(11-30-2021, 03:43 PM)Rainrider22 Wrote:

(11-29-2021, 03:33 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Are you? Are you really curious? I doubt it.

But maybe I'm being harsh. If you are, like, actually curious, I'd suggest you read this book:

https://www.amazon.ca/Mediocre-Dangerous-Legacy-White-America/dp/1580059511

But for what it's worth, I've never seen a non-white person presume to speak for an entire neighbourhood before, and certainly not one where their situation (wealthy, detached home owning driver) represent a minority of residents.

Here is some good reading too, And it is Canadian, not American.

https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JEULRCJTHEJT&keywords=the+parasitic+mind&qid=1638301366&s=books&sprefix=the+para%2Cstripbooks%2C158&sr=1-1

(11-29-2021, 12:13 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Caught this whine on Nextdoor 😂

(12-08-2021, 07:56 AM)ac3r Wrote: "These bike lanes are poorly planned and barely used!" Maybe that's because they were/are still under construction? Lol.

(12-08-2021, 09:50 AM)cherrypark Wrote: I feel like you can certainly have a differing opinion on what the downtown grid should look like or what the funds should be used to build. For instance, the comments by some in there about how other configurations might be better are not specifically wrong but I think discount the political impossibility (regrettably) to take away ROW from busy roads. No one seems to realize this is the reason the routes are on minor roads that "aren't busy with bikes" or off in nowhere land like this IHT to Central Station link. Take issue with your fellow citizens first before you rail on city planners.

However that doesn't justify the clearly (a) selfish anger about a road you happen to use being one-way now and what was probably a relation or friend who duffed their car on a clearly demarcated barrier; and (b) lack of perspective that the fact that the city *finally* invested in some decent bike infra downtown is somehow a major failure (meanwhile the Region is putting on a masterclass in mediocre use of funds with MUTs in no mans land on Victoria).

(12-07-2021, 11:26 PM)Bytor Wrote:

(11-29-2021, 12:13 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Caught this whine on Nextdoor 😂

So that Ian Graham person is claiming in the comments that his neighbourhood was never told there were any surveys or public consultations about the downtown cycling grid. However, if you go to the project archive on EngageWR, in the 663 pages worth of survey comments, there are a bunch by somebody using me handle "Iang", who suspiciously uses a lot of the exact same talking points that the Ian Graham from your screencap uses.


Quelle coincidence, non?

(12-08-2021, 02:19 PM)Joedelay Highhoe Wrote: I find it incredibly hilarious that a resident of Joseph Street turned LEFT onto Joseph from Water (so he's admitting that he wanted to drive the wrong-way down a 1-way street)

(12-08-2021, 02:54 PM)jeremyroman Wrote:

(12-08-2021, 02:19 PM)Joedelay Highhoe Wrote: I find it incredibly hilarious that a resident of Joseph Street turned LEFT onto Joseph from Water (so he's admitting that he wanted to drive the wrong-way down a 1-way street)

Could it not have been a left turn from northbound Water St onto westbound Joseph St?

(12-08-2021, 04:53 PM)Joedelay Highhoe Wrote:

(12-08-2021, 02:54 PM)jeremyroman Wrote: Could it not have been a left turn from northbound Water St onto westbound Joseph St?

Yes this is true, except I'm not sure what concrete he could have driven over - maybe the sidewalk? I assume he was turning left the wrong way because I think he lives on the corner of joseph and richmond.

(12-08-2021, 10:11 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: This guy lives on Joseph and sees one cyclist use them per day? I often walk 1-3 blocks down Joseph in the evening and almost always see at least one cyclist. Even yesterday during the heavy snow I saw 2 and I only walked the distance between Gaukel and Water...

I still maintain that the crossing at Gaukel is serious injury in the making though.