Margie
@margiesanderson.bsky.social
she/her -- mostly here as part of Vision Zero Vancouver, and to talk about Vancouver politics. also a child/youth rights advocate, + active transportation & child-friendly planning nerd.
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The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can't afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected.
👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...
👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can't afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected.
👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...
👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...
Listening to Vancouver Council budget discussion in the background this morning. In response to a question from @seanorr.bsky.social about where they'll be retracting from the city just said they're planning to REMOVE baby changing tables and menstrual product dispensers to save costs. Shameful.
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Listening to Vancouver Council budget discussion in the background this morning. In response to a question from @seanorr.bsky.social about where they'll be retracting from the city just said they're planning to REMOVE baby changing tables and menstrual product dispensers to save costs. Shameful.
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Awesome event tonight!! More photos to come. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported!
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Awesome event tonight!! More photos to come. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported!
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Deep gratitude for the activists and political leaders advancing a Vision Zero agenda. Traffic violence is not inevitable. Stopping it is possible and necessary.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Deep gratitude for the activists and political leaders advancing a Vision Zero agenda. Traffic violence is not inevitable. Stopping it is possible and necessary.
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A fun first night in Vancouver on our LIFE AFTER CARS book tour. Got to hang with @tomflood.bsky.social @visionzerovancouver.ca @lucymaloney.bsky.social. So cool to see the Vision Zero campaign Tom designed on a billboard!
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
A fun first night in Vancouver on our LIFE AFTER CARS book tour. Got to hang with @tomflood.bsky.social @visionzerovancouver.ca @lucymaloney.bsky.social. So cool to see the Vision Zero campaign Tom designed on a billboard!
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Maloney is asking Chief Rai how much it costs to investigate traffic fatalities. Rai says it's as much or more as a homicide.
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Maloney is asking Chief Rai how much it costs to investigate traffic fatalities. Rai says it's as much or more as a homicide.
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The Worst Intersection in Vancouver winner (loser?) has been crowned 🏆👀
November 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Worst Intersection in Vancouver winner (loser?) has been crowned 🏆👀
The audacity to vote down a motion about keeping kids safe on Halloween, victim-blame the kids by saying no one should wear black any day...and then put out a Halloween safety PSA wearing all black. Honestly. 🤦
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The audacity to vote down a motion about keeping kids safe on Halloween, victim-blame the kids by saying no one should wear black any day...and then put out a Halloween safety PSA wearing all black. Honestly. 🤦
Please let me not be the only one sitting down to make my child’s halloween costume at 10:30 the night before
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Please let me not be the only one sitting down to make my child’s halloween costume at 10:30 the night before
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We're incredibly disappointed in this outcome; this should have been an easy win for the safety of our children. Our response: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/10/29/h...
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We're incredibly disappointed in this outcome; this should have been an easy win for the safety of our children. Our response: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/10/29/h...
Super disappointed to see council vote this motion down. The evidence for lowering the voting age is absolutely overwhelming. Combined with amending Lucy's safe streets on halloween motion to death, it's been an infuriating morning at Vancouver City Hall
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Super disappointed to see council vote this motion down. The evidence for lowering the voting age is absolutely overwhelming. Combined with amending Lucy's safe streets on halloween motion to death, it's been an infuriating morning at Vancouver City Hall
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To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
To Build Fast, Think Small | Sightline Institute
How re-legalizing small apartment buildings would spur the homes city dwellers need now.
www.sightline.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
To people looking for a home today, writes @dannyoleksiuk.bsky.social, it matters a great deal whether that home is built next year, or in ten. Re-legalizing small apartment buildings throughout our cities would create more homes faster. www.sightline.org/2025/10/28/t...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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At this family friendly event, a lady in an SUV tried to drive through the crowd because her daughter had to get to a soccer game and refused to do a u-turn. This is exactly what we mean when say drivers are entitled in this city. Unreal.
Large turnout today in support of traffic calming on 16th. People shouldn't fear for their safety in their own neighbourhood. Now it's time for the city to act.
Thank you @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social for attending and speaking in support.
Thank you @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social for attending and speaking in support.
October 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
At this family friendly event, a lady in an SUV tried to drive through the crowd because her daughter had to get to a soccer game and refused to do a u-turn. This is exactly what we mean when say drivers are entitled in this city. Unreal.
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Fighting for safer crosswalks and infrastructure at Willow and 16th, the site of a recent incident where a driver hit a woman pushing a stroller.
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fighting for safer crosswalks and infrastructure at Willow and 16th, the site of a recent incident where a driver hit a woman pushing a stroller.
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New billboard in town 👀
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
New billboard in town 👀
This is just a beautiful little start to the full pedestrianization of Granville Island, right? Right???
October 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is just a beautiful little start to the full pedestrianization of Granville Island, right? Right???
SEPTA is already working with billions less in funding than other transit agencies with
lower ridership, and pays more in taxes to the state than it ever gets. Yet the republicans say “Human nature suggests, why should I do anything to help? I don’t ever get any help for my region."🫣🫠
lower ridership, and pays more in taxes to the state than it ever gets. Yet the republicans say “Human nature suggests, why should I do anything to help? I don’t ever get any help for my region."🫣🫠
As it turns out, we live in a society of interconnected pieces — and sometimes those pieces are arranged by people committed to making the world a little worse for everyone.
Doomsday For SEPTA Is Bad News For Everyone — Streetsblog USA
Deep cuts to Philadelphia's transit system will have devastating impacts in the City of Brotherly Love — and other cities may be next.
buff.ly
August 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
SEPTA is already working with billions less in funding than other transit agencies with
lower ridership, and pays more in taxes to the state than it ever gets. Yet the republicans say “Human nature suggests, why should I do anything to help? I don’t ever get any help for my region."🫣🫠
lower ridership, and pays more in taxes to the state than it ever gets. Yet the republicans say “Human nature suggests, why should I do anything to help? I don’t ever get any help for my region."🫣🫠
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As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
August 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
Today Philly said goodbye to more than 30 bus routes, and is preparing for more cuts and service reductions, a 9pm curfew for subway, 5 regional rail lines cut..all thanks to our state republicans refusal to fund transit for the 6th largest city in the country. whyy.org/articles/sep...
SEPTA cuts: Riders feel a 'sense of loss' during the first day of reduced service
As SEPTA cuts begin, Philadelphians are adjusting to slower commute times. “It is grief, in a sense,” one rider said.
whyy.org
August 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today Philly said goodbye to more than 30 bus routes, and is preparing for more cuts and service reductions, a 9pm curfew for subway, 5 regional rail lines cut..all thanks to our state republicans refusal to fund transit for the 6th largest city in the country. whyy.org/articles/sep...
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Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings
Awesome to collaborate with you on this Tom. Vancouver folks, check it out!!
Incredible to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
So happy to have worked with the amazing people @visionzerovancouver.ca
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
So happy to have worked with the amazing people @visionzerovancouver.ca
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
August 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Awesome to collaborate with you on this Tom. Vancouver folks, check it out!!
So excited to host @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social for this in November!
Our "Life After Cars" book tour is coming to Vancouver, BC for an event with Vision Zero Vancouver on Saturday, Nov 8th.
Tickets are now available in presale to Patreon supporters of The War on Cars.
We have a feeling this one will sell quickly, so don't miss out.
www.patreon.com/thewaroncars...
Tickets are now available in presale to Patreon supporters of The War on Cars.
We have a feeling this one will sell quickly, so don't miss out.
www.patreon.com/thewaroncars...
August 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
So excited to host @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social for this in November!
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This weekend, we met with @emilylowan.bsky.social, a candidate in the BC Greens leadership race. Provincial policy plays a pivotal role in street safety, and it was great to discuss some of the approaches we could take to improve safety for all road users!
August 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This weekend, we met with @emilylowan.bsky.social, a candidate in the BC Greens leadership race. Provincial policy plays a pivotal role in street safety, and it was great to discuss some of the approaches we could take to improve safety for all road users!
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July 2024 was the deadliest month on BC roads in over a decade. Unfortunately this July seems no better. Some headlines from this weekend alone.
Our hearts break for the victims and their loved ones.
Our hearts break for the victims and their loved ones.
July 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
July 2024 was the deadliest month on BC roads in over a decade. Unfortunately this July seems no better. Some headlines from this weekend alone.
Our hearts break for the victims and their loved ones.
Our hearts break for the victims and their loved ones.