SueSauve
@suesauve.bsky.social
I am happiest under pedal or paddle power, passionate about community design and empowerment, nurture trees from seed, cultivate community happiness
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The city of Richmond removed the slip lane to fix this dangerous intersection. (Daytime picture = before, night = after). Great work Richmond! Let's keep removing slip lanes throughout the lower mainland.
December 12, 2024 at 5:26 AM
The city of Richmond removed the slip lane to fix this dangerous intersection. (Daytime picture = before, night = after). Great work Richmond! Let's keep removing slip lanes throughout the lower mainland.
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“By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees. That’s one of the goals outlined in the French capital’s new 2024-2030 Climate Plan… #Paris promises to establish 300ha of new green space by 2030, with 10% in place by 2026.”
Leadership.
#ClimateCrisis
Leadership.
#ClimateCrisis
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
“By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees. That’s one of the goals outlined in the French capital’s new 2024-2030 Climate Plan… #Paris promises to establish 300ha of new green space by 2030, with 10% in place by 2026.”
Leadership.
#ClimateCrisis
Leadership.
#ClimateCrisis
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A cycling advocacy group and charity has launched a Charter challenge against the Ford government’s recent legislation that takes aim at Toronto’s bike lanes.
Cycling group launches Charter challenge of Ford government’s bike lane legislation
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Cycle Toronto argues that Bill 212 puts lives at risk and seeks an injunction to stop the removal of bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University.
www.thestar.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:53 PM
A cycling advocacy group and charity has launched a Charter challenge against the Ford government’s recent legislation that takes aim at Toronto’s bike lanes.
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NEW: CycleToronto and other citizens have launched a Charter challenge of the Ford government's law to remove bike lanes. CT's executive director is not present at the Queen's Park announcement because... he was doored on Monday in a painted bike lane and is hospitalized.
December 11, 2024 at 2:06 PM
NEW: CycleToronto and other citizens have launched a Charter challenge of the Ford government's law to remove bike lanes. CT's executive director is not present at the Queen's Park announcement because... he was doored on Monday in a painted bike lane and is hospitalized.
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Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too.
Great pic via @JBPssx
Great pic via @JBPssx
December 9, 2024 at 2:16 AM
Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too.
Great pic via @JBPssx
Great pic via @JBPssx
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How did I not see this clip until now? Love how mad those car-brain types get! 🤣 #BikeTO #ottbike #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
The Ontario Government is trying to strip out bike lanes we just got finished building and is adding lots of red tape to the process of adding new bike lanes. I got annoyed enough that I wrote, recorded, and animated this protest song in a week. Go call Doug Ford!! youtu.be/Z9vsHzj_-ZU
Blame It On The Bike!
YouTube video by Dave Pagurek
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December 5, 2024 at 9:52 PM
How did I not see this clip until now? Love how mad those car-brain types get! 🤣 #BikeTO #ottbike #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
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A decline in furniture sales
September 21, 2023 at 10:26 PM
A decline in furniture sales
What an incredible read. A thorough and damning documentation of climate inaction by big oil and a gripping recounting of the Fort McMurray fire. Fire Weather by John Vaillant
December 5, 2024 at 10:23 PM
What an incredible read. A thorough and damning documentation of climate inaction by big oil and a gripping recounting of the Fort McMurray fire. Fire Weather by John Vaillant
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Ontario’s Bike Lane Hogwash: Lessons on What Cities Give Up By Giving In To Car Culture.
momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
Ontario’s Bike Lane Hogwash: Lessons on What Cities Give Up By Giving In To Car Culture
Here are eight key things cities will lose (and how they will get worse) if they ignore or dismantle bike lanes.
momentummag.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Ontario’s Bike Lane Hogwash: Lessons on What Cities Give Up By Giving In To Car Culture.
momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
I hear this time and again and it makes me feel so angry. I am always looking for win win win solutions. I reject the us or them narrative. The messaging is all important to build consensus.
November 29, 2024 at 3:22 AM
I hear this time and again and it makes me feel so angry. I am always looking for win win win solutions. I reject the us or them narrative. The messaging is all important to build consensus.
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We badly need this in the US - and to be fair some cities and states are pushing very hard in that direction - but the gas industry is fighting like hell to stop it.
Nice! Vancouver, Canada rejected the gas lobby’s attempt to reverse the city’s end to gas in new buildings.
Ending gas in new construction:
✅ saves money
✅ creates jobs
✅ cuts pollution
Good for Vancouver!
globalnews.ca/news/1089215...
Ending gas in new construction:
✅ saves money
✅ creates jobs
✅ cuts pollution
Good for Vancouver!
globalnews.ca/news/1089215...
Vancouver council votes to keep natural gas heating ban for new homes - BC | Globalnews.ca
A proposal to remove Vancouver's ban of natural gas for heating and water in new builds has failed after two days of discussion by councillors.
globalnews.ca
November 29, 2024 at 12:39 AM
We badly need this in the US - and to be fair some cities and states are pushing very hard in that direction - but the gas industry is fighting like hell to stop it.
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Peterborough-Kawartha MP Michelle Ferreri refused to give her support for Peterborough's application to the Housing Accelerator Fund, correspondence between her office and Minister Sean Fraser shows.
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterbo...
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterbo...
Peterborough MP didn’t voice support for city’s Housing Accelerator Fund application in correspondence with Liberal minister
Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri instead opted to make partisan remarks in letter to housing minister Sean Fraser.
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Peterborough-Kawartha MP Michelle Ferreri refused to give her support for Peterborough's application to the Housing Accelerator Fund, correspondence between her office and Minister Sean Fraser shows.
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterbo...
www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterbo...
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The Narwhal has also seen that leaked cabinet document for Bill 212 that's been floating around the Ontario politics world, and it has some pretty interesting stuff in it about Highway 413.
Story from me, h/t to The Trillium for reporting on this first!
Story from me, h/t to The Trillium for reporting on this first!
A draft briefing document shows that before Doug Ford’s Bill 212 was tabled, bureaucrats warned the move to speed up Highway 413 and limit bike lanes could bring about legal challenges — and more traffic. via @emmamci.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...
Ontario’s bill to fast-track Highway 413 sparked internal warnings | The Narwhal
Legal risks and the chance of Canada intervening noted in briefing document on Doug Ford’s Bill 212, as well as advice that bike lanes help ease traffic
thenarwhal.ca
November 27, 2024 at 10:05 PM
The Narwhal has also seen that leaked cabinet document for Bill 212 that's been floating around the Ontario politics world, and it has some pretty interesting stuff in it about Highway 413.
Story from me, h/t to The Trillium for reporting on this first!
Story from me, h/t to The Trillium for reporting on this first!
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Yesterday, @emmamci.bsky.social had an article published in @thenarwhal.ca explaining what happens now that Bill 212 has passed. In a nutshell, there are a lot of questions that remain unanswered, so we'll need to stay vigilant. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...
With Bill 212 passed, Highway 413 is in and bike lanes are out | The Narwhal
Ontario’s Bill 212 empowers Doug Ford’s government to move ahead with Highway 413 without a full environmental assessment, and to rip out three Toronto bike lanes
thenarwhal.ca
November 27, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Yesterday, @emmamci.bsky.social had an article published in @thenarwhal.ca explaining what happens now that Bill 212 has passed. In a nutshell, there are a lot of questions that remain unanswered, so we'll need to stay vigilant. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...
Zoom, zoom, kaboom. More crashes=standstill on the streets. Vision Zero saves lives and reduces injuries, and also helps with congestion. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...
With Bill 212 passed, Highway 413 is in and bike lanes are out | The Narwhal
Ontario’s Bill 212 empowers Doug Ford’s government to move ahead with Highway 413 without a full environmental assessment, and to rip out three Toronto bike lanes
thenarwhal.ca
November 27, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Zoom, zoom, kaboom. More crashes=standstill on the streets. Vision Zero saves lives and reduces injuries, and also helps with congestion. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...
Ford hasn't figured out induced demand yet, or that if everyone drives it would take a 600 lane highway to avoid congestion. Back to basics, do the math.
The bike lane debate isn’t a war on cycling – it’s a war on data
Ripping up bike lanes based on misplaced frustration is bad policy
www.printfriendly.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Ford hasn't figured out induced demand yet, or that if everyone drives it would take a 600 lane highway to avoid congestion. Back to basics, do the math.
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#bikeptbo and #ptbo are lucky to have the Bethune St bikeway. It’s a gem of active transportation architecture.
It needs some love.
Last night we repositioned 15 of the planter boxes back to the middle of the road. Today at 3pm we are “planting” pine and birch boughs for winter. Join us!
It needs some love.
Last night we repositioned 15 of the planter boxes back to the middle of the road. Today at 3pm we are “planting” pine and birch boughs for winter. Join us!
“It’s just so beautiful”: Peterborough’s first bicycle-priority street a hit with cyclists
BRETT THROOP from Peterborough Currents. Originally published 2023-06-28 Bethune Street from McDonnel to Townsend has been rebuilt with cyclists in mind and car traffic is now restricted on it. http...
thegreenzineonline.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”
Leadership. #Paris
www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...
Leadership. #Paris
www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...
Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car
In Paris, Barcelona and Brussels, authorities are adopting varied approaches to the task of reducing congestion and pollution
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:40 PM
“A startling statistic emerged in Paris last month: during the morning and evening rush hours, on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again, in fact.”
Leadership. #Paris
www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...
Leadership. #Paris
www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...
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I’m going to say this again. Given that the Ontario Liberal, NDP and Green Parties are WELL AWARE of the likelihood that splitting the vote would hand the Doug Ford Conservatives another comfortable majority govt with a small % of the vote, I’d think they would put aside ambitions AND WORK TOGETHER.
This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES.
People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
November 23, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I’m going to say this again. Given that the Ontario Liberal, NDP and Green Parties are WELL AWARE of the likelihood that splitting the vote would hand the Doug Ford Conservatives another comfortable majority govt with a small % of the vote, I’d think they would put aside ambitions AND WORK TOGETHER.