Martyn Schmoll
@martyn.bsky.social
Toronto. Vancouver. Safe streets. Strong towns. Next-generation cities and mobility. Progressive politics. Craft beer. Co-founder of betternorthshore.ca. Work: martynschmoll.com
Full house for the #Vancouver launch of Life After Cars tonight with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social
Thanks to @visionzerovancouver.ca for organizing. #urbanismbookclub
Thanks to @visionzerovancouver.ca for organizing. #urbanismbookclub
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Full house for the #Vancouver launch of Life After Cars tonight with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @lucymaloney.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social
Thanks to @visionzerovancouver.ca for organizing. #urbanismbookclub
Thanks to @visionzerovancouver.ca for organizing. #urbanismbookclub
Awesome new bikeway on St George Street in #Vancouver, flanked by pollinator gardens and bioswales. This is how you do it.
September 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Awesome new bikeway on St George Street in #Vancouver, flanked by pollinator gardens and bioswales. This is how you do it.
Brilliant evening for the Vancouver Big Tent Urbanist meetup. Always so much positivity and great ideas to take away from these conversations. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen.
August 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Brilliant evening for the Vancouver Big Tent Urbanist meetup. Always so much positivity and great ideas to take away from these conversations. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen.
I often get folks showing up in my timeline insisting that riding a bike on the road is perfectly fine - even safer - than riding in protected bike lanes. Yeah, no. Protected bike lanes enable families on the go. This is the Beach Avenue bikeway in Vancouver.
August 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I often get folks showing up in my timeline insisting that riding a bike on the road is perfectly fine - even safer - than riding in protected bike lanes. Yeah, no. Protected bike lanes enable families on the go. This is the Beach Avenue bikeway in Vancouver.
Chasing the sun in Vancouver.
August 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Chasing the sun in Vancouver.
This is how you keep cities moving. Give people safe, convenient options for getting around, whether by car, bike, scooter, or on foot. This is Hornby Street in Vancouver.
August 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is how you keep cities moving. Give people safe, convenient options for getting around, whether by car, bike, scooter, or on foot. This is Hornby Street in Vancouver.
You love to see these modal filters - redirecting motoring through-traffic and providing a convenient connection for people on bikes makes streets quieter and safer for the people that live there. This one is in Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood, Strathcona.
August 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
You love to see these modal filters - redirecting motoring through-traffic and providing a convenient connection for people on bikes makes streets quieter and safer for the people that live there. This one is in Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood, Strathcona.
This new protected bike lane on Pacific Street, connecting the Beach Avenue bikeway with the Burrard Street bridge, is brilliant. The city just had to remove a bunch of on-street parking spaces to make it happen. Great work.
July 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This new protected bike lane on Pacific Street, connecting the Beach Avenue bikeway with the Burrard Street bridge, is brilliant. The city just had to remove a bunch of on-street parking spaces to make it happen. Great work.
Great vibe for #CriticalMass in #Vancouver tonight. Thanks to all the drivers for their patience, and love to all the folks who danced and cheered as we passed.
May 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Great vibe for #CriticalMass in #Vancouver tonight. Thanks to all the drivers for their patience, and love to all the folks who danced and cheered as we passed.
Really appreciating Vancouver’s Hornby Street bike lane on this sunny Saturday afternoon.
May 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Really appreciating Vancouver’s Hornby Street bike lane on this sunny Saturday afternoon.
Walked around Lynn Valley town centre a little bit yesterday. Some nice work here with the floating bus stop design on 27th. #BetterNorthShore
May 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Walked around Lynn Valley town centre a little bit yesterday. Some nice work here with the floating bus stop design on 27th. #BetterNorthShore
Another amazing turnout for #JanesWalk #Vancouver today. Navigating Vancouver’s Gaps, noticing the city’s in-between spaces.
May 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Another amazing turnout for #JanesWalk #Vancouver today. Navigating Vancouver’s Gaps, noticing the city’s in-between spaces.
Businesses can be community builders. In North Van, Reckless Bikes Shipyards is one of those. Tonight, for the third year in a row, they brought their customers together for a night of socializing, food, and music. And that’s our very own DNV councillor Jordan Back on guitar.
May 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Businesses can be community builders. In North Van, Reckless Bikes Shipyards is one of those. Tonight, for the third year in a row, they brought their customers together for a night of socializing, food, and music. And that’s our very own DNV councillor Jordan Back on guitar.
Great turnout for the first #JanesWalk of 2025 today. Dunbar neighbourhood, Vancouver.
May 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Great turnout for the first #JanesWalk of 2025 today. Dunbar neighbourhood, Vancouver.
Saw this on the other place and I like this idea.
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Saw this on the other place and I like this idea.
NYC’s congestion pricing is doing numbers. Big numbers.
April 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NYC’s congestion pricing is doing numbers. Big numbers.
True. Nothing to write home about here with this biking “infrastructure” but with fewer and smaller, slower vehicles and less aggressive driving, it seemed to work OK. I saw a lot of regular-looking folks riding on these kinds of streets.
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
True. Nothing to write home about here with this biking “infrastructure” but with fewer and smaller, slower vehicles and less aggressive driving, it seemed to work OK. I saw a lot of regular-looking folks riding on these kinds of streets.
Caught a rare glimpse of the yellow Shinkansen today. Doctor Yellow is equipped with advanced monitoring equipment to check tracks, overhead wires, and signals at high speeds. It doesn’t run on a fixed schedule and many people believe that spotting it brings good fortune.
March 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Caught a rare glimpse of the yellow Shinkansen today. Doctor Yellow is equipped with advanced monitoring equipment to check tracks, overhead wires, and signals at high speeds. It doesn’t run on a fixed schedule and many people believe that spotting it brings good fortune.