The histarics are ridiculous. Somehow an independent professional certifing that a development is in line with zoning ends up with unelected people unanimously change the underlying zoning for the whims of developers

The only people that should be allowed to make the ostensibly binary technicall approval of permit and zoning compliance are municipal staff, not independent certified professionals. To do so would destroy local planning, at least according to the UMBC and the local land lift goblin

A Redditor made a graph of the percent of population of US and Canada metro areas over 1 million that live in a given density. When they ordered them by average density the lowest ranked Canadian metro area, Edmonton, was ranked 14th between Miami and Washington. 6 of the top 15 were Canadian metros

Very mild take, Google needs to figure out some heuristics, use some combination of speed and frequency, for what transit service they show. Having the WCE on the map is much less useful than the RapidBuses. The tangel of streetcars in Toronto is less legible and you might as well show all bus lines

It's telling that the Gilmore routing for the Metrotown-North Shore BRT has no value since the only benefit they can list, other than direct service to the Gilmore area that is a quick 2 minute ride from Brentwood, is connections to 3 buses that it will connect to anyways via the Hastings routing.

Surprising Las Vegas of all places seems to have the most "Canadian" of US cities. Las Vegas is around 2.3 million pop. Between Vancouver and Calgary and kinda just fits, just missing a central higher density node.

I'd be much more inclined to respond with this meme

Ok anyone who is advocating for trams/streetcars in Vancouver needs to come with an actual proposal and not just coasing on "trams are cool" vibes.

Invest in buses! Vancouver's 82km RapidBus network moves 81,500 people daily at 24.5km/h with just modest queue jumping and bus lanes. This outperforms Portland's MAX light rail in overall and per-kilometer ridership for little infrastructure cost, if you are willing to invent in operation funds.

A lot of people getting off at 76th and walking to KPU, the graph of ons/offs is almost comical. They really should swap the south ends of the 323 and 324

I think this is the more daming statistic from that poll

TransLink has released their routing and station locations for the King George Blvd and 200th/Lougheed hwy BRT routes.

So far I am liking what I am seeing. I do want to see what they are proposing for the bus lanes, curb or centre running and what will replace the R1 along 104.