Nicholas Smith
@nicholassmith
Making good things easier and bad things harder. I love to be wrong. Really into counting. Montreal (formerly Richmond+DC). EN/FR.
Also in their request to become a charity that they filed less than 6 months ago they said they did not plan to solicit or receive contributions over $25,000.
In the Canadian House of Commons any member can request a vote be carried or carried on division, but as of recently only a member of a recognized party (≥12 members) may request a recorded division. Recently a measure that would normally have had a vote didn't because only NDP and Greens opposed.
Tired: Narrow banking Wired: Narrow streets cc: @rmtransit.bsky.social @gregshill.com @dawe.bsky.social
I do wonder if their disease model comes from the Simpsons. I also wonder if they'll be more hurt by unnecessary diseases or a substandard education. (I know some really smart people who were homeschooled, but their curriculum was very different.)
The commentary is so bad, I have pages of this. I hope they bring in some Brits for the non-US games. Also I get having hydration breaks in Brazil or Qatar, but isn't it in the 70s in LA tonight?
I was in Seoul recently. It built four lines in the 70s and 80s without thinking about elevators. In 2007 it had 69 stations without them. As of December all stations are accessible. The typical interchange station is way more complicated than anything we have. Yes, bigger city, but results.
You can see it at Commercial-Broadway for inbound Expo Line service, a key interchange with lots of traffic boarding and alighting.
If this diagram is to be believed the Frontier flight was not in the way.
Here's a trip from Union Station to the Richmond Hill Centre (bus transfer centre). Yonge line to bus, Stouffville line to bus, or Richmond Hill line direct. Close times (13 minutes between slowest and fastest), three different prices. Cheapest is direct but only 9 trips a day.
This is a super common duplex typology in mid-century inner suburbs in Montreal. Many of these duplexes are also semi-detached, as seen here. Very ugly, but functional and very dense for NA suburbs. maps.app.goo.gl/Bn2NvuRA1QeS...
I was told by a driving instructor that a Quebec stop sign may only have a panel underneath it if it is an all-way stop, and while that's almost always the case, I have found one exception, which no one at the borough or province acknowledged when I complained. maps.app.goo.gl/CjdFodA7JmSm...
These smug transit experts have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks they could solve this highly technical issue?
It occurs to me that the unsafe crossings of cars and trains is the same issue as the unsafe crossings of cars and bikes that also get complained about every so often. The difference is which road users are dying and who society cares about more. (Though I assume few bikers die here as few'd bike.)
Thanks. The stay applies to the entirety of the disqualification until appeals are resolved, and the disqualification is wrt just those two cases.
They were hauling the pumpkins and squashes into the Plateau Super C today.
The top suggestion if you Google his name with the word "letter" is not his manifesto or anything tech but his IMMENSE opposition to a multifamily overlay district in Atherton.
If you're still in town, check out the brand new (this month!) diverter at Marie-Anne and St André. Quick build, and anecdotally imho traffic on both streets is way down. And they extended the contraflow bike lane on Marie-Anne, meaning you can now legally go from the metro all the way east.
Challenge: post your last photo(s) taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is. (These were a few blocks from where the Kennedy Street Crew hung out.)