@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks Hi Phoenix Congrats and best wishes on your training. Thank you also for your thoughtful and respectful convo in many comments on this subject. We agree on many issues you have presented. 1/
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 2/ You bring a perspective which I hadn't heard before, of a cycling athlete. The infrastructure/road design to accommodate such, seems to present unique challenges which go beyond making roads safe for commuter and recreational cyclists.
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 3/ I honestly have no idea how to make #YYJ roads safe and accommodating for pro/semi pro/athlete cyclists. How /where has such training taken place up to now? What do you see as the optimum venue for that?
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 4/ Personally, I would love to see you be able to train wholeheartedly and safely; but at same time; I can't envision how that can ever take place on shared roadways?
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 5. Even if/when we were able eradicate all the unsafe drivers that cause problems to cyclists from streets.. there still remains needing to share roads w/other users
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 6/I'd like also to address the comment you made to Stu, @Covid_Stinks that he should "deal with the problems" as a driver or a pedestrian, caused by cyclists. That doesn't jive w/your other comments. How do you recommend that he /others "deal"?
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 7/ If we're talking about (which I think we are) bad attitudes of those using roads... Surely we must acknowledge and address that there are good/bad attitudes and behaviours by a segment of all users? -
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 8/You said "Bad attitudes come out way before other issues. Enact fines for belligerent or threatening behaviour against cyclists, get aggressive drivers into the system sooner before they hurt a cyclist."...
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 9/ which I agree with - but - suggest an edit is in order.
we need to enact fines/get off the road: *all* aggressive/bad attitude users , both drivers and cyclists.
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 10/ It's incomplete and misleading for you to say to Stu @Covid_Stinks "You have never been accosted by me". That negates his experience (shared by many). It's akin to me saying;"no cyclist has ever been put in harms way by me as a driver".
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 11/ That's a true statement on my end; but it's irrelevant.
It's the cyclists and the drivers - who *aren't* behaving safely- that is the issue we need to address.
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 12/ Or should I say "one of the main issues we need to address"? It leaves the whole topic of how to make #YYJ roads safer for all ... open to much needed further convo... (ie: What actual engineering which would be optimal to accommodate all most safely)
@ThePhoenixAligt@Covid_Stinks 13/ I think we agree that many of the initiatives of @CityOfVictoria in building out their AAA network; is far from optimal for both cyclists and motorists? <end thread>
1/ W/respect @SarahPottsH I don't think #TC editorial unfairly distorted ur TW. Nor do I think ur 'singular comment' about t/assault on teen in #BHP being awful should "be the end of the story". (Hence they published ur rebuttal) timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/…
2/ @timescolonist editorial was responding to the rest of your TW - in which you inferred that if council had supported previous motions of yours, this would not have happened. Can you pls direct me to those? I'll gladly call out any councillors who denied good motions
3/ (It's really difficult to find what any councillor has said or proposed about anything... (which is why I re- request that @CityOfVictoria makes public written transcripts of all meetings)
@JeremyLoveday@deardubow Hi @JeremyLoveday Appreciate you clearing that up, and apologize 4 assuming that ur RT meant U ID as "woke". (@deardubow conflated progressive councillors = woke") It's a word I have trouble with (same as I do with 'left' vs 'right' in poli discourse. 1/
@JeremyLoveday@deardubow I also suggest to @CharlesBodi that #wordsmatter; and his initial poll inferring that 'woke' ppl are cockroaches was not at all helpful. The word does carry connotations that go beyond common usage (an undesirable pest) 2/
1/ #DBH -with a Big Sigh: "we've seen over these last few wks a noticeable increase in transmission. I don't need to tell ppl that" (35 min mark vid)
She's right - she doesn't need to tell us - she needs to do something about it! #BCCovid#BCPoli
2/ and goes on (as usual) to blame us.. rather than take responsibility. "Much of it is being driven by our social interactions and amplified by workplaces... fuelling the spread and VOC are making it that much more easy" #DBH#BCPoli#BCCovid
3/#DBH#BlameGame continues. "Parties, events, people not taking it seriously.. virus is spread by people we are closest to whether we have symptoms or not" (38 min)
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Dear @CityOfVictoria #YYJ already has plethora of parks/green spaces to accommodate pedestrians/cyclists. Why deny access to #CloverPoint, to those who rely on cars by removing any of the 90 stalls currently available?
#CloverPoint is NOT a #ParkingLot.
What *are* parking lots - if the need is so urgent for more sea-side spaces for pedestrians: are both Wharf St parking lot (city owned-150 stalls ) and West Park Lot 708 w/177 stalls.
Both are: very accessible to many pedestrians/cyclists, more suitable to crowds and festivities; and close to other amenities the city offers. I think that's the sort of ambience you envision.