From Vox 100 years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: you walked across it. Today, if there’s traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there’s a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green.…
From the Atlantic Cities When we say we can’t find anywhere to park, what we usually mean is we can’t find a free or insanely cheap parking spot within spitting distance of our destination. As a nation of parkers we’re all home run hitters who’ve forgotten what it’s like to knock a single—or, as a…
From Streetsblog Bike Louisville is finishing the first phase of its Neighborways plan, which consists of painting “sharrow” markings on many neighborhood streets to guide cyclists to use those streets and remind motorists to share the road with cyclists. And already, sharrows are starting to show up all around town. When complete, there will be…
Winter in Saskatoon can seem really bleak some days. To help you get past that, here is a list of things to do and enjoy this winter in Saskatoon.
From the Calgary Herald Inner-city Calgary community Inglewood has earned the title of Canada’s greatest neighbourhood in a competition put on by the country’s city planners. The Canadian Institute of Planners announced the winners in its Great Places in Canada contest on Friday. An eclectic, riverfront Calgary neighbourhood, Inglewood grabbed top honours in the neighbourhood…
From Next City The residents of South Los Angeles were initially a bit skeptical about the idea of green alleys. “When we first started talking to community members, they were like, ‘No way,’” says Tori Kjer, a program director of the Trust for Public Land. After all, alleys are often seen as forbidding places in…
From Quartz That said, Google’s greatest shortcoming isn’t its technology, but how it has defined America’s transportation challenge. Our public transportation systems are running near historic highs in ridership, while using technology and business models from the 19th century. We should be upgrading these, not trying to fix America’s auto-dependent suburbs. Consider buses. These are…
I chose not to write anything about the lockout because as soon as it lifted, I got several versions of the in-camera discussions and to be honest, the stories shocked me. Instead I put together some excellent posts, columns and articles from other people observing the lockout. The first comes from October 10th and is…
I am pleased that the buses are back on the roads. If there is one thing I have learned from the roughly four weeks without bus service, it is a city without transit is not a city. It is a town. A Saskatoon without public bus service is indistinguishable from other towns with similar big-box stores.…
It’s not easy being a transit rider in Saskatoon lately. Decades of underinvestment combined with increasing city size, both in population and geographical area, have put strain on the bus system. This is compounded by labour relations issues between the city management and the transit workers’ union. Missing from this equation however, is an organized…
Earlier today Sean Shaw and I interviewed Victoria based developer Chris Le Fevre of the Le Fevre & Company. Le Fevre is the man behind The Edge and The Banks as well as the developer behind several of Victoria’s most significant developments (from a perspective of both urban renewal and historical restoration). He was kind…
And we ignore it in Saskatoon In the most recent New York City mayoral election, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis bragged that he was the only candidate with a vision of the future worthy of the city. While Catsimatidis’s grand scheme of outmoded monorails and anachronistic world fairs failed to resonate with voters, he was right…
After a several month break, we are back with our first podcast of 2014 (yeah, we’ve been busy). Listen here. Hilary Nelson, Sean Shaw, and Jordon Cooper return with a 45 minute roundtable on public transit, bike lanes, and taking on Prosperity Saskatoon’s ridiculous call for more bridges (and their use of contextless statistics). We…
From the CBC Some big changes are coming to how Saskatoon city council operates. Starting this week, council meetings will be held once a month. Previously they were held every two weeks. The meetings will also be longer. Council meetings will now start at 1 pm, with the public hearings section to start at 6…
We could do this in Saskatoon. We really could. Public transit, cars, pedestrians, and cyclists all on one street.
