transportation planner by day. hockey mom by night. passionate about converting spaces for cars into places for people.
Grimsby, Ontario
Joined September 2016
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Kaylan_E retweeted
With the sixth pick of the eighth round of the OHL Priority Selection, the Firebirds select Liam Edgcumbe!
#OHLDraft
Kaylan_E retweeted
Older folks: “Why don’t kids go outside anymore?”
The outside they built:
Stay tuned ... ours will be coming soon 🚲
This weekend, we installed new Even Better Bike Lane protection on S Dearborn St between 10th Ave S and Rainier Ave S.
These are often called "Toronto-style" barriers (though we call them extruded curbs).
ALT SDOT crews lowering a Toronto-style barrier into place.
ALT A section of barriers, fully installed.
ALT Crews working to lower a barrier into place.
ALT Installed barriers with breaks for crosswalks and driveways.
@_NickMorrison, we're working with Engineeting to look at the mini jersey barrier for Prospect. Have been chatting with Hamilton staff and looking at specs. I am liking this public art suggestion tbh!
Kaylan_E retweeted
We have our first Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP)! This will guide how we move in and through our community for the next 30 years. The IMP final report was presented and unanimously approved by City Council on Nov. 14.
For more information, please visit burlington.ca/IMP.
Kaylan_E retweeted
Our Plains Road project is complete! This marks the first protected bike lanes and intersection in #BurlON. Road resurfacing complete with landscaping, lighting and a rain garden.
Learn more at Burlington.ca/plainsroadresu….
Funded in part by the Canada Community-Building Fund.
First AAA cycling facility in the books for Burlington 👍🏻
🚴🏻 🌾 We are thrilled to see the Bike Lane Reconstruction wrapping up on Plains Road!
The road is coming back together beautifully.
Motorists - Be aware of the cyclists as the community gets used to the new lanes and procedures.
@cityburlington
@KelvinGalbraith
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"Dutch civil planners built a canal here, robbing their citizens of an 18-lane super highway."
Brilliant video by @uniquespirit889
Kaylan_E retweeted
ALT POV shot of a Coach Class aisle on Acela, featuring blue seats, overlaid with text. The text reads "ppl keep talking about a future with driverless cars that will take you where you need to go while you sit back and relax when they're literally just describing trains. it's like you're so close babe. go find a train station."
Kaylan_E retweeted
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re using as an excuse. If more walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school.
Spread the word.
Kaylan_E retweeted
AMERICAN DOCTOR:
"I want you to walk around your neighborhood at least once a day."
AMERICAN PATIENT:
"I'll try."
Kaylan_E retweeted
#HamOnt, ‘the ambitious city,’ is the opposite of NIMBYism - local Councillors want to grow within their existing urban boundary, but the Province - strangely, unnecessarily - is insisting on sprawl.
This is an inversion of what typically happens.
Local politicians in Hamilton want infill and density - they want to build a thriving city, not a car-choked environmental disaster with housing in wetlands and on farmland. But the Province, against their wishes, is pushing to open up the Greenbelt.
Why?
cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/…
Kaylan_E retweeted
The prospect of the childless city - sounds inhumane.
But this prospect is very real. If we choose to invest in roads and cars (ahem Toronto, a $450 million parking structure on the waterfront; a billion $ highway rebuild that serves 3% of the population) instead of parks, green, safe streets and affordable housing...an inhumane city is what we will get.
Cities make choices. What will we choose - a dying city where young people and families leave? Or a city for people?
ft.com/content/31d9e4b7-a0d8…
Kaylan_E retweeted
Reminder: Lakeshore Road between Guelph Line & Walkers Line is closed until December 2023 as the Pine Cove Bridge is replaced. Once finished, we will have a new bridge, multiuse pathway, culvert, curbs and sidewalks. Please use New St to detour. burlington.ca/lakeshore #BurlON
Kaylan_E retweeted
@BrentToderian, sounds like me at a Public Meeting 🙄
I’M AMAZED I’VE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE!
Didn’t think I could like Bill Nye more.
Via @CarsRuinedCity @BillNye
Kaylan_E retweeted
The country's current pedestrian death crisis is entirely preventable.
We need street redesigns that slow down traffic + smaller, safer cars to stop more deaths.
Listen to TA's @miatkowski on @Freakonomics:
freakonomics.com/podcast/why…