Shout out to @cityburlington for this stretch of protected bike lane on Plains Road! It’s a game changer for coming home from Hamilton in the dark- #ifonlyalltheway
I stopped at this open house about safer infrastructure on Prospect Street to encourage @cityburlington staff to keep up the good work. We need leadership to invest in the Cycling Master Plan #@lisakearns @ShawnaStol94848 @MariannMeedWard
🚧 Attention drivers 🚧 Lane restrictions are in place on Waterdown Road from Craven Avenue to Mountain Brow Road until Dec 6, 2024, due to road reconstruction...plan your route accordingly...#TrafficAlert#Construction 🚗
“Four parking spaces side-by-side on a surface parking lot is about the same amount of space as a one-bedroom apartment.”
Maybe the trifecta of housing, density and transit is starting to become clear.
More cars or more people? It’s a choice. One leads to better, more liveable cities. The other leads to a noisy, polluted, congested unsafe hellscape of a city.
Seems so obvious, doesn’t it?
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$16K annually😱. After-tax dollars. That means foregoing a car is equivalent to getting a $25K/ year raise. Is YOUR city enabling people to do this by making it easier to bike or use transit? If not, you're setting up your population for major financial struggle.
@HowSenChong Recent Harvard Business School report found hidden Gov't subsidization of driving to be $14,000/month/household (US$). When do we start to acknowledge the absolutely staggering total costs of cars? https://t.co/mXP6cqZyBy
Paul Alexander is one of the last people living in an iron lung after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. He has been using the iron lung for over 70 years and has become an advocate for polio awareness and the importance of vaccines.
The iron lung, also known as a negative pressure ventilator, is a large horizontal cylinder designed to stimulate breathing in patients who have lost control of their respiratory muscles. The patient's head is exposed outside the cylinder, while the body is sealed inside. Air pressure inside the cylinder is cycled to facilitate inhalation and exhalation.
In the mid-20th century, iron lungs were widely used to treat patients with polio, a highly contagious viral disease that can cause paralysis and respiratory failure. However, with the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s and 1960s, the incidence of polio decreased dramatically, and the use of iron lungs became less common.
Today, there are only a handful of people in the world who still rely on iron lungs for their survival. Paul Alexander is one of them, and his story serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of vaccination and the impact that polio has had on the lives of many people.
@Leo71106092@cityburlington I love this stretch of cycle infrastructure- if we had this all the way across Burlington- it would be so much safer for cyclists and drivers !!