Apr 12 2024: A pedestrian was struck by a Mercedes driver near 144 St & 62 Ave in Surrey, who then drove into other occupied cars. Both pedestrian and at-fault driver were hospitalized for injuries; the pedestrian died.
2024 confirmed MV road deaths: 12
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Surrey has a huge pedestrian fatality problem and now another young person has lost their life. Awful street design. Drivers speed down this hill all the time. Those painted bike "lanes" could be hardened with concrete, making the road narrower. (1/2)
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What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep
1. Making bread
2. Running
3. Active transit and urban design
4. The works of PG Wodehouse
5. Brewing beer
What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep
1. The Red Shoes
2. Housing Policy
3. Kant’s moral philosophy
4. Campus Novels
5. Norm Macdonald
If I were a soldier with House Atreides on Arrakis I would keep texting everyone “water u dune haha” until Thufir Hawat found out and the duke had me executed.
From bylines to pixels. Video game developer Ben Gelinas on creating Times & Galaxy, about being a newspaper journalist in space. https://t.co/xvlrPN9akX #gary#yeg
As of 2015, Elon Musk's companies had received $4.9 billion in government subsidies.
So when will they be labeled as state-affiliated?
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Hey @CityofVancouver this is second incident I’ve seen caused by these useless ‘slow street’ barricades installed last month. They don’t slow down traffic; they cause crashes and traffic chaos.
In the 1970s, Dutch cities like Amsterdam were full of traffic and air pollution.
Now they are models of sustainable urban planning.
Here's the story of how the Netherlands started building their cities for humans, not cars.
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