Category: Winnipeg
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Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?
Whenever I’m engaged in a conversation and the other party is saying something that doesn’t resonate with me, something I don’t get or something that just seems strange, I make an honest effort to put myself in the other person’s shoes. I do research, thought experiments, bounce scenarios off friends, hypothesize with LLMs, etc. I…
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Route 90 Safety
Mayor Gillingham wants to spend $1,000,000,000 “improving” Winnipeg’s Route 90 (aka Kenaston Blvd) between Taylor and Ness avenues. The proposal can be read here (PDF, it’s large). “Improvement” seems to be defined as: a reduction of projected 2041 travel times (by car) by 90 seconds (page 7). It should also be noted that the goal…
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Winnipeg Budget Day 2023
Today was budget day for Winnipeg City Council. Perhaps the most important day of the year. And I watched it so you don’t have to! Spoiler: it passed 14 – 2 and it’s a huge step in the wrong direction. There’s plenty of discourse on Twitter (I’d suggest starting with Millennium for All’s feed). You…
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Car Co-op Experiment
Well, not yet. Not literally. Winnipeg’s Peg-City Car Co-op has been on my mind recently for one reason or another. I’ve come to the conclusion that if they opened a station on my street I would probably immediately get rid of my car! When I say “my street” I literally mean my street. There are…
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Running a Mastodon server
I ran a mastodon server over at winnipegsocial.online for about two months. I took it down last over this past weekend. When the mastodon exodus started to bubble up I thought I’d jump in feet first and find out what it takes to run a server. Overall, it was just about as easy as I…