Collaborating & Compromising When Building Cities | Rodney Chan | 004

something that i want to ask you about and and that i think i might start asking more people um because we all kind of you know some some people like they do a lot of housing advocacy and some people it's like cycling advocacy and some people it's transit and we kind of i i don't know like i feel like most of my advocacy when i write an op-ed it's usually about transit when i show up to council.

It's usually about transit.

But then I also get involved and am supportive of the efforts of the cycling community in Calgary.

I'm supportive of the efforts of the housing advocates in Calgary.

Why did you choose transit as your thing? Is it just because of that experience riding to school? Do you get involved in cycling, housing, any other advocacy as well? It's the autism.

It's the autism.

But no,

originally it was I've been a big transit person.

I still am a big, big foamer.

Someone said the word numb taught the other day and it unlocked a part of my brain.

But no, like transit being going to urban planning, right? I talked about the original experience of, okay, transit underfunding, but also like this is related to urban sprawl.

It's related to housing, right? We talk a lot about TOD, transit oriented development, like transit and housing are like paired together.

So I'm also like, like involved with more neighbors, Toronto and in, in Waterloo strong towns, uh, Waterloo.

So I am pretty like my, a lot of my main focus is on transit, but even in Toronto now we'll speak a little later.

I'm, I'm kind of a big advocate for the church street pedestrianization project.

So that's like more safe streets, pedestrian stuff, but I'm also like really like, so try tags actually.

Tri-Cities Transport Action Group.

So we advocate for better walking, cycling, and transit.

So we also do cycling and sidewalk clearing in the winter and missing connections in the cycling network.

So I'm trying my best to have, I posted earlier on, multimodal boy summer.

I'm literally working at bike share right now.

So I'm literally kind of leading a pedestrianization effort.

So walking, I'm working at bike share, so cycling.

And then I'm still doing my regular transit advocacy.

and like housing.