Roland Tanglao's Weblog

Karen and Paul organized Transport Hero Camp today; a BarCamp for public and the youth delegates from the Youth Summit on Sustainabile Urban Transportation / CUTA / ACTU .

Random observations (some of which you can see in image format above):

• As a national event, it would have been great to have simultaneous English/French translation.
• Paul and Karen did a great thing (they made the difficult look impossible); this was an excellent gathering with savvy youth!
• I am still energized by Gil Penalosa's presentation last Wed (my 10 minute N95 video which is embedded below) to go beyond baby steps in bicycling. How's this for a non-baby step? Bike sharing and secure bike parking at every major transit node in every metropolitan city in Canada (Metro Vancouver, Calgary, Monrtreal, Toronto, Ottwaw, Hamliton, etc!
• Can I vote for Paul! Oops I can't because he is running in Surrey!
• Open Source Bike Sharing?!? why does it have to be monolithic? why does it have to be funded by ads?

10 minutes of Gil Peñalosa's presentation

[crossposted from the Northern Voice 2008 Website]

New to Vancouver or just not into figuring out the bus system? And need to get to the NV08 Opening Party? Then join me at Blenz at 508 West Hastings (at Richards, in front of SFU Harbour Centre).

• WHEN: Thursday Feb 21, 2008 at 5:15p.m.
• WHERE: Blenz Coffee at 508 West Hastings (map, pictures)
• BRING: $2.50 Cash fare (and another $2.50 to get back)
• BUS ROUTES: One of Number 10, 20, etc. (many routes lead to the Waldorf)
• PRE-REQUISITES - On NV08 Opening Party list
• LOST? call or text me, Roland Tanglao (photos of me), cellphone +1 604 729 7924

In true BarCamp fashion, everybody (from guru to enthusiast to transit user to activist to everything in between) could pitch their session and we collaborated on the TransitCamp Vancouver schedule together.

They are all tagged transitcampvancouver or you can see them below (the original MP4 file is available if you are flash challenged.

Thanks mostly to the hard work of Karen (Karen rocks; thanks for the hard work and great organizing!), today's Vancouver Transit Camp was fab! An atmosphere of respect, lots of great people and lots of insights learned! More later (my videos (200MB of videos take over an hour and half to upload!) are currently uploading to blip.tv and I have 2 flickr sets: one from my N95-1 cameraphone and one from my 20D)