Before we blow your minds with graph-filled, optic nerve stimulating, carefully hand-crafted data about what sprawl does to our municipalities, let’s first bask in their everlasting glory. Yeah. I left in the watermark. Come at me bruh 😝 Now, several of us at Streets are for People live in the suburbs so I just wantContinueContinue reading “Yum Yum Sprawly Goodness”
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UNOFFICIAL Paddy’s Pond Fire data
Go to https://www.gov.nl.ca/alerts/ for OFFICIAL alerts. UNOFFICIAL Paddy’s Pond Fire Map ESRI Link Paddy’s Pond fire has been controlled and evacuation ORDERS and alerts have been rescinded. The ESRI link is deactivated Updated as of 2025-08-17 12:00 How to use the above linked map The link above will take you to our ESRI Paddy’s PondContinueContinue reading “UNOFFICIAL Paddy’s Pond Fire data”
Revenue per something ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ
So, it is finally time for Streets are for People to hit the big leagues and achieve the goal we set for ourselves over three years ago. When we first started this ragtag group of data nerds and engineers, we had a goal to democratize useful urban data in the northeast Avalon and share ourContinueContinue reading “Revenue per something ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ”
Stories as advocacy
Urban advocacy is all about communities. Sure, we may be nerds hyper-focused on technicalities of building codes and road widths, but all of that serves the goal of enabling thriving communities in our cities. One of the most important markers of thriving communities is their dedication to the local arts and culture scenes. This postContinueContinue reading “Stories as advocacy”
Wayfinding maps
We’ve wrote a lot about housing affordability, road safety, infrastructure, history, and much more here in St. John’s metro. One of the ‘more’ items is Metrobus. We try to be impartial but ultimately, transit is a public service, which means it is political. We have heard from many residents regarding their issues and it hasContinueContinue reading “Wayfinding maps”
When The Experiment Is Designed To Fail
Have you taken the new Metrobus route 33 express yet? I have. I wasn’t planning to. I was going to a movie and I showed up at The Village too early. Route 33 was right there and, I decided, waiting is waiting. Have you given any thought to why you haven’t used route 33 yet?ContinueContinue reading “When The Experiment Is Designed To Fail”
St. John’s downtown: 1948 to 2024
This is a simple post: Below is a comparison from an aerial composite plate of St. John’s in 1948 to modern aerial imagery from 2024. We can use several tools to warp and bend an image to align it to our current cm accurate modern aerial imagery. Without getting overly technical, aligning the images involvesContinueContinue reading “St. John’s downtown: 1948 to 2024”
Housing Insecurity Worse for Low Income Residents and Immigrants
Housing insecurity has become a major problem in Canada, but does the problem affect residents equally? We use StatsCan data and correlation analyses to examine whether economic inequality and citizenship status interact with affordability of shelter in the North East Avalon region of Newfoundland and Labrador.
St. John’s Housing Accelerator Fund: Impact Analysis and Recommendations
The City of St John’s will be receiving 10.4 million in federal funding through the housing accelerator fund to stimulate housing growth. This will be done by a rapid initiative to have a text amendment to the city of St. John’s development regulations. The proposed changes offer some gentle density increases on existing zones; howeverContinueContinue reading “St. John’s Housing Accelerator Fund: Impact Analysis and Recommendations”
Metrobus Transit hubs
Once you start reading about transit systems all across Canada, you start to see a pattern. Big cities have transit hubs. Halifax has a half dozen, York spent tens of millions on a really shitty one, Calgary has many, Toronto has so many I can’t even count and so on. We ‘sort of’ have hubs,ContinueContinue reading “Metrobus Transit hubs”
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