The Victoria Mapping Project

Focusonvictoria.ca has begun an experiment in journalism that we're calling the Victoria Mapping Project. Using videography and other tools, we are going to ground-truth certain claims made by local governments about our region. We're starting with transportation. The video below is one of a series of half-hour- to two-hour-long assessments of pedestrian, bicycle, bus and automobile use at major Victoria intersections. To give you a quick look at the make-up of traffic through these intersections, we've sped up the videos to run 8 times faster than real time. Our analyses of mode share will be done using the videos run at actual speed. We'll compare what we observed with the analyses of mode share used by the City of Victoria and the CRD in their decision-making around transportation planning. First observation: Victorians prefer drab-coloured umbrellas. Second observation: There were as many older women using walkers crossing this intersection on this very rainy January day as there were cyclists using the protected bicycle lanes.

 

 

Victoria's diminishing urban forest | Leslie Campbell

 

Letters to the editor | FOCUS readers

 

Sex, lies and triple-deleted emails | David Broadland

 

Downtown residents question City of Victoria's $34-million deal for new fire hall | Ross Crockford

 

Environmental assessment reconsidered | Judith Lavoie

 

CleanBC plan looks nice onscreen, but has serious problems | Russ Francis

 

Logging madness continues | Briony Penn

 

Seniors targeted with expensive high-dose flu vaccine | Alan Cassels

 

Bridge builder sues City for bad design | David Broadland

 

Ray Ward's light of day | Aaren Madden

 

The art and life of Elizabeth Yeend Duer | Kate Cino

 

Hot jazz on Broad Street | Mollie Kaye

 

Bears signifies the resurgence of Indigenous theatre in Canada  | Monica Prendergast

 

Patricia Roy's The Collectors | Stephen Hume

 

Downtown has it all-ish | Gene Miller

 

Julian Anderson and Cuthbert Holmes Park | Maleea Acker

 

First the bag, now the bottle | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

FOCUS: Still blow'n in the wind after 30 years | Leslie Campbell

 

Orcapocalypse | Stephen Hume

 

The mayors' million-dollar cover-up | David Broadland

 

Great politics vs good governance | Ross Crockford

 

Letters to the editor | FOCUS readers

 

Tent cities get results | Judith Lavoie

 

Is LNG Canada already a stranded asset? | Russ Francis

 

Feds move to divide and conquer local First Nations | Briony Penn

 

The horrors of proportional representation? | Russ Francis

 

Creating order out of chaos | Kate Cino

 

Rockin' out to ancient music | Mollie Kaye

 

How history haunts the theatre | Monica Prendergast

 

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age | Amy Reiswig

 

The homeless need homes | Gene Miller

 

Robin Hood's dream | Maleea Acker

 

Everything we do counts | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Were Mayor Helps and Mayor Desjardins defamed by Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe? Or did Lowe pull his punches? | David Broadland

 

Will Victoria's Old Town become a façade? | Leslie Campbell

 

Landslide Lisa's record as mayor of Victoria | David Broadland

 

Will Crystal Pool become an election issue? Candidates say "Yes." | Ross Crockford

 

Fish farm activists complain of intimidation | Judith Lavoie

 

As LNG Canada's Final Investment Decision looms, a fatal error sits stubbornly at the heart of the government's case for LNG | Russ Francis

 

BC's climate action must address three elephants in the room | Jens Wieting

 

Can we trust health-related media to deliver clean, clear health advice? | Allan Cassels & Jim Wright

 

Can we undo, or fix, the 17-year-old Professional Reliance Model used to regulate BC's resource industries? | Briony Penn

 

What does my neighbour's car mean? | David Broadland

 

Letters to the editor | FOCUS readers

 

The company for which Victoria MP Murray Rankin testified as an expert witness won a NAFTA tribunal ruling in May that may cost Canadians $580 million | Russ Francis

 

How did City of Victoria councillors vote on development issues over the past four years? | Leslie Campbell

 

Brent Lynch aims to capture fleeting moments of special grace. | Kate Cino

 

Performance venues are desperately needed—what about your place? | Mollie Kaye

 

Moving beyond (dead) white man syndrome | Monica Prendergast

 

Authors Elizabeth Woodworth and Dr Peter Carter see climate change in terms of a planetary emergency needing global mobilization | Amy Reiswig

 

Rome imploded because of a loss of purpose, identity and moral vigour. What are we doing to avoid that? | Gene Miller

 

Marion Cummings indomitable spirit | Maleea Acker

 

The perplexing tendency to ignore reality | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Luxury condo developers can't fix housing affordability | Leslie Campbell

 

Our readers have their say on Fort Street development, Trans Mountain, electoral reform, Crystal Pool and more | FOCUS readers

 

FOIed emails show engineers forgot about a serious flaw on Victoria's new bridge until it was too late to fix properly. Then they forgot that they had forgotten. | David Broadland

 

Who are the real pipeline fanatics? | Leslie Campbell

 

The people at the dirty end of the pipeline | Judith Lavoie

 

The 100-year fishing war | Briony Penn

 

Vancouver's role in the chinook-sewage-orca death spiral | David Broadland

 

Grant Leier: Celebrating life and colour | Kate Cino 

 

Calvin Hunt's first solo exhibition | Aaren Madden

 

Coming full circus | Mollie Kaye 

 

A site-specific play with style, substance and scares | Monica Prendergast

 

Eve Joseph's Quarrels: Windows into the weird and wonderful | Amy Reiswig

 

Summer reading picks | Amy Reiswig

 

Saantoria? Vicnich? Insanitoria? More thoughts on the perils of amalgamation. | Gene Miller

 

Digging, planting and watering together produces food, strengthens community and helps the bees help us. | Maleea Acker

 

Connecting the dots at the country fair | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic

 

Trans Mountain and growing fossil fuel exports will eventually harm the the rest of Canada's emissions-reliant industries | Leslie Campbell

 

Our readers have their say on Gonzales Hill Park development, Saanich's EDPA bylaw,preserving farmland and more | FOCUS readers

 

The Wounded White Elephant | David Broadland

 

Oak Bay neighbourhood wrestles with a 98-unit housing proposal | Leslie Campbell

 

Two sorts of truth | Ross Crockford

 

Arrested for protesting Trans Mountain, the author challenges Trudeau and Notley to expand their understanding of the project's impacts | Briony Penn

 

Why hope, hype and headlines about new drugs should never substitute for clean, clear analysis | Alan Cassels

 

Will methane asphyxiate Green support for the NDP? | Judith Lavoie 

 

Is anybody going to run against Victoria's incumbent councillors in October's election? | Ross Crockford

 

Guthrie Gloag sculpts the wild | Mollie Kaye 

 

VI School of Art fights renoviction | Leslie Campbell

 

Hidden upstairs on Herald Street | Mollie Kaye

 

These four musicians are Canada's—and Mexico's—first graduate-level string quartet | Mollie Kaye

 

UNO and OUT | Monica Prendergast

 

Sarah Cox: Breaching the Peace | Amy Reiswig

 

Tick, tick, tick… | Gene Miller

 

Colleen O'Brien is stewarding an oak meadow | Maleea Acker

 

Trans Mountain and growing fossil fuel exports will eventually harm the the rest of Canada's emissions-reliant industries | Leslie Campbell

 

Our readers have their say on the bridge bodge, drugs, grizzlies and more | FOCUS readers

 

One nuclear bomb is too many | Mary-Wynne Ashford

 

Why are Victoria City councillors accepting a world-class bodge? | David Broadland

 

Development beside Gonzales Hill Regional Park raises alarm | Leslie Campbell

 

There's a growing movement to wind back excess prescription medications | Alan Cassels

 

Did Saanich's EDPA pose a threat to property values? Or was a battle fought over an invented crisis? | Briony Penn

 

Should farmland be reserved for growing food? | Judith Lavoie 

 

Are the City of Victoria's marijuana regulations working? | Pamela Roth 

 

Form as meaning(s) | Aaren Madden 

 

Dana Statham circumnavigates Vancouver Island with a brush | Mollie Kaye

 

Zelda Dean sees theatre as a way to break down barriers | Mollie Kaye

 

Conductor Yariv Aloni: Orchestrating a life | Mollie Kaye

 

Harassment, bullying and theatre culture | Monica Prendergast

 

Claire Sicherman delves into the silent stories of her family's traumatic past | Amy Reiswig

 

Amalgacide | Gene Miller

 

Mary Haig-Brown: Looking at the tiny things | Maleea Acker

 

We deserve everything we're going to get | Trudy Duivenvoorden Mitic