jonjennings

I've never understood why there's a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it's the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/dynamic-wallpapers-for-gnome-desktop/, followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers#code-firewatch) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you've played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

...and yes the bike valet was there and we did use it :)

Wasn't the most amazing showing of food trucks - although that's probably because we attend so many events with food trucks in New West it was a case of "eaten at that one before... and that one... and that one..." ( Although I got some awesome bread pudding from the "Crack On" truck that mostly sells egg sandwiches :) )

Great event though - it's lovely not being penned-in because I want a beer. And the tables & chairs were smartly located in the natural shade along Columbia. And plenty of water stations. And the fore-mentioned bike valet. Lots of little improvements on last year... which was effectively the first running of it after the relaunch.

Ahhh - a rather bigger audience! I think we'll try & make an effort to see it properly next year, esp if they have a bike valet. Always fun to support these things and I never see much of 12th.

Did you go? We haven't before but were cycling home around 4pm and crossed 12th - looked like a lot of good music and a decent number of stalls... didn't get a chance to wander around though... end of a long day. New West is a festival every weekend in the summer :)

Seems to be a lot of fragmentation in the ebike rental market. Coquitlam has Neuron, Vancouver has Mobi, North Van is Lime, Whistler is Evolve - New West is asking for public input before it selects a vendor, not sure about any other municipalities.

This seems like a bad thing - sure I guess they're marketing them for short trips but ebikes are so much fun that I think yes you might want to take your rental bike from Coquitlam into Vancouver, drop it there, spend the day, then pick up another one for the ride home... which of course you can't if they're all on different systems.

The casual-use rates ($1.19 unlocking + $0.39/min) don't seem a million miles off Evo car rates.

Gordon & Sarah work so hard for the New Media Gallery. Not only do they source and setup the installations, AND act as guides but also, because every exhibition's different, they strip the space down to the outer walls and reframe everything between exhibitions to create the appropriate spaces for the exhibits.

I would never have thought of myself as someone who was into art, least of all modern or new media art, but the New Media Gallery's a must see for every exhibit and I think pretty much anybody in the Lower Mainland would get something out of anything they put on there.

Does this mean I'm going to have to post more cycling things? 😁 Glorious cycling weather right now and lots of cycling stuff in the news... seems like cycling is consuming a disproportionate amount of my brain.

This is great news - I remember this being originally talked about maybe 3-4 years ago. Tailor made for New West and the hills lol - assuming we don't just end up with all the bikes left at the top of the hills.

One of the key points I got from the survey is they're eyeing a dockless system with designated parking zones. So fast to roll out (no physical docks to build) but no discarded bikes left all over the city.

I don't think she can or should come back as a trustee after this... so what does a leave of absence achieve. Resignation is the only sensible route forward though I can understand her possibly feeling overwhelmed right now and needing a week to get her head around it before submitting her resignation.

sometimes it’s better to take the Evo than my own car just to avoid parking and dodging traffic on the way back.

I know right? Sure, the Evo concept is not a solution to every traffic/vehicle related problem but there are so many use cases where it's hellishly handy. I've definitely done the same - an Evo into town and no worries about parking... lock and WALK AWAY :)

Haven't seen it yet - will need to take a ride up (bike lanes - yay!) and see it.

I can't see what they can do to stop the smoking & other anti-social stuff around there though.

Would like to see some community use for the space - like when the Arts Council (sorry: "Arts New West") used to put on mini-concerts there.

If this is successful then I'd like to see them consider staffing the bike parkades at Main St, Commercial, Metrotown etc. At the moment there's too much theft going on there for me to ever think about leaving my bike there.

All you'd need to provide is a desk and staffing - all the infrastructure is obviously there already.